1 Comment »January 20th, 2008
As expected, Steve Jobs took center stage at San Francisco’s Mascone Center last Tuesday, pouring glasses of Kool-Aid to the press and spellbinding Mac fans. MacWorld, for those of you unfamiliar with the event, is Apple’s annual Mac trade show and keynote that is part infomercial, part state of the Union address, and part Renaissance Festival (with the period costumes and jousting) all rolled into one. Jobs gave his usual performance, acting as PT Barnum, with product announcements and demos to wow a doe eyed audience. This is MacWorld after all, so iPhone took a backseat to a major new product added the portable line, MacBook Air. More on that later. (more…)
No Comments »April 11th, 2007
A new study conducted by PiperJaffray shows that iPhone is already gaining iconic status, with more than 85% of 500 students surveyed having knowledge of the iPhone. Even more surprising, 25% of of those same students show an interest in purchasing the iPhone, despite its steep $500 entry price point. Hey, 500 out of millions of unsurveyed students can’t be wrong. Expect a sharp increase in teenage prostitution to follow.
Source: AppleInsider
No Comments »January 11th, 2007
AppleInsider has posted some really great shots (from behind the giant Bell glass display case) of the iPhone on display at MacWorld.
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No Comments »January 10th, 2007
Apple finally launched its much rumored mobile phone at MacWorld yesterday, immediately triggering a massive worldwide drool-fest among gadget freaks. While it has been widely known that Apple has had such a product secretly in development for at least two years now, the device itself remained shrouded in mystery. Some analysts speculated the device would prove to be nothing more than a relatively simple inexpensive iPod phone, while others expected more of a Blackberry style Smartphone, done in a sleeker package. Both camps got it wrong…and right. iPhone isn’t what anyone really expected.
When I first gazed upon images of the iPhone I was immediately awestruck by its unique industrial design, which oddly resembles a PDA more than a phone. We’ve come full circle back to tablet style form factors with large screens again. Didn’t see that coming. At the same time I was also slightly disappointed. As amazingly slick looking as it is, I have a great deal of reservations about typing on a flat screen display in place of fixed keyboard input. Hardware buttons offer good tactile feedback when entering text. The idea of tapping on a smudge prone screen with my fingers doesn’t exactly fill me with delight. Whether it will work or not remains to be seen since we have yet to see this scheme in action other than well staged product demos.
But Apple may be onto something with software based input. And God knows the Operating System alone will move this product in massive volumes. Everyone is talking about this device, and everyone seems to want one.
The next few months are going to be grueling!
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