I remember considering doing the same but really didn’t want to take the risk of buying one and then having it breakdown and not be able to use the warranty. In any case the few who had the first generation iPhone where mostly tech savvy people considering you needed to know how or know someone who could jailbreak the phone for use. For one year the first generation iPhone was a status item in the Netherlands.

Then in the summer of 2008 T-Mobile started selling the 3G iPhone as an official Apple reseller. On launch day it was craziness of long lines at every T-Mobile store, everyone and their grandmother standing inline to be one of the first to buy the 3G iPhone. Due to lot of things not going smooth right away I waited until fall when my contract with T-Mobile was up for renewal to get an iPhone.

The iPhone went from an exclusive gadget to a an everybody gadget. People bought the iPhone which comes at a minimum with a 2 year contract starting at 30 euros a month. They didn’t even know right what the iPhone could do or not. I remember a colleague arguing with me that “yes the iPhone 3G can record video, of course it can”. And I was seriously dude it can only take photos.

People bought the iPhone just because it was/is an wanna have gadget, most will know their way around and get it under the knee. But most will just use it as a phone/sms/ipod and a few popular apps like Facebook, train info(Trein). But the advanced options like syncing your Google Calendar, iCal and such will go unused, most don’t know to turn off data roaming when abroad consequently getting bills of 500 euros.

So now you could say there are different levels of iPhone users:

• the casual user (phone, sms, ipod, maybe email and few apps and games apps)
• the business user (phone, sms, (multiple)email, calendar and and few apps)
• the power user(phone, sms, (multiple)email, calendar, tethering, lots of apps like twitter(some more hen one twitter app), facebook, wordpress, as of recently dropbox, feed readers, Ego, Airme, Camerabag, Flickr, etc.) Note I don’t mention iPod because most power user have an iPod also.

Off course not everyone is a fan of the iPhone. Just like the Windows/Apple war you now have the Blackberry/iPhone “which one is better” war. Here in the Netherlands the iPhone came out first and then the Blackberry. There are iPhone users who switched to Blackberry and there are those gadgets fan who now own both. As for me the only pro I saw in the Blackberry was the ping system. But as of recently the iPhone has it’s own ping app. It’s a no contest really; the touch screen, the huge amount of available apps and the eye candy of most apps. This makes it a no brainer, for me anyway.

The general notion is that since the introduction of the iPod and now the iPhone Apple went from a small “exclusive” user base to a wanna have products to the general public. For Apple this is good because it means more income. For the ones who are using Apple before it became a wanna have it means patience.

Last I was standing in the Apple store waiting to be helped, I had to wait half an hour while the store guy kept answering question after question about the iMac before the guy decided to buy the thing. Core Apple users know their stuff but now with a broader base of users you’ll have to pack an extra dosis of patience before going to an Apple store.

Fever is a Feed reader created by Shaun Inman who also created the website stats web app: Mint. I have been using Mint since day one so I had no doubt about buying Fever.

Fever brought pleasure back to reading feeds, after having toned down my feeds the last months I’m now actively looking for interesting weblogs to read. If you know any good feeds feel free to share!

After using it for a week or so I’ll write a review covering points like: how much bandwidth does it use. This will be an average considering everyone has different amounts of feeds. And depending on how often you refresh. So basically the pros and cons between a self hosted reader and a web based one like Google Reader,

Apple expert John Gruber of Daring Fireball questions if the transplant really took place just two months ago.

Recovery from a liver transplant is relatively fast, said William Chapman, a specialist at Washington University who has no direct knowledge of Mr. Jobs’s case.

But six weeks doesn’t sound “relatively” fast, to me. It sounds crazy fast.

As someone who had a kidney transplant last March I can say it is pretty likely that Jobs could have been walking around in public after six weeks. For starters recuperation time is an average, every patient is unique one will be up and walking within 5 days others will take 2 weeks. Plus recovery doesn’t mean lying in bed or sitting in a chair. It’s just the time your body takes to start functioning normally again. I stayed almost three weeks in the hospital, only two days before leaving I could walk in the hospital corridors without support.

Once home I started recovering faster, within two weeks I was already walking to the supermarket, taking the tram and train alone to the hospital for my weekly check-up. I cooked everyday for myself. I’m not saying I could walk fast and so, but I was able to move around and be independent.

Now in Steve Jobs case where he doesn’t has to put energy in taking public transport, doing grocery shopping or cooking I’m guessing he has enough energy left to walk around campus at WWDC.