Another month without a new entry. I’m starting to feel that this site will have an eventual fate as @eugene’s site. The thing is, I’m too tired to blog when I get home, and even when I’m free at the clinic and I wanted to write something, I couldn’t think of anything to write. Yes, life has become rather repetitive these days. And what’s more, while people like Newsome think it’s important to have a personal life outside dentistry, I’m thinking my work starts to be filled with compromises, and so I should focus more time on doing quality dentistry.
Anyway there’re a few things we should celebrate in the past month. For one, I got iPhone 5, finally! I almost got it from 3 HK and signed another two-year contract when suddenly Apple sent me an email telling me to get a SIM-free one from Apple Store. Getting the iPhone from an Apple Store is a way superior experience than getting it from other places: the staff were nicer and delivered better services (by “better services” I mean they don’t look stupid and they don’t look like they think you’re stupid). And, they helped me switch to a nano-sim directly inside the store (which got activated in one hour). I’m glad HK finally has an Apple Store, delivering the lowest yet most important level of the company’s tight vertical integration that Steve Jobs promised in this city.
Getting an iPhone 5 and unboxing it still makes one feel he’s the luckiest person in the world. The box and everything packed inside feels neat and solid. And, despite thinking that a 4-inch screen is a compromise Apple made, and being critical about the new phone’s aesthetics at first, I’ve fallen in love with the iPhone 5 after living with it for a few days. Thanks to its unibody design, the iPhone 5’s build quality has exceeded that of the iPhone 4, which is already the best-built phone on the market even after 2.5 year’s introduction. The aluminium back feels even silkier than Apple’s glass trackpads; the margin between the glass front and the metal housing is even better than that of the iPhone 4.
I said “still” because I’m a bit doubtful if I’d feel the same again when I get the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6. First of all, inside, the iPhone 5 is boring. iOS has gone through 5 years of development since the original iPhone in 2007, and become a very sophisticated system. What’s lacking though is breakthrough and innovation. Yes, iOS 6, I believe, is still the best mobile operating system. But there’s zero new function that I didn’t have on the iPhone 4. It’s pleasing to have much faster performance, but I’d love to see something new, something innovative. Fortunately, with the leaving of Scott-skeuomorphism-Fotstall (another big news in tech in October) and Jony and Bothelo Craig Federighi taking over iOS development, hopefully iOS will leap forward in 2013. Otherwise, I’d strongly consider switching to WP8.
Well well well I considered writing more on other stuff, but since I got enough words to make it an interesting entry now, let’s forget that and write later. Goodbye for now.
