ORIGINAL MESSAGE FROM TOM:

Hello Mark,

You will catch some flack for moving over to the dark side I am sure. 

However in time you may find yourself doing what I do.  I pray on my knees each night that I will never have to be without my iPhone.  I am not kidding – it actually is that great.
Regards, Tom

REPLY FROM MARK: 

Hello Tom,

Yep!  It’s true!!! 

No one finds it more difficult to believe than I. 

I guess Hell must have truly frozen over, thawed, frozen over again, and thawed a second time, eh?  (Big Smile) 

I’m still trying to get used to the idea of owning an Apple product, myself.

You are quite correct, Grasshopper, I have received a lot of good-natured ribbing over this seemingly Microsoft betrayal but betray I must.  (Smile) 

No matter what happens, however, while I may carry an Apple in my pocket, I can assure you that I will never carry one in my heart.  (Well, at least not yet.)

Besides, when it’s all said and done, I am a wireless device explorer and this new iPhone 3G S, with its revolutionary accessible interface that thousands of physically challenged people around the world have been pushing for since this product line’s inception, is nothing more than a new territory to be mapped. 

I will never abandon Windows Mobile nor my beloved Samsung Epix SGH-i907 Smartphone!  (Hmmm!  I wonder if anyone in his right mind actually believes that.  Oops!  Did I think that out loud?)

By the way, I just purchased a prayer rug for when my iPhone 3G S begins running low on battery power. 

See You in the Orchard,

Mark