In 1991 I purchased my very first digital organizer. It cost me $19.99 and stored up to 100 phone numbers!
In 1994 I purchased my first pager and before it fell into the my college dorm urinal, had a very brief run as the coolest thing I had ever owned.
In 1998 my best friend and I went in together on an hand held email device that sent and received email if you held it up to a land line phone.
In 2000 I got both a nokia cell phone and a palm pilot and continued to upgrade… each model more advanced than the one before.
In 2005 I got my hands on a used smartphone, and the world changed beneath my very feet. First the Palm Treo and then later the Blackberry Curve were my weapons of choice…
Then in January 2009 I gave up my Blackberry curve and picked up the iPhone 3g. Because I am an artist and very much a gadget geek I was head over heels excited about it. For the first 3 months I was practically an iPhone salesman, walking around showing everyone what it could do and how sleek it looked. “Look at these amazing apps!” However, around the 6 month mark I realized something… I was spending an aweful amount of time and effort trying to tweak my iPhone so that it could do the things that I was accustomed to on my Blackberry. Over time, more and more tweaks were needed and then some things I just flat out couldn’t make happen like I wanted on an iPhone.
Finally, about 3 months ago I started to get frustrated at how inefficient I was getting and how scattered all of my theatre work seemed. Even though I knew I would get flack from all of my friends at the theatre, I decided to go back to the Blackberry. [click to continue…]
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