I am not a big Apple fan and I wonder sometimes why people get so excited about everything they release.
Who would for example like a phone with these "faults":

• Basic camera
• No multitasking!!
• BigBrother Apple must approve everything all the time
• Can’t deploy your own apps to the IPhone (without paying!)
• No Flash/Silverlight yet.. Will there ever be?
• Bluetooth functionality is not brilliant

But since it is a product from Apple everyone just loves it. I must admit that the design is quite slick and the performance is quite good (probably because it can only do one thing at the time :) ). And the AppStore is obviously working very well.

Anyway, as a developer you realize that IPhone, IPad and IPod can open up a big market for your applications. You have potentially millions of buyers if you come up with a really good idea!

I have written applications for various platforms in different languages but I have never written applications for the IPhone. So to get an idea on how it all works I bought this book (for my Kindle):

I have now read it and I must recommend it. The book was really good and gave me most of the information I was looking for. I still haven’t written a single IPhone application yet, but now I know where to start!
It actually looks pretty easy to write IPhone apps, especially if you come from a C background.

I read a lot of books (95% related to computer science and programming –> geek!) so my home office starts to look like a library with books everywhere! I am trying to keep all my other media (music, films, series etc) in a digital format so I decided last week it was time to go all digital with my books as well.

I read a few reviews about different E-readers and decided in the end to go with Amazons new version of Kindle:

I have now had my Kindle for just over a week and I have already read 2 books. I am really happy with it and I will only buy digital books from now on!

Things I like about my Kindle:

• Long battery life (haven’t charged it yet!) thanks to the E-Ink. But turn off the wireless when you don't need it!
• Can hold over 1500 books on the device
• Books stored centrally so I can access them from different devices
• Real-time dictionary
• Add a note or a bookmark in the books
• Buy new books straight from the device (and you have them within 60 seconds..)
• Search easily within the book
• Change the text size
• Cheaper books (not all books I guess but the two ones I bought was cheaper actually!)
• The Text-to-speech function (doesn’t work terrible well on programming books though)
• You can get RSS feeds, PDFs and newspaper streamed to your device (haven’t used this and probably won’t)
• Easy to carry with you – don't have to carry around a big fat book anymore!
• But the best thing is that I don’t have to store books in my house anymore! Its all digital now!

Even though there are a few things that could have been better with the new Kindle I must say that I am very happy with it so far.