The first time Josh Bancroft showed me his iPhone, he (half-way) jokingly said, “Let the countdown begin.”
“To what?” I replied.
“Until you buy one” he said.
Well, in the end, I chose the Touch over the iPhone, but Josh knew me well. :^)
Today I find myself wanting an Apple computer worse today than ever before. You want to know why? It’s so that I can play with the developer kit for the iPhone/Touch. I’m not a professional programmer by any means, but I am a hobbyist and I would love to play in the world’s newest mobile playground. Now if I could just convince my wife that I need an Apple computer worse than our kids need to go to Disney in May…
Dude, I’m amazed you held out this long. The Touch was a stopgap, at best.
I only got news of the 2.0 OS and the SDK yesterday in drips and drabs via Twitter yesterday, because I was traveling, but man, it’s exciting to think of the cool stuff that’s going to be coming. Exchange Activesync for the iPhone? Yes please!
And you totally need a Mac. We just need to figure out which one. You can get a little MacBook for $1099, and it’s a beefy machine (not stripped down). It’s actually cheaper than a Dell with the same specs.
One of us! One of us!
The countdown is still running…