Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:57:00
Steve unveils the Apple iPhone at Macworld
They did it to me again. This is the face of things to come. Right now, this is the big convergence device, and I’ll be honest, it looks amazing on paper. It’s tiny, impossibly thin, it seems to do almost everything that a Mac mini and an iPod Nano and a good cell phone can do and it has a big fat screen, which you know is a great quality LCD. The little one in the latest video iPods is insanely beautiful, I can’t imagine they would go with anything less than that level of quality for a full-screen touch iPodPhoneSmartPhonePDAThingy. I’ll be honest, I certainly lust after the damn thing.
That’s hot.
So why am I a little bit pissed? Because ErikTheRed was right; they’ve changed form factors on me yet again. Just when I invested $750 in a pair of iPods for myself and Donna, Apple radically alters the form factor again. In less than six months, this will be the shape and size of the stand-alone iPods, mark my words. Unless this thing has the exact same dock connector and comes with a snap-in for the universal dock system, I swear I will move to another brand of player when my current ones die. I have had it with the radical form factor changes that completely invalidate all past (expensive) accessories.
But then, I’m not Apple’s market.
P.S. Cingular? Really? Does anyone on the west coast realize that the east coast is pretty much owned by Verizon? Ever think of not pairing with just one carrier so that all may enjoy your product, or is that too much to ask?
P.P.S. How are they getting away with “iPhone?” Didn’t we just see a round of stories about how someone else owns the trademark and has already come to market with a device named “iPhone?” If Someone else did this to Apple they’d sue the shit out of them...just another thing that bugs me about Apple’s corporate behavior. It’s a lot of “Do as we say, not as we do” BS and they still get credit for being some bastion of hippy idealism, when the truth is they are just another soul-less American company trying to make as much cash as they can. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. :)
Fuckers. I still want one of these damn things and that...that’s how they get you. Bastards. I want to firebomb Cupertino, but I don’t have a phone that can show me a decent Google Maps images so I can program the bomb on the road...hmm...where could I find such a phone? I wonder.
Posted by JimK at 03:57 PM on January 09, 2007
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#2 Posted by mgnmfrc1 
on 01/09 at 07:25 PM -
Dude, break the cycle. Yes it’s cool, it’s neat, it’s the new gotta have toy, but you know they will have a better/improved one 6 months from now.
I don’t have the cash for these toys anyway. What I want is a fucking cell phone that fits in my ape like hands with buttons big enough to push with my thumb, not the pointy tip I have to sharpen my nail into.
And get off my lawn!! Sheesh, I’m old at 41.
#3 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 01/09 at 07:39 PM -
It is a pretty hot device, no doubt.
I wonder if they’ve improved the scratchproofability of it compared to the nano. Scratches suck on a $150 product. They REALLY suck on a $500 product.
As for why Cingular.. the phone is GSM and that leaves, I think, Cingular or TMobile. As for why GSM and not CDMA (Verizon)? A world phone has a larger market appeal than the east cost of the US.
#4 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 01/09 at 08:10 PM -
screw it,, its a weak phone camera ipod…
ill wait till teh 3rd generation of these come out, they will be cheaper and a lot better.
#5 Posted by ErikTheRed on 01/09 at 09:32 PM -
Apple bought the iPhone trademark from Cisco / LinkSys today. And it’s not Verizon because they wanted a world-phone (which means Cingular / T-Mobile). And, yes, I know that CDMA beats the shit out of GSM any and every day. But I still use a GSM phone so I can run up $200/week internet access bills when I travel (my Treo shares its internet connection with my laptop via Bluetooth).
#6 Posted by JimK on 01/09 at 10:02 PM -
Erik - I just read about that licensing deal...Apple hasn’t agreed to the latest version of the contract yet, but all parties expect to agree any minute now, so Apple will be licensing the name iPhone.
You really couldn’t call it anything else considering the iLife naming convention Apple has going…
Sean wrote:
A world phone has a larger market appeal than the east cost of the US.
Yes. True. But: the chipsets for all three major networks used in the US are so frigging small now that a single phone that is barely bigger than an iPod shuffle could hold them all. There’s no technological reason that we can’t have a truly universal, all-carrier world phone in *every* phone except that 1. it costs a little more (but when the damn phone is $600, that’s no excuse) and 2. the carriers refuse to allow it. #2 of course being the dominant reason.
Apple had a chance to tell the major carriers that they were going to conform to Apple’s demands and allow a truly universal (in the US anyway) phone or go piss up a rope - that would have been the best move to benefit consumers. Instead, they went with a locked-up single carrier model. Again. Just like everyone else.
What I’m saying is, I wish they took the same hard-line stance with the cell providers that they took with the record companies. :)
mgnmfrc1 wrote:
Dude, break the cycle.
I hear you. I will not be succumbing to the lust. Couldn’t afford it anyway. Plus, I don’t own a mac, so a lot of the convergence would be lost for me. Although, if they don’t fix iTunes for Windows soon, I might buy a mac mini JUST to run iTunes...it’s driving me absolutely APESHIT how slow that program has become since version 7 for Windows launched.
Lastly, I’m on a “new every two” plan with Verizon and I get a whole new phone in March anyway. I’m thinking Motorola Q. Should cost me about 50 smackers with subsidies and the “new every two” rebate. Fuck a iPhone! ;)
#7 Posted by Orpheus 
on 01/10 at 07:49 AM -
You really couldn’t call it anything else considering the iLife naming convention Apple has going…
What about Apple TV, formerly assumed to be called iTV?
#8 Posted by miguelito on 01/14 at 01:31 AM -
I agree that they’ll release a new ipod version that’s basically the iPhone minus the phone part and with a HDD instead of the lame 8gig of flash RAM. Unless Jobs is a moron, and he’s not.
Also pissed about GSM only too. More so because I work for Qualcomm, but the voice quality and speeds are so much better anyway, and we do have chipsets that support damn near everything anymore. Lot’s of speculation of support of all 3g bits next year.. WCDMA and CDMA2000 which is easier to do in single chipsets.
EVDO on those would kick ass over EDGE though.
The way that Verizon and Sprint refuse to allow users to have much freedom on how they can use their phone likely made them scared of the iPhone anyway. Verizon especially cripples phones like mad. My dad and I have almost identical RAZRs and he can’t even copy off photos or videos via bluetooth like I can from my Sprint phone, because Verizon disabled OBEX in theirs.
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#1 Posted by Noblebrown
on 01/09 at 07:13 PM -
The iPhone has the same dock connector as the iPod, so it’s a safe bet that future iPods will have it as well. I think Apple had filed the iPhone trademark a long time ago, so I don’t know who is going to be suing who here. And I’m also bummed about Cingular. Least amount of dropped calls my ass.