IMO the iPhone really is a jack of all trades, but masters of none.
Right, and smartphones right now
don't suck at everything they do
It sucks as a phone, since you can't get good running life out of it, and this we all know for a fact.
Oh, yeah. Definately sucky phone. I mean, a large "merge" call button? Man, those are so complicated. I'd rather search in the manuel for my LG CU400 for the special key combo to merge a call. Oh, yeah, way easier to use.
Seriously, did you see Steve set the wallpaper for his iPhone? He just scaled it wit two fingers, moved it around and set it. On my phone, the phone automatically sets the picture in the center with huge black bars above and below. It's friggin annoying.
We know very little "fact" about this phone, but what we DO know contradicts what you say. Looking at some phone specs, they average about 200-300 minutes of talk time. That's about 3 - 5 hours of talk time. The iPhone has 5 hours of talk time too. 16 hours of music. And who know how long on sleep.
Again we know for a fact, that Steve has announced that third party applications for the iPhone will be not forthcoming
Oh, bullcrap. Steve said that there will be 3rd party apps, BESIDES those approved by Apple. And doesn't this contradict your "jack of all trades, but masters of none" point? Tons of 3rd party apps would just over-complicate the device. Anyways, your point is simply untruthful.
It holds 8GB of songs and videos - smaller than a iPod with a hard drive, too bulky to use as an iPod that you carry with you when jogging, and God bless you when your battery runs out when you using it to watch videos.
So the hard drive space is
too small for I-want-my-whole-music-collection-with-me users, but the iphone
too clunky for the I-just-want-something-to-run-with users ... gee I wish there was a market between those two.
It runs OSX, but so what? OSX-lite with its little stripped down set of applications, wow you make the Windows XP user playing with Calculator look good.
Yeah, they should totally have the FULL OS X on the iPhone. Then it wouldn't be complicated at ALL! GOOD IDEA.
Anyways, it's important that it runs OS X because OS X is a stable platform. It's been used for years on Macs. It would be very stupid to make a completely new OS for the iPhone. Plus it includes a bunch of low-level APIs like CoreImage and Quartz.
It is neither a good phone, nor a good PDA, nor a good flash memory iPod, nor a good iPod to carry your whole collection, nor is it a good video player.
Oh, I can see from your statement that you have used an iPhone, or have some insider knowledge about it.
Or you're an idiot.
What is it good for? "If you need it to work this it the phone for you?"
Real people. See, real people don't want a complicated device. They would rather have something SIMPLE something that JUST WORKS. Plug it in to your computer, sync Music, Photos, Videos, Calendars automatically. And it look very easy to use, besides the virtual keyboard (which I am refraining from condemming because I haven't used the device, unlike YOU).
This phone isn't a "jack of all trades, master of none" because Apple choosed three areas to concentrate: ipod, phone, internet communicator. And from what I've seen, they've done nicely. I'll refrain from my final judgement until I see the iPhone, but from what I've seen so far, there's nothing that is going to make this device fail.
And no, the iPhone won't fail. I think you are an idiot for saying so.
