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Mindcamp 4
By Sparky | July 1, 2007
Although Mindcamp 4 was smaller and shorter than previous Mindcamp’s it was in no means inferior. Due to the difficulty of getting a good venue and crowd on the July 4th holiday weekend there were less than half the attendees we normally get, and the event was shortened to 11 hours from it’s normal 24.
I personally was glad it was changed in such a way - being as tired as I’ve been of late meant I likely wouldn’t have gone had it been the full meal deal. Doing most of the day however was perfect, and I got to go get my geek on with fellow Seattle techies without straining myself.
One things that surprised me this time was how well Apple is hitting their target market with the iPhone. Mind camp was 2 days after launch, and more than 15% of the attendees had one. Admittedly world has been waiting for this phone for quite some time, but it was still rather shocking to see that many of them all together at once. There were a lot of discussions of not only what a world changer this device will be (and of course nerdy details as to help enable this through cool use of it’s technology), but also a good explorations of its weaker points.
More to come on the iPhone - I’m still wrapping my head around all the little details and don’t want to go into the full rundown of my opinions quite yet, but suffice to to say most of it will be positive!
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