Last night we dined at a restaurant in Santa Barbara. It was a fashionably late mean where we were surrounded by the fashionable who were there to celebrate some festival involving a white stick wrapped in zebra stripes. Some time later, i realized said stick was merely a blonde, but that's beside the point.
No, being the geek i was, i could care less about trying to guess which was the third cousin twice removed of the key grip for the latest Hollywood blockbuster, i focused my attention on the various cellphones that were being brought out with alarming regularity. i wanted to know which platform was winning among those with the impossible desire to impress their fellows.
i counted the number of Blackberry Pearls and the number of iPhones that were whipped out and consulted about every pause in speech. A bit surprisingly, the number was even. What's more, the number of devices exceeded half of the attendees at Sticky's birthday fest. What i saw was that folks whipped out their iPhones to take pictures and show off the fact that they too had iPhones, but when making calls or actually doing business, out came the Crackberry.
This, needless to say, didn't surprise me at all, nor should it have.
Like many things in this world that are not sword wielding Highlanders, there can be more than one. In this case, the iPhone was the shiny bauble tossed out to impress the glitteratti. It was, in many respects, the toy. i'm sure they handed out that number to friends and people they wanted to impress but frankly wouldn't be bothered to ever actually call. On the other end was the Blackberry, the tool. It wasn't sexy or pretty or, well, really anything other than a tool. That one was their connection to agents, personal assistants, kosher yoga/acupuncture based therapists and the whole host of folks that you would definitely want to call.
Nothing wrong with that approach to things. i, for one, have more than one pair of pants and shoes as well.
Still, it's strange how so many folks seem to be under the impression that there can only be one of anything.
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senses work, fingers rest.
iphone moved to the next level.
wii moved to the next level.
secondlife is the next level.
oh the one of anything is complex, i dont think we should start to even think about such things.
Otherwise yep, even technology is like food recipes and i did notice recipe posts here, so i dont need to explain more, i leave with the hope that your a great chef with a kind heart!
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I never would have thought that technology would enforce a thunderdome-like mindset on people. TWO PHONES ENTER: ONE PHONE LEAVES.
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It's funny how the iPhone is the be-all end-all one-device solution for everyone except the people who do more than four things.