That is an absurd statement. You aren't fake Steve Ballmer are you?
Expected technologies:
* Copy and Paste already.
* Flash Lite 3.0 helps browsing sites that USE it. Mobile YouTube is not efficient.
* That speakerphone proximity sensor that Steve bragged about? was on a phone older than 8yrs ago ... Ericsson R520m! No other phone has used that paradigm until now ... patents DO go out of date you know.
* Advertising iPhone as a corporate acceptable device? You NEED to support more than 1 Email platform - not just MS'. Lotus Domino has some SERIOUS power and v 8 Notes & Domino support Open Document File type.
* Touchscreen has been here for a LONG time and I swear if MS improved the Windows Mobile by innovating every 6 mths as it SHOULD have, the iPhone wouldn't bee so surprising to enjoy; trust me. HTC makes great devices and their TouchFlo UI is getting VERY close to the iPhone experience. However I cannot STAND MS' Mobile OS. Its horribly implemented.
My point is, sure we can LOVE the iPhone and what it represents. 1yr is strong, but not enough to sing praise, considering its current limitations and growth into 3rd party developers its got a LONG hill ahead for the long run. The world market has different perceptions on phone usage. We'll see how it works out.
The fact is, Nokia have been selling the same handset in a different plastic case for the past ten years. While the cellphone industry inched forward with email functionality, internet, etc. no one really took a lead and did any of it "properly" (is in, usably). I'm not pointing fingers, since admittedly most of the work was engineering-based, getting the tech to work in the first place. But it wasn't really difficult for Apple to come along and do things "right".
Are you drunk?! RIM has been doing Email (corporate) for more than 5yrs and doing it VERY well. Internet I'd so is so so; we'll see the BB Bold evolve significantly this summer in this realm. RIM is THE KING of EMAIL (BlackBerry) worldwide BAR NONE!
Just look at the email client built-in (read: hidden) in any Sony Ericsson handset, or the 15-clicks-to-launch GMail j2me client (which was great, once it was running!), and then compare it to Mail or Safari on the iPhone.
Really?! I have "Applications" setup as my Shortcut key on my SE K850i.
9 Clicks! Bam I'm launching Opera Mini! 6 for GMail J2ME. my apps alphabetically are:
1. SonyEricsson (web link; part of the Firmware)
2. eBuddy (MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AOL IM client PURE FREE just my data usage I pay for).
3. FaceWarp
4. Gmail
5. Google Maps
6 HP Print
7 MobyExplorer
8 Opera Mini
9. Photo Mate.
* this ALL includes the K850i from standby mode on the Homescreen, pressing the O-Pad to wake it, shorcut key, pressing UP to get to "Applications" Opera Mini (9), (8clicks) if I include the "*" key and touchcapacitance key to unlock the phone from standby. No big deal because its fast.
* Now lets compare Email on the BB (whether on BIS or BES) to iPhones Mail (user or via MS Exchange). No contest the BB kills the iPhone. I'll get to my point later.
Nokia took the lead with the most intuitive UI (comparatively), which Sony Ericsson then one-upped with better icons (and animation!). Motorola focused on awesome hardware (solid build, great audio quality) and sadly forgot to get any UI designers at all (hence, good looking, unusable handsets!). Meanwhile Apple worked on iPod and OS X until they were ready to launch (note: not just announce) a product.
Wow short attention span there. Apple "Announced" the iPhone 1.0; Six MONTHS before it was delivered. FCC approved it almost 2mths before sales by AT&T begun. Announce a product indeed.
The next step in the saga is Google's Android platform (which will be great when it ships, but probably nowhere near as advanced as iPhone 3.0 vaporware is always a beotch to debug).
Here's to seeing more iPhones on the tube (and elsewhere!) because the more people are on the platform, the better it is for all of us!
Great Post JayBee. I know Steve Jobs isn't perfect, he's still human... but he has incredible foresight on both seeing current, and creating future trends. When the iPod came out, it was predicted a failure. Oops. We were wrong, he was right. The iPhone is changing everything, all the pieces are in place. The most amazing gadget ever, a solid core OS, lots of new and experienced developers, and the App store built right into the core software of the phone. They've covered all the bases from the beginning to the end.
I think the App Store is the sleeping giant of iPhone 2.0, as soon as people, regular people (not smartphone geeks) start seeing everything you can do on your iPhone, all the other developing platforms are going to have to scramble to hold on to any kind of ground and marketshare.
Hmm you must NOT remember the Newton do you?!
* It TOO was powerful and forward thinking!
* It allowed Email over the network but at 9.6/19.9/21.3kbps SLOOW.
* It allowed faxing; oh yeah btw, FAX was the Email of the dinosaurs!
* Those that can find video of the MessagePad on the web, I emplore you to find the OS X "poof" animation! Yup the Newton had it too, and FIRST.
Basically the Newton was VERY powerful, yet although it was huge that wasn't what killed it. Its accessories enabled it further, and marketing was spot on. However, what KILLED it was its CLOSED system. It took YEARS - long after Steve angrily made it a bastard stepchild - for homebrew/3rd party apps to be enabled for it. I still see a limited and governing body type system with Symbian, Palm OS, and the iPhone.
* Symbian is changing so that developers won't need to "sign" their apps, nor the end users - a response to years ago when its file system was cracked and N-Gage games became EASILY FREE, end user fonts could be customized into the system (its still there but with software now).
* Apple governs ALL 3rd party apps to be from the iTunes Store or the mobile version. Ur apps have to get Apple approval before listed. Sure it means that they'll work, but what if it enabled too much user freedom of installation sources, or more precise control of the overall unit?! Yeah I doubt those apps make it in the next 3yrs on the iPhone. Funny I thought Apple was the pirates
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* Andriod, and LiMo Foundation allows NE1 that can code to be able to market their own software/works and allow the END user "choice" on where to purchase/download them! Symbian already has most of this in placel
* Funny but those that remember Palm OS 5.1 will recall how Palm did the EXACT Opposite of what Nokia is doing today. I STILL cannot fathom why they haven't gone out of business YET! They waist money, mindshare, and licensee's trust like no parasite before it.
