Haiku Monday – Mobile Devices
Feb 02 2009
Haiku Monday is back like a hurricaine, like a Super Bowl ad that had you laughing and crying in the same 30-second spot. I was in the backcountry skiing at Mt. Hood this past Saturday and my skiing buddy informed me that he just made the switch from his Blackberry (avid evangelist for 9+ years) to an iPhone a month ago. Here’s a very technical guy who travels domestically and internationally a whole lot and has a love affair with Blackberry – he survives on his mobile device. If he made the switch to an iPhone and several others in my office have made the switch, then what’s going to happen to RIM (Blackberry manufacturer). Well, they’ve got the most powerful man on Earth publicly admitting his addiction to his Blackberry and most lawmakers haven’t switched. The best thing to do to settle this debate is begin a haiku dialogue. So, let it begin:
I still love email
on my Blackberry, but the
web + apps on iPhone are crazy sexy
The above haiku did not follow the haiku rules, I apologize. Don’t use that as an example for your own haiku, but you must express yourself in the comments below.




I am excited to join a great panel for an upcoming Software Association of Oregon event called 



February 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
I think the iPhone
totally RULZ something fierce
the Blackberry DROOLZ
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
iPhone… Blackberry…
What happened to Palm Treos?
A thing of the past?
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:55 am
Buy me an iPhone
and I shall be your best friend
or iPhone buddies?
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Start with an iPhone
Add in a slide-out keyboard
Unstoppable force.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
I wish I had a
sweet iPhone or Blackberry.
Better than Razr.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
electronic leash.
burn your iphone/crackberry.
can you hear me now?
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
I want an iPhone
but only have a sliver
does the job i guess
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Now introducing…
an extension of the hand.
Sent from my iPhone.