Thank you. The iPhone is a revolutionary piece of technology, just look at Apple stock. But the big story yesterday, is multi-touch.
Dude! Thank *you!* You
got it! I'm astonished at all the complaints I'm seeing. "It hasn't got this! It hasn't got that!" or "It can't do this! It can't do that! Why can't it do this/that???"
Did you guys miss the two most important aspects of this "phone"?
1) Multi-touch
2) Multi-touch
The first aspect of the "multi-touch" is that it allows Apple to add and change things. So, gosh, no it doesn't have games, or more widgets, or whatever else of that sort you want...but it COULD have that. In fact, the ideal of this phone is one of the best things that Apple Software offers--the ability to
customize.
It's not there yet. But because it has no actual buttons, because it relies entirely on what you see on the screen, it can turn itself into almost anything YOU want. Add buttons, subtract buttons, change the way things are done. And you don't have to buy a new phone every time there's a change. And these changes can happen fast. Radically if need be. THIS is what is "revolutionary." Not what it has or doesn't have, but that it can be modified and changed and molded into what YOU want it to be.
The second aspect is exactly what MonkeyClaw pointed out. Did I miss something here? Are you all so deeply into the latest tech that you can just sit back and yawn and jadedly say, "Oh, yeah, multi-touch. Been there, seen that...."
My jaw dropped when I saw how scolling works on the iPhone! I'll admit I'm not on the inside of cutting edge tech or software, but I've NEVER seen anything like that. The pinching, the scrolling....it's going to change everything!
Apple has to do several things:
1) Keep the device at a good size and a good weight--not too heavy, not too cumbersome.
2) Put in all the tech that works the multi-touch technology (screen, sensors, etc.), along with all the tech for music, videos, internet...and, oh, yeah, the phone, too.
3) Make it "affordable"--that is, not so outrageously out of reach cost-wise that they can't get anyone to buy it, yet enough that it will pay for everything they've stuffed in it and make them a profit (there are stockholders to answer to, after all).
4) Have it do enough to satisfy most customers--that is, the usual needs of customers likely to use the phone.
In other words, I'm sorry, guys, but you can't have everything you want because everything would make it larger or weigh a ton or cost twice as much or be useless because most people don't need that sort of thing and it would just take up valuable space. I'm astonished by how much this thing already has and can do within a nice, reasonably-sized, and reasonably priced package. And if that doesn't satisfy you--go back to my first point: it can CHANGE. It allows for lots and lots of change. Other such devices don't.
You can even see the future that they're aiming for. And given the transformation of the iPod over six years, I can see exactly where this is going to go as well: price drop within the first year by $100, and I'll bet they double the battery life and Gig as well. Video conferencing--not far off. It's going to happen. As for the name, of course they have to call it iPhone. Call it something else and most folk won't know what it is or why they should buy it. When the price comes down, they'll buy it as a "phone" but the definition of what a phone is and what a phone can be has already changed. It's changing now. This is the future. It is what "phones" will be.
You're living in a future that others only dreamed about. Can't you be a little excited and happy about it?
