I know some people who have been almost drooling over the impending iPhone device, but it hasn’t interested me much. Maybe if I could write my own apps for it, or if it didn’t cost so much….
I must say, though, that the television advertisements Apple has posted for the thing are fairly impressive. I won’t be switching carriers to AT&T/Cingular, but perhaps I’ll be paying more attention to the iPhone.
If you take a look at the calimari ad, near the end they do this thing with Google Maps that I often do myself with my web browser. Until lately I’ve used Yahoo Maps for this because of its integration with Yahoo Yellow Pages (which I guess is now called Yahoo Local). If you follow that last link to yp.yahoo.com it will give you a list of seafood restaurants ordered by distance from a location.
I don’t use Yahoo Maps anymore because they’ve changed it. Read the rest of this entry »
