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By: Plonkster » Blog Archive » I Have the Horn

Plonkster » Blog Archive » I Have the Horn — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:02:48 +0000

[...] Jake may have the horn for the new iPhone, but here’s what I get excited about (via SciFi Wire): Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:50:10 +0000

This article neatly sums up why I won't be racing to get an iPhone no matter how much I really do love it. (I did the same thing for the iPod, and was glad I did - the click wheel was exactly the improvement the iPod needed to be perfect [for me].)

By: MixMasterMatt

MixMasterMatt — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:13:30 +0000

Jake, I’m with you 100%. When I watched the Keynote, I nearly soiled my cammie trousers. Yes, I ran home from class, queued up the Keynote and didn’t bother to change into civies. I’ve been waiting 1 year for the event, and Jobs didn’t let me down.

The iPhone is not about entertainment for me either. It is about a truly functional communication device. That phone does all that I want a ‘phone’ to do. I want my phone to be useful, not just usable. The iPhone does damn near everything I could hope it would do (plus a few bells) and it does it the way I’d dream of doing it…if I could dream so well.

I’ve heard myriad responses to the Keynote, and some of them just really seem to miss the mark, both high and low. I view the iPhone as the usher for many technologies and usability expectations. Jobs wasn’t lying when he said they would revolutionize the way we think of telephony.

AT&T/Cingular, Yahoo, and Google are teaming with the most forward thinking commercial computing company on the planet. What we have before us are distribution, content, and search providers teaming with the end-use to provide an A-Z stream. Streaming cable programming coming to your iPhone. Yeah, you betcha. The ‘office’ apps are on the way, I’m sure, for unparalleled productivity – for you commuters and snowbound types. The touchscreen technologies will play a major role in kiosks and i/o devices at home and work. I find it interesting that they have brought to market a technology discussed just last year at a technology think-tank symposium. I certainly never expected the technology to be commercial-ready so quckly, nor so mobile.

I’m thrilled by the new Apple offering. I’m looking forward to the typical spring releases to get my next computer, a MacBookPro. Yes, I’ll be a switcher (that sweet 50% and growing market). I’ll likely be in Iraq when the iPhone is released and hopefully in OCS while the second rev iPhones are getting ready to launch, along with the diverse set of apps I expect to be available around that time.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:06:25 +0000

In truth a lot has come out to take some of the shine of my initial impression of the iPhone. It’s still super sexy, but I won’t be running out to grab one unless some things change between now and June.
The next generation of this thing could be the trick, I’m thinking.

And it’s not about 24/7 entertainment. I want my phone to do a couple things – this one looks like it might do them extremely well. It’s about the paradigm shift…

By: da kine

da kine — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:20:30 +0000

Per my comment on Soxaholix: "I'm not into that iPhone stuff. Does one truly need entertainment 24/7? I saw a kid at a restaurant with his parents yesterday, listening to an iPod whilst playing a PS2. It made me want to yell at him and smack his parents about the head. I don't know why, but the iPhone represents that kid to me."