Desperately seeking...

something to post about other than Iraq/geopolitics. Here's a link to an iPhone test drive. This thing is obviously supercool, and I want to be the first kid on the block to have one. I estimate this will cost me upwards of $800, given that I will need to terminate my existing phone contract and move to a new carrier, and that I can't buy the cheaper 4Gb one, but must have the more expensive 8Gb. Yeah, yeah, I'm a consumer, so kill me. But this thing's "gotta have it" factor is off the charts.

Reading this article does give me some pause though, as a non-Mac person. Apple's obsession with keeping everything proprietary to themselves has always bothered me, and I think it has definitely held their computers back in some ways. It looks like they might be planning this again to a certain extent with the iPhone, which could hurt its utility with business users. But then again, when considering something like this, "utility" and "practicality" tend to go out the window in the face of flat-out gee-whiz coolness. Only 5 months til June!