Regarding the Apple iPhone, “Steve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. It’s also the best phone that anybody has ever made,” Lev Grossman reports for TIME Magazine.
“E-mail and web-browsing are unbelievably great. Ditto the crisp music and video playback. Everybody I called with the iPhone remarked on the crispness and clarity of the audio. For the iPhone, Apple has brought to market a revolutionarily smart, sensitive touchscreen and created an entirely new user interface to match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter — and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless — had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument),” Grossman reports.
“The user interface is crammed with smart little touches — every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario),” Grossman reports.
“The hype for the iPhone has been so relentless — witness the screaming Yahoos outside the Apple store — that to praise the phone feels a bit like you’re falling for a sales pitch. Resist the temptation. This thing is a marvel,” Grossman reports.
Full article here.
Good Jobs, we hope someone’s bolted every window with ledge access across the mobile phone industry!
Here’s another reason to go iPhone…
Those little keys on the Blackberry and Palm et al?… ever wonder how healthy all those crevices are for retaining the bacteria and germs on your fingers??
I would remind everyone of the mint bowl at restaurants research which found several thousand traces of urine on them…
Go iPhone – stay clean and healthy!
ZUNE TANG! Great to see you again buddy! It’s been a while since we were blessed with your comic relief (read: empathy for M$).
Keep up the good job. I look forward to reading your deluded messes in upcoming articles.
@ ken1w. AT&T do not own the interface! who do you think has over 200 iphone patents applied for?
Drink some Camel’s Milk, the fart you blow out thereafter should enable you to clear enough memory in your brain to enable you to store useful information there!
I really was expecting an iPhone backlash, but it appears, if we believe all the glowing reviews, that it somehow manages to exceed expectations. Apple, Jobs and (I presume) Jonathan Ives have done it again.
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Are so many of you completely uneducated? Or has the scourge of PC (politically correct) thinking permanently withered your tiny brains?
from Dictionary.com:
(also, float your cursor over the word and hit Command-Control-D)
sarcasm
noun
witty language used to convey insults or scorn; “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”–Jonathan Swift
if you like Zuney’s little comments, try some more hilarity in a similar vein:
http://demotivators.com/
BTW: Hey ZuneTang, glad to see you back. How was the vacation? You seem rested and sharp as ever. Keep up the good work!
zune tang, you’re a real wanker.
MW – your. For those who would have spelled ‘you’re’, ‘your’.
…When you switch the phone to “airplane mode” (no electronic transmissions, for use on planes) a tasteful little orange airplane slides into the menu bar, then zooms away when you switch out again. (This was so pleasurable that I repeatedly entered airplane mode while using the iPhone, even though I wasn’t actually on an airplane.)
I should hope not! The pilot wouldn’t be amused to hear dit-dit-dididi-dit in flight.
…As soon as my phone realized it belonged to someone with a nonsense-name like Lev, it started correcting typos like “Leb” and “Lec” to match.
I wonder if they put an easter egg for someone named Balmy Boy.
Macaday:
So, you fall for the American obsession, driven by advertising, with germs and all those icky dirty little things that lurk everywhere waiting to leap upon our snow white bodies, sicken and kill us.
What a dirty dirty world we live in!
hahahahaha!
Humans are the most virulent strain of bacteria in existence.
Besides, without bacteria, we’d all be dead.
Yeah, those itsy bitsy keys of Treos suck mostly if you have adult sized fingers that hit 2 or 3 keys simultaneously.
Before iPhone, I’d actually been hoping that Palm would release a Palm TX Treo. Big, rotatable screen, Treo-like phone capabilities, virtual keyboard, etc. etc.. Ironically, the iPhone is it… a 21st century version, on steroids and OS X to boot!
These things are all true.
I would like to comment on the keyboard again – It’s bloody brilliant. The problem I had with chicklet phones was that I tend to use the pad of my finger rather than the tip to type (I often wear acrylic nails) so I would often hit 2 (or 3) keys at once. No problem at all on the iPhone! I could never type this fast (with my errors corrected so well) on a Treo. No contest.
Also, the sound quality of phone calls is outstandig, and I get better signal with it at home than I did with my Moto flip phone on the same carrier.
-c
Wow, I can’t believe all the love for iPhone.
Jobs swings and hits a high drice to center field, WAAY back. Ballmer is at the base of the fence. It’s going going, it’s a ….
Wow, I can’t believe all the love for iPhone.
Jobs swings and hits a high drice to center field, WAAY back. Ballmer is at the base of the fence. It’s going going, it’s a ….
Wow, I can’t believe all the love for iPhone.
Jobs swings and hits a high drice to center field, WAAY back. Ballmer is at the base of the fence. It’s going going, it’s a ….
Wow, I can’t believe all the love for iPhone.
Jobs swings and hits a high drice to center field, WAAY back. Ballmer is at the base of the fence. It’s going going, it’s a ….
my wife got hers last night, and i have to say i am green with envy. i had VERY high expectations and it blew them all away. the keyboard is great and it runs fast and smooth.
…now i have to decide if i want to try and get one for myself or wait and see what the next iPod and laptops are like……
darn choices!
I can’t wait to get one, though I’m going to have to wait until I establish myself again. Mostly, I can’t wait to see the creative apps that are released over time. As iPhone gets more and more functionality, it’s going to get even more fun, more useful, and a more popular platform.
It has buzz now, but I’d bet that like the iPod, it’s going to have some strong legs.
You make a playlist on your iTunes named “iPhone”
You drop content into it like you’re used to.
You sync and it happens.
Don’t get your panties in a bunch.
I am very very impressed
and beyond that it really is a tool that i need
95% of what I do all day is now in my pocket
AWESOME
IPHONE
I’m very very disappointed. It’s getting more and more difficult convincing people that this device is no good.
It is such a hard job being a Microsoft shill in times like these.
What the heck is this thing called Zune anyway???
The best phone ever made — assuming that you can get it to activate. According to the Mercury News over 100,000 people have a $500 paperweight because activation does not work. Adding to this nightmare is that Apple locks out every feature imaginable until the phone is activated. For all the Apple fan boys here it looks like Steve Jobs and company have real egg on their face over this travesty. Steal hundreds of dollars from people knowing that the product does not work and there are no quick fixes.
It will be interesting to see just how big of a black eye Apple will get over this stupid product. But pissing off hundreds of thousands of people and pretending they don’t exist and there are no problems is a good way to start lawsuits. Here is hoping that we have giant class action lawsuits that will cripple Apple and put them out of business. Time to get back to using normal business devices like the Blackberry.
Nice phone!
Look forward to whatever software upgrades/revisions they have planned and how quickly they will come.
I wonder why apple doesn’t simply allow you to tilt the phone horizontally to type in order to allow more horizontal space for the keys in it’s digital keyboard? Pecking on it that way seems to make more sense and should at least be an option.
Heard somewhere that AT&T has exclusive rights for 5 years in the US on THIS particular iPhone…
Mac Realist is either a MS apologist, a bitter fellow that couldn’t afford the iPhone if it were half the price, a shill for a competing carrier or mobile phone company, a good old fahsioned troll, or all of the above.
The shame of it all for him though is that he’ll have no luck reconciling his fabrications with the reality that the iPhone is clearly a hit, people love it, it’s selling like crazy, the FUD campaigns have not worked, and it will have taken over the market within a span of about three years or less.
@ Camel’s Milk Drinker
> AT&T do not own the interface!
No kidding! Obviously, I meant AT&T should license the interface design FROM Apple. Drinking too much of that camel’s milk, are you…?
I just feel sorry for Mac Realist. He is too nearsighted to see what he is missing. I had no problems activating my iPhone and it has been working great since.
Mac Realist is nothing more than a really bad Zune Tang wannabe. Only, Zune Tang is actually entertaining; Mac Realist is just pathetic, and probably believes his own BS, whereas Zune Tang clearly does not believe his. I mean, has he provided any evidence that “100,000 people” have had iPhone activation problems? Of course not. The reality is that for every person who reported having problems on the various Mac forums and blogs, there were at least 12 who had no problems at all, and most of those problems were resolved within a few hours (several hours for the unlucky ones).
Didn’t he post here a couple days ago how Apple was a racist company because there were no people of color in their ads, not realizing that basically ALL of Apple’s iPod ads feature people of color?
His real handle should be “Mac UnRealist”.
Bite me mac realist, I picked up one of the last to be had in a major city. Activation was smooth as silk, all apologies to those that have had problems. Frickin’ awesome, all I’m going to say!
Peace.