iPhone Fatigue
Summary: Let’s go to the videotape. Or, at least the digitized history of the iPhone.
Let’s go to the videotape. Or, at least the digitized history of the iPhone.
Jan. 9, 2007 – Apple introduces the iPhone at MacWorld. “iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,” according to CEO Steve Jobs.
The “widescreen” iPod is to be available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008, in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac.
September 5, 2007 – The price of the most popular iPhone 9with 8GB of storage) is cut $200.
That is $399 and less than what the GB model sold for, three months after the highly hyped remaking of the cell phone first goes on sale. Users go nuts. “That's just mean,’’ says one buyer.
July 11, 2008 – The next-generation 3G iPhone goes on sale for … $199. Sure, it stores 8 GB worth of photos and other data. But actually using it is going to cost you more. About $10 a month. For 24 months. So $199 becomes $439. Spread out. Such a deal. Jobs must be chuckling (or, hopefully) having heartburn in his sleep, over this latest effort to pull wool over customers’ eyes.
How is this any less capitalistically cynical about customers’ sophistication than Bill Gates’ unceasing (and profitable) efforts to release not-ready-for-primetime software on the semi-suspect public and knowing that his market leverage would force buyers to accept it? Hey, he can redirect their payments to poor and suffering parts of the world, through philanthropy.
Sure, we’re going to be treated to a lot more ways to effectively use the iPhone.
But they don’t require buying the latest version of the iPhone, necessarily.
And when you think that Apple still won’t relent on letting users swap out the fixed-in-place battery and be allowed to use more than one carrier, how "smart" an iPhone in the first place? Or, at least, getting in line for one.
The iPhone creates a lot of buzz. But does it really change lives?
Not if you have a life, in the first place.
Make Apple make a real phone. That serves you. Don’t kowtow to its hermetically sealed approach to product management.
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ZDNet is too obsessed with the iPhone
The coverage that you guys are giving is ridiculous compared to their market share.
I was beginning to think ZDNet or at least most of it's writers have been paid by Apple!
Its not just Zdnet
You got that right
re: payment....
It seems a number of people think they're paid by MS too. Go figure.
And you're obsessed with what? Oh, Apple, of course!
though, and there are medications that might be able to
control it. Of course, you think you're perfect, and there's no
need for that. How many styles of tinfoil hat do you currently
own, troll-boy?
wow, quite the rant for what was someone
Your rant reveals you will stand for nothing but glowing reviews on AAPL products and you are just another one of Job's fanboys out to defend the "queen" even if you need to be vicious, condescending and stupid. <br>
Get over it, not everyone is fooled into thinking Jobs cares the least about his cult...i mean customers. <br><br>
I know that seems unbelievable to you, but you obviously don't think for yourself. Considering your uncalled for response, make that you just don't think. period.
Get a Real Phone
What does open do for you?
what are you going to do with that "open" phone? Yeah,
you're going to tinker and play and waste a lot of time.
Someone will even work countless hours to make an
iPhone skin for it so it can pretend to be an iPhone.
Look, I don't know how much you make an hour, but my
time is money. The iPhone blows away anything Nokia
makes. If you get a Nokia for free, spend 10 hours on it
making it cool, and it still doesn't stack up to the iPhone,
didn't you spend more money?....
Reminds me of GROUPIES..
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And if you think the 3G iPhone in any way compares to the many Microsoft OS debacles over the years, once again, get a real clue.
This post is just link bait. There's no justification for anything you've said, just ranting for ratings.
Moving on,
BW
People are Sheep
Or is it...
Sheep, pigs...?
to go the other direction. I would ask what OS you are
using that is so much better than OS X, which you deem
"so-so". I would also ask what hardware you use that is
better? And since this [i]is[/i] an iPhone discussion, I'd ask
what phone you are using that is better than iPhone. Wish
to cite any reasons for your comments, or are you one of
those guys that bashes all things Apple because you've
never tried 'em?
Perhaps your real name is Non Zealot? No, just kidding. I
see that you used words with multi-syllables.
If the iTouch I bought my wife last Christmas is any indicator....
The icing on this bitter cake was when a month or so after my wife had it, Apple wanted to charge her 20.00 for a "software pack" that was nothing more than what she could easily do with bookmarks, added to the already lackluster "desktop". <br><br>
Even at FREE that pack was not worth the download and it accentuated that Apple cares nothing for it's customers and knows their base followers would jump all over that 20.00 package because it came from "Apple" and those poor souls are blind to how badly they are being used for super high margin profit.
Don't like it? Don't buy it?
That serves you. Don???t kowtow to its hermetically sealed
approach to product management."
So you are yet another that won't buy the best product on
the market because you don't like that the company closes
it? You'd rather have another "open product" that you can
tinker with? Fine, go ahead. But just know that as much as
you tinker with any other phone on the market, you'll
never get it to where the iPhone is.
Tom, you are a dinosaur
gets. Regardless of what you think the iPhone is a game
changer. Cell phone companies around the globe are
scrambling to copy it, even Microsoft.
Just from the tone of your blog, I can tell you can't stand
the fact that people are buying the iPhone in droves. Guess
what Tom, just as the computer geeks in the late 70's and
early 80's looked at the PC and thought it was a "toy" and
would never pose a threat to them and there "big iron"
computers, the iPhone is going to do the same to smart
phones, and you can't stand it.
So your on a mission to find every possible flaw in the
iPhone your can. As you resist what the iPhone is doing,
the world is passing you by. You are a dinosaur, you just
don't know it yet.
Couldn't help yourself could you?
Not ready for primetime indeed. MS Software IS primetime or are you still waiting for all that secure software from Apple that it keeps patching ;-)
The iphone is too expensive, lacks important features and trivial ones (can't believe the cut and paste) and you can't even replace the battery (sounds like the old 1 button story again).
Get a Windows Mobile phone now and go 5 years ahead of the iphone ;-)
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