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ParticipantI got a Motorola Q on the first day it was out. I bet many of the folks on here know exactly what that is/was.
I think it was one of the first true smartphones…
Anyway, I had my original unit until just last week when I went straight from the Q (on Verizon) to the iPhone4 (on AT&T).
What a quantum leap, phone wise anyway. The phone is amazing. I just with the greatest of ease took a couple of videos of my cat and evidently I can upload them to youtube with like 1 click. By comparison, just getting the photo app to launch and be ready to take a picture on the Q was like 30 seconds, by which time you got so frustrated it was like “oh, forget it, whatever”.
Uhhh, on the other hand, I had ZERO, count ’em, ZERO bars of signal in my house with the iPhone.
Everywhere else in the world it seems to get 4-5 bars, regardless of how I hold the phone.
The Verizon signal in my house was never great, but was always adequate. So there’s an up-to-date apples-to-apples comparison: I went from say 2-4 bars to 0 bars when switching from Verizon to AT&T.
I bought a “microcell”, which was an epic pita in its own right. This did successfully increase the bars in my house to 2-5, usually about 4. Great! But it cost another $165 just for that thing. It has already taken down my wi-fi network twice in its first 24 hours. Definitely not great.
Another thing I like already about the phone is iBooks. I have the book I’m currently reading on the phone. So when I had to do the stupid 20 minute wait at the Dr’s office (and then wait again in the treatment room) – no problem – I just read my book. You can’t really do that with a simple text/photo phone.
So my review is:
Phone: Fantastic
AT&T: Sucktastic
Death Grip: OverhypedJune 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #573569ParticipantI took that test once, about 20 years ago. I don’t remember at all what my letters were, but I somehow kept it and I have the results in a binder in the garage which I’ve never reopened…
I wonder if I’d get the same letters now…
June 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #573665ParticipantI took that test once, about 20 years ago. I don’t remember at all what my letters were, but I somehow kept it and I have the results in a binder in the garage which I’ve never reopened…
I wonder if I’d get the same letters now…
June 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574186ParticipantI took that test once, about 20 years ago. I don’t remember at all what my letters were, but I somehow kept it and I have the results in a binder in the garage which I’ve never reopened…
I wonder if I’d get the same letters now…
June 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574293ParticipantI took that test once, about 20 years ago. I don’t remember at all what my letters were, but I somehow kept it and I have the results in a binder in the garage which I’ve never reopened…
I wonder if I’d get the same letters now…
June 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574591ParticipantI took that test once, about 20 years ago. I don’t remember at all what my letters were, but I somehow kept it and I have the results in a binder in the garage which I’ve never reopened…
I wonder if I’d get the same letters now…
June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #573559Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]In any case I find “knowing better” at times to be…very limiting while the clueless are apparently shielded from any self-doubt.[/quote]
Yes that’s an interesting counterpoint to this thread isn’t it? We can congratulate ourselves on not being one of those “too-stupid-to-even-realize-how-stupid-they-are”, but on the other hand, you need some people to go out and take risk and try things, despite conventional “wisdom”.I once had a valuable discussion with a successful company founder who was reflecting back on what were the pivotal moments and attributes that allowed his company to grow, flourish and ultimately very richly reward him and others.
One thing he said stuck with me which is similar to what CB said. He said something like “At the beginning we were completely naive. If we knew then how difficult it was going to be, we never would have started the company.”
I too have the problem CB describes of sometimes allowing a little knowledge of the difficulties to deter me from embarking in new areas.
It’s interesting to me this interplay of ignorance (perhaps sometimes willful) and its relationship to entrepreneurism and learning. You could even argue it has a bearing on creativity, because if you are letting perceived difficulties deter you from trying something then obviously your “creativity” is affected in that you aren’t creating.
Ignorance is good? Maybe Chutzpah is the proper term here.
June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #573655Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]In any case I find “knowing better” at times to be…very limiting while the clueless are apparently shielded from any self-doubt.[/quote]
Yes that’s an interesting counterpoint to this thread isn’t it? We can congratulate ourselves on not being one of those “too-stupid-to-even-realize-how-stupid-they-are”, but on the other hand, you need some people to go out and take risk and try things, despite conventional “wisdom”.I once had a valuable discussion with a successful company founder who was reflecting back on what were the pivotal moments and attributes that allowed his company to grow, flourish and ultimately very richly reward him and others.
One thing he said stuck with me which is similar to what CB said. He said something like “At the beginning we were completely naive. If we knew then how difficult it was going to be, we never would have started the company.”
I too have the problem CB describes of sometimes allowing a little knowledge of the difficulties to deter me from embarking in new areas.
It’s interesting to me this interplay of ignorance (perhaps sometimes willful) and its relationship to entrepreneurism and learning. You could even argue it has a bearing on creativity, because if you are letting perceived difficulties deter you from trying something then obviously your “creativity” is affected in that you aren’t creating.
Ignorance is good? Maybe Chutzpah is the proper term here.
June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574176Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]In any case I find “knowing better” at times to be…very limiting while the clueless are apparently shielded from any self-doubt.[/quote]
Yes that’s an interesting counterpoint to this thread isn’t it? We can congratulate ourselves on not being one of those “too-stupid-to-even-realize-how-stupid-they-are”, but on the other hand, you need some people to go out and take risk and try things, despite conventional “wisdom”.I once had a valuable discussion with a successful company founder who was reflecting back on what were the pivotal moments and attributes that allowed his company to grow, flourish and ultimately very richly reward him and others.
One thing he said stuck with me which is similar to what CB said. He said something like “At the beginning we were completely naive. If we knew then how difficult it was going to be, we never would have started the company.”
I too have the problem CB describes of sometimes allowing a little knowledge of the difficulties to deter me from embarking in new areas.
It’s interesting to me this interplay of ignorance (perhaps sometimes willful) and its relationship to entrepreneurism and learning. You could even argue it has a bearing on creativity, because if you are letting perceived difficulties deter you from trying something then obviously your “creativity” is affected in that you aren’t creating.
Ignorance is good? Maybe Chutzpah is the proper term here.
June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574283Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]In any case I find “knowing better” at times to be…very limiting while the clueless are apparently shielded from any self-doubt.[/quote]
Yes that’s an interesting counterpoint to this thread isn’t it? We can congratulate ourselves on not being one of those “too-stupid-to-even-realize-how-stupid-they-are”, but on the other hand, you need some people to go out and take risk and try things, despite conventional “wisdom”.I once had a valuable discussion with a successful company founder who was reflecting back on what were the pivotal moments and attributes that allowed his company to grow, flourish and ultimately very richly reward him and others.
One thing he said stuck with me which is similar to what CB said. He said something like “At the beginning we were completely naive. If we knew then how difficult it was going to be, we never would have started the company.”
I too have the problem CB describes of sometimes allowing a little knowledge of the difficulties to deter me from embarking in new areas.
It’s interesting to me this interplay of ignorance (perhaps sometimes willful) and its relationship to entrepreneurism and learning. You could even argue it has a bearing on creativity, because if you are letting perceived difficulties deter you from trying something then obviously your “creativity” is affected in that you aren’t creating.
Ignorance is good? Maybe Chutzpah is the proper term here.
June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #574581Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]In any case I find “knowing better” at times to be…very limiting while the clueless are apparently shielded from any self-doubt.[/quote]
Yes that’s an interesting counterpoint to this thread isn’t it? We can congratulate ourselves on not being one of those “too-stupid-to-even-realize-how-stupid-they-are”, but on the other hand, you need some people to go out and take risk and try things, despite conventional “wisdom”.I once had a valuable discussion with a successful company founder who was reflecting back on what were the pivotal moments and attributes that allowed his company to grow, flourish and ultimately very richly reward him and others.
One thing he said stuck with me which is similar to what CB said. He said something like “At the beginning we were completely naive. If we knew then how difficult it was going to be, we never would have started the company.”
I too have the problem CB describes of sometimes allowing a little knowledge of the difficulties to deter me from embarking in new areas.
It’s interesting to me this interplay of ignorance (perhaps sometimes willful) and its relationship to entrepreneurism and learning. You could even argue it has a bearing on creativity, because if you are letting perceived difficulties deter you from trying something then obviously your “creativity” is affected in that you aren’t creating.
Ignorance is good? Maybe Chutzpah is the proper term here.
June 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #572109Participant“Chance favors the prepared mind” is a saying I’ve found to be true.
June 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #572204Participant“Chance favors the prepared mind” is a saying I’ve found to be true.
June 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM in reply to: OT: NYT article on, among other things, the limits of our ability to acknowledge what we don’t know #572718Participant“Chance favors the prepared mind” is a saying I’ve found to be true.
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