Because no one uses it and it's a dying standard? Email is a much better transport mechanism.
Yes. I think the market share of the iPhone will be be similar to that of WM in five years.
A few things here. (1) Cingular is gone. It's AT&T. (2) Apple doesn't care if businesses buy the iPhone, only that someone buys it. If they sell 10 million units, I think they'd be pleased as punch, and especially so if they create new customer demand in the high-end market. You're basing your entire judgement on the very first cell phone and very first version of the OS. As a first shot? This is astonishingly good. And, BTW, I've had push email on my Nokia (not RIM, not WM) for years. It's not a big deal, as I've also had POP and IMAP email arrive about as timely as the spiffy push email. If you poll once every minute or two, push vs. pull doesn't much matter. Pull has worked just fine on every computer I've ever owned, also.Businesses (who are the major buyers of smartphones) aren't going to rush to Cingular to give all of their employees an iPhone. People who wouldn't touch Cingular with a barge pole because they suck so badly aren't going to get an iPhone. WM and BB have been around for years and have already gained a large part of the market and the iPhone's starting from nothing. The iPhone's not going to take their market share. Microsoft and RIM aren't worried. BlackBerries and Windows Mobile offer unparalleled push e-mail that the iPhone will never match. Yahoo? Yeah, that's going to work real well for companies. Give everyone free Yahoo accounts instead of corporate exchange accounts so they can have push on their iPhone.
Um, no. The business market is dwarfed by the consumer market. It's a temporary situation that smartphones are considered to be "business and prosumer only". The iPhone will cause consumers to demand these features in other phones.
don't go bringing back 1 year old threads, apple got rid of the stylus for a reason, if you don't like it, don't buy itI want an iPhone with Stylus!!! My husband LOVES his iPhone, but with fingernails, I find it frustratingly difficult to use the keypad. I have an older iPAQ to use for minor online functions, & I don't even need to use it's stylus: just tap with fingernail & it's gold!
So, when my cellphone broke last week, I waited - patiently, G*D**IT! - wishing & hoping that Apple in it's infinite goodness & wisdom would just open up a stylus option when they made the big announcement of 2.0 & 3G today. NO LUCK!
Considering ergonomics & user testing studies indicated men & women use their fingers/nails differently Over TEN YEARS AGO, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?
