05-23-2007, 05:44 AM
1. No cell-phone company -- I don't care which one -- is capable of producing anything that could beat the iPhone. Period, hands down, end of story. If they had been capable of doing such a thing, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT. They do NOT care about customer wants. Steve does. Thus, the difference.
It will take the industry years to work this out.
2. Is anyone reading that USA Today story SO STUPID that they don't recall the LEGIONS of "iPod-killers" up to and including the Zunebomb that completely failed their mission? IOW, all talk.
3. Apple has patented the beejeezus out of their innovations. Other companies will not be able to use those features, and we've already established that they INHERENTLY lack the creativity/imagination/talent/will to produce something better. Ipso facto.
4, People who believe that (Carrier A) sucks and (Carrier B ) is fabulous are completely full of crap. Each carrier has strengths where they've got the most permits/towers, and weaknesses where they don't. Big picture, they are all roughly equal, and their inequalities vary depending on where you live. It's like saying Monopoly Player #1 rocks because he has a house on Vermont Ave, ignoring the fact that he's got NOTHING on St. James Place, where Monopoly Player #2 just happens to have a hotel. Puh-lease.
5. AT&T is not Cingular. The iPhone is not going to be a Cingular product, and isn't going to act like any previous experience you may have had with a Cingular product, good or bad. This is a new beast born of the ashes of Cingular on the back of SBC (who are currently calling themselves AT&T).
Will it suck? Will it rock? Idle speculation, but knowing Steve's obsession with "the experience" I find it hard to believe he made a deal with a carrier that will not provide AT LEAST decent service in metropolitan areas. So I think it will rock more than suck (though OF COURSE there will be people SOMEWHERE for whom it sucks. Blame your local government more than AT&T).
It will take the industry years to work this out.
2. Is anyone reading that USA Today story SO STUPID that they don't recall the LEGIONS of "iPod-killers" up to and including the Zunebomb that completely failed their mission? IOW, all talk.
3. Apple has patented the beejeezus out of their innovations. Other companies will not be able to use those features, and we've already established that they INHERENTLY lack the creativity/imagination/talent/will to produce something better. Ipso facto.
4, People who believe that (Carrier A) sucks and (Carrier B ) is fabulous are completely full of crap. Each carrier has strengths where they've got the most permits/towers, and weaknesses where they don't. Big picture, they are all roughly equal, and their inequalities vary depending on where you live. It's like saying Monopoly Player #1 rocks because he has a house on Vermont Ave, ignoring the fact that he's got NOTHING on St. James Place, where Monopoly Player #2 just happens to have a hotel. Puh-lease.
5. AT&T is not Cingular. The iPhone is not going to be a Cingular product, and isn't going to act like any previous experience you may have had with a Cingular product, good or bad. This is a new beast born of the ashes of Cingular on the back of SBC (who are currently calling themselves AT&T).
Will it suck? Will it rock? Idle speculation, but knowing Steve's obsession with "the experience" I find it hard to believe he made a deal with a carrier that will not provide AT LEAST decent service in metropolitan areas. So I think it will rock more than suck (though OF COURSE there will be people SOMEWHERE for whom it sucks. Blame your local government more than AT&T).