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[Semi-RANT] Why You Should Care about the iPhone
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 Most of you might be sick to your spleens with the endless news about Apple's new iPhone. What's so special about it? It's nothing more than a glorified iPod or an overly expensive PDA or even a rip-off of a prototype as some would suggest. It's more significant than everyone thinks.
Ask yourself, when have you been really been excited about a mobile phone? Okay, now when has the whole WORLD been excited about a mobile phone? Really? Never? Think about it. No real mobile phone got this much buzz from mainstream media. When Nokia launches a new phone, will Europeans telco's fight for an exclusivity deal? Did the P990i boost Sony Ericsson's stock when it was announced?
Why is it so important? No real mobile has this much advanced technology behind it. Not Nokia, not Sony Ericsson. Most mobiles coming from those companies are evolutionary not revolutionary.
This may sound like hot air coming from a Mac fanatic. But watch the Macworld Keynote. Skip to the 26m 50s mark for the iPhone announcement. Watch the demo. See for yourself how much technology is in it. And ask yourself again, does any current or announced mobile have all of this functionality? Forget 3G for a second, and think about it. What phone has a highly advanced touch interface? What phone can detect whether it's rotated to landscape or portrait and adjust the screen orientation accordingly? What PDA-phone has Google Maps built-in? And what music phone has the ease of use of an iPod?
If you still don't believe me, just watch the Keynote or if you can't just go to the official site here. If you still don't then honestly, you're just lying to yourself. It's not a perfect phone, not by a long shot. It doesn't have 3G, which is a minor thing in my opinion. It only has a 5-hour talk time and the battery is not user replaceable. And we won't be getting one until 2008. But even with those flaws, you have to get your head wrapped around the idea on what Apple has done. They have truly reinvented the mobile phone. I will guarantee that other mobile phone manufacturers will incorporate all, if not, some of the technologies of the iPhone in some form in the near future. And that's the nice way of saying that they'll copy the iPhone.
In conclusion, Scott Kurtz said it best in his PvP comic strip:
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 Name: Jin
Occupation:
Graphic Artist/Pirate
Geek Toys:
20" iMac Core Duo, PSP, iPod (3G), EOS350D
Special Attack(s):
La Serpiente Strike
El Gato Fist
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Being the mindless drone of fashion that I am, I decided to jump on the Blogging bandwagon. This site contains all my rants and raves about current events, technology, video gaming, cinema and the occasional snippets of my own geek life. (Yeah, quite original, I know.)
Best viewed at 1024x768 on Firefox or Safari. Internet Explorer 6 sucks donkey dick.
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© 2006. All rights reserved.
Illustrations and Character Designs: Jin.
The Sims. © 2006. Electronic Arts, Inc.
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4 Comments:
This soon-to-be-released TV ad for the iPhone best explains all this hoolabaloo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM&
o eto jing... Steve Jobs on SNL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kd-beTSdkQ
problema nila dito men yung battery life. the rumor that's circulating says that it'll have an 8-15 hour batt life. and for a cellphone parang di yata maganda yun. :) the problem with apple is they dont expose these weaknesses. :)
anonymous (whoever you are, ooh soo mysterious ^_^): yeah, i did menton that issue toward the end of my rant. it sucks bullets that you can't have a user-replaceable battery on the iPhone or even the iPod. heck, it's not even 3G, not that we pinoys fully utilize 3G as of yet.
as for apple not exposing their weaknesses, of course they won't mention that! no sane company would tell the world about product flaws. you don't see microsoft advertising that windows xp or even vista has security holes or even ford motor company saying that their SUVs are gas-guzzlers. it's all marketing speak. the point of all that is to sell you a product.
for smart people like us, we can read between the lines and see what they're not telling us. all the same, the iPhone is something we should really be impressed with, whether we choose to buy it or not.
thanks for passing by. ^_^
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