[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by BudPritchard

The iPhone has one major design flaw: no user replacable battery.
Having to send it off for replacement means you have no phone.

That is deal killer for me in all my electronic items.

A number of people have voiced this opinion, and I think it's a legitimate not to adopt Apple's mobile platform, although I personally don't find it a major issue. That said, I doubt Apple is going to shift their position on this -- if anything, they're moving towards embedded batteries on even more devices (cf. MacBook Air).

(I wouldn't be surprised if Apple doesn't mind if people just get new iPhones instead of replacing batteries when the existing ones give out. )

--janak

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by BudPritchard

The iPhone has one major design flaw: no user replacable battery.
Having to send it off for replacement means you have no phone.

That is deal killer for me in all my electronic items.

A number of people have voiced this opinion, and I think it's a legitimate not to adopt Apple's mobile platform, although I personally don't find it a major issue. That said, I doubt Apple is going to shift their position on this -- if anything, they're moving towards embedded batteries on even more devices (cf. MacBook Air).

(I wouldn't be surprised if Apple doesn't mind if people just get new iPhones instead of replacing batteries when the existing ones give out. )

--janak

[alese]

Originally Posted by BudPritchard

The iPhone has one major design flaw: no user replacable battery.
Having to send it off for replacement means you have no phone.

That is deal killer for me in all my electronic items.

I don't think this is such a problem. I have a HTC Himalaya that I bought in 2004, I used it as my main phone for more than 1,5 years and I still use it as my alarm clock. I still have the original battery that was used for more than three years, I only replaced it two months ago. So if you take care of your battery two years is not a problem and there shouldn't be much degradation.

[davea]

It seems that Apple is creating a fund to assist software developers of business applications for Apple's iPhone. That should scare the cr*p out
of MS and their business oriented MW product strategy.

LINK TO VIDEO: http://www.marketwatch.com/tvradio/b...tid=1446784491

DESCRIPTION OF VIDEO: Tim Bajarin, President of Creative Strategies, talks about Kleiner Perkins’ $100million iFund for iPhone third-party software developers. The new software will give RIMM’s Blackberry a run for its money. Interview by MarketWatch’s Rex Crumm

UPDATED: A link to a phonemag.com article:

http://www.phonemag.com/apple-launch...und-031548.php

[ctmagnus]

A tasks application! :clap:

[aristoBrat]

If you haven't seen Apple's webpage for the SDK, check it out:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

Granted, most links on it aren't active until you create a free account, but I think it'd be hard to look at this page and not be impressed.

[whydidnt]

One negative on the SDK - non-native apps will not be allowed to run in the background. Sounds a little like our old friends from Palm doesn't it?

[Jerry Raia]

I took the iPhone plunge myself on the news that exchange support is coming. As a side note if you have a Yahoo email account you will have push email on the iPhone.

[wbgordy]

What I want to know is if we will finally get activesync on the mac itself allowing, for the first time, pocketpc syncing (not just iPhone).