I remember coming home with my iphone. As someone who had always gone for the cheapest phone contract known to man, this was a big investment. It was a different type of phone (though as noted, more ‘gadget which so happens to have phone functionality’). I had a new sim (my previous one was too old). That old sim had always made transferring numbers easy. I was ready to spend much of that Saturday setting up numbers and so forth.

But it didn’t happen.

Instead what happened is this. I turned on iphone. Connected it to itunes as directed. It went chug chug chug. And then I set to work only to find it had happily sync’d my numbers with Address Book on the Mac. And there was a ‘Sussex IMAP’ email account ready to be checked (not a straight forward thing to setup), all ready, I guess it got the settings from Mail.app. And so it went on. Seamless, and from then on perfect syncs.

…And when I destroyed my iphone and had to get a replacement, I swapped the sim, plugged in the new phone, and itunes said “hello would you like to make THIS iphone the Chris Keene iphone?” and I said yes please, and then 5 mins later it was identical to the one I destroyed.

So while, like you, I try to avoid fanboy-ness. I am stunned when people say ‘but phone X has a better spec’. The iphone *so* just works. Amazingly so.

I agree with Owen, the stupidity of some of their app approval decisions is very frustrating. And it grates. And I imagine Steve Jobs will always be someone who never gets the point of humour. But anything other than a iphone (for the foreseeable future) will be just that. Not an iphone.

Chris