I finally got my iPhone activated. It took longer than expected because my Cingular account had a corporate discount applied, which prevented the iPhone from getting completely activated. After that was cleared, AT&T took my IMEI and SIM ID and pushed it through a rush activation. 30 mins later it went through.
This device is a game changer. The way I think of it is this:
I have a handheld computer with a cellular modem and a WIFI transceiver. It runs OSX
The software enables it as a phone, Internet and e-mail device.
It could just as easily enable it as a gaming device, a remote control for my lights, etc.
The current software is minimal, in much the same way early versions of OSX are. I anticipate that it’ll get further features within a few weeks, with subsequent feature rollouts happening frequently up to the release of Leopard. You see, Leopard is the true missing piece for the iPhone. The Leopard Server workgroup features, the ubiquitous “Notes”, the new Finder, etc all fill out pieces of the iPhone’s ecosystem in interesting ways.
As a phone, the thing is perfect. As an e-mail device, near perfect. As a browser, its perfect except for a few diferent Javascript quirks mostly dealing with “onmousedown” events. I anticipate some of the first updates for the iPhone to be fixes to the browser, and I anticipate this week being busy on ADC in terms of documentation for programming for mobile Safari.
More thoughts as I have them. Don’t forget about iPhoneHints!
Who did you deal with to get the rush activation? I’ve been waiting for almost 48 hours now.
Business services, forget the number though, I’ll post it soon.
So did they re-apply the corporate discount for the plan cost? iTunes told me it was a goner, but I was going to call them to see if this is indeed true. Any luck?
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[From Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com]- #
Rauschenberg is one of my ultimate favorite artists and his passing is terribly sad
[From Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times]- #
this is fucking crazy.
[From Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News]- #
Funny thing is, with smart people, these are not challenges. With smart partners, they are open opportunities.
[From hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0]- #
seriously: awesome news if this is true. I hope they provide API hooks through XMPP payloads as well, as some good ole stateful API programs would be every nice indeed. Death to HTTP polling! FBML pushes through XMPP for the win!
[From Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog]- #
This is an incredible story that I didn't know much about, but every jew and non-jew should read and be inspired by.
[From Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times]- #
The ultimate twitter revenue is the use of premium SMS to provide for "fanclub" type feeds for some individuals. These would be exclusive feeds with some public messages and some private. For instance, imagine a band X that had a 1 dollar a month Twitter feed. The private 1 dollar a month feed included exclusive information, links to songs, etc. Also another twitter revenue source that can't happen if they don't fix their infrastructure: reselling the infrastructure! Getting good economies of scale with their SMS gateway and reuse from the HTTP and XMPP API's. The premium SMS one I've been hounding Ev and Biz about for a year now. I want it!
- #The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model - ReadWriteWeb
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I feel like Anne Sullivan: "IT HAS A NAME!" Well thank goodness for that, because after all this time I thought I was working on just Technology!
[From New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]- #
water finds its level
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Finally a nice use of Core Animation. Groovy and tactile.
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- Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times
- Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News
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- hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0
- Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
- Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times
- twitter revenue
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- New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits
- Acrylic | Times
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