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anniversary cookies

my manager did it again. homemade peanut butter cookies in celebration of my 2 year anniversary here at apple.

homemade dustpan with handle

huge ice cream cookie

biggest i've ever seen! (TWSS)

THE answer

just this past weekend:

scenario #1
i was at the park and saw this flower. i said it was a dandilion but for some reason it didn't sound right. i polled a few other people and strangely enough, they said the same. they thought it was a dandilion but was only 75% sure. what did we do? busted out an iphone and looked that shit up. (it was a dandilion)

scenario #2
i was at a bar and randomly the punky brewser theme song came up.

"Maybe the world is blind,
Or just a little unkind.
Don't know.
Seems you can't be sure
Of anything anymore..."

then we were stuck. we couldn't think of the next lines to the song. time to launch safari and look that shit up.

how common are these scenarios? the iphone has become the be-all and end-all to every debatable discussion or unknown fact. the blackberry and palm treo existed way before the iphone was born. but for some reason, this type of culture never existed pre-iphone. is it because the iphone is so popular and more people have smartphones in general? well, no. i still don't see blackberry owners take out their phones like that to look something up real quick that isn't totally needed at that moment.

i think it says a lot about the usability of the iphone as a whole. the user interface pulls in the user to really utilize the phone through it's simple and extremely easy to use design. thus, causing a life change, creating this dependance to it. why else do we pull out our iphones without thinking twice in a bar or at the park? we know we can fulfill a curiosity, get our questions answered instantly. just like that.

or, maybe it's because everyone around me has an iphone and i work where i work. ha!

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