Motorola has by far the most ANNOYING and horrible OS for their phones.
Agreed. Their interface is user hostile. Way, way behind Nokia or even recent Sony-Ericssons. But I don't believe Apple would stick their fruity logo on anything this far from their carefully designed user experience. So the software on this device would be probably co-developed with Motorola.
oddly enough I'm of they opinion that they all suck on quite equally. Everybody just take a nap or watch Hurricane coverage for a few hours until this breaks.
I'm wearing the same t-shirt. I have a pretty good idea of what's coming because Har... I mean someone spilled some beans, and all I have to say is that the interface on the last Motorola phone I had actually made me angry.
I don't get why a company that trades on the elegance of its user experience would get into bed with Motorola, but hey. Apple's just a company that makes stuff...
It should be an Apple branded phone, if it was just a Motorola phone with iTunes and a max of 200 odd songs this would be crap, especially when you take into consideration what the invitation to the event today said on it.
The PSP has shown us what you can get for a certain amount of money, and the iPod lets us do a lot less than a PSP does. Make the phone a digital life device, so that it has the new 8GB microdrive, access to the internet, can make calls (duh) but in an elegant design. How about the whole front of the phone is a screen and is touch sensitive (for the buttons) and if you want to view media you can make it take up the entire screen (for iPhoto pics and H264 for movies) and iTunes and iPhoto can sync to the phone. Then it becomes something the PSP can only dream of doing and suddenly Apple can charge a lot for this baby. If it was a video iPod it would just be a PSP that couldn't play games.
The whole concept badly dilutes the Apple crown jewels of brand and design and I'm sure Steve hates it, BUT, its a neccessary strategic evil at this point in time. The iTunes juggernaut cannot be allowed to stall and the phone companies represent a possible roadblock.
Once the phone is out and iTunes once again shows it superiority (and the concept of downloading tunes using the phone is shown to be the expensive, frustrating and juvenile option) another wall of resistance has been breeched. Apple will have entered the mobile telco's citadel
I never though I would say this but I could now easily envisage an Apple phone. Mobile phone interfaces continue to suck badly and a sleek unlocked Applephone would probably sell in buckets.
An Apple phone would not be bad for Apple's brand image at all. I don't know why you guys are so against it. Apple has never just stuck their face on something made by another company and they would certainly not do this with a phone. It would be 100% Apple.
Perhaps there could be two versions, a cheaper one in white plastic and a more expensive one in aluminium, like the iBooks and Powerbooks.
Apple needs the moto chipsets that are already approved for use in cell phones before being able to brand its own phone. Moto might just have made this phone as a requirement in the 1st gen phone and apple might have complied to get the chips.
Perhaps this is why apple signed with freescale for such a long time....
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Please oh please let this be an apple-designed phone, including the phones' OS...
Originally posted by ZO
Motorola has by far the most ANNOYING and horrible OS for their phones.
Agreed. Their interface is user hostile. Way, way behind Nokia or even recent Sony-Ericssons. But I don't believe Apple would stick their fruity logo on anything this far from their carefully designed user experience. So the software on this device would be probably co-developed with Motorola.
To stay in business with the iTunes music store and the growing number of cellphones that can play music they must do something.
Now you have the symbian mobile phone platform on witch a lot of phones runs,
think Nokia for example. Now that Nokia has a deal with M$ for playing music they can't include iTunes.
Another platform is Linux, BSD, PocketPC etc.
This opens up a lot of ways to buy and play your protected acc songs.
But if your phone will play iTMS songs it will hurt the iPod sales.
One advance of the iPod is it can hold more songs, but not for long if the flash memory prices go down and the storage goes up.
Mobile Safari is also mentioned, but i have no idea where that direction goes to ...
The other thing coming are bluetooth speakers.
Nice fore the new phone and handy for your home mac experience as you can control the speakers from itunes the way airport express does now.
I don't get why a company that trades on the elegance of its user experience would get into bed with Motorola, but hey. Apple's just a company that makes stuff...
The PSP has shown us what you can get for a certain amount of money, and the iPod lets us do a lot less than a PSP does. Make the phone a digital life device, so that it has the new 8GB microdrive, access to the internet, can make calls (duh) but in an elegant design. How about the whole front of the phone is a screen and is touch sensitive (for the buttons) and if you want to view media you can make it take up the entire screen (for iPhoto pics and H264 for movies) and iTunes and iPhoto can sync to the phone. Then it becomes something the PSP can only dream of doing and suddenly Apple can charge a lot for this baby. If it was a video iPod it would just be a PSP that couldn't play games.
My 2 pennies.
The harware is Motorolas but if it sucks, it will somehow be Apples fault.
Moto phones aren't that hot fellas.
I see I real boondogle here.
Once the phone is out and iTunes once again shows it superiority (and the concept of downloading tunes using the phone is shown to be the expensive, frustrating and juvenile option) another wall of resistance has been breeched. Apple will have entered the mobile telco's citadel
I never though I would say this but I could now easily envisage an Apple phone. Mobile phone interfaces continue to suck badly and a sleek unlocked Applephone would probably sell in buckets.
Perhaps there could be two versions, a cheaper one in white plastic and a more expensive one in aluminium, like the iBooks and Powerbooks.
Perhaps this is why apple signed with freescale for such a long time....