September 6, 2007
Reasons to be touchy about the iPhone
So those who queued for days for an iPhone before its launch on June 29 have now been made to look double doofuses by Apple.
Not only did they wait needlessly when there were plentiful supplies, but a price cut just 10 weeks later means they paid $200 more than necessary.
For those that didn’t really want the phone, but the elements that made it the “best iPod ever” ( Steve Jobs’ description), it’s even worse. They could have saved $300 and got the new 8Gb iPod touch for $299.
The touch looks a winner with its touch-screen and wi-fi that brings internet browsing to a media player.
The new nano also sees Apple finally get it right with its most popular model – it can now play videos, sophisticated games, has more storage, a much better display, a full-metal jacket, better interface, cooler colours and 24-hour battery life for playing music.
The original iPod was renamed the “classic” today, but it is looking more like the “prehistoric” squeezed between the nano and the touch. The only thing in its favour seems to be storage – 160Gb for $349. Jobs emphasised you could store 40,000 songs on it, but who has 40,000 they need to carry around with them?
The only other disappointment in the presentation was the lack of any content announcements – the anticipated availability of the Beatles catalogue failed to materialise.
There were also no new video deals to accompany the nano’s empowerment, only a bitch from Jobs about his row with NBC, which is moving its content to Amazon.
Making an individual ringtone for his iPhone out of John Lennon’s “Give Peace A Chance”, he said: “That’s for when NBC calls.”
Why I’m pleased the iPhone hasn’t made it the UK
I was gutted when I saw the iPhone ship in the USA. I sat, green with envy watching the BBC
Posted by: Do iPod | September 6th, 2007 at 9:22 am | Report this commentBetter user interface with price cut a bargain for new customers but just wondering, if companies start taking initiatives to return over due to first come -overpaid server? Who can be better example than Apple.
Posted by: Free Market Research Tool | September 6th, 2007 at 12:24 pm | Report this commentThere is one big difference between the iphone and the ipod, hence the name “iphone” - no phone on the ipod. A little detail you seemed to have forgot to mention. also, just because you don’t have 40,000 songs, doesn’t mean someone else (albeit younger) does,and songs also includes movies and videos. You seem to want to have a bitch about apple. Do you own an iphone? I do. I don’t feel any embarrassment at all.
Posted by: C Warren | September 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pm | Report this commentthe key is that everything in Apple must link with iTunes, if you don’t do the iTunes tune, you get nothing, sounds like Microflop again….a very close ,proprietary network,hmmm!
but they’re not the only ones,as ISP’s are suing Verizon in the USA because good old Verizon is switching to fiber and CUTTING DOWN TOTALLY THE COPPER, SO LEAVING THE ISP/dsl out in the rain,take that for eOrwell !!! and Verizon is going like Comcast cable ,cutting customers that do too much download, like internetTV, so they’re cutting down on their competition…..so, if you add one and the other, we’re heading in the USA to a total proprietary monopoly system, but hey! if you want to win presidential elections in the USA, it really helps to control all the communications, the cables, the terminals, the switches, the routers, the source-code, the antennas, the base stations,Stalin with a Hedge-Fund and the badge….we need a total Linux platform with your ideas…
Posted by: blogger | September 7th, 2007 at 7:39 pm | Report this comment