I am Thinking About Seeing a Psychiatrist About My iPhone Obsession

My name is Altavistagoogle and I am an iphonoholic. I don't actually have an iPhone (they are unavailable in Canada), I'm just completely obsessed with news about the iPhone. I know it is irrational. But I know I'm not alone with this obsession.

 

This week, I pored a good chunk of my life savings into Apple because of the presumed upcoming release of the new and improved iPhone and its availability worldwide. I know a guy in Moncton who quit his job this week to work full time, in Moncton, making iPhone software applications, in Moncton. Then there are all the blogs devoted exclusively to the iphone. All the newspaper articles, completely devoid of news, that are devoted to the device. And you start to get the idea that people are iphone gaga.

 

-I now understand treckies.

 

-I now understand Star Wars geeks.

 

-You're 30 and you read Harry Poter, I now get it.

 

-You devote 50% of your income to your Corvette. Now seems perfectly understandable.

 

I think the iPhone should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I realise the thing isn't even available in Sweden or Norway, but trust us non-using iphone fans, the thing is amazing. Forget giving laptops to children in the third world, give them iPhones!

 

But back to my iPhone obsession. I don't know of any iPhone obsession self help groups, so I'm thinking about seeing a psychiatrist (psychologist can't prescribe anything, what's the point). The problem is, I can just imaging sitting down, spending 30 minutes poring my heart out about my iPhone obsession, and the doctor would go "so what is this, iPhone?" And I would murder the doctor and end up in jail before the iPhone would be released in Canada which would really suck. I really feel sorry for lifers. I mean sure, no freedom would suck, but no iPhone, for their entire lives!

 

Remember being a kid during December? The wait for Christmas was almost unbearable. I'm sure you feel nostalgic about that time. Don't, it sucks. I wish someone would knock me into a coma until June 9th, 1:59PM (Atlantic time). I can't stand the anticipation.

 

I could blame this iPhone obsession on my love life or my lack of meaningful hobbies (don't even get me started about my job), but I blame Google News. It is an amazing tool to completely lose all sense of perspective. You Google News iPhone enough and you will convince yourself it is the only thing anybody is writing about. It is worse if you can read Canadian, American, British AND Australian English (I'm well travelled). Not to mention French. The French like the iPhone. They translate every single iPhone article into French and write a few of their own for good measure.

 

For a while there, I was reading German articles as I couldn't find enough iPhone info on the French language Swiss sites. By the way, didn't we win the war? How come we allow Germans to use (and write about) the iPhone in non-English?

 

So what is the Chinese symbol for iPhone?

 

My previous iPhone posts.

 

 

I Wish I was Rich So Could Lose Money in Apple

I love my Apple iPod touch. So I'm pretty sure the new app store will
bring many new reasons to buy one. And then there is the 3G iPhone.
How could that go wrong?

But here is my problem. Apple makes most of its money from computers.
Acer computers can now be had for $300 at Walmart. These computers
aren't self cumbusting, they are quite good. How do you justify paying
a 1000 dollars more? Granted, some will... But most won't.

Apple is leveraging its Mac software to make better phones (Nokia and
others buy from third parties), but if the market for computers
implodes, the company will take a major hit. Then Apple will have pay
all those software people from phone revenu.

Better Mouse Trap.

Remember Word Perfect? Netscape? Altavista? Software is relatively
easy to dislsaudge.

Then there is the distinct possibility someone will come up with a
better cell phone...

Envoyé depuis mon iPod / Sent from my iPod touch.

canadaeast.com - California city that is in bankruptcy may become the model for others

http://www.canadaeast.com/front/article/306346

California subburb goes bankrupt. And unlike Orange County, it wasn't
because of stock market gambling.

The article blames employee salaries, but I suspect other reasons
apply, such as low taxes over many years.

Be warned, the end of suburbia has begun.

Envoyé depuis mon iPod / Sent from my iPod touch.

Apple 2008 Developer Conference Great Place to Meet Babes... Not!

Apple 2008 Developer Conference Great Place to Meet Babes... Not So Much.

I'm not sure where Apple got the pictures on its WWDC 2008 web site, but if it is from the the 2007 conference, guys, you can leave your pick up lines at home. Not a single female attendee* is pictured! Not one. Always put women in pictures advertising conferences. Always. Still, the conference is sold out, so what do I know.

*After more research, I did find two women, both presenters/Apple employees. Actually, one is pretty hot. Screw the iPhone, I want her. Imagine having her as a girlfriend. I bet she could score me new Apple product before they even came to maket... ;-)

By the way, set your watches to 2PM (Atlantic Time) Monday, June 9th as that is when Steve Jobs will probably mention the iPhone 2, you know, in passing.

WMTC Shamefully Reduces Quebeckers to Children

WMTC Shamefully Reduces Quebeckers to Children .

 

Xenophobia is part of human nature. A very unfortunate part if you ask me. I was helping a sweet old lady over the phone the other day and she confided to me (in French) "I'm so glad your not a Black". I was helping her over the phone!

 

Then I realised that I was prejudiced. It never occurred to me that sweet old ladies could be racists. But of course they can be. Anybody can be racist or xenophobic: the old, the young, homosexuals, bi-curious, handicapped, Black, White, Asian, poor, rich, educated, ignorant, doesn't matter.

 

More importantly, even us tolerant folks can sometimes betray our tolerance by saying something that isn't. Unfortunately, that is what L-Girl over at wmtc has done with her title bouchard-taylor commission tells quebec to grow up . That statement, which is false, is embedded with anti-Quebec sentiment. And I'm calling her on it.

 

You don't tell a people to "grow-up". That is insulting to the extreme. You don't belittle a nation and culture just because you don't understand it.  And by the way, the premise of the statement if false: that people become more tolerant with maturity. Um, no. Sorry. Extremely mature people can be quite intolerant and extremely immature people, and indeed, young children, can be very tolerant.

 

Further reading on WMTC festering anti-Quebecness:

 

-The Process of Becoming Anti-Quebec

 

By the way, here is a previous post of mine that contains some examples (thanks prominent Liberal Party Members) of what not to say when someone brands you as anti-something:

-I Am Not Anti-Israel, I Even Sleep With a Jew