(Note: If all goes as planned, I’ll be able to start using this blog on a more regular basis beginning this week. This post is a test run to end that awkward silence that always follows the first post.)
Earlier this evening, I was talking to an old friend for the first time in a long while. As these spark-of-the-moment, long-time-no-talk conversations always seem to go, we quickly began talking about the stuff we know: he brought up school, I brought up mobile. We’d probably have talked about the weather, if we lived nearer to each other. Don’t get me wrong - we’re great pals; we just don’t get the opportunity to chat as much as we’d used to. The following is a snippet of our conversation (sans their name - I’ve gone ahead and removed all identifying bits as this person is a fairly well known developer in the Apple community, and I’d rather not start a habit of tying personal conversations to people’s names in a Googleable space.) It went down over IM, so ignore the lack of capitalization and properly flesh out thoughts.
Friend: i’m not really interested in phone stuff to be honest
Me: you should be. its the future of everything ever.
Friend: I don’t like phones
Me: i hate the phone. but i like phones *
Friend: I like mobile computers, but my laptop is near me enough of the time that I’m not super-caring.
Me: yeah - but the idea of the laptop is kind of silly, at a certain point.
Friend: what do you mean?
The conversation went on, but I feel that this is the point where it could be all the more interesting if it were opened up to others.
See, here’s the way I look at it:
(more…)
