{"id":153,"date":"2007-01-10T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/01\/apple-goosebumps.html"},"modified":"2007-01-10T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T11:30:00","slug":"apple-goosebumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/01\/apple-goosebumps.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple goosebumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Apple. I love the iPod and iMac and iBook and macbook and macbook pro and all that stuff. I really, really love Apple. It started when I was a teenager and the man who was my unofficial grandfather – the man who helped bring my father to the US after World War II – gave me my first Mac. I wish that he was around to see the iPhone.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve watched Steve Jobs entire keynote presentation<\/a> at MacWorld yesterday. I’ve read scores of articles. I’ve driven friends nuts by fawning over the new phone and the brilliance of everyone at Apple. I feel so sorry for the poor folks at Microsoft who launched the very sorry thing called the Zune – direction competition to Apple’s iPod – only to find out that they launched something to compete with something old, something that will eventually be outdated by Apple’s new technology. A friend said, “You’ve got to feel for Gates. He’s sitting up there spending billions and thinking, ‘Why can’t my folks think this stuff up?'”<\/p>\n

The phone is brilliant, perfect, wonderful. Do check it out <\/a>for the sheer joy of seeing something that probably approximates technological perfection. I have goosebumps.<\/p>\n

[Disclaimer – Yes, I do own a small amount of Apple stock.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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