Catherine was impressed, or maybe startled, with the rapid change in attitude I had when I joined Yahoo! 6 years ago. I was going around correcting people when they used Google as a verb, setting every default home page I came across to Yahoo! and was pretty much touting our services any chance I got. For my parents and in-laws, a well configured my.yahoo page is really their perfect starting point for the internet. Though 6 years later, I’d have to admit my conversion rate isn’t what I thought it would be.
But having seen my quick transformation she didn’t doubt my ability to go from a 10 year Blackberry fanboy looking down at the iPhone, to iPhone-atic at the flip of a switch. And though that switch won’t officially be flipped until May 24th (I’ll be joining the iPhone development team, working on the mail app), she’s gotten used to rolling her eyes as I start encouraging people to buy Macs, iPhones and iPads.
I guess she thinks all that eyerolling will make her a lock for an iPhone upgrade come June?
I’ll really miss all the folks in the sports team and what worries me the most is that I’m not going to realize how much I’ll miss them for another month or two. It already weighs heavy on me as it is…not looking forward to the full impact when it hits. But this iPhone thing is an intriguing product and it was an opportunity that I would be silly to turn down. They’re in an incredible place right now and to be part of the team will be exciting.
I’ve already begun sighing heavy as my 8900 goes to garbage collection every 15 seconds while browsing the web or loading a map – while looking longingly at Catherine’s iPhone. The side-by-side tests that I was afraid to do 2 months ago, since I had a pretty good idea that my 8900 would lose, I enthusiastically kick off whenever I have a chance.
The only drawback I see is typing – I’ve foundthat I’m used to sliding my fingers from key to key on the bberry and that habit doesn’t translate well on the iPhone, but hopefully I’m human enough to adapt.
Or fanboy enough. We’ll see.