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Monday, October 29, 2007 — 2:38 p.m. — at my desk

The iPhone is a great thing. I love it and I can’t imagine my life without it.

But something’s missing.

It.

As many of you know, I’ve been relying on my iPhone as my computer since the middle of last week, when my 3-year-old Powerbook went in for surgery at the Apple store. While I have a computer here at work, it doesn’t help me when I’m not here.

So I turned to my iPhone. I mean, it’s a computer, right? It’s got the Internet, it’s got my mail. I can even buy songs from iTunes.

But it just doesn’t have it.

For example … when I blog, I like to include an image with every post. It’s part of this blog’s atttitude and style and it’s an extension of me. On the iPhone, I can’t attach images. There’s no place to get them. There’s no desktop.

Worse, you know I respond to every comment. On the mobile version of Typepad, which is the administrating program for this blog, I can only read and approve or disallow comments. I cannot edit them or add them. So all I can do it hit approve and come back here and update it.

That just doesn’t fly.

No cutting, no pasting … many of the basic elements that I turn to my computer for are mysteriously absent from my iPhone.

Again, I love it. Please don’t get me wrong. But for those of you who think you can just put your computer in the closet and put one in your pocket, you will likely be disappointed.

One day, yes … the iPhone will be an extension of your computer. In fact, I think the technology Apple is working with now in Leopard where you can log into a .mac account and use your home computer from anywhere with a wireless connection is only the start. Soon, I think you’ll be able to control your computer via your iPhone. When? I have no idea, Could be several years until the technology is perfected.

Right now, the iPhone is a great little device and it’s only going to get better. But I just can’t wait until I get my computer back. I miss it. Maybe I’ll send it flowers and a card.

Or maybe I won’t.

Thoughts and comments always appreciated, of course.

Thanks for calling.

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