iPhone, iRobot…take that, Steve Jobs!

Posted by anthonykuo , Mar, 2009 @ 1:08 pm

Yes, that is an apple being blown up. Yes, that is a blackberry bullet kicking ass. Unfortunately, it’s a fake ad. But as someone who really is NOT a fan of Apple (to put it politely), I wish RIM (maker of BlackBerries) would have the brains and balls to run something like this.

The Storm is kind of a funny image. The BlackBerry, representation of Corporate America in its “Hi, I’m a PC” glory, suddenly wants to be cool like the young hipster Apple folks. But guess what? It works. Of the Storms I’ve seen in real life, they’ve all been in the hands of twenty-or-thirty-somethings.

Smart phones have more or less taken over our lives. Where the conventional cell phone allows us to be connected to other people almost anywhere, email-capable smart phones take it even further. Now that you can check your email, your work can follow you literally everywhere, including the bedroom. And now that you have 24/7 access to a portable email reader, you have no excuse to miss anything. Is this really healthy?

I’m not questioning the technology. As the world flattens, as Thomas Friedman would put it, it is without a doubt becoming more and more necessary to be simultaneously mobile and connected to the office. Devices like the iPhone or BlackBerries or Palms help us to that end. What I’m asking is if the way we treat technology and its new developments is appropriate. More to the point, are we allowing it (and the work to which it connects us) to encroach too far into our lives?

Tags: Apple, Blackberry, lifestyle, smart phone, Steve Jobs, viral