“I have had a chance to play with the iPhone on a couple of occasions,” Tim Bajarin reports for PC Magazine.
“I believe the iPhone will fly off the shelves and continue to gain consumer interest and demand. There are three key reasons why I think it will be a major hit and that Steve Jobs’s prediction of selling 10 million units in the iPhone’s first 18 months on the market is extremely conservative,” Bajarin reports.
• It is already one of the most anticipated gadgets we’ve seen in the last five years. The device’s multitouch user interface and ability to be used as both a media playback device and a mobile Internet connection will make it successful from the start. Like the initial iPod, the first-generation product will still be too expensive for the mainstream consumer, but it will get the kind of buzz and early user feedback that will arouse interest and technolust in the broader consumer market.
• [Apple’s] decision to put a complete version of OS X and its Web browser Safari on the iPhone creates an extremely robust platform. This is perhaps Apple’s greatest strength. [Apple’s] highly successful digital ecosystem, which ties hardware, software, and services into a single elegant packaged solution [will help fuel iPhone’s success]. In fact, this is the area in which all other smartphone developers will fail with their iPhone-like devices. They may deploy similar touch-screen navigation and tie their phones to some music and video download services, but the lack of a powerful operating system like OS X will hamper their ability to create a communications, entertainment, and Web-based ecosystem robust enough to compete with the iPhone.
• By using OS X and a full version of Safari, Jobs says, the iPhone “delivers the Internet in your pocket.” In my own short time playing with the iPhone, this is the one feature that awed me. I could not believe that I had a full Web-browsing experience on something this small.
Bajarin writes, “The iPhone will be the hottest product within the tech community for quite a while, and at the very least, it is going to give handset makers such as LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson nightmares for the foreseeable future.”
Much more in the full article – highly recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Please reward Bajarin and PC Magazine with clicks for focusing on facts in this article – plus it’s interesting to prospective iPhone buyers, too.
Well thought out, and based on ACTUAL user experience. Kudos to this reporter for reporting experience and not emotion.
Bajarin has been rewarded-
I just dugg the story, It will be in upcoming under Apple.
Told you so!:_)
Sorry!
Told You So!:-)
Again
The device’s multitouch user interface and ability to be used as both a media playback device and a mobile Internet connection will make it successful from the start.
This is something all the naysayers are avoiding while harping on the keyboard. There will be more than enough of these other features, and a strong desire for those features, to offset whatever minor inconveniences such a keyboard might bring.
You need Safari 3 to use iPhone. So download it now. Mac + Windows versions.
Glad to hear it John.
I just got done washing my clothes for the week.
did anybody notice that even yahoo.com doesn’t work with safari 3. or better to say: the other way around. this is not a beta version. it is still in alpha if it doesn’t even work with the biggest sites around. though i am a fanboy this is embarassing.
magic word “approach” as in “this isn’t even an approach”
forgot to say: it doesnt work on xp sp2, didn’t test in mac os x
“Apple iPhone will fly off the shelves”
It’s got wings.
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Well, we don’t have to worry about Competition from Microsoft on this one. At $349 or whatever crazy price they want for Vista U, we won’t being seeing their phone with a full operating suite for a long time.
See, reviewers or writers who actually had a chance to use it gives it a very fair review and positive future. Then you read those complainers and nay sayers. They sure have plenty to say and plenty of negativity to something they haven’t even touched. I think their just pissed since Apple didn’t let them try it. Cry babies. LOL
@Ralph from Berlin
Yahoo.com works fine here with S3. It loads REALLY fast. Try getting rid of some of the plug in’s you’ve installed and see if that helps.
@ Ralph, that goes for both mac and xps2.
While I think the iPhone is fantastic and can be a major product for Apple I am concerned that ATT will be too greedy and screw the program up. After the initial sales it is important for the potential consumers that are on a budget to be able to buy one. If ATT provides plans that are affordable things will be fine. If not then they could cut sales in half.
Steve Jobs said that he wanted to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. He seems to be discounting the first 6 months of sales. This makes me think that this first version of the iPhone is for the early adopters and the Christmas crowd. Look for iPhone 2 in January at Macworld.
M.W. = “clearly”
“The iPhone will be the hottest product within the tech community for quite a while, and at the very least, it is going to give handset makers such as LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson nightmares for the foreseeable future.”
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Steve Jobs said that the iPhone had the whole safari web browser, but is not fact as it does not support the flash player at the momment.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even with this constraint (if you can call it that way), iPhone sales are expected to fly of the shelves.
Check out this story at
http://iprodreviews.blogspot.com/2007/06/bajarin-apple-iphone-will-fly-off.html
Sorry please ignore my comment.
I thought i was commenting on a different site.
Steve Jobs said that he wanted to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. He seems to be discounting the first 6 months of sales.
He said 10 million in the first 18 months.
Can you access the virtual keyboard while surfing the Net on an iPhone?
Can you post on MDN from an iPhone?
This could be a deal breaker.
“Can you post on MDN from an iPhone?
This could be a deal breaker.”
Crap. Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight. Thanks, pal.