November 23rd, 2007

Sounds about right: What a geek does with an iPhone in the first two days

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Welcome to Black Friday, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. I suspect there will be a bunch of people who are hoping Santa will get them an iPhone. Here’s one story of what lies in store.

One of my friends stood in line on the first day of iPhone availability and got one of the highly-anticipated gadgets. We happened to get together two days later, and of course there was a lot of showing off and playing with the phone’s features. But for me what was telling was the part of the phone which shows you the phone usage statistics. After two days, the numbers looked something like this:

  • Data downloaded from the Internet: 500MB
  • Minutes talking on the phone: 2

Sounds about right.

Category
Old New Thing
Topics
Non-Computer

Author

Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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