After 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.
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