Technology-wise, I am always a little bit behind the times. While my peers have gPhones and hPhones and iPhones, I have a little Nokia clamshell whose principal features are
1. MIDI “Saved by the Bell” theme-song ringtone, and
2. Tetris.
Occasionally I get tempted to buy an iPhone, so that I can easily track my calories and tweet while I’m driving and surf the web from public restrooms.
But then I remember that Apple keeps a dictatorial grasp on their app store. They rejected Trent Reznor’s app. They pulled down the baby-shaking app (forcing would-be shakers to use real babies). And now they’ve rejected Me So Holy, an awesome-looking app that allows you to paste photos of people’s heads on the bodies of religious figures.
This doesn’t bode well for me. And it means I should probably stop throwing my development resources at the “Your Religion Is False” iPhone app, the “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” iPhone app, the “Mohammed and Aisha” iPhone app, and the sure-to-be-a-hit iMohel.
(Although I guess that saves me the trouble of trying to figure out a good touchscreen equivalent of sucking the blood off.)
[...] readers will probably notice that this represents a complete turnaround from my previous iPhone-related reservations. I’m going to pretend that this is because of changing political winds, and not because I [...]