Thursday, January 11, 2007 - beautiful is forever. :
Apple has done it again.
Like.
What.
The.
Hell.
How on earth, can anything so beautiful be created?
The sheer ingenuity of it all.
iPod + Broadband internet browsing + Camera + Phone.
Makes you wonder if the designers and people who conceived of this are aliens.
I can imagine the look on the faces of the CEOs of major phone compeititors when they saw the iPhone revealed.
they're either stunned silly by the brillance and omnipotence of Apple,
or shocked to uber retardation.
it's like, Motorola? Move over, dudes... Nokia? pfffft... Samsung? *painful silence*
and to think i used to be the archetypal nokia fan. raving on and on about the user-friendliness of it all blaa bllllaaaa.
in fact, the highest point was when nokia rolled out the 7610, which is in my opinion still a beauty. but subsequently after that, nokia seemed to ditch its aim for the novel, for the practical.
and now nokia is paaiiiinnnfulllyy boooorrrinnngggg. its just about exciting as watching Bob the Builder. and the marketing and advertising strategies are awfully stale. the same old crazy camera angles and people jumping out of phones and some other weird and incongruent elements.
the last time i ever felt this way over a phone was for 7610. but the iPhone is like, visual orgasm. it's like, suddenly u go into contractions of pleasure just lying eyes on it. i can imagine myself just dropping dead and moving on to gadgetry heaven if i own it.
its almost the Holy Grail of all the gadgets in the world. and it's really gadgets like these that are world changing you know. like the car and the aeroplane. all it takes is that moment of ingenuity.
maybe apple will come up with some universal gadget that allows you to control everything in the house. like, turn on the tap to the bathtub when you're on your way home. or record a show that you are not going to make it in time when there's no one else at home to do it.
but that's the distant future. for now, lemme tease and tantalise you (and myself) with more of the iPhone.
Are you drowning in your drool yet?
C.K blogged at 3:41 AM