Macgasm

I’m in the midst of the upgrade so that I can tell you what it changes once I’ve had some time to play with it. There is speculation out there that is suggesting that this is only a maintenance update for the soon-to-be-in-our-hot-little-hands SDK.

I’m here to assist you in your hype-filled afternoon.

Have you seen this one yet?

I don’t know about you, but there’s a large part of me that’s actually tired of the fanboy gristmill crooning about the latest iPhone firmware. I’ve foolishly had my hopes raised and dashed on more occasions than I care to count – even as the 2008 Steve-note was in progress! Thanks to insider information, we knew every aspect of the 1.1.3 upgrade prior to Macworld. The keynote just served to supply the “œJobs Seal of Approval”.

We’ve also known for awhile that the SDK is due for a late February shipment (though strangely, try and find that memo regarding the SDK on the Apple website now – it has seemingly disappeared). Speculation has run wild over the internets. Are we going to 1.1.4 or 2.0? Will I finally be able to cut and paste? And what about Flash?

I just don’t know. And I think that very few people – save the real insiders – truly do.

What I have learned to expect over time is this: Apple, having secured the phone (to some degree) can start to deliver on one of the biggest promises made at the onset of the iPhone release – the software that drives the phone is a fantastic platform to develop applications for.

Simply stated: the iPhone really is a revolutionary device, and I’m happy to wait patiently for each of its’ evolutionary leaps because of that very premise. But that evolution is a time-consuming process, and I’m just as happy to wait for a product to fully mature before it’s released into the wild.

What say you?

I carefully crafted my daily escape from the WoW (world of Windows) a little over three years ago when I bought my first Mac, a G4 mini running Tiger. From the moment that I booted that squat cube of goodness, I never looked back to a Windows-based PC in my home again. I even made a convert of my wife, too!  As an IT professional by day, I’m surrounded by Microsoft products and I’m constantly called on to support them. And that’s really where my journey began, with my frustration at never having a machine that worked for more than a month without something absolutely inane happening to it. So now, I’m writing this introduction from a one-year-old MacBook Pro (I’ll geek out and give you the specs if you’re interested), using Pages from iLife ’08, with LOST, blips from Adium chatter, and the whirr of the living room fan as ambient noise. It’s a fun-derful thing! :) I’m hoping to bring a completely unique perspective to Macgasm – I still have to live in a Microsoft world as an Apple fanboy, and support both products. I’ll try to leave the fanboy-ism out as much as possible, as well as the Microsoft hatin’ – it’s the whole “œfair and balanced” thing, ya know! I’m looking forward to your comments, critiques, and cruelty!Bring “˜em on… Thanks to Josh and the rest of the Macgasm crew for the opportunity to be a part of the team!