I eyed the iphone up
Will the Iphone be a huge seller. Yes. Is it worth getting now. Nope.
Why will it sell?
It looks nice and it’s Apple. Apple has a devoted following. Some follow so blindly it makes successful suicide bomber recruiters give props. Apple makes great products but the iphone is riding the Apple branding like Turtle rides Vinnie Chase’s fame. People are now convinced that anything Apple releases will be good. I remember reading a TechCrunch article on this. I would give you the link but I don’t enjoy searching the TechCrunch site. Anyway, the article showed a poll where an overwhelming amount of people felt the iphone was the best cell phone. This was crazy then because most peopled polled most likely never held or even seen the product. This is very similar to the Lebron James NBA draft. People were convinced that this kid was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread without knowing much about him. They just knew that he was on ESPN every hour.
Simply put. It’s too hyped not to sell but that doesn’t mean its going to change the world. Well, not right away.
Why is it not worth buying yet?
Was Lebron James amazing his rookie year? Yes, but he wasn’t the best player in the league. Will the iphone be a good product when it comes out? Yes, but it won’t be the best cell phone available. It is the first version of a product chain that Apple has never released. There will be problems in the first version, probably big problems. I want one but I would rather wait for the second version after real user bugs have been found. Let the sixteen year old kid with sticky fingers text every five minutes for about six months.
Is it over priced?
Depends on how you look at it. Apple somehow convinced a large amount of people to spend three hundred dollars to get a video ipod that they don’t watch that much video on. Think of all your non geeky friends that have a video ipod. I am willing to bet that more then half of them don’t really watch videos on it and probably don’t use up all the disk space. So why do they have it?
It looks nice and other people want/have it. Yea, thats it. Apple made sure that the iphone looked amazing. It’s just like the hot chick your friends all want to hook up with. At first its all about the looks and the reputation you get when you have her. It’s only after a few months you realize her touch screen interface has major drawbacks and you might have been better off waiting a year for her sister to be legal.
Upate (June 26th 6:04 pm)
CrunchGears has some reviews up. My favorite has been Mossberg’s and Pogue’s videos.
Pros I didn’t expect
- You get used typing on it and it becomes easy
- The wifi feature seems amazingly cool
- Internet browsing might actually work on a phone now
Cons
- The battery is sealed inside so if it gets messed up you have to send it back to apple.
- The regular data connection uses AT&T edge which supposedly sucks.
- No Flash or Javascript
The internet feature looks remarkable. I shall write a comment to this blog about it later.
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Hey I use the video ipod. I watch movies on it! As for the iphone, it’s worth it if you have extra money and want to be there for its birth and early experimental years. You my friend would rather have it when it’s 16 and ready to work and support you. That’s right, I said 16!
Comment by Sana — June 26, 2007 @ 11:53 am
Cakam na iPhone…
Odkar sem videl iPhone mi je vsec! Navdusen sem nad Applom in bi lahko rekel da sem fan, pa ceprav edini izdelek, ki ga imam od Appla je iPod in se to mini. Tale spodnji clanek se mi zdi, da ima kar nekako prav - bo potrebno pocakati na verzijo dva, d…
Trackback by MWA.log — June 29, 2007 @ 4:29 am
“I Activated my Iphone at 8pm on 06/29/07 and it is now around 7am the next day and my Iphone has still not activated,”
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/06/glitches-at-att.html?section=magazines_business2
Comment by Moe — July 2, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
I’ve been hearing a general consensus that they’re having a smooth time from Apple, but all the ATT stuff has been busted. Someone at work just got one and said that it took 48 hours for the phone to activate.
Comment by Ben — July 2, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
Iphone will be faster in Europe??
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/07/want-an-g3-ipho.html#more?section=money_technology
Comment by Moe — July 7, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Hey,
I know exactly what you mean. iPhone (atleast gen1) is all hyped up not worth it phone. No flash and js? oh c’mon even my nokia 7710 does it. for the 200ish MHz processor it got, it is pretty slow I accept. and its huge! But the size of the screen compensates for its size(IMHO). And Believe me, it does everything the iPhone does and more.But some how I don’t see any mentioning of it anywhere, and I don’t know why.
Comment by TMaYaD — July 29, 2007 @ 5:27 pm