I debated whether or not to bring this up in my blog, but I must say something about it. I am at the same time embarrassed, humbled and very, very thankful. But I am now the proud (not to mention embarrassed, humbled and very thankful) owner of a iPhone! Yep, me the very uncoolest of the unhip now carry around the coolest little gadget. OK, some reviewers point out some limitation of Mr. Job’s little telecommunication device, but that is rampant iEnvy. This is one cool phone. And with the supposed near release of the SDK to third-party developers any day now (you listening, Steve), this is only going to get cooler.
So why would I have an iPhone? Grace. It was a free, Will gift. For reasons that I cannot explain, Will and Michele King (and Andrew too) like me. Go figure. But Will was upgrading his phone and in the process upgraded mine as well. Just "Here, take this an no questions." This is not the first time I have been rendered speechless, but speechless I was rendered. But I wanted to take this opportunity on my public cyberforum to say “Thank you” to Will and Michele. The gift of your friendship is priceless… and I really, really like the phone!
Pepperdine trip booked. Family coming in. And an iPhone. God is good! (Amen, Clifford?)
1 comments:
Congratulations on your acquisition. I don’t know those King’s but they sound like really nice and generous people with a lot of resources. I don’t want to dampen your joy but you should be aware that the iphone is very ‘hackable’ and that any data stored on it or transmitted on it may and can be viewed by just about anyone (bad guys are out there). (Don’t use it for banking or such things) and be aware personal data may not be so private on your iphone. Apple is working hard to correct the problem and it is likely they will have a patch soon to correct to secure their phones. Meanwhile any installation of unauthorized programming (especially in the operating system) installed “knowingly or unknowingly” may result in turning an iphone into a useless ‘brick’. I hope you enjoy your iphone and I hope you don’t have any of the problems that have been brought to our attention from the ‘good hackers’. Cell phone and wifi has never been a secure way to transmit sensitive conversations, information or data and it is often ‘hacked’ by corporations and governments with vast resources to glean what they can about the competition or any potential enemies. The iphone has some serious holes and data can be viewed with a little effort by any ‘average’ hacker. (Just had to pass that on to you, I would want to know.)
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