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Forbes.com
Dan Frommer
6/11/2007
Give Steve Jobs credit: He's managed to get the entire tech community--and much of the rest of the world--talking about a pricey gadget that only a handful have seen or touched.
Apple's iPhone finally goes on sale June 29, and for many potential buyers, the only issue is whether they'll be able to get their hands on one, as it's certain to sell out immediately. But whether you are a music lover, a business e-mail addict, a mobile power-user or just a normal consumer, there are several good reasons to think twice about dropping $500 for the first-generation iPhone.
Will that be enough to slow iPhone sales after the initial rush? There are, after all, plenty of other...
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The debate will rage on, but I think its time to just sit back and wait for the phone to be released. Then start making judgements.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070620/verizon_iphone.html?.v=1 »
Personally, I think he's BS-ing quite a bit. The iPhone, even if doesn't quite live up to the hype (and with EDGE, it prolly won't), will still change the industry a lot.
Other phone makers are going to have to get it together, software-wise, or get left behind; and all carriers are going to be putting more of an emphasis on their high-end phone lineups.
Everyone and their grandma will be trying to release touchscreen-UI phones, and everyone is going to try to improve internet user experience on their cellphones.
The iPhone, great or not, IS going to change a lot of things in the industry. Pretending it won't is silly (which seems to be everyone's ...
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1st...why make something that is so data rich and only have EDGE?
2nd...Would Toyota rereleasing the Supra gain people buying Camry's or Corolla's (Toyota's main cars)
I do think this is Jobs' fundamental misunderstanding the the industry he is getting into. He is both very smart and very bullheaded. He made a very cool feature rich phone with grat tech advances in interface and software and then make it so that the largest group of possible user become uninterested be cause it does not have the business focus and product they high-end business user could want.
just more thoughts about this deal...been said though.
Funny thing is, they just posted firm battery life specs for the iPhone, and they're a lot better than anticipated. So they really could've gone HSDPA/EDGE on the thing, probably.
But this way, of course, they get to try to sell everyone a second iPhone once they make a 3G model. Instant obsolescence. Evil. đŋ
It's my gut feeling, and I could very well be wrong, but I think this may be the Delorean of cell phones....
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