iPhone: June 11 While Dvorak says launch should be scrapped Friday Mar 30 2007 10:17 EDT CNET reports that the iPhone will be launched by Apple and AT&T on June 11. It's the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, scheduled for June 11 through June 15. The phone made a brief appearance last Tuesday at CTIA in the hands of AT&T's COO and the FCC's Kevin Martin during a marketing pitch. John Dvorak meanwhile does what he does best (inflame fanboys to generate hits) by suggesting there "is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive," and that Apple should "pull the plug" on the iPhone before it's too late. Our only major complaint has been (of course) the lack of real broadband connectivity. Hopefully AT&T will provide HSDPA support sooner rather than later, or nudge their EDGE service speed closer to 1Mbps. |
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2007-Mar-30 10:28 am
Failure Reasons1. Battery is stuck in there. WTF? I know a lot of people who keep a spare charged battery because they are heavy talkers.
2. It won't take off in the office world. You won't see mobile professionals breaking out the iPhone to calendar in an appointment or send an e-mail. They'll use MS because the MS Mobile OS works great with Exchange offering pretty close to a mobile Outlook.
3. Cingular. Folks will be required to cancel their contract and go through the hassle of porting over their number. I know with Sprint, when you call to cancel service, as long as you are a good customer they give you some killer deals to stay. If the hackers find a way to make it work with T-Mobile then that will equal more sales.
4. From what I understand according to rumor it's only going to be sold with a contract. Thus, even if crackers find a way to unlock it so it'll work with T-Mobile, it would still be very expensive to bring it over.
5. Can't add memory to it.
6. Touch screens on cell phones suck. Face grease, can't feel your way to a number while driving, etc.
7. This is the most important. They aren't allowing custom applications to be loaded up on it. A huge chunk of the fun I have with my Microsoft Smartphone is loading up something such as a game or an app I download for free. It'll be locked down harder than Verizon's phones. Of course, crackers could solve that problem.
I think this will be the PS3 of the cell phone industry. Economy is getting worse and times are getting tougher, people just aren't getting the most expensive things they can anymore. | |
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