iDevices -- Past and Present
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kybearfuzzAfter having the iPhone 4 for a couple of years or more, I went to the Apple Store Friday and blew a considerable amount of money getting the iPhone 5s. It's not like I am one of those people who must have the latest thing, but when I do buy new, I figure I might as well get the newest.
iDevices over the years...
My love affair with Apple products started back in the mid-1990's when I broke down and bought a Performa desktop computer when I lived in the Kansas City area. I blew about $2400 for that thing (not a small amount of money then or now) and was amazed when I got it all put together in my little apartment. With my buzzing dial-up connection, I was introduced to the world of home internet usage, with all the chat rooms and low KB photos I could download. With me being "in the closet" but very curious about things and not being very social, it was an outlet I desperately needed.
When I moved back to the Cincinnati area in 2000, and bought a house in 2001, I replaced the now obsolete Performa with a new Apple desktop "tower" computer and learned about the miracle of high-speed internet. In 2003, freshly out of the closet, I started looming on different websites. I started this journal in August of that year. And that year I bought my first iPod above on the far left. With that little item, I became very popular at work. I was the first person to have one in my office and the world around me wanted to see it, to touch it, to listen to it. One smart ass at a training course thought it was awesome, but remarked that he "couldn't find one decent song on it."
Eventually, the ipod started dying and resurrecting it became a chore. I started referring to it as my "iZombie" because I managed to bring it back from the dead a couple of times. Sadly, without the use of supernatural means, the iZombie breathed its last and I had to upgrade to the 80 GB iPod above (third from left), which I still use today, filled to nowhere-near-full capacity, and contains music I'd guess the same jerk would not find entertaining.
As I started getting larger tax returns, I started buying more Apple products, including an iBook laptop, my first iPhone, an Apple TV (for Netflix and such), etc. When the last desktop finally crashed and burned, I bought a Mac Mini to replace it and was amazed how something the size of a cookie tin could do so much. While I had not been having any problems with my iPhone 4, I knew it was time to upgrade. It was a bit slower in some cases and was starting to show some wear. It's 16 GB memory was also starting to become an issue with photographs and apps taking up more and more room.
So Friday's purchase of the 64 GB iPhone 5s was fun. I'm still trying to figure out Siri's usefulness (though I switched the voice to him rather than a her). The camera is definitely better. And the fingerprint ID system is rather cool. When I did put all my stuff on it, I did it as a "restore" which was a mistake as I think I lost a lot of the new free apps on it, but I'll replace those eventually.
My new phone does give me a slightly warm fuzzy feeling like I had before with my first iPod. On a lark, I tried to power the old iZombie up again over the weekend, but it has definitely given up the ghost. In a few decades, I'm guessing there will be a museum who would love to have it.
iDevices over the years...
My love affair with Apple products started back in the mid-1990's when I broke down and bought a Performa desktop computer when I lived in the Kansas City area. I blew about $2400 for that thing (not a small amount of money then or now) and was amazed when I got it all put together in my little apartment. With my buzzing dial-up connection, I was introduced to the world of home internet usage, with all the chat rooms and low KB photos I could download. With me being "in the closet" but very curious about things and not being very social, it was an outlet I desperately needed.
When I moved back to the Cincinnati area in 2000, and bought a house in 2001, I replaced the now obsolete Performa with a new Apple desktop "tower" computer and learned about the miracle of high-speed internet. In 2003, freshly out of the closet, I started looming on different websites. I started this journal in August of that year. And that year I bought my first iPod above on the far left. With that little item, I became very popular at work. I was the first person to have one in my office and the world around me wanted to see it, to touch it, to listen to it. One smart ass at a training course thought it was awesome, but remarked that he "couldn't find one decent song on it."
Eventually, the ipod started dying and resurrecting it became a chore. I started referring to it as my "iZombie" because I managed to bring it back from the dead a couple of times. Sadly, without the use of supernatural means, the iZombie breathed its last and I had to upgrade to the 80 GB iPod above (third from left), which I still use today, filled to nowhere-near-full capacity, and contains music I'd guess the same jerk would not find entertaining.
As I started getting larger tax returns, I started buying more Apple products, including an iBook laptop, my first iPhone, an Apple TV (for Netflix and such), etc. When the last desktop finally crashed and burned, I bought a Mac Mini to replace it and was amazed how something the size of a cookie tin could do so much. While I had not been having any problems with my iPhone 4, I knew it was time to upgrade. It was a bit slower in some cases and was starting to show some wear. It's 16 GB memory was also starting to become an issue with photographs and apps taking up more and more room.
So Friday's purchase of the 64 GB iPhone 5s was fun. I'm still trying to figure out Siri's usefulness (though I switched the voice to him rather than a her). The camera is definitely better. And the fingerprint ID system is rather cool. When I did put all my stuff on it, I did it as a "restore" which was a mistake as I think I lost a lot of the new free apps on it, but I'll replace those eventually.
My new phone does give me a slightly warm fuzzy feeling like I had before with my first iPod. On a lark, I tried to power the old iZombie up again over the weekend, but it has definitely given up the ghost. In a few decades, I'm guessing there will be a museum who would love to have it.
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Date: 2013-10-28 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-10-28 05:56 pm (UTC)I've been using Apple products for so long (and even sold them for a few years) that my list of owned iDevices would seem like tedious bragging. I do remember every one of them, even if I had them only for a few weeks in some cases. Also, I have a drawer of several different dead iPods (not all mine), I suppose I should get around to recycling them eventually.
It is still interesting to see how many people made the jump to the world of Apple products after buying an iPod. They don't call it the "halo effect" for nothing.
But still, I never get over that little thrill of buying a new iDevice, such as my 5S. I'd forgotten that I hadn't backed up my old iPhone for about a week when I traded it in, so I lost a couple apps and photos, but nothing important.
You can easily download your missing apps (and music, etc) by checking in iTunes Store "Purchased" screens.
As for your taste in music, everyone has different tastes. He was just showing his poor taste by dissing yours.
That reminds me…I need to update my iDevice love photo.
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Date: 2013-10-29 11:52 am (UTC)And I should recycle mine too, but I hate to give them up.
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Date: 2013-10-28 09:32 pm (UTC)On my last trip with my Dad, I needed to visit a Walgreens to fill a prescription. He didn't know of any, so I simply asked Siri and immediately got the nearest Walgreens location sent to Maps for turn-by-turn voice directions.
Dad was suitably impressed.
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Date: 2013-10-29 11:53 am (UTC)I think I just haven't specifically needed Siri's services just yet, but I have had fun asking him (I use the male voice) some weird questions, just to see what he'd say.
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Date: 2013-10-29 02:39 am (UTC)College; Commodore 64 (don't laugh!), then a PC in computer labs at school (after the punch cards!).
Grad school: we had 2 Mac classics in the mail room for our use..the labs only had a digicorp terminal and a VAX mainframe. I remember that I didn't like the Macs at first, then I did. And I used them all through grad school/post-doc. I didn't get my own computer until 97-it was a powerPC mac laptop.
RIght now, I have an iPhone, after my Droid. I got an iTouch as a prize from work, but I've never used it. I mean, it's like a phone without the phone capability. What's the point?
iZombie. ;-)
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Date: 2013-10-29 09:31 am (UTC)In college, the school's whole computer lab was nothing but MacIntosh computers, so I grew up learning mainly on Mac's, though my high school's computer classes were taught (at the time) using Radio Shack TRS-80's (the trash-80's as we called them).
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Date: 2013-10-30 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-30 09:09 am (UTC)I was disappointed because movies made computers look capable of so much more. :)
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Date: 2013-10-29 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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