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Originally Posted by Deslock
Indeed. In the context of your response to dommasters, your point appeared to be to dismiss the iPhone as something that does what previous devices have been doing for years, but with better marketing. The iPhone is certainly more than that (this is the first product with a capacitance-based, multi-touch interface and arguably the first smartphone with both an effective interface and decent multimedia options).
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I was in a hurry. I had better things to do with my time on a Saturday than spend 15 minutes crafting an extended reply.
Now I've finished with the busy part of the day and have a beer in my hand:-
"that thing that does what everything else has done for years."
There are no features in the iPod that have not been seen elsewhere in some mobile device or other ...
"but with more pizzaz"
OK the inteface is cool. I think we all get that. But it's not the brand new revolutionary thing the wet dreamers make it out to be. It's a bit like saying what was first, Windows or Mac visual interface? ...
Er, actually, try Xerox ;-)
"and a much more massive media campaign ... "
The media campaign is a massive thing for a few reasons, but only one is the money Apple spent. The trend-driven media drool over anything Apple. Apple might have spent 10 million (or twenty or fifty or who knows what) but the media frenzy has been worth many many more times whatever Apple spent.
Those who have not seen or used a smart phone or PDA (and there's many more than anyone here wants to believe) have probably been introduced to the dea of a 'smart' phone by the iPhone - well, after creaming over their Razrs for the last 3 years. Everyone here knows that (leaving aside the interface and the multitouch screen) PocketPC, Symbian and even Palm have been doing most of what the iPhone is showing off for years. But when did you ever see Microsoft or Palm or Nokia or whoever blitzing the media, or winning over tv anchormen with their shiny trendy toys in such scale?
I'm not saying the iPhone is bad. I'm just saying there has never been the same effort to get across the cool features of any other preceding device. And the physical designs of most have been (ralatively) bland and businesslike in comparisson. But that's because someone told the PDA/smartphone marketing focus group that these are toys only businessmen and geeks want.
Apple knows different.
So do we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the wet dreamers are only going to say that I hate the iPhone and should stop being so horrid to it. But that's coz they don't want to take the time to understand that I am ambivalent towards the iPhone, and just would like to have seen better "spreading the word" efforts, and better designs for PocketPC over the last 5 years.