I don't have an iPhone but may get one at some point in the future, if they work in Taiwan. This week I read a pair of articles about a couple of the various applications that are available for download or purchase on the iPhone. Apparently for a nominal fee, a buck or two (or in some cases, free of charge), iPhone users can download software developed by iPhone users from Apple's website and install it on their iPhones. One article I read talked about the magnificence of a particular application, how it was so awesome as to transform a mere piece of electronic equipment generally considered to be a phone into a collaborative musical instrument (read the
article by the New York Times' technology columnist David Pogue; it's pretty interesting and cool-sounding!), while the other
article (Yes, also from the New York Times, this time a piece in the weekly Magazine that comes as a part of the Sunday paper. What can I say - I read the New York Times, OK?) denounced a particular application in that it turns the fancy iPhone into nothing more than a fancy, electronic whoopee cushion.
I'm not here to say either one is good or bad, it just shows the range of the possible. The second one, though, it made me laugh and think about when we were younger, growing up on the Trey Deuce in L-Town, going up to the Craigs' house to watch Nebraska football games on the big screen with Larry. He always seemed to have some sort of battery-powered, flatulence noise producing device close at hand to be used as required for tomfoolery or what have you. Good times, not easily forgotten. I am sure he would get a pretty good kick out of the latter iPhone application, with all of the rest of us laughing along with him.
GJS
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