A Little Phone Among Laptops

Recently, I found myself sitting at my in-laws house without my trusty macbook and feeling a little bored. Other people were talking, using Windows-based laptops etc and I found myself browsing on an iphone instead of a computer... and I couldn't have been happier.

It's no wonder that cellphone vendors are puzzled. With years of design experience under their belt, a computer company comes in and with their first cellphone, they receive huge response. It's become more of a normal thing to see iphones on the street when people walk around and according to Google Zeitgeist, It was the fastest growing search term in 2007 (http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/).

One thing is sure, other manufacturers are struggling to figure out why people like it so much. Personally, the one thing that drove me to buy one, was the web browser. After using Internet Explorer mobile, as well as many phone browsers that are lucky if they can display the entire alphabet, mobile Safari is a breath of fresh air. Finally I can carry around the REAL internet in my pocket. Not some watered down, half-working version. The real McCoy is onboard.

Perhaps other companies will follow suit, but Apple again has managed to build the future today.