“There’s hype. There’s hysteria. And there’s history,” May Wong writes for The Associated Press.
“The hype around Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhone is abundantly clear. So is the hysteria. But how the iPhone will leave its historical mark after Friday’s launch is to be seen,” Wong writes. “Will the gadget — which triples as a cell phone, iPod media player and a wireless Web device — be as ‘revolutionary’ as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has claimed?”
“People want more now. There are plenty of slim, ultra-thin options out there, but not many make finding photos, saving phone contacts, picking up voice mail and selecting ringtones insanely easy,” Wong reports. “‘This is the most anticipated phone since Alexander Graham Bell did his,’ said Michael Gartenberg, an industry analyst at JupiterResearch. ‘Part of it is the fascination with Apple’s products and how well they design them, but it’s also about how poor the design in software is in cell phones now, and how much time Apple has spent working on this.'”
Wong reports, “‘A few handset makers have been trying to make the phone simpler without having to refer to a manual that’s 18 times the size of the phone,’ said Richard Doherty, president of The Envisioneering Group, a research company. ‘But Apple is going for the moon here.'”
Wong reports, “With its iPod players and Macintosh computers, the Cupertino-based company has already cemented a reputation for making products that are intuitive and easy to use. Other electronics makers have admitted that Apple has set the bar there for those product categories… The proof will come once the iPhone gets into users hands.”
Full article here.
The last quote from the link above
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about
funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went
to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.'”
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer Inc., on his and Steve Wozniak’s early attempts to distribute their personal computer.
Buy AAPL now, sell the rest, prepare for more FUD, ignore it and move upward.
Just think… there could already be third-party answers available for issues like this. Apple could endorse or even buy these solutions.
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Yes, if Apple wanted to embrace these solutions, they could… However, Apple doesn’t want to embrace these solutions..
….Apple wants to change them.. With iPhone, they probably will.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
— Bill Gates, 1981
Anyone who has seen the 25-minute demo video has to be amazed. Just as a phone, doing things like making a three-way call and managing voice mails were so intuitive. AT&T needs to pay Apple some licensing fees and make a “regular” (not mobile) phones with the same interface. I’d like to have a at-home phone that worked like iPhone (just as a phone).
Engadget has a brie review of the iPhone from someone who received an advanced model. Some of the posters had a great idea: For SMS and e-mail, the keyboard should be able to go into landscape mode for better accuracy. The reviewer said the intelligent keyboard wasn’t that intelligent, only for simple words. If such is the case it would really steal the thunder from the launch.
>I’m not really all that interested in the iPhone, won’t be getting one … (yawn)<
yeah, kinda like how everyone feels about your dumb pod cast huh No one cares yet you keep spamming us with your link
There is a lot of stuff written about Exchange support in the iPhone which confuses me.
Surely, the iPhone’s mail client is IMAP, and Exchange Server has an IMAP option: I know it does, because I set it up for a customer and I log into my account on their server using the IMAP functionality on mail.app.
Even if your enterprise IT people are raving paranoids, Exchange’s two-tier function would allow you to have an IMAP server at the edge of the network leveraging data held on Exchange data servers inside the network.
As I say, I’m confused.
“mission accomplished”
GW
I love living in the future.
…” There is a lot of stuff written about Exchange support in the iP”
Hey guys,
About the Exchange Issue, I think may be able to help as far as I know,
As I have setup Macs for mail exchage a few times.
Yes exchange has support for Imap, this allows any Mac to connect and get email,
The Phone needs to be on a IP range that exchange will except normally so all computers in the office, but outside the phone may not be on a IP address,
So Using Wifi Normally in the Office the Iphone should get email fine. But the Only system I believe out of work is Webmail using MS outlook exhange, many companies have this.
Or a VPN,
OK Hope some help here,
Future Stuff:
PS: Electric cars,
Food made in a Cup,
Chocolate that grows itself.
I just checked on the prices for the IPHONE from AT@ T.
For everything advertised that the iphone does, you will be charged a whopping $120.00 dollars a month.
Have fun. I won’t buy an iphone until prices drop all around..
OK,
Here for people who are unsure about email
I may setup a mail server :
If anyone wants to help me with this > iphonewebmail.com
Any people can have all email forwarded to this server and can access there mail. Just put a mail rule in: and forward to balbalbal@iphonewebmail etc
OK,
Dam Prine ,
See I wish they just charged more for the iphone.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian and so is the telephone & JAVA programing language for that matter, the base for AJAX and the iPhone’ true web potential.
The Truth about Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone: Bell moved from Canada to the U.S. while actively working on it. Diplomatically, he said at the time, “The telephone was conceived in Brantford (Ontario) in 1874 and born in Boston in 1875.”
I knew it. I totally blame Canada.
“mission accomplished”
But unfortunately for us the mission Bush meant was getting Laura to swallow.
If you think Safari/AJAX doesn’t cut it as an SDK, then you’re just stuck in Web 1.0 thinking. The iPhone is going to take us into Web 2.0, but some people just aren’t ready to accept that yet.
When in doubt, blame Canada.
To all you guys that keep mentioning Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, please read RH’s message above and above all click the link to the U. S. Congress resolution (H. RES. 269) dated October 17, 2001 that he very conveniently supplied, where full credit for the invention is given to Antonio Meucci, a Florentine, like myself.
Meucci demostrated his invention in 1860 but was never able to turn it into a commercial reality, for a number of reasons that are very clearly detailed in the resolution.
Saying that Bell invented the telephone is like saying that Bill Gates invented the modern day personal computer. We all know that it is not true.
He was however able to turn it into a viable commercial and technological reality.
That should be his sole merit.
My best, and thanks again to RH for posting his clarifying message.
..anticipation can get so big ..then you have trouble breathing. When I was little I waited in line for a special gift that was being given to kids. I waited so long, the kid in front of me got his and then the guy said to me they were out, sorry. That night several homes in the expensive hills section of town burned ..they said it was arson. I don’t know. Now, there’s anticipation for the iPhone and somewhere it’s disturbing the harmony of a weak mind. The iPod has evolved steadily over 5 years. The anticipation for the iPhone evolution is enough to put a grown man on a gurney let alone just standing in line and not getting one …heaven forbid the kid in front of me get sick or something.
the iPhone demo on the net is probably all most people need to watch, no need to read manuals…it’s like the difference between a high end GUI and a C prompt, with all Apple’s competitors sitting at the C prompt level.
Probably the most useful advanced Canadian invention is the Robertson screw, the one with the square hole. It beats the pants off the Phillips screw, the one with the little cross. Why has the U.S. not adopted the Robertson after all these years? The best technology doesn’t always win the major share of the market.
For all of you saying Bell didn’t invent the telephone:
John Sculley, long before he was Apple CEO, invented the vertical shadow mask for CRT displays. So did Sony. Sony got to the patent Office first. They called their product Trinitron. The rest is history.
This has happened innumerable times in history. Get used to it.
qka: That was probably Amelio who had a huge background in electronics and physics.
Sculley studied architectural design and business.
qka, Sony might have registred trinitron first but do not compare apples with lemmons. Bell was a thief of the worst species. Read the history to learn. This is probably one of the most disgusting illegal intelectual appropriation in history. The Bell robery only prevailed throught history because he was an american. If Bell was an Italian the history could be different. At least the congress agreed with this view in 2001 and returned the truth to it’s place. ANTONIO MEUCCI was THE INVENTOR of the PHONE period. The problem is that Meucci did not had the money to pay the patent. Read the resolution from the congress, learn, and then speak:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:1:./temp/~c1072daOn1::
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:2:./temp/~c1072daOn1::
By the way, I’m not Italian but I like historical justice.