Mainly, it's the cool factor. Got a buddy who has an iPhone, and it's sweet indeed. Practically, so far every time I've had a chance to get *almost* everything in one package (you'll recall the UMPC discussion we had recently), I've decided I want more power and screen real estate than the convergence device gives me--it was an effort to accept a 12" 1280x800 screen on the new laptop. (But it turns out to do the job pretty nicely.)
Secondarily, it's the camera gear. You should effin' *see* it all piled up and crammed into the backpack, and the next couple of years will likely see me acquire two new bodies and at least two new fast (which means big and heavy) lenses. I can't make glass and battery packs any less heavy or bulky than they are, so the supplemental gear has to shrink if I don't want to leave it behind. The new laptop is a nice compromise between usefulness and fitting in the camera bag, but if I could replace my Flashtrax and cell phone with a single iPod-sized unit, that would make a big difference, not just in the bulk and weight of the devices, but in the support gear (chargers, data cables, card adapters) as well.
There may also be a fillip of wanting everything just to have an excuse *not* to buy one. "Yeah, your iPhone's nice, but talk to me when it does X."
I don't see ever really watching video on an iPod--the screen's just too small. So music is all I should need to store on it, but as you say, music collections tend to grow rather than shrink.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-11 05:16 pm (UTC)Secondarily, it's the camera gear. You should effin' *see* it all piled up and crammed into the backpack, and the next couple of years will likely see me acquire two new bodies and at least two new fast (which means big and heavy) lenses. I can't make glass and battery packs any less heavy or bulky than they are, so the supplemental gear has to shrink if I don't want to leave it behind. The new laptop is a nice compromise between usefulness and fitting in the camera bag, but if I could replace my Flashtrax and cell phone with a single iPod-sized unit, that would make a big difference, not just in the bulk and weight of the devices, but in the support gear (chargers, data cables, card adapters) as well.
There may also be a fillip of wanting everything just to have an excuse *not* to buy one. "Yeah, your iPhone's nice, but talk to me when it does X."
I don't see ever really watching video on an iPod--the screen's just too small. So music is all I should need to store on it, but as you say, music collections tend to grow rather than shrink.