Another interesting post from Marco:

This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:

Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.

Then this happened:

Other manufacturers had…

When I got the XBox 360, I thought I’d be using it a lot to play over Live with friends back home. I’ve done that exactly once, and they dumped me pretty quickly because I didn’t have some for-pay downloaded add-on. I suppose it was too much to expect that people would be willing to play on my limited library just to spend time with me. Is that selfish of me? I don’t know.

I’m disappointed, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Know how many calls I’ve gotten from friends back home since I’ve been here? One or two, and only because he wanted to buy something off me (there is one exception, but he’s not a gamer so I’m not counting him here). When I go back to visit we hang out and have a great time, but once I’m back here I might as well stop existing. I did try to keep in touch when I was first down here, but I got tired of leaving voice messages and not getting anything back. I was hoping we could reconnect through gaming. I guess not.

Should I mention that I’ve been back to Maine three times in the last two years, and none of my friends has made any effort to visit me down here? Or would that sound like whining?

The upshot is that I’m getting rid of the XBox. I just don’t play games on my own, so all we’re using it for is Netflix. There are better solutions for that, and my $50 Live gold account renewal is up in a month. And really, all it does is remind me of what I gave up when I decided to actually take the leap we had all talked about for years.

It’s been worth it, but only just. Sometimes not even that.

Apple came out with updated Mac Pros and iMacs today. I’m an iMac man myself, so that’s what I checked out. Looks nice! Of course, The League of Internet Commenters is busy finding flaws and comparing it to similar offerings from Apple’s competitors. Hardware isn’t my strong suit, but I know half…

As with claims of future “iPad/iPhone killers”, once Flash is up and running on more than a single phone (or maybe just out of beta and stable on that single phone), THEN we can debate whether Flash should be on iOS devices or not. Until then, seriously, it isn’t really available on ANY phone, and all the pontificating in the world doesn’t change that.

If for no other reason than for the title.