So here it is the day after the launch of the iPhone. No new toys here, so I have to read what other’s share about theirs.
I spent my morning sipping a hot cup of coffee and reading the day after impressions and comments. Many of those bloggers who purchased their iPhones yesterday are so absorbed in playing with their new tech toy that they didn’t do much in depth writing today. OK, I’d be the same way.
What I’ve read about the iPhone seems to be mostly positive. Good Apple and bad AT&T, but who’d that surprise?
I’m sure in a few more days we’ll be seeing more critical reporting on the iPhone. Once the sensation of saying how good it is wears off, it’ll become the “in thing” to report how bad it’s shortcomings are. Predicable.
While it may have answered some basic questions, I’m amazed that PC World was so quickly torturing an iPhone to see if it could hold up to everyday rigors. Did they throw it into a bag with the keys as they were leaving the store? Then there was the iFixit live disassembly of a new iPhone yesterday evening.
We’ve become such a short attention span society. There’s such a narrow window to capture people’s attention on any given subject.
Get there, get in, get out and move on. It’s drive-by reporting for many of these sites and you can’t blame them. They’re catering to a group of readers that only focus on any subject for a few moments before veering off to the next one.
It wears on me, but maybe that’s my age talking.
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Well, I’m another guy without an iPhone. I do, however have a cell phone and an iPod, but no iPhone! :-) Technology has certainly passed me by. I don’t see an iPhone purchase in my future.
Let’s face it, Earl, it’s the microwave generation. If things cannot be had in 30 seconds or less, they are not worth having! Maybe it’s my age, too!
OK, Earl. I’m back with another post. I arrived at work today and a friend of mine has an iPhone. To say the least, I was impressed! That thing just oozes ‘coolness’; however, I don’t think that I’ll get one!
He got the 4 GB model, $500 with a 2 year commitment to AT&T for $59/month. The whole thing is cool, and Apple has done it again with the design, even though it is fairly large, which makes the screen fantastic for watching movies.
The inner geek in me wanted to have one, too, but it ain’t gonna happen! :-) In a fit of vanity, I pulled up my website via the built in Safari browser. Impressive device!
Hi Paul, I haven’t actually seen one yet and it’s probably a good thing I haven’t. My inner geek is running wild wanting one, but the big turn off for me is AT&T and a two year contract.
The iPhone will change the cell phone industry for all of us, whether we have a iPhone or not as other companies have to try and match it’s design and features. One of the really cool things about he iPhone is that it’s running OS X, allowing Apple to continue to evolve it’s feature set simply by releasing software updates that will download during sync’s. This means the iPhone should have a long life and that Apple will continue to move the bar forward…a nightmare for other phone manufactures.
It the iPhone would of been available for Verizon…I would of been done in and had one by now. :-)