Tag Archives: iPhone

I’ve noticed something in the past few weeks that isn’t at all a new phenomenon, but seems hyper present in our marketplace right now: the artificial confrontation.

On Friday Palm launched their highly anticipated smartphone, the Pre, just as Apple was likely to (and subsequently has) reveal the latest version of the iPhone. So naturally, there are a flurry of tech blog articles and news source stories about “Is the Palm Pre the phone to unthrone the iPhone?”

I own an ancient and evil digital clock radio. It has a tape player, an alarm, and at times a radio. The radio hates me. The clock set controls loathe my very existence. This clock and I hate each other with an ancient and reverent passion. It’s done well waking me up for at least a decade, but begrudgingly I’m sure. These days it’s finally outright refused to do is play a radio station with any sort of reliability. What’s more, it mocks me. As I move about the room, the volume and tuning fight with each other — a screaming match of deafening static and distorted NPR. The time has come for a change.