2007-01-09 12:19 PM
Earlier today Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at MacWorld, Apple's annual new product conference.
Besides the fact that Apple directly snubs the CES by holding their conference the same week, they could be dealing them the ultimate blow by announcing what could turn out to be the best cosumer product of 2007.
Forget the Xbox, PS3, and Wii. Those are just fun and games. The new iPhone, which puts to rest long speculation of a mobile phone from Apple, is a genuine artifact that shows a hint, a glimmer of the futuristic world we are inevitably moving toward. Today will be the day that we saw something iconic, something iPhonic.
The touch screen, which had appeared in a series of patents filed by Apple, is definitely the future of their portable devices. They announced a wide screen version of the iPod, and I think that the original iPod will become commoditized as people upgrade and prices get pushed down.
We're closer and closer to the proverbial magic wand. It seems that combined with a nice home automation suite, the new iPhone could be the controller that remotely locks your doors, turns off your oven, and orders more milk to be delivered.
But at $499 for a 4GB iPhone and $599 for a 8GB iPhone, people are paying mainly for the novelty. I'm sure they could have added a little thickness to the 11 mm body and thrown in one of their larger hard drives, but that wouldn't have given them the chance to introduce the 20GB iphone 6 months down the road. And soon after that the 40GB iphone, than the 100GB iphone.
If only they'd hurry up and build a 1 TB drive that size. 4GB reminds me of the first iPods that came out. Remember the huge bulky ones. I still liked them, but I had the Creative 40GB at the time since I was more concerned about storage then aesthetics.
It won't be long before every iPod clad human is hooked on iPhonics. Many of the other handset developers might have to scrap the plans they had, and somehow follow suit so they don't get left behind. It might not be a stretch to sometime in the future think, "remember when they used to have all those buttons?"
2008-04-02
CNBC just announced a 3G iPhone might be coming soon. I can hardly wait. My question is, where is the 4G iPhone?
Everyone at the CTIA convention in Las Vegas is talking about WiMax this and 4G that, but Apple is content in slowly leaking out their products 1G at a time. I guess you can't really blame them. There's no need to play all their cards at once.
Steve Jobs probably has a top-secret 1 YB iPhone prototype that levitates over its superconducting charger while receiving instructions wirelessly via electroencephalography. This "executive version" yottabyte iPhone has the "Hitchhiker" upgrade, allowing it to transition seamlessly between terrestrial and outer space coverage networks while also containing all of the collected knowledge, information, and recorded history of mankind and the universe.