Idle thoughts from an idle mind on a Sunday afternoon:

Facebook has reached a peak. F8 is not as cool as I initially thought. I've seen maybe 5 applications added by my friends among all the ones that are available ... I guess there's just a diversity of too many Facebook apps. I don't want to say there's a backlash, but among my friends on Facebook, most of them seem sort of frustrated with the applications. I've also lost the initial enthusiasm I had for developing on the platform - why do all the work when another 4 or 5 companies wil do the same thing (and worst of all, Facebook will emulate if it gets too successful?).

It almost feels like a case where the pundits (bloggers) declared F8 a victory after the press release and all the technologists felt compelled to follow ("everybody else is building on F8, we better, too!"). It doesn't help the technologists that there are clear cases where joining F8 helped (iLive). But iLive was an early partner. How much success will we see from apps written later?

Apple iPhone: meh. My phone's been dying a slow death lately, and I've been looking at replacing it. I took a look at the Nseries from Nokia, particularly the N95 and just wasn't impressed with it. I'm also not completely sold on the iPhone, which makes me wonder if I'm just not ready for a smartphone...

Apple hasn't had a good track record of releasing first-gen hardware w/o some problems: the Cube had the crack defect, Macbook had battery and overheating problems (and that clicking problem), iPod nano had the scratch issue, 3G iPods had the infamous hard disk failure ... I can't imagine the iPhone is going to be perfect. Plus, this artificial deadline of June 29th makes me worry that they're rushing some components of it.

I was trying to decide if I needed to fork over that much money for a data package as well as a $600 phone (I don't have much of an issue with the phone's price tag, but the 2-year contract and the monthly fees on a slow-ass network are deal killers).

I find it funny in all the analysis I read about the iPhone, everyone assumes there's somebody else who will be buying the iPhone.

Is everybody stil enjoying their Nintendo Wii? Has the initial enthusiasm for it worn off yet? How long can swinging your arms to play a video game be fun? It's sorta lame that everytime I get invited to play Wii, we always end up playing Wii Sports. Aren't there any more games?