Loading ...The iPhone is not a phone - Michael Mace
So now it’s a week later, and I’ve come full circle to where I was when I first heard the announcement: I think it’s not a phone. It’s an entertainment-focused mobile computer.
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But if you look at the iPhone first as a mobile computer for entertainment, with phone features added in where convenient, things look very different. The lack of a keypad then becomes a reasonable compromise to get a large screen (great for video and browsing) in a tiny device. The price is still high, but Apple has continuously offered iPod products in the $400-$500 range. The iPhone is close to the price of a high-end iPod, and has a host of additional features. iPod sales have been running at about eight million units a quarter, so ten million iPhones in 18 months is not a ridiculous number. If Apple can get a reasonable percentage of loyal iPod owners to step up to the iPhone, it won’t have to attract all that many new users to make its 10 million number.
The iPhone Is A First-Generation Pocket Mac - Mike Cane
Give me a choice of any Bluetooth keyboard pairing with it (as easily as it does with other Macs) and let a word processing/text editing app get on it and I’m on my way to happy.
Amen. The iPhone is a strong replacement to my phone (currently the Treo 750 and 700p), Internet tablet (Nokia N800) and possibly my Macbook Pro around when I’m out and about. As I’ve said before it’s the universal remote control for my life.
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I’ve been reading your posts on iPhone as a remote for life and have to disagree. There are a couple of problems with the iPhone, as it stands today, that will prevent it from doing all the things you want it to do.
I’ve responded at
iPhone Mojo
Cheers
Anthony
http://www.iphonemojo.com
Anthony, thanks for the comment, and thanks for not calling me an idiot.
We won’t know for a few months. The N800 has a very similar soft-keyboard, and so far I’m loving it.
Regarding your second concern about 3rd party apps, I have nothing more to say than what I’ve already commented in this post.
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