The Apple iPhone is Getting on My Nerve
The majority of you must have already heard of Apple’s upcoming iPhone: the iPod, cell phone, and internet tablet all-in-one gadget. It is a sleek touch-screen wide-screen device that can make phone calls, play music and video purchased from the iTunes music store, and is equipped with some built-in GBs, WiFi, and a Safari Internet browser. Geeks and Apple fans are over the moon about it, the hype is getting crazier as the release date gets closer (the end of this month).
But it’s really pissing me off.
I am really irritated by how many stupid people are ready to believe everything they read or see in an advertisement. First of all, the iPhone is not going to run OS X in the way that we know it. You will not be able to run any application that you have on your OS X on the iPhone, the fact that Apple names the thing that runs on the iPhone OSX does not have any practical meaning at all.
The phone is going to be expensive as hell. With a 2-year contract it will be sold at a subsidised price of $500. This means that the price of the phone outside the US sold on its own without any phone operator could easily be 3 times that price = $1500. I would not be surprised if it costs way more than this.
The revolutionary iPhone is not a 3G phone – it won’t do video calls or video messages, I do not know if it would even do MMS.
What really got me pissed is the recent comparison chart Apple posted on their website here. It is very normal for companies to pimp their own devices in these sort of charts, but come on, not only that the comparison is irrelevant, who the hell would compare the N95 a multimedia phone to a Blackberry – a business communicator? And so, who does Apple target with this new phone? Enterprises or casual users? I think that it is really stupid for them to omit all the obvious features found on all those other devices such as 3G, Voip, 3rd party apps, changeable batteries, AND WEIGHT.
