Last week, in a crisis of faith, I found myself harbouring thoughts of owning an Android “fondleslab”.
I have since been to confession at the Birmingham Apple store to be absolved of my guilt. A “fondleslab”, for those not down with the kids, describes any portable touch screen device so beloved by its owner that it is incessantly fondled in public.
Have you ever wondered why Steve Jobs is always cast as the digital messiah and Bill Gates as the digital anti-Christ?
Is it down to the merits of the technology they each have given to the world and the fact that people love Macs and hate PCs, or simply that Steve has a personality and Bill does not?
Last Tuesday at 11 o’clock Pacific time the world briefly stopped turning as Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the Apple faithful at the Macword show in San Francisco.
