Thursday, January 18, 2007

The iPhone, My 2 cents

i couldn't 'not say anything about this little, well this little publicity stunt. Lets go back, wayyyyy back to a time when personal computers were still a rather novel concept. Apple had the world at its feat in those early years it looked like nothing could stop it... except stupidity. Yes i speak of the Apple Lisa, that was and always will be the problem with Apple. Great ideas i mean some companies really have ideas Apple has great ideas, and really bad follow up. The Apple Lisa was first sold in 1983 with a price tag of $9,995 it was too expensive but it had the concept of being a fun business computer.

Now lets look at the iPhone, in the past week I've seen a number of prices most recently a price of $2,000 (US) depending which plan you go on. When it was first released i was reading about $499 (US) for the 4 gig version.
Point 1: if i own a 20gig ipod why do i need a 4 gig phone?

Last reports I've read also indicate that there will be no secondary software support, shame really it looks like nice hardware in the adverts which brings me to point number 2. Steve Jobbs showed off some really easy ways to use the phone, you touch the screen with your finger.
Point 2: so do i on my pocket PC! Granted it has multi touch but the screen doesn't look that big and when are you going to use 2 fingers on it at once?

Current reports also suggest that there is an ARM CPU,
Point 3: My Pocket PC uses an ARM CPU!

All in all I'm going to give this 2 big thumbs down, I'll make this call early. i think all Apple has managed to do is redeliver something we already have and really don't need. The proof will be of course once these go on public sale ill make the prediction now and say that people will get caught up in the hype for the first week but will be bitterly disappointed in months to come.

3 comments:

  1. I fully aggree with your points. The Iphone is a bit like the Blackberry: Much hype about nothing.

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