So much new shiny

Hello faithful followers,

I know you've been dying since my last update. It's been a while.

I sold the Nexus One. I prefer the iPhone touchscreen. I'm used to it, and even iPod touch 1Gs have the feel and response that I like. Yep, I waited two hours in line at the West Edmonton Mall Apple Store, and I picked up the iPhone 4 black 32GB.

I haven't picked up the AppleCare protection, but I will eventually. I hear it's the bomb. Buying it unlocked made more sense economically for me. Going on contract would only be a little bit cheaper because I was still within 24 months of my last hardware upgrade with Rogers. They allow you to upgrade to an iPhone if you got the one from the last year, but the discount is much smaller. I figured if I got the factory unlocked one, I could sell it to a globe-trotter or someone in a different region where unlocked iPhone 4s are hard to come by. (Any AT&T prisoners interested? >=D tee hee hee)

I also picked up a MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2010). I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack from the "PC" crowd, but I still maintain that I'm not a Mac. =p I got the MacBook Pro for a bunch of reasons.

• I want to program for the iPhone.
• I really like the MacBook Pro aluminum body.
• I wanted something that runs StarCraft 2 decently.
• I like the 13.3" size for laptops.
• Boot Camp gives you the best of both worlds.

Had I gone for an equivalent PC, I would have imported the Toshiba Portege R705, exclusive to Best Buy in the States. As far as I can tell, it offers you everything you could want in a 13" laptop. Low weight, optical drive, Core i3, 4GB, HDMI, Intel WiDi (love that name, by the way), USB/eSATA, good price point. It was pretty much perfect, however, I never had a chance to play with it. The price difference between the two is somewhat alleviated by the student discount on the MBP, free iPod touch and free Canon printer. Yesh. I pretty much needed a new computer to get OSX to program on the iPhone. I ultimately couldn't figure out a comfortable solution to develop for the iPhone on my PC, so I gave up and gave in.

Yeah. That's happening. The iPhone 4 ships with 4.0.2, unfortunately. I'm now wondering whether I should go full Apple SDK or stick with Cydia. How real should I keep it? Hm...