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I’ve been following the online career of Internet entrepreneur, Chris Pirillo almost since I got on the Internet over 10 years ago. Chris was originally known for his e-mail marketing business, later he transitioned and enhanced his business with blogging and I have to admit he was one of the first people I heard about blogging from and for that I am thankful. Chris’s latest venture seems to be broadcasting online via live.pirillo.com and providing choice segments where he answers various tech question in a video podcast form and on YouTube.

When the hype around the iPhone was at an all time high Chris choose to go against the tide and share 20 reasons why he wasn’t going to get an iPhone and I have to admit he did have some good points although for someone who professes to love the latest technology he seemed to quite closed minded and I wondered if he was just trying to take the negative slant to get hits but he did seem quite passionate.

Needless to say I was quite amused when his wife presented him with an iPhone for his birthday and his reaction was both annoying and funny at the same time. Somewhat reluctantly activated the phone, had some minor activation issues but it was soon rectified. In the past week he has been using it more and more to do interesting things including running an IRC client displaying the chat room* associated with his live web site.

This morning Chris posted a new article on his blog entitled, 20 Reasons I’m happy with the iPhone.  It was a pleasure to read.  Not because I love Apple products as well as my own iPhone but rather it’s refreshing to set two articles from different slants and opinions still revealing balance in what they say.  It’s also fascinating to see how the user experience of the iPhone has changed his mind on many of the original issues he had with it.

For the record Chris is not a Windows fan or Apple fan or even a Linux fan but tries to explore all technologies and uses the ones he thinks are the best for the job.  His primary computer is a Window machine but he does have several Macs as well and has been considering a full switch except for  using windows in a virtualized environment for some time now.

*Notice - some of the links may contain objectionable language in the chat room running inside some of his video and on some comments people have posted on Youtube but I felt it was worth it to put the article in greatest context.