The iPhone
I’m not sure if the Guinness World Records has a recognition for the most over-hyped product ever released in an industry, but the iPhone definitely is deserving of such an award. I really respect and admire Apple for their innovation and originality and I see some potential in this product, but it is really not what Apple makes it out to be. Some 2.3 million iPhones have been sold in the first quarter of 2008, and I have to say, somewhere in their HQ in California, Apple has a really good marketing team.
I say this because, comparatively, the iPhone is actually average when you look at the other smart phones on sale. The proud owner of a HTC TyTN, I assure you that the iPhone has nowhere near the “smartness” the the TyTN has. This is, unfortunately, a fact, and you can see it right here. The iPhone doesn’t even have bluetooth! When it comes to style, however, the iPhone excels. The Mobile Mac OS is even more fluid than the desktop one, and everything works like a dream. Other smartphones tend to lose this fluid motion the moment they get filled with third-party software, fragmented files, and excessive memory usage. This is the only advantage I can see to not allowing third-party apps on the iPhone.
Until Now. That’s right, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008 Steve Jobs announced that the Apple iPhone Software Development Kit was soon to come. Will the iPhone lose the one upper hand it currently has, or will it be able to find a compromise between fluidity and memory-intensive applications. Only time will tell.
March 9, 2008 at 11:03 am
The iPhone is not an average smartphone, simply because it cannot be compared to a smartphone. You don’t compare apples to oranges.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/shift_can_the_i.php
The iPhone is the iPhone, and the fact that people are buying it for work, personal use, gaming, music, and watching videos, is just proof for its success and innovation.
March 9, 2008 at 12:21 pm
People are buying the iPhone because they are under the delusion that is the best phone on the market. I never said the iPhone is necessarily a bad phone; it’s just not what Apple makes it out to be. The reason that the iPhone is doing so well is because it has been hyped.
March 10, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Then there is no need to criticize it! If people think the iPhone is a great phone, then I say kudos to the Apple marketing team, it’s obvious they’ve done a damn good job. No one is being deluded or deceived in any way.
March 10, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Is this about what people think of the iPhone or whether the iPhone is really a good product?