“Call it the iPhone effect. That’s what you get when you throw a potentially game-changing device from an innovative pioneer into an established but still evolving industry. Apple’s uber-phone, a media and Internet device that goes on sale Friday, has the potential to create seismic shifts in the cell phone industry larger than the size of the iPhone’s sales, analysts and observers said,” Ryan Kim reports for The San Francisco Chronicle.
“With its radically different approach, the iPhone is expected to cause a collective rethinking on everything from hardware design and user interface to consumer expectations and media consumption. It might even prompt a new gold rush in Silicon Valley, if you believe some enthusiasts,” Kim reports. “This means that even if you never buy the shiny, expensive gizmo, its influence could reach you in a number of ways.”
Kim reports, “Apple has been able to create a phone to run on its own platform, said John Maeda, associated director of research at MIT’s media labs. ‘That’s a game changer. Most manufacturers, their hands are tied. This is amazing.'”
Kim reports, “‘What we’re seeing is the beginning of a possible sea change,’ Michael Gartenberg, a Jupiter Research analyst, said. ‘Apple is educating consumers about what phones can do.’
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
How about creating “iPhoneDailyNews” and putting all the iPhone news on it, instead of here at “MacDailyNews”.
I mean, I like the iPhone and all…but I’m getting a little tired of reading the same iPhone articles all the time. And with the nature of this device, it looks like iPhone news will continue for some time.
Just a thought.
M@c,
The iPhone is a Mac, dummy.
I second that.. I love Apple and the iPhone, but I am tried of reading all these articles, which all say the same thing.
Why do people keep doing things that make them tired?
M@C
Its the HOT news at the moment, just like we saw all the Zune stuff last fall, I just like to see any Apple news here, skip thru if you are not interested.
I am sure in a few more weeks we will see a lot of Mac news, with new models, and OS X 10.5
how about, if you are tired of reading the articles, you don’t click on the bloody damned link?!?
i mean how stupid do you have to be to click a link on a topic you don’t want to read, then read it, then comment on it?
that isn’t stupid once, that is stupid 3 times. in a row. for everyone to see.
i bet your mother is so proud….
shen,
you forgot your Prozac again, buddy. Chill.
@tired of retards
“M@c,
The iPhone is a Mac, dummy.”
The iPhone is a phone, an iPod and an internet device.
I don’t recall macs being phones
having said the above…..
i think this is the most important point about the iPhone. even if it never gets more than 1% of the market, it is like the GUI introduction. everyone will follow. they have too. the market share and sales have yet to be seen, but the influence is already huge. even before a single unit is sold.
and that is a major driving point for Steve i think. he doesn’t want to own the world, or control all the market share. he wants to change the world. the fact that vista is a knock off of OS X is a success to him. the fact that zune is as poor imitation of the iPod means he has won, at least to him.
…that chinese knock off phone? that means that Apple already won this round before they even took a swing.
that is interesting. because i point out the obvious “if you don’t want to read it, you are the one who controls that” i need to chill (as if i am upset that people are showing that they are idiots) but the people who waste time and effort to comment on something they don’t care about, well, that is time well spent!
MW: that “might” make sense in Ballmer bizzaro world, but here, that is just number 4 in the list of ways you are showing your are a moron.
I think as time goes on the distinction between “iPhone” and “Mac” will blur considerably more.
iPhone is what the media outlets are reporting. MDN can’t fabricate Mac news so that there is something else to read. There will be little to no Mac news until a while after the iPhone’s release. If you find some Mac news, please lest the MDN staff know so they can post it. Maybe even write an article yourself.
I guess I would like to read more computer/OS related news on this site. That’s where I was going with that.
the iPhone is a computer using OSX. A Mac can be used as a phone. MDN keep us posted.
M@c,
It runs OS X. It runs Safari. It run Mail. If the iPhone is not a Mac, then neither is my Dual G5.
I concur,
Most are still looking at the device as a phone. But, if you look at it core will be a computer operating system=Computer.
You just write programs to make it an iPod, iPhone, iCommunicator, ithis, and iThat. But at it little tiny heart is a tiny, palmtop computer.
Now, add this to the sum of computers that Apple sales and you see a doubling of mac computer sales.
Only when people realize what the device really is-a palmtop!!!
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I agree that the iPhone is a Mac. The only thing that has changed is the interface and the size of the screen.
I do believe that we will begin to see the true Mac revolution. Apple will continue to leverage the strengths of OSX by placing it into other CE’s. The most powerful, easy to use, and scalable OS on the planet is OSX.
iPhone is a Micro-Mac – and you are seriously under-rating Apple if you disconnect it from the Mac computer platform…
The future of your Mac is inextricably linked to iPhone, like it or not.
Take it a step further and Microsofts future is also linked to the future of iPhone – and Redmond don’t like it one little bit…
@ shen,
Any sightings of that rumored Chinese Zune knock-off?
I’m looking to save some bucks by picking up a cheap junk asian ripoff of a cheap junk Redmond ripoff of a great Apple product.
M@c
How about creating “iPhoneDailyNews” and putting all the iPhone news on it, instead of here at “MacDailyNews”
Enough. The iPhone is the single most important Apple product right now, and probably for the foreseeable future. Apple is on the cusp of re-inventing an entire industry and the repercussions are going to affect every single aspect of Apple’s business.
We’d all love for something just as Earth shaking to come around for the mac right now, but unless the next iMac ships with a wireless cerebral interface, the iPhone is the End All Be All of Apple news right now.
“I mean, I like the iPhone and all…but I’m getting a little tired of reading the same iPhone articles all the time. “
That’s like complaining about weather.com because all they ever talk about is storms and the temperature.
When Apple Inc. and the press change their focus, so will MDN.
People, I am not anti-iPhone here, let’s not run away with this.
I completely agree that the iPhone is revolutionary, and will do everything short of changing the Earth’s axis. We’re all on the same page here. I also realize that iPhone is a little Mac computer.
But Apple Inc. also sells those bigger computer things…real similar to the one you’re sitting in front of now. And if I remember correctly…that’s how Apple started in the first place.
All I’m saying is…how about a little more useful computer/OS-related information, rather than the same iPhone articles all the time?
It’s variety I’m talking about here, not a “dis” of the iPhone.
there just isn’t much news about the (non phone) mac.
Yea, news is limited right now on the “new” iMac’s and related Leopard. Hell, I would like to know when the iLife comes out. I was planning on upgrading all my computers…… damn Steve!!!
I need a new FIX!!!