Erik Gibb
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I love my iPhone. You’re experience designers rocked it out with an interface that is so utterly delightful I can overlook a dumbfounding amount of missing apps (iTunes purchases, ringtone management, profiles, bluetooth contact and data transfer, flipped keyboards everywhere, yadda yadda) and bad behavior (Crashing Safari, sporadic munging of all my photos and music into a huge bar of orange “other” data files that still take up space, but are inaccessible through the interface)

Except… PLEASE FIGURE OUT YOUR MULTIPLE COMPUTER STRATEGY.

I have a work computer and a home computer. I don’t steal my music, I paid for every bit of it. I bought a metric crapton of movies and tv shows from the iTunes store too. Then there’s podcasts. Lots and lots of podcasts, all of which are free. Why can’t I sync *my* media with multiple computers? Why can’t I manually drop a movie from one computer on my iPhone and back over to the other one? Why can’t I manage podcasts from any location?

Rickalus.

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Has anyone noticed that the flick-scroll gesture for the iPhone is the opposite of the double finger flick-scroll on the macbook? The phone uses a more natural metaphor. I was a late adaptor of the double finger scroll on the macbook, and the iphone reversoswitcho is really messing with my muscle-memory.

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I’m too old and too closeted of a fanboy to have waited in line like so many hundreds of others at any of the stores in the bay area today. But I ordered an 8GB version online last night as soon as the Apple store finished updating. Shipping in 2-4 weeks. Sigh.

I decided to hit a real store today to get one, then cancel my online order if I was successful. The Union Square store only had 4GB versions available, so I decided to wait. It’s going to be really. really. hard.

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