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Google has said they they have given address book sync to mac users to their gmail accounts.  I did the upgrade and I don’t have this, what’s the deal?

I just accidentally imported a pdf into iTunes.

It imported correctly and there is a little book icon beside it…

I can’t open it, but ….

Hmm… I wonder if an iPod iReader is coming…

Let’s put aside the fact that you can’t already make WiFi calls on the iPhone. The New York Times reports today that Apple will not allow third party applications on the iPhone. This is an incredibly bad idea. What in the world would cause Steve Jobs to buck the trend against opensource and collaborative development? Perhaps Cingular is afraid of losing call revenue. It is quite possible that the deal with Cingular could be the kiss of death. Assuming that Jobs doesn’t wind up going to jail for the options scandal.

The contract with Cingular that you need when you buy an iPhone is going to be two(2) years.

If you have a crappy plan that can be a very long time.

The nerds are coming out from all sorts of dank basements to take to the streets and sing the praises of the iPhone! Holy crap.

I’ve not seen this much hype about a telephone since… well… never…

Looking at the news articles and blogs coming in, one is hard pressed to find someone who takes the phone for what it is. A very very slick piece of plastic. One exception is this guy.

Come drink deeply of the Kool-Aid.

iPhone. Not that interesting. I guess they didn’t really want to splash out on something different. They have now caught up my Nokia 6280. Woo…

If only they had built iChat into it, that would have been something.

There is still the off chance that they will push forward with Wifi and VOIP since they may eventually include iChat.  Maybe they didn’t want to shock the market by releasing a phone that had no “phone” in it.
It sure is purty though….

Today could be pretty interesting as MacWorld is set to start and everyone can’t stop talking about iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. It’s the only thing that people are waiting for. Look, if I had my way, there wouldn’t even be an iPhone. And if Apple were smart, they would come out and say that there will NEVER be an iPhone because they are working on something better.  They could say that they are not going to bow to the pressure placed on them by stock watcher and are looking to build something useful.

Face it, phones are dead. I talked about this a few posts down. They should work on building WiFi access into the iPod and then integrate iChat so that people can make mobile video over IP and mobile voice over IP calls to people.  They have already build iChat and already have the users.
I think that we have been looking at this iPod thing too narrowly. We associate iPods with music and videos, just as we partner making “phone calls” to phones and phone lines. However, lets step away from the music / entertainment uses of the iPod. I think the etymology of the word “Pod” is a good place to start. There are two definitions. First, a pod is the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant. Secondly, the pod  is a group of whales. Therefore a pod indicate either a bunch of things encased together or a bunch of huge mammals. Now, I’ll go with the first rather than the second. The fact that we think of songs as the seeds in the pod is probably an approach that is too narrow. What if everything in your life was a seed? “Phone” calls, video “phone” calls, entertainment (music, video, music videos), Personal Organizer (that stalwart Christmas gift), basically everything but your keys.

So as a thought experimenet lets take this phone thing one step further.
What proof do we have, really, that we are not already using VOIP on our mobile phones?  We are accustomed to paying too much for shitty service, so if we were switched to VOIP it isn’t like we would even be able to say, “Hey, my service sucks!”  Welcome to the club!