The iPhone hype

I have always been a closet luddite. Yet, as pogue puts it, I could not have not heard about the iPhone. And, since I've started working with the very cool n800 that John Ankcorn@Nokia Research gave me, I paid some attention to the ads. I have to admit, the iPhone looks very cool. In particular: the landscape-portrait orientation sensing, browsing songs by scrolling thru cd album-art, and the image zooming facilities. I couldn't put a finger on what it was that made it cool. Pogue puts it brilliantly:

"things on the screen have a physics all their own"

There. that's what I like about the iPhone. This from someone who does not even own an iPod, and can never understand the appeal of a dumb circular wheel to navigate your albums.