DISQUS

Aashay Desai · 1 year ago

I sleep next to my iPhone too, but also next to my MacBook (the two are usually tethered).

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a strange or unique idea, and I'll know I'll forget it in the morning, so I find both to be useful for taking notes. I'll usually opt for the iPhone since its backlight is less of an assault on my eyes during the wee hours!

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

The low light function of the iPhone is also a key winner for me in those late hours. I'm hardly going to fire up the MacBook Pro and bathe my kids in the bright light when I not so secretly wish they would just go back to sleep once the bottle is gone.

Daryl Tay · 1 year ago

since getting my iPod touch and a totally wi-fi-enabled house, my iPod touch is within reach too. I find myself wiki-ing random stuff before i go to bed, and checking both the temperature and my mail first thing when i wake up! In fact I find my phone increasingly further away because everything gets routed through one of my many inboxes anyway

Peter Edstrom · 1 year ago

I do the exact same thing. Feeding our 3-month old a bottle as I read your post.

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Peter, I think we'll have to stick together. Amusingly, at 4 a.m. last night, I was reading my e-mail and seeing your reply, via Disqus about how you were feeding your 3-month old. Right there with you.

jangro · 1 year ago

Same here. our 3 month old boy has me frequently clutching a bottle in one hand and the iPhone in the other in the wee hours.

Of course then our 2 year old boy has me up at 6:00 on a Sunday morning where I have progressed to the kitchen and the Asus eee where I can actually write a lengthy comment.

(but twins, wow!)

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

It sounds like the "iPhone in one hand, baby and bottle in the other" is a much more common phenomenon than I had anticipated. We need our own support group, or at least a series of Apple commercials for this purpose!

ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 1 year ago

Louis, while I did not invest in the iPhone (mainly due to having a corporate BB and AT&T is not so good here), I thoroughly begged and pleaded to upgrade my 6 month old iPod to a Touch.

When my wife presented me a brand new Touch in March, she commented that it was the closest she had ever seen me to tears since our daughter's birth 5 years ago this month.

I can most certainly relate to your comments, and wished I had had one when my daughter was born ;-) Another joy I have found is sharing the iPod Touch with my daughter. Once I show her how to navigate past the password, she quickly learned how to fly through pictures, play games, and even listen to music (even though she couldn't really read the titles or artists).

The Apple team has certainly created a game change - a true paradigm shift, and I happily paid my $600 bucks when it first came out, and would again (heck, now I can buy 1 every 6 months) ;-)

jangro · 1 year ago

ok, two words for all you double-weilding iphone/baby-bottle dads: Joost App.

I don't see how it was legal, but I watched Ghostbusters last night (part of it anyway) streamed from Joost.

C'mon Hulu, what are you waiting for.

Paisano® · 1 year ago

Nice post. I do the same thing with my Pai-phone. I must admit that I did the same thing for years with my Blackberry and my iPaq. However, they've both been replaced by this amazing device. I've been keeping an eye on the G1 and Storm and Bold but the iPhone is still the king.
Some think it's silly to be connected 24/7 but I don't. I think it's wonderful that we can all connect and communicate anytime anywhere. Love my aircard for my laptop as well for that reason.
It's only going to get better when it comes to speed and features for mobile devices and laptops as the think line continues to blur.

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Being connected 24/7 is a must. Not everybody understands, but I see being connected to fast wireless Web as much a part of our modern life as food, air and water. When something gets in the way of it, I get fidgety.

Paisano® · 1 year ago

lol same here. It all started back in the day as a network admin that needed to be connected so my servers can notify me whenever something went wrong and something ALWAYS goes wrong in the middle of the night. Back then it was all dial-up and alphanumeric pagers but it was a Godsend. Remember the sound of beep-beep, beep-beep? Anyway, that evolved thanks to the Blackberry and its amazing little black box that let you respond to the messages. The rest was history. Now, we've grown to expect connectivity which is the norm. I look at it the same way I do with Tivo and DVR. I will never go back to videotapes again. While I can and do make efforts to go offline for long stretches such as when we went to on our Disney vacation for 10 days, I love knowing that I can stay connected 24/7 without a problem.

dccrowley · 1 year ago

I used to be more connected than I am now. It has cost me in some ways. But down time has become very valuable imo :)

miketempleton · 1 year ago

As you mention, the simplicity of the iPhone's interface makes it my favorite phone so far. Even using it one-handed (with large thumbs), I am still able to click around to whatever I need to find.

If I'm up very late, I'll find myself booting up Twitter, but usually there's not much activity then. I need to find a decent RSS reader for the iPhone and start doing that instead, especially since I can't see to find time to get to it during the day.

Paul Stamatiou · 1 year ago

I sleep near my iPhone (on a bedside table) but never with it... I can't stand to think what sleeping with a phone for years and years would do to my brain with all the radiation and cell tower handshakes throughout the night. The same reason I tend to carry my phone instead of keep it in my pocket where it might.. damage my swimmers. (i blame a cnet article i read about cell phone radiation years ago)