What the iPhone price cut really means...

Dropping the 8GB iPhone to $399 should put to rest all of those rumors about an iPhone nano. Of course, Apple could be cooking one up right now to further fill the pants of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola, but it seems like too much. Apple is very strict about feature set and price points. An iPhone nano would confuse the hell out of the whole lineup, and it likely wouldn't be much more than a phone, albeit one with a much sleeker interface. When the iPod touch replaces the iPod classic (more on that in another post), the handheld device lineup will be just right.

News today says that Palm and Motorola are now on the defensive after this price cut. Good. Both brands are as boring as the Dell under your desk.

Palm has essentially become another slave to Microsoft, and they'll likely finally die if Microsoft buys RIM. Yes, having a physical keyboard is a slight plus, but when the next generation of iPhones sport a tactile feedback display and possibly some sportier improvements to the interface, physical keyboards aren't going to look so great. Palm is just Dell in your hand, owned by boring suits and supported by boring IT departments.

Motorola continues to show the world how completely irrelevant they are. Motorola is a joke. Their phones are terrible. For all the hoopla of the RAZR, it's just a slimmer, sleeker version of phones that came before. Motorola is the best example of the worst of old school telecom. It has decided to rest on a dated product in favor of maintaining a bloated organization with groups that compete each other and vie for power on a daily basis. That Motorola continues to exist is a testament to how stupid and slow their telco clients are.

Ron Paul Sandwich

sourdough bread
goat cheese
avocado spread
thinly sliced roast turkey
pesto

Sandwich Report: Monday, 2007-08-13

My esteemed friend and fellow sandwich lover Mr. Java says that the Heidi's at Denver's international airport has a good chicken salad.

No, Dear Reader, I won't pay for your ticket.

I violated the First Law of Sandwiches

The First Law of Sandwiches:

A sandwich made by a given person will not taste good to that same person.

Check this... I toasted an Einstein's asiago cheese bagel, spread on some goat cheese and Trader Joe's basil pesto. I then followed with Trader Joe's roasted chicken breast strips. It was close to gastronomic nirvana.

I think I can improve upon it. Next time, I'll bake or toast it open face a second time after putting on the pesto, cheese, and chicken. Stay tuned!

T-shirt

This is my kind of shirt.

A hero from a hero?

From Defamer:

Dania "The One Who Drove AJ Soprano To Suicide" Ramirez will join Heroes as a series regular. (Hey, she's got mutant experience from X-Men 3.) While her "powers are being kept under wraps," producers are rumored to still be deciding between superhuman Rollerblading skills and the ability to make the world's most delicious sandwiches.

Nothing doing

Sandwiches have been few and far between of late, as have chunks of free time to devote to this blog, but I still love all zero of you who read this. This week I revisited the beauty that is the JoJo.

I think I've listened to Great Northern's "Home" about 7,415 since downloading it for free from iTunes last week. (I'm going to purchase at least the more recommended tracks from their debut album, Trading Twilight for Daylight, I swear.) Repeat play of songs is what put me in trouble with some of my roommates in college. It might not have been as bad if iTunes and iPod were available in the mid 1990's, which is the last time I was devouring music in large quantities. Needless to say, my iPod is a bit stuffed with U2 and Collective Soul.

Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah... Great Northern's bassist is hot.