I could care less about the iPhone. I'm probably the only person that is not excited by it. I hate the Apple Corporation, I hate their products, I hate MacOS and I hate their philosophy.
It is new, interesting, and long time awaited with lots of speculations. Oooh, IT's Mac! :devilboy: So what? Look beyond the hype, what does it have to offer? Stylish design? yes, it's a plus. Touch screen? Go over reviews of PPC phones on this site, and how many complains and cries you'll find that there's no keyboard? Plenty! But because it's Apple I guess lock of a keyboard is an inovation :mrgreen: . It does has some PDA functions, not much software? Connectivity, quad-band GSM, EDGE, Ahm, What is happened to 3G? Sorry, Cingular has HSDPA network, Iphone has Cingular logo, but no 3G? So, the buttom line is it's just a stylish toy, for people who wants to "look cool" 0X , and not the power users. But it has a chance to replace your regular I-Pod.
Nobody yet seems to have considered how a stripped down version of OSX will work on the small processors available for PDAs which have only a tiny fraction of the processing power of desktop CPUs.
it uses OS x, but it will never be full os. There is no possiblity that this device has more than 1gb ROM. If you play with linux a little bit, the most stripped linux can be only 100mb, so I believe this OS is almost a highly stripped os x, which means installing any third party applications will need install a lot of libraries at the same time.
Theoretically, you could also put anything (unless the system is completely messed up & restricted) on the built-in HDD - as with OpenBSD and the Zaurus 3x00.
I must admit I was blown away when I read this artical on the front page...and after 24hrs and a nice sleep I came to the conclusion that it's an Ipod video with phone capabilities and web.
Personally I am not an Ipod fan at all nut don't get me wrong, I don't mind people buying/using the Ipod either, because it does what it is suppose to do well. To me the iPod and the iPhone is for the masses but not for me.
The iPhone seems to have alot of restrictions on it, and I can't customize it like I do with my PPCPE. Will I be able to go onto MSN, play my SNES and other emulator roms on it? Can I edit my Exel, Word, photos on it? Will I be able to put wikipedia on it? How about Skype can I use Skype on it or make it into a webcam?
I know that these are really dumb questions but I think speaking for myself, I took all those things above for granted because I(we) have been doing it so much that we just expect it. Now I don't think iPhone can do some of the things I mentioned above...but it's a nice looking phone!
My point I guess is, I like to customize and be able to do alot of stuff with my phone...so I will wait for the next best thing, as I can't be happier right now with my M600+.
WinCE stands for Windows Compact Edition. If I sourced correctly, a stripped down version of Windows 95. It has been rebuilt considerably since 1.0. Source
It isn't out of the realm of possibility that OSX could also be stripped similarily and also have the same consequential limitations.
As such I wouldn't expect this phone to do things that the hardware is simply incapable of. It might support limited Java, Ajax, etc much like PIE or similar mobile browsers but it won't be able to support everything...
It'll be better than PIE for sure but I'd love to see a head to head against Opera.
Just impossible. Same with any other application.
One thing to remember, a simplified GUI usually means a lack of options...so while Textmaker is fully featured, it is far more complex than Word Mobile. iPhone will also have similar failings. What'll make that worse is the fact that 3rd party apps are locked out. Sux to be you... :roll:
What Apple is really selling is "Clique". The cool factor, show how little you know but do it in style :lol:
Definitely not a power user device. Maybe give it to my kid to fiddle with. ops:
Sure, Apple will sell millions of these...but at what cost to their current business?
The iPhone is pretty much the size of a 30-gig Video iPod, only without the storage...
Once the iPodders start buying iPhones, they WON'T be in the market for annual upgrades to new iPods.
Each $600 iPhone (revenue split with Cingular) will wipe out at least two or three iPod upgrades (revenue retained by Apple).
And the lesser storage will probably restrict the rate of video sales on iTunes.
So maybe they will surprise us with a iPhone-Only Subscription to iTunes that will drive the additional sellthrough and revenue they need.
That will leave the mp3 player market to the "also rans".
I would assume the v2 iPhone will show significant storage increase.
Biggest surprise of the launch? The absence of a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones that support phone features too. Well, I guess they held those back till next year...seriously, Apple's just about shot it wad as far as future announcements go.
After all, now that delayed gratification has been satisfied is there any reason to call?
What is left? A Tablet? Ultraportable? Everything else is incremental.
But if Apple thinks people will swap out $600 phones more often than every two years (contracts are contracts), they are about to find out phones are different.
In fact, even though my Cingular 8125 does EVERYTHING the iPhone does, I recently bought a Zune...
Nobody yet seems to have considered how a stripped down version of OSX will work on the small processors available for PDAs which have only a tiny fraction of the processing power of desktop CPUs.
The iPhone can be a major damaging hit to standalone PDAs. The consumer side seems to be quite popular at the moment.
Consider that Microsoft and Apple are fighting over the living room... essentially the entertainment side of things. The iPhone fills that role pretty well, from what I see, with the Windows Mobile side being more business oriented. However, Windows Mobile devices tend to be converged devices anymore... there hasn't been a lot of standalone PDA releases.
The iPhone releases, consumers buy it... Microsoft responds by innovating on the Windows Mobile side and releases.... phones. In other words, Microsoft goes to war and defends the area Apple is releasing in... the converged device area. So, while war wages the standalone PDA gets forgotten.
Unfortunately not everyone wants a converged device...
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