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<\/p>\nHere’s an Apple I might just have to have a bite of… <\/p>\n
You have to admit: it’s sweet. It’s like the iPhone without the AT&T commitment (or the hack<\/a> that I’m not prepared to tackle). For now, I’ll just stick to a plain phone<\/a> on a plan with few surprises.<\/p>\n As for digital sound, I listen to a few tunes, but mostly, it’s audio books for long drives or to ease the drudgery of doing laundry and other mundane household chores.<\/p>\n Thus far, I’ve managed on fairly inexpensive devices<\/a>, because I’m never all that far from my laptop to change out and reload the contents of my audio player. However, the new iPod Touch<\/a> has an interesting characteristic: it has a built in browser and wireless capability. So, from anywhere there’s wireless access, I could check what’s going on in the larger world.<\/p>\n Or my e-mail, for what’s going on in the smaller world.<\/p>\n Or, I could watch a movie<\/a>, in complete disregard of what’s going on in either the smaller or larger real worlds.<\/p>\n My first computer was an Apple II+<\/a> (minus the joystick, but with two floppy disk drives, 64k RAM, and a 300-baud modem, thank you very much); that was where I learned to program, back when Apples still came with a command-line interface and geeky teenagers could still derive some joy from the things.<\/p>\n Now, far more computing power than a pickup truckload of those things could have produced would fit in a pocket (or a phone, for that matter). Still, I might just have to have one of these, once Alpha’s next tuition payment is made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an Apple I might just have to have a bite of… You have to admit: it’s sweet. It’s like the iPhone without the AT&T commitment (or the hack that I’m not prepared to tackle). For now, I’ll just stick … Continue reading