iScream! uScream! We all scream for iPhone!

Jul 11

iScream! uScream! We all scream for iPhone!

I did it. I went & waited in line for the new iPhone 3G. I showed up at the Knox Apple Store just before 7:30. When I got in line it was down past the McKinney Ave entrance to the parking lot behind Viking. I finally escaped the store around 2. Yes, that’s 6.5 hours. Mostly in the sun. So, I managed not to get a sunburn at the lake, but get one from getting an iPhone. Sad.

On the plus side, my $323.67 got me 2 bottles of water from Apple, a lemonade from Wild About Harry’s and a little smoothie from Jamba Juice. I also got an extra set of cables & headphones cos they got a weird error when attempting to port my number.

Once I got it home it activated on the second try. :>>

That’s it for now … especially since I’m posting from the phone!

[EDITED to ad links, since I can’t copy & paste on the iPhone. |-| ]

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§ Michael said on : 07/12/08 @ 17:41
One little-known irony of the iPhone's inability to cut and paste is that the gestures Apple appropriated for zooming were the elegant and intuitive "cut" (bring fingers together, as if miming scissors) and "paste" (spread fingers apart, as if smoothing down a pasted object) from Wayne Westerman's original MultiTouch gesture set.(1) OK, not as ironic as it might be: the gesture switch presumably is not the actual reason for the absence of cut-paste,since Westerman's gesturing system was also flexible enough to be user-editable.(2) (Note also in the demo on Westerman's page, or by exploring the Fingerworks(3) site, the lovely "leftie loosey" gesture for open, paired of course with a "rightie-tightie" for close.

Best to all,
M.
(1) http://www.ece.udel.edu/~westerma/About_Wayne.html
(2) http://www.fingerworks.com/MyGestureEditor.html
(3) http://www.fingerworks.com