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Posted - July 14 2007 : 12:17a
who has one? What do you like? What don't you like? I am digging the wifi, and after early keyboard struggles now I even love that part. The multi touch screen is an absolute revolution.
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- July 14 2007 : 6:58a
I'd love to have one, but in my right mind, can't justify spending the money on it. After the two year commitment, It'll end up costing $2000.
The only problem I foresee is the size of the Harddrive, I have a 30gig video Ipod and I only have 2 gigs available, so I'd really have to go through my music and videos and decide what not to have on it.
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- July 14 2007 : 7:18a
I have it. I love it.. Only thing I dont like is the battery issue.. It charges great and everything, and I use it all day and i havent gotten it past half.. But, it supposably you can only charge it 400 times and then you have to send it in to apple and pay 79 to get the battery fixed. Mike
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- July 14 2007 : 11:22a
no i waited for about an hour and a half with a buddy. Never waited in line for anything like this before so it was actually kinda fun. yes the battery will be an issue down the road, and i dont think it will be addressed anytime soon. With apple and cingulars long term exclusive deal, i can see apple making few (aside from expandable storage) major changes. I'd like a higher capacity one too (I am switching over from an 80 gig video iPod), but by not syncing all of my nearly 50 full length movies, and just doing my music and select movies here and there, storage won't be a huge issue for me.
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- July 14 2007 : 11:47a
Couple of people I work with have them. Chris got one also.
From what I've seen, I'm quite underwhelmed by it. No Exchange integration, no video support for the cameraphone portion, can't use the keyboard while driving (yeah, blow me, I text a lot while driving), 8GB- give me a break.
I see the iPhone more as a neat web/Wifi enabled music player that happens to incorporate a shitty phone infrastructure.
No 3rd party app support (web widgets are NOT apps).
I'm waiting for v2.0. Right now, the iPhone doesn't have 1/4 the overall value/functionality that my Blackberry has, but it DOES have some great gee-whiz features.
Also, FWIW, keep in mind I'm a huge Apple fan, and my entire sales and support staff uses Mac's (about 2 dozen people) by my charter.
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- July 14 2007 : 6:06p
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Originally posted by GE2
most purchases i make are based far more on gee whiz factor than function. You should know that by now Brian. :)
Me too, but I use my phone pretty heavily. If I didn't travel as much, or have as much work activity, I could do without the Exchange support, and the touchscreen keyboard would probably be OK.
I had fully intended to get an iPhone at first, just to get one. But my honest assessment is that once the novelty factor wears off, it's not worth the price yet. I'm sure it will be soon, but they're not really going to be in limited supply, so I'll get one when a few things are worked out.
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- September 6 2007 : 6:45p
IMO it has nothing to do with market share, the initial price was high to help manage overall demand. I think they could keep selling them at the higher price if they wanted to.
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- September 6 2007 : 6:52p
It is, to me, so sad to see the changes in Apple Corp.
My first computer was an Apple II+. The back cover on the computer was held on with Velcro. It came from the factory that way. There were dozens and dozens of 'companies' out there making add-ons and upgrades for that modest little machine. I purchased a memory upgrade for my Apple II+ that consisted of an edge card connector and a bag of components that I had to solder on myself to get an extra 16k of memory, bringing the machine up to a whopping 64k.
The point is that I could buy any one of several of these cards and all were 'supported' by Apple. They would actually help you make use of these available add-ons.
And now? Buy an 'authorized' iPhone and you have sign up with only one service provider. You have no choice, only a long term commitment. I, for one, think that SUCKS!
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- September 6 2007 : 7:08p
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Originally posted by devnull
In that regard, how is the iPhone different than any other cellular phone sold in the US?
That's a very good point!
Based on the advertising I have seen, it should be head and shoulders above any thing else out there. With the exception of phone calls, what can the iPhone do that my HP Ipaq can't do?
The point I was trying to make (badly) was, that I think Apple has gone down the wrong road by making everything proprietary, when it seems like the rest of the world is going toward 'open source', which is where Apple came from, maybe even had a hand in starting.
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- September 6 2007 : 7:28p
The proprietary nature of apple is the reason its computer market share was dwarfed by PCs. If they would've become open source like IBM did with their ISA interface back in the 80s, everybody would probably have an apple computer now, but they'd eventually lose market share to competition just like what happened to IBM. It all boils down to the fact that steve jobs likes making money more than opening doors to outside innovation, but how can you blame him?
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- September 6 2007 : 9:05p
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Originally posted by Sawblade
The proprietary nature of apple is the reason its computer market share was dwarfed by PCs. If they would've become open source like IBM did with their ISA interface back in the 80s, everybody would probably have an apple computer now, but they'd eventually lose market share to competition just like what happened to IBM. It all boils down to the fact that steve jobs likes making money more than opening doors to outside innovation, but how can you blame him?
IIRC, the ISA interface wasn't really IBM's invention (but Microchannel certainly was). It was derived from another pre-existing interface whose name escapes me right now. And back in those days, Apple's were pretty open, hell most PC's were. I remember soldering more RAM onto a daughter card, and stuffing chips in an IBM PC system board (PC as in real PC, Model 5150 I believe it was, not XT, not AT (although I had those as well later on)).
It was really a crapshoot as to what platform would take off at the time. IBM/Microsoft were in the right place at the right time more than anything.
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