I personally like the look of the iPhone. I personally wouldn't
buy one for myself for the following reasons:
a) I don't care about mobile phones. In fact I consider my
quality of life infinitely improved without one. Of course I
have one, but I charge it and turn it on about 3 days each year.
I used to have top of the range phones, but I got bored with
them. Same think with PDAs.
b) It's a bit expensive.
c) It's tied to one carrier.
d) DRM.
In fact, I'd much prefer the chinese "copy". (runs linux, half the price, unlocked, half the thickness).
Having said that I still think it's a great product (just not for me).
The OLPC on the other hand, I want. I like the sofware concept, and I think this will be a huge platform in coming years.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon, what can I say, marvellous.
My kids and I have even been playing the network First Person Shooter Urban Terror on our PCs (under ubuntu). It's based on the Quake III engine apparently. On this FPS you don't get the vehicles you get on Halo2, but it doesn't seem to matter much.
Halo2 online we got bored with very fast. Somehow you get less people per map in Urban Terror, and it's just better. (with voting to kick people etc): In the same way that SOCOM is better online than Halo.
I gave away my copy of Vista, I found it far too laggy, and where we use Windows, we've stuck with XP. (SP1 with ZoneAlarm firewall, Spybot S&D, Grisoft AVG). It's amazing how fast XP SP1 is even with the above security products. If the PC is secretly owned, then the overall effect is less of a problem than later service packs!
Oh and if you can call an Internet shop a product, Amazon selling MP3s is one of the best products ever! no sucky DRM!
I bought a LOT of music, and I haven't done that for many years.
(you shouldn't have to buy a CD these days, but DRM music is just awful. I lot a bunch of stuff from MSN Music club, and I'm never going down that route again.
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