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[strredwolf]

Taking the 8 to Towson Town Center (closest Apple store) was a bust, as it landed me without a phone and an hour late getting back to work.  I'm staying late tonight.

Which is a good thing, actually, because there's some issues that have to be delt with beforehand:

First, AT&T's backlogged heavily on activation requests, usually from people wanting to move to AT&T from other providers.  They didn't expect this much demand.  (Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, now estimates that half a million iPhones sold.)

Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router.  Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.

I want an iPhone, but I'll have to get a Mac first.  I can't do that until Anthrocon is over, and I will also need a LCD display for it too -- the monitor I have on the old rig is fuzzing out, so much that I perfer to VNC to the Linux rig's LCD.

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[raemonde.livejournal.com]

] Thank you. Personally, I don't see how that's a problem... unless my machine suffers an unrecoverable crash. There are other ways of transferring data.

-Rob

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

It's a problem if you're like me, with two desktops and two laptops.

[raemonde.livejournal.com]

] I do have two desktops and two laptops, as it happens. However, my iTunes library, calendar, contacts, email etc... everything I would sync - are on a single desktop. Any data I would need from any of the other sources can be synched to that desktop before being synched to an iPhone - and probably should be anyway, since it's my main computer.

] So I still don't see a problem... though that's just my setup. I agree that it would be easier if it were more open, but I also don't see the need.

-Rob