BergerFan
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It's that, which is what's the most frustrating. Apple could totally blow these guys away, just by adding all the basic features we all crave, via software. Then the naysayers would have literally have nowhere to go.
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aristotle
macrumors 68000
Exactly.
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Also, did anyone notice the creepy stalker/serial killer vibe of the other advertisements, wallpapers and ringtones? What market are they going after exactly?
Saladinos
macrumors 68000
It depends what kind of person you are. The iPhone is limited in what it can do, but everything it does, it does better than any other phone out there (minus some issues which are being worked on). I'm the kind of person who can live without features like TV, for better quality software everywhere else.
This is the strategy Apple has been using for years. Macs aren't functionally superior to Windows (in fact, they're often found lacking), but the things they do, they do right. What's the point in having a million features when less than half of them work properly? Apple is about quality, not packing in features. See Snow Leopard.
Besides, you act like the UI isn't a big deal. The UI is one of the most important aspects to any consumer electronic device. If it's too complicated, then it doesn't matter how many features you have, because they're inaccessible to most people. The iPhone was the first smartphone to put any effort in to usability, and it's still the most accessible smartphone on the market. And that's backed up by numbers: 80% of users use 10 or more features, and there's 90% customer satisfaction.
98% of users use it to browse the web, 94% use it for emails, 90% for text messaging. These are unprecedented figures. Look at Weblogs Inc (Engadget, TUAW, Joystiq...etc) - 95.8% of their mobile traffic is from iPhone users, despite the iPhone not having anywhere near that kind of market dominance. That's what having a great UI does.
I have not one but two apps that record video ON my 3G (locally). They eat up space quickly, but the video is pretty good considering the iPhone camera and if I'm recording "real video" then I'm not using my phone. 🙂
Now the BIG problem is the software ISN'T from Apple or the app store. i.e. - you have to jailbreak.
I know that isn't an option for the vast majority of people so hopefully we see something in the app store soon. I've read it's on the way.
I actually think these ads are pretty creative/funny, at least the removable battery one and the network one (not sure that one is remotely true though).
WhySoSerious
macrumors 65816
I wonder if Apple will counter these...
"Hello I'm an iPhone and I'm Instinct!"
PLUS... i love the thing that they put at the bottom "with $100 MIR"
kinda like apple uses the * for the 199......meaning IF you qualify? ya.....that's what i thought.
Geckotek
macrumors G3
Wait. What are you saying exactly? That Sprint phones don't work there? Because if you're talking about 3G in general it has been available just about everywhere ages before the USA had it and many countries already have much higher speed networks.
aaquib
macrumors 65816
The iPhone is the result of years of research and development on software.
The Instinct is the result of nice hardware to make up for the lack of research and development on software.
Seriously, did anyone even try using an Instinct compared to the iPhone? Every phone I now use seems like it's from the 90's compared to the iPhone. Everything just works...(Asides from the occasional Safari crash)
The Instinct is the result of nice hardware to make up for the lack of research and development on software.
Seriously, did anyone even try using an Instinct compared to the iPhone? Every phone I now use seems like it's from the 90's compared to the iPhone. Everything just works...(Asides from the occasional Safari crash)
kdarling
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In a general sense that could be said of any product, but not specifically.
The iPhone software effort began in earnest only a year before its public debut. And as the Wired magazine history tells it, it was in really bad shape right up until the end.
Even the fingertip scrolling was put in after development began. (I've said this before, but kinetic scrolling almost always is "discovered" by having code that can't keep up with finger movements.)
Most of the UI is common sense and well known if you plan to do a touch-only device. Popup keyboard and menu choices, big buttons, etc? All in use in industrial touch devices for decades.
One major difference is that Apple threw in lots of glitzy effects, which are usually seen as wasting battery on other projects.