Well Well , loads of comments about the network support and 3G crap in a wrap ... (sorry never thought of it as an attractive convenient technology) , my two cent about the iphone would be only this ... 90 percent of the phone makers out there in the real world just don't do it right when it comes to mac integration and support ... yep us lowly mac users have to play 20 question with service providers phone manufacturers to exchange data in between our Mac-Stuff and phones.
Apple? knows to do one single thing ... product service integration in and elegant and a KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) Interface , that our moms and dads can actually use to do stuff without having to have a degree in Computer Sciences.
In making an Iphone? Apple? tries to kill many birds with a single boomerang stone ..
1) True IM phone system supporting multimedia .... see Leopard ichat ???
2) MP3 .. every phone manufacturer tries to copy apple on this and end up making well .... i ll let you compare..
3) PDAs out there are actually missing the point about integration with the OS, Palm? had it right but actually missed loads of opportunities to bring it together with Apple.
4) True Airport? capability off 3G GPRS networks .. using the iphone as a tiny base station to connect to your mac from anywhere on the planet providing well practiced standard service. What every phone manufacturer failed to provide to its customers due to extensive application of "secret sauce" recipes that actually don't work out of the box.
5) Over Airport Synchronization... (rendez vous is there for that and it actually works 100 Percent), synchs your itunes backs you up , synchs your contacts , mail ... all in one swift flow.
6) Killer Apps : Mail , Safari? , Ichat? , Itunes?, Remote Desktop?, Ical?, Ipod Games? , Dashboard? ? All these are light to implement. Moreover they would make sense with Leopard and Leopard Server.
7) Video ? Tough one to tackle ... but why not ... but it would hinder ipod? line ... but then again it did not hold Apple back from innovating or combine uses.
8) Plays nice with other apple technologies ... remote control anyone ? reloads the battery of your iphone from your Ipod? ... Plays well with ipod integration for cars .
9) Storage capacity ? not an issue ... keep it relatively slim approach and synching from iphone to ipod shall help both items sales ... think of it as the wide screen for your ipod.
10) Where that would lead device-wise ? Total slim factored technology integration over an horizontal product line with high device to device compatibility setting a new ease of use standard no one thought of before because of the lack of respect other manufacturers pay to integration and product coherence
11) Media goals, when you think Apple and Steve Jobs you have to think about those ... Ipod? Itunes?, ITMS? Plus Iphone? ,Itv? (show-time thing connecting to your mac ,streaming video to your TV over the airport system) line would make Apple once again a Major player into technology convergence while everyone else who would have come to similar ideas is still playing tug of war with content providers Apple? strikes a new blow to its would be competitors in the media field by putting it all together.
12) Would i be Nokia? ,Sony Erickson? or Motorola? mobile devices i would start one thing .... Packing , this is exactly where their lack of foresight , integration and respect for standards and product design led them. As for the Ipod? when it first came out in France , i had a previous music player (A Rio? if memory serves, great little device , no moving parts) , then came the ipod and while the Apple stock was hitting new lows ever i told my girlfriend "well not only i am buying that little thing, i am getting shares (Everyone at the time kept thinking one thing ,i was NUTS and certified) , "This is not just another MP3 player device, it is a change about how we will think about music and multimedia in a few years from now.". Don't get me wrong all the technology that was being used was already there , what changed the face of it all was the fact Someone out there dared to integrate it and give it face that would enable the user to use the device without reading a 500 page manual written in either Lawyerese or StarTrek? Technobable? . Well i guess the same is just yet again about to happen.
13)Whatever actually happens about the features i put above , i hope some get through just that ... and if people at Msoft? ever read this , well start the kleenex orders for Z-thingie You have just again been wiped off the face of the earth.
14) 2megapixel camera.... another mandatory gadget methinks oh well ...
You can be sure ... ill be close to the Apple Store to get one and get those for parents as well... Not because i am a Mac or Apple fan but because i trust them enough to make stuff that actually will work with Mac os X , promote better integration and better ease of use for our averages Janes and Joes out there which don't want to play 20 questions for simply getting STUFF that W O R K S.
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Apple? knows to do one single thing ... product service integration in and elegant and a KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) Interface , that our moms and dads can actually use to do stuff without having to have a degree in Computer Sciences.
In making an Iphone? Apple? tries to kill many birds with a single boomerang stone ..
1) True IM phone system supporting multimedia .... see Leopard ichat ???
2) MP3 .. every phone manufacturer tries to copy apple on this and end up making well .... i ll let you compare..
3) PDAs out there are actually missing the point about integration with the OS, Palm? had it right but actually missed loads of opportunities to bring it together with Apple.
4) True Airport? capability off 3G GPRS networks .. using the iphone as a tiny base station to connect to your mac from anywhere on the planet providing well practiced standard service. What every phone manufacturer failed to provide to its customers due to extensive application of "secret sauce" recipes that actually don't work out of the box.
5) Over Airport Synchronization... (rendez vous is there for that and it actually works 100 Percent), synchs your itunes backs you up , synchs your contacts , mail ... all in one swift flow.
6) Killer Apps : Mail , Safari? , Ichat? , Itunes?, Remote Desktop?, Ical?, Ipod Games? , Dashboard? ? All these are light to implement. Moreover they would make sense with Leopard and Leopard Server.
7) Video ? Tough one to tackle ... but why not ... but it would hinder ipod? line ... but then again it did not hold Apple back from innovating or combine uses.
8) Plays nice with other apple technologies ... remote control anyone ? reloads the battery of your iphone from your Ipod? ... Plays well with ipod integration for cars .
9) Storage capacity ? not an issue ... keep it relatively slim approach and synching from iphone to ipod shall help both items sales ... think of it as the wide screen for your ipod.
10) Where that would lead device-wise ? Total slim factored technology integration over an horizontal product line with high device to device compatibility setting a new ease of use standard no one thought of before because of the lack of respect other manufacturers pay to integration and product coherence
11) Media goals, when you think Apple and Steve Jobs you have to think about those ... Ipod? Itunes?, ITMS? Plus Iphone? ,Itv? (show-time thing connecting to your mac ,streaming video to your TV over the airport system) line would make Apple once again a Major player into technology convergence while everyone else who would have come to similar ideas is still playing tug of war with content providers Apple? strikes a new blow to its would be competitors in the media field by putting it all together.
12) Would i be Nokia? ,Sony Erickson? or Motorola? mobile devices i would start one thing .... Packing , this is exactly where their lack of foresight , integration and respect for standards and product design led them. As for the Ipod? when it first came out in France , i had a previous music player (A Rio? if memory serves, great little device , no moving parts) , then came the ipod and while the Apple stock was hitting new lows ever i told my girlfriend "well not only i am buying that little thing, i am getting shares (Everyone at the time kept thinking one thing ,i was NUTS and certified) , "This is not just another MP3 player device, it is a change about how we will think about music and multimedia in a few years from now.". Don't get me wrong all the technology that was being used was already there , what changed the face of it all was the fact Someone out there dared to integrate it and give it face that would enable the user to use the device without reading a 500 page manual written in either Lawyerese or StarTrek? Technobable? . Well i guess the same is just yet again about to happen.
13)Whatever actually happens about the features i put above , i hope some get through just that ... and if people at Msoft? ever read this , well start the kleenex orders for Z-thingie You have just again been wiped off the face of the earth.
14) 2megapixel camera.... another mandatory gadget methinks oh well ...
You can be sure ... ill be close to the Apple Store to get one and get those for parents as well... Not because i am a Mac or Apple fan but because i trust them enough to make stuff that actually will work with Mac os X , promote better integration and better ease of use for our averages Janes and Joes out there which don't want to play 20 questions for simply getting STUFF that W O R K S.