I Eat Rainbows

There goes Jobs’ reality distortion field. Whoosh, it says. Wheee.
In the calm light of a couple of days later, the iPhone doesn’t look so hot — especially considering it won’t be user-developable.
US$500, + a 2yr contract, at minimum for a device with no 3G support.
Locked to Cingular.
In US in June; not in Asia until 2008.
Probably no Skype — Cingular would object.
Maximum 8 GB, for a device that’s supposed to be excellent for video.
Probably no Nike Sports kit
No one but those with Apple’s say-so can develop on it. According to Jobs,

These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them. That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.

I think mark, from [dive into mark], said it best when he said,

Translation: I made this beautiful thing, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let you unbeautiful people fuck it up.

Me? I’m holding out for version three, or four. And only then if I can run Linux on it.

Wake up. Yawn.
Sit at computer. Check email.
Check feeds.
THE iPHONE IS OUT AND IT’S COOLER THAN…
Ok, wait a minute. What?
*Gasp* The iPhone! It’s out! It runs *bleep* Mac OSX!
Look, I can’t tell you this in all its awesomeness properly. Go read Engadget’s live — and awesome — reporting.
To wrap up:
They’ve taken one iPod, made it widescreen, with one physical button (home).
They’ve changed the internals sufficiently to run Mac OS X on it. (Awesome feature #4590: True multitasking!)
It does CoverFlow.
They’ve integrated a phone into it. (BTW, if you’re listening to music and a call comes in, it fades out the music! Then, it fades it back in when you’re done!)
It has a 2.0 megapixel camera, WiFi (b|g), EDGE and Bluetooth.
Rechargeable battery.
They’re running Safari on it.
They’ve partnered (well, sort of) with Google and Yahoo, for search, maps, and mail.
It’s controlled with thumb-sliding and a touchscreen (hope the screen’s harder to smudge than my iPod’s).
It syncs with iTunes 8.
It’s only available with Cingular in the US.
It’s available from June in the US, Q4 in Europe, and 2008 in Asia (Take that, Japan!)
4GB iPhone + 2yr contract = US$499. 8GB iPhone + 2yr contract = US$599
No details about other countries (say, Australia? Come on Steve!), but it is GSM, with a SIM card…

The other part I’m interested in? If it runs Mac OS X, who’s to say, with some kernel hacking, you couldn’t run Linux on it?

Excellent…

Ha. This director, Michel Gondry, posted a Youtube video where he solves a Rubik’s cube with his feet. So this other guy posts a rebuttal showing how he did it. Gondry’s method is exceedingly ingenious, and no CG is involved.

(From kottke’s remaindered links)