Does this phone obsolete the Zune? Duh. The iPod line? Much of it. All other smart phones? Ancient history. Tablet computers? Most. Laptops? Lots of them. This is the first expression of the convergent mobile device — maybe the practical expression of convergence, period.
Next: Mad scrambling to knock off a device protected by 200 patents.
Then: Better versions of the iPhone from Apple.
If vertical markets were not infested with mental midgets who write MSIE-only crap, this might have been the silver bullet for Microsoft. It may turn out to be that yet.
This was a big day…
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Dave Barnes says:
Greg,
Get a grip.
I am an “Apple fanboy”, but you sound (write?) hysterical.
This has nothing to do with Microsoft.
,dave
P.S. Our family owns 4 Macs, 4 iPods and 2 cats spread among 3 people.
January 9, 2007 — 7:45 pm
Greg Swann says:
> This has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Hmm… Microsoft produces buggy crap at glacial speeds. Will that situation have improved or gotten worse as the result of today’s events. If companies like Apple and Google can take one thing after another that, at one time, was safely locked behind “Gates,” what does that portend for Microsoft’s future? If the entire hardware and software paradigm changes, where does that leave nimble-as-a-rhino Microsoft? I may be wrong. No one can predict the future. But Microsoft seems to me to be pretty poorly adapted to take on the future.
January 9, 2007 — 9:21 pm
William Lefkovics says:
I can see this being a great tool for realtors. But overall, you seem to be labouring under some delusion of Apple grandeur. Innovative? Of course. Competitive? Absolutely. World changing? Hardly.
Ironically, we will probably implement iPhone somewhere among our clients to connect to their Microsoft Exchange Servers to retrieve voice and email.
January 9, 2007 — 9:30 pm
NVmike says:
At $600 a piece, they’ll sell poorly.
That price needs to come down by half.
January 9, 2007 — 11:53 pm
Spencer Barron says:
Apple seems to constantly miss the boat when it comes to how to make Microsoft money. They’re great at design and concept but not so good actually making that grow. They rely instead on their die-hard fanatics to push the products.
I think they’re lucking out on the blog circuit. Lots of mac users..but most of the real world doesn’t use macs.
It actually looks like a great product but I won’t buy it. It’s priced for the classes. Maybe I should charge more but I don’t see the value. I hope it does really well but a little razzle dazzle isn’t enough to sell me. A good price would go along way though. I’d buy it all day long at $300.
January 10, 2007 — 1:03 am
Drew Nichols says:
I still say the phone looks too flimsy for the price. It’s so thin that I can just see it breaking very easily. A phone, for many of us, needs to be rugged above all else.
January 10, 2007 — 7:30 am
Lee Trice says:
Yes the price is higher than a “standard” phone. But I own an iPod and a Treo right now. Combined, these products have a similar price tag. Now I am no Apple fanatic…I just got the iPod from Santa and that is my first Apple product. I am also pretty jaded about the “latest and greatest” gizmos. But I watched the video of Jobs’ demo with my 12 year old daughter. I thought it was the best example of consumer technology ever…and my daughter curled up in the fetal position and started foaming at the mouth from excitement. Way Cool. I welcome the day Apple penetrates the Biz market so we have some options. But standards are very useful and MS Office is THE de facto solution for biz professionals.
January 10, 2007 — 12:05 pm
NYCJoe says:
>Hmm… Microsoft produces buggy crap at glacial speeds.
Hmm… how long exactly did it take for Apple to introduce this phone? Palm, RIM, and others have been advancing the state of the art for years now, and Apple produces a phone that essentially:
* looks really nice
* has a trimmed-down version of OS/X on it
* has a nicely designed UI
They even went with Cingular, the crappiest network in the U.S.
As for Microsoft, remember the Xbox360? You know, that little device that’s on track to sell 12 million units by the end of 07? The one that I can now download movies and TV shows for? The one that I can grab a copy of C# Express and write my own games for?
Oh, wait, Apple just introduced “Apple TV”. Yeah, MS should be really worried.
>If the entire hardware and software paradigm changes,
>where does that leave nimble-as-a-rhino Microsoft? I
>may be wrong.
Look at the whole Live Services initiative, which didn’t even exist a couple of years ago. MS went from nowhere to having hundreds of millions of users for its Live products, from Office to Hotmail to Spaces. That seems fairly nimble to me. Where is Apple with their online story?
>No one can predict the future. But Microsoft seems to
>me to be pretty poorly adapted to take on the future.
Perhaps if you knew more about Microsoft’s initiatives you would feel differently. This story has played out so many times in the past 20 years:
1984: Macintosh will be the death of Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t “get” graphic user interfaces.
Whoops.
1989: Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect will be the defeat of Microsoft’s Word and Excel. They’re “best of breed”.
Whoops.
1994: The internet will be the death of Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t “get” the internet.
Whoops.
1997: WindowsCE is completely unsuited for mobile devices. It will never go anywhere.
Whoops.
2001: Xbox will turn out to be a costly distraction for Microsoft. They have no chance against Sony or Nintendo.
Whoops.
2003: Security will be the death of Microsoft. They can’t make anything secure.
Whoops.
2007: The Apple iPhone is the “silver bullet” for Microsoft.
Hmmmm, now, how should I bet on this one?
January 10, 2007 — 12:19 pm
trang says:
whoops
Did anyone check to see if someone else owns the name “iphone” – looks like Cisco does, and is now sueing Apple
January 10, 2007 — 5:37 pm