iPhone 3GS
3-Jul-2009I can’t review my new iPhone 3GS. Frankly, I haven’t used it enough. I’m still waiting for my old carrier to port my number so I can use it as something more than a very expensive iPod Touch.
One of the first things I did after getting it was to sit down with a couple of our kids and show them the maps, video camera, photos, some Wall-E, Phineas and Ferb and then an iPhone version of Peggle which they had played on PC extensively.
When I had decided that demo time was over my 3 year old daughter insisted that the iPhone was hers. To encourage me to hand it over she started ripping up and throwing things around the house with some impressive, wanton, and very primal, rage.
This experience has brought me to the realisation that slavish iPhone desire is nature, not nurture.
I’m seriously considering buying a decoy.
Re the nature vs nurture thing — the twins are both tech fiends. Given a moment unattended and they will run off with any remote control, laptop, or iPhone left within reach. And they will not return them willingly in most cases. (Jaelle is trying to figure out the TiVo remote by trial and error.) They also appear to have a natural affinity for expensive technology over cheap, so Rosanna’s Macbook Air is the ultimate prize.