I’m back in the Microsoft Blogger Lounge, and I just finished a conversation with a docile developer-type that became very animated when answering my questions about Office for Mac and Exchange.
Connecting with these people on that personal a level is something I’m not accustomed to. It’s pretty awesome to get tech support answers from the people that built the application.
More on the iPhone:
I sat through an hour-long presentation in front of a monolithic screen, and saw the iPhone in action. Wowowowowowow. If the newest James Bond movie would have had this phone in it, I would have scoffed at it for being too unrealistic; it’s that advanced.
There’s no way they could pack the processing power required to run OS X that well, and 8 gigs of storage, and that kind of touchscreen into something as small as my now-pathetic-feeling Motorola Q. I wanted to hurtle my Q at the screen to show it how much of a disappointment it is compared to the iPhone.
The iPhone is, as they say, teh secksay. You’ve seen pics online, but I’ll post mine soon as well.
I found it interesting that in the hourlong presentation, no mention was made of calendars or tasks. I was worried, and asked about it afterwards. They replied that it’s such a given that it didn’t even deserve mention during the presentation. That surprised me a little, because there is room to innovate in these areas, but I’ll imagine that maybe that part just isn’t complete yet (hence the June launch).
More to come.
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[…] Anyway, as far as work goes, MacWorld was pretty good this year. I met a number of interesting folks in the Microsoft Blogger Lounge and answered a ton of questions over at the main Microsoft booth. Apparently I’m a “docile developer” — I’m glad that Brandon liked the personal tech support. On Tuesday evening I got to chat with Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica at the Microsoft Press Party. Apparently Jade had wandered off to someother event so I didn’t get to experience the full snark effect, but Jacqui and her friend Herschell (sp?) were quite pleasant to talk to. I’ve been following a few threads on the Ars Macintosh forum, where a few commenters insist on dragging the MacBU through the mud as often as they can (and you can see a few of their comments on some of my other posts here). Somehow Jacqui and I got to talking about the perceptions you get as you scan people’s comments. So many of them are negative that it is easy to get kinda down about blogging. I mean, who really wants to share some personal insights only to get cursed out all the time? It’s a little odd, but most of the positive comments I get are sent to me in private email, whereas the people who have some issue or complaint about me or the MacBU usually post public comments (dare I call them diatribes, at times?). Jacqui said she’s noted the same thing with her columns on Ars. I wonder why that is? Are there any human behaviorists reading this who care to hazard a guess? […]