When I see shows like 24, where they have really cool (imaginary) technology that does just what the users want almost before they've asked for it, I think about the amazing technology of the future versus the largely mundane technology of the present. Clearly imagining the future and making it happen are skills that very few posess.
Apple has, ever since the first Macintosh, continually stretched my imagination of what can be done with technology, and how beautiful it can be. It's ironic that I'm not a paying customer. It's incredible that after all this time they still amaze me. Most innovators take the state of the art and advance it one step at a time. Apple ventures into the future and brings us back a souvenir we can use.
After much speculation, the iPhone was announced at MacWorld this morning. It won't be launched for several months, but videos of it in action can be viewed now.
Simply. Phenomenal.
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great idea... but the phone lacks in a few fundamental ways (which is a huge shame!)
- No high-speed connectivity: watch a 'smart phone' with high-speed internet like 3G or 3.5G and you realise the potential. updating email or viewing webpages over a modem-like connection is so 90s...
- No 3rd party applicaitons: The thing is completely locked down and many (including myself) do not want to feel like we have to rely on Apple to come up with every bit of custom funcitonality that consumers might want.
- Not available until 2008! Usually macworld brings a couple of things that you can walk into the apple store and pick up tomorrow. this was just a tech 'announcement', and by macworld standards it was a bit of a dissapointment.
(that will do for now)
Sorry for the tardy response.
Good points. And good luck to the early adopters, but I wouldn't think about touching a technology like this until other people had experienced the growing pains -- and it sounds like plenty of people are only too willing :)
You'd hope by then that they'll have upped the speed considerably.
I don't really blame Apple for not opening up the iPhone to development. Jobs' analogy that the iPhone is like an iPod is reasonably convincing for me. If I had thought of any custom apps I simply must have, though, I'd probably be annoyed too.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see the emerging feeling among potential customers to these issues.
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