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However, after three years of law school, I found that my love of reading faded a bit. While in law school I didn’t have much time for pleasure reading yet I was reading all the time for class. Reading became more associated with work and a chore than with escape and relaxation and as a result, I began reading less and less for pleasure. I can’t tell you how many attorneys I’ve spoken to who have noticed the exact same thing happening in their lives. As a technology enthusiast I have been intrigued by eBooks and their climb in popularity. However, going back to my traditional book-loving roots, I just couldn’t grasp the concept of reading on an electronic device and giving up the feel of a hardback book in my hands. Books are treasured possessions in my family. I’ve found that when I go to someone’s home for the first time I’m drawn to their bookshelves to see what kind of books they’re interested in and what they’ve been reading. You can tell a lot about a person by the types of books they read, and especially those they think highly enough to keep on their shelf. That’s not really an option with a library of eBooks. This winter, things changed for me.
This weekend I ordered my new MacBook Air. If you’ve been following me on twitter or reading my blog, you’ll know that this is something I’ve been considering ever since the Airs were announced. However, I had reservations about whether a MacBook Air could replace the MacBook Pro as my primary machine or whether I would have to go out and buy an iMac as a desktop machine thus making this venture even more costly. As the reviews came out, all overwhelmingly positive, and as more of my friends bought MacBook Airs, I found the temptation too hard to resist. Today is June 23rd, the last day to return my iPhone 4 within the 30 day window to Apple for a full refund. After much internal debate, hours on the phone with AppleCare, research, and my own (totally unscientific) testing I’ve decided to keep the iPhone 4. I’m not happy about the way that things turned out, but ultimately keeping the iPhone 4 turned out to be the “lesser evil” for me under the circumstances. Had I known 31 days ago what I know now, I would have done things very differently. I mentioned in my earlier review of the iPhone 4 that I was one of the unfortunate people who were having significant problems with reception. In the past few weeks the internet has been abuzz about the topic. Reactions have been across the board. Some are calling for a full-blown recall and investigation. Others are saying this is no big deal and people should buy a case and get over it. Apple has called a last-minute press event on Friday, June 16th to discuss the iPhone 4 and this seemed like a good time to share my experiences.
About a year ago, I made a job change and moved back to my hometown. While I love my new job and being closer to family, I’ve been plagued by poor AT&T coverage. My current city has multiple dead zones in highly populated areas and in general suffers from poor connectivity. It’s quite common to be in an area with 5 bars of coverage yet calls go directly to voicemail or text messages are delayed, sometimes hours. Making matters worse, I live in one of those dead zones and literally have no service inside my home. Outside isn’t much better, I can usually only maintain a call for a couple of minutes before it drops. My AT&T contract is up on July 11th and I knew that a new iPhone would be released about that time. With AT&T unable to provide me any kind of answers, I was really struggling to decide what I was going to do. Short of the iPhone changing to another carrier, something that I think will happen but will be later rather than sooner, my only hope was the promise of the AT&T 3G MicroCell. I watched the WWDC keynote with mixed emotions. Lured by the appeal of the iPhone 4, but at the same time dreading signing a new contract and committing myself to two more years of cell phone purgatory. But something else happened on June 7th that was perhaps more appealing to me than anything Steve Jobs had to say in his Keynote address, the mythical 3G MicroCell came to my city. |
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Well, it’s finally happened, the Verizon iPhone has been released. Despite my regular rants about my poor AT&T service, I will not be making the jump to Verizon in February. I know that will come as a surprise to many who have followed my trials with AT&T so thought I would put together a brief post explaining why.
I have been very fortunate in that reading was strongly encouraged in my family. When I was younger my mother said that she would buy me all the books I would read. In fact, we have a silly family tradition that whenever you buy someone a book as a gift, you are required to read that book first. In part, so you can have the experience and knowledge that comes from reading the book yourself, and part to be able to discuss the book with the recipient as part of the gift. This strikes many people as odd because the end result is that you give someone a used book as a gift that cannot be returned.
Well, that was predictable…
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