Geek Update

• Apple announced the iPhone SDK. So I now have an iPhone. I like it, but the keyboard is tough. The packaging was perfect. But the antithetical sign up with ATT was frustrating. It was unclearly non-Apple.
• Last year (or before) I came across a startup that sported a very cool user interface. Take a calendar, for instance; you could move your mouse over a day, and the day expanded, like it came into focus. That's a great concept, because it means you don't have to double-click and wait to see what a day looks like, or change your view to Day View to see both the contents of the day and the context in which the day sits. The iPhone should sport something like that (it has a bit of that but it's obtuse and occasional).
• Few commercials on broadcast TV (we cancelled cable) inspire me to go to a website. And I really don't like cellphone companies. So it was a big deal when I found myself going to Sprint.com after the commercial that claims $99 a month for everything. The entire cellular model has been built around scarcity; abundance makes more sense. More people would buy abundance. More people would sign up for deals with sensible loss leaders; we would rather pay $99 for $70 of usage if we knew that we'd never be charged $120 as opposed to knowing that with the $70 plan we'll occasionally be charged $90 because we were good customers and used the damn service a lot, but were charged a higher rate for our loyalty.
• I have a Treo 700w and a BlackBerry Worldphone, not to mention the limited but effective Credo Wireless phone from Samsung or something in addition to the iPhone. Why? Because I try everything to learn what works and what doesn't. And accumlating cellphones doesn't work--I need to sell the Treo and Blackberry, at least.

That's it for tonight. Tomorrow I have a board meeting. Next week we'll make some positive announcements and I'll give more of the story here. no mysteries--it's about venture capital.