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Bubba's PlaceReturn of the Blog 9월 23일 My new blog9월 5일 I love appleI guess Steve Jobs and Apple read my blog:
All joking aside, this is just too sweet:
I am going to get the 16 gig touch as soon as it hits the stores. First (software) feature requests (without even playing with it):
The list of hardware requests is going to be bigger...but I'll hold off on that until I get my little paws on the thing. 7월 13일 Some thoughts on the iPhone from a former ownerSee my previous blog post for why i returned my iPhone.
The iPhone is an amazing device but it is complicated mobile computer and a V1 (For those reasons I am glad I didn't buy a tesla roadster now). I will try it out again in the future after they have a chance to work out the end to end kinks in the hardware, software and support process (maybe v2, but likely v3 given the amount of complexity). Hopefully they'll add some features and clean up some of the UX nits that drove me bonkers. Some low hanging UX nits:
Feature wise what I really want is an iPhone without the phone part. The aspects I truly enjoyed about the device were the internet connectedness (though it needs a better email story than POP...read state synch is a killer feature) and the large touch screen interface for media (the flip cover UX finally was *useful* not just pretty and video looked great / was a great time killer). Oh, and it really does need 3G because the edge data rate was way to slow when there was no free wifi to tap into. I'd gladly pay 20 bucks a month for the data service for the device (though please make it tether then). If they throw in GPS it would rock my world as the ultimate iDevice. No more iPhone for meToday my iPhone was returned.
The thought of returning it first flickered into my mind when my iPhone wasn't working 100% a few days ago. The symptoms:
However being pretty smitten with the device (even with the limitations Omar pointed out) and I decided to work through the support process and keep my figures crossed that nothing would sour me on keeping the device. And luckily, the iPhone was on my second cell number which I don't use too much (another long story...let's just say I am addicted to cell phone hardware and leave at that). Anyhow I trucked down to the SF Apple Store today and found out that I had to "set" an appointment to meet with the Genius Bar folks to have them help me with my iPhone.
Next appointment: 3:30pm. Time right then: 1:00pm. Mmm...I feel the acid rising in my stomach.
I kill a few hours walking around union square doing some window shopping and getting korean bbq for lunch. The sun is out and I bump into a friend at a coffee shop. She says she has heard all people are having lots of problems with their iPhones. Nevertheless, I am in a zen mood and thinking gosh I would have been in doors this whole afternoon if my iPhone hadn't conked out. Acid in my stomach goes down to normal.
Arrive at the Apple store at 3:22pm. Find out that I am number 6 on the wait list for the next Genius. Acid level rises to slightly higher then when I was at the store originally.
Sit next to a guy who is also having problems with his iPhone. Start talking with him and we find out we are having the exact same problems. He is worried that they will have to ship his device off and he'll be phoneless for a few days. Acid doesn't rise in my stomach, but warning bells go off in my head at this point.
Line moves pretty fast because three people in front of me don't show up for their slots. Acid level in my stomach stays put as a result instead of rising because of having to wait. I belly up to the bar at around 3:45pm.
The nice Genius Guy tells me it is a software glitch and the device just needs to be restored. My first question is "will this happen often then?" He says no because the restore actually updates the software to fix this bug and also improves Wi-Fi stack. This is a good thing, but I feel slightly stupid for not checking online for this cure and saving myself a trip down to the Apple store and the wait time. I ask him to do the restore at the bar instead of heading home to do it to make sure there are no further problems though. Good thing.
After the restore both problems still repro. The nice Genius guy is surprised, but doesn't hesitate to offer to swap my iPhone out on the spot for a new one out of a sealed box. Cool, but at this point I decide to ask some questions cause of the earlier warning bells. Does this happen often? No, less then 10K out of nearly 1M iPhones have had problems since they went on sale. I think that seems high, but he frames it as less the 1% have had problems.
So I ask, what if this happens again? Well starting tomorrow the service policy is changing. The phones will have to be shipped out to be fixed and if you want a loaner it'll cost ya 30 bucks.
Whoa. Stomach acid level shoots up to dangerous levels.
That sucks I say. Isn't it Apple's responsibility since the device is defective? He says well they are expensive and they can't just give out the loaner devices because the cost would be too significant. This doesn't seem right to me and I say so again. He says he didn't make the policy.
Acid level is officially way too high and I decide to return the device. I am bummed out, but I am skeptical of the device quality at this point and can't stand the warranty service policy. Also, I can't help but to wonder what happens when the battery needs to be replaced...probably 50 bucks for that + 30 bucks to get a loaner! Yikes...there could be riots.
I ask to return the device for a full refund and no I am going to pay the 10% restocking fee since the device is defective. I get a little hesitation, but in the end that is what he did after speaking to a manager. Of course I still have to deal with AT&T and what ever ludicrous charges they are going to try to get me with for converting from an IRU (corp discount) account to a normal account + using the phone for less then 2 weeks. Ah well, the price of being a gadget addict. 11월 9일 nokia e62everyone I know gives me grief over my addiction to new cell phones. I get a new one every 3 months or so...hey, everyone has to have their thing.
Anyhow, I got the e62 from my local cingular store. i thought it was going to be cool, but in the end it sucks. here is why:
1) the os / experience is slow. really slow.
2) the ui is terrible. this is heart breaking given how good the old noika 8120 (I think that is the model number) ui was.
3) the intergration into exchange is painful - slow, incomplete, and overall kind of broken. i don't know who to blame for this, but ouch.
4) the keyboard is too springee. maybe this is my razor and 3125 history of steel pads coming back to haunt me...but yowsers.
5) the joystick is a joke. if you thought the old audiovox 5600 joystick sucked...this is an order of magnitude worse. bleh.
thanks for listening to me vent. I feel much better now. soon, i'll post a story about my trip from september...i have to keep you coming back somehow, right? :) 9월 13일 En GuatemalaUsing this as a blog should be used - to talk about my travels. :)
Spent the last week in El Salvador with my college friend Caroline and travelmate Eric. Caroline is in the peace corps and was an excellent guide. The highlights were visting a remote site on the salvadorian coast where another peace corper named Kati (kate) was stationed. We hit a beach for sunset and were the only ones on it...the undertow and waves were increadible. We also went to a small beach town called tunco where I had the best fish and slept within ear shot of the ocean. Eric and I tried to surf - he did better then me, but I really sucked so that wasn't too hard to do.
Now we are in antigua in guatemala. Much cooler here and today we hiked an active volcano. Saw flowing lava and felt the heat in my feet. Awesome. We hit lake atillian and the tikal ruins over the next week. Stay tuned for more stories...and post any tips you have for me if you've been to this part of the world!
be well! 8월 16일 What is a normal email flow?I archived all of my email last night. So, I had 0 items in my deleted items folder and 0 in my sent items folder.
24 hours have pased and i now have 183 in deleted items and 50 in my sent items. The crazy thing was I "went offline" today and ignored mail as best as I could in order to get something critical done. In my info-ho days I would probably have been closer to 600 in deleted items and 150 in my sent items. Yoiks - kind of wierd to see this so explictly. Makes me want to write (or find) an addin to capture and plot the data...time based histograph could be very cool visual of my "ideal email hours" and more importantly "ideal flow times".
I wonder what kind of email flow dare, omar and torres have in a 24 hour period. Sorry if the links break...just did them from memory.
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