Google enters the mobile phone arena. Via John Gruber:

Did Apple announce iPhone third-party apps as an aside in their “Hot News” column (instead of on Steve Jobs’s home court, a conference keynote) in order to get the news out fast — before Google?

I’d bet my iPhone! Competition is grand.

The Leopard has landed, as has John Siracusa’s excellent in-depth review. Reading John’s reviews through the years has become a bit of a ritual for me. It would be the final step—at the end of months of speculation and excitement—before I’d go out and get the operating system for myself.

When Tiger came out, I quickly installed it on my personal machine and commenced shaking it down, despite various caveats from John. I looked down my nose at the cautious multitudes who were waiting for a few patches to come out before they deployed it on their systems.

“Pathetic pansies,” I thought to myself. “Take your lumps like MEN!” (Yes, I thought this in the context of an operating system. Yes, I know, I’m staggeringly immature.)

Well, here I am, Leopard weekend behind me, still running Tiger. I’m older. I’m more feeble. I can’t risk the upgrade. I’ve heard that Xerox printer drivers need to be updated. I’ve heard that there is some nasty font behavior in Photoshop CS3.

So it goes with aging. We become that which we despised most in our youth.