Last week, my iPhone stopped working for no reason, and I had to make a trip from San Francisco to San Jose without my iPhone. This seemingly minor inconvenience brought some awkward feelings. Strange enough, I felt quite disconnected, and quite exposed to the risk of not being able to reach the outside world easily in case of emergency or "perceived" emergency (such as a last minute update), and not being easily reached by the outside world (we seem to become quite dependent on our technologies).
This week, I had some severe connectivity issues, and was without Web access for a few hours. This brief time without Internet was another feeling of being exposed and isolated from the Web world.
One thing to note here is that with Google Apps, when there is no Web access, there is no access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, etc. So you cannot continue to work on your e-mails offline, check your calendar and schedule meetings, and lookup contacts. This isn't a problem for me yet, because I still haven't imported my calendar and my contacts to Google Apps. This is the next item on my list.
The good news for now is that Web access was restored, and My iPhone got replaced by a new iPhone and activated within minutes at the Apple Store in San Francisco, and the world came back to the way it is supposed to be. And now, I am ready to continue the Google Apps experiment.















