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The Apple iPhone
Catfish_Man:
OK, so it's confirmed (Phil Schiller, Apple VP) that it won't run 3rd party apps. This blows, and I'm working with some other Mac developers to organize a bug filing campaign about it. This may or may not be a good idea, but it'll at least let 'em know what we want.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: mberan42 on 11 Jan 2007, 04:44 ---A macrumor thread when the iPod was first announced 5 years ago.
It's rather entertaining. Everything from "revolutionary" to "Get your head out of your ass, Steve - this'll never work."
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Three things that ultimately led to the iPod's success:
1) The design. It was simple, unique, and made it instantly lusted after.
2) The ability to fit your entire music library in your pocket. Memory set it apart from flash players, size set it apart from other HD players.
3) And I think this is the most important- iTunes. The largest, most comprehensive legal digital media service in existence. Without it and its connectivity to the iPod, the iPod would be nothing.
It was an unexpected, unholy trinity of design and functionality that no one could have predicted. I don't see that in the iPhone, but maybe I'm wrong.
elcapitan:
Ozy, I agree with you to an extent.
For my money, though, what made the iPod a success was how easy it was to use in comparison to earlier products of the type, combined with a sufficient growing of awareness of the underlying (MP3) technology. MP3 players had been around for years, but they were slow, big, clunky, hard to use - basically non-functional. The iPod (and iTunes, certainly) fixed all those problems, and did it in style. That's what drove the initial uptake.
Now consider the (for lack of a better word) "enhanced phone" market. Almost everything that it looks like the iPhone can do, other phones can already do - but not well. If the iPhone's interface is good enough to make dealing with media, phone contacts, address books and other PDA stuff, and online content, then it's going to go great guns. Basically Apple have chosen their timing well - the technology is there for connection and mobile processor speeds sufficient to make the enhanced content viable, people have seen the technology before, but no-one's given them a good way to use it.
Grawsith:
Most of these arguments can be directoed towards iTV as well.
Lines:
the new iPhone quattro. now with 4 razors.
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