Last Monday night at the TMUG holiday party/meeting, the Q&A discussion centered around the iPhone. After about 10 questions, I finally stood and mentioned to the group that this group now had a broader charter, and iPhones were perfectly acceptable topics of conversation here. Matter of fact, there is a greater chance for sitting around a table and actually using one, watching it sync, and hearing firsthand whether or not it lives up to the hype.
Since then, I've had a few folks join our mailing list, and a few others request info on this site, so we may have some visitors to our meeting tonight. (This is not to scare away those not interested in iPhones - just to let you folks know what to expect. (Given the change in the weather and the proximity to Festivus and other holidays, attendance may not show a sudden surge, but you never know.
December 17, 2007
August 20, 2007
Change of Focus
This post is long overdue. For many months, we have slid by with just one or two folks attending. Some have suggested privately that I disband the group. I started this out of a love for community and for mobile technology. It was a heady time, back in 2000. The Palm platform was taking off, nurtured with the ashes of the Newton community. Air travel was relatively painless. There was venture capital flowing like water through Silicon Valley, which brought vendors bearing swag to our doors with astonishing regularity.
Those days are long since passed, but we have kept meeting, milking the ether for scraps of topical interest. On June 29th, I bought an iPhone, and I see my need for the Palm waning more by the day. I still carry it, still have sentimental attachment to it, but, functionally it is dead to me.
TAPIT is effecting a change today to the Triangle Advocates of Portable Information Technology. We've been moving this way for some time, but with a formal change in our focus, I think we can capitalize on the excitement in the air resulting from Apple's re-entry into this market. There is much going on around portable technology, and for whatever reason, Palm is now more of a bit player than ever before. Yes, it's sad, but it's been their market to lose and they have done an excellent job of it. Apple has long been a leader in portable computing, but there is some stuff of interest from across the aisle.
Those days are long since passed, but we have kept meeting, milking the ether for scraps of topical interest. On June 29th, I bought an iPhone, and I see my need for the Palm waning more by the day. I still carry it, still have sentimental attachment to it, but, functionally it is dead to me.
TAPIT is effecting a change today to the Triangle Advocates of Portable Information Technology. We've been moving this way for some time, but with a formal change in our focus, I think we can capitalize on the excitement in the air resulting from Apple's re-entry into this market. There is much going on around portable technology, and for whatever reason, Palm is now more of a bit player than ever before. Yes, it's sad, but it's been their market to lose and they have done an excellent job of it. Apple has long been a leader in portable computing, but there is some stuff of interest from across the aisle.
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