anybody get an IPhone today?

[RATTLERS316]

:rolleyes:

[mad_fan]

Look where you are posting...5atex....

We are all smarter than that...

:rolleyes:

[RATTLERS316]

Look where you are posting...5atex....

We are all smarter than that...

:rolleyes:

i hope so :p

[Fan4Life]

arnt those phones like $500 or something crazy like that?

[t00 playa]

its nice and flashy... i think too many ppl buy into the hype.... the media hypes it up..and before you know it... ppl feel they have to stand in line for days to be the first ones to have it.... but it doesnt suit my needs so ill just pass for now...:eek:

[DrEdward]

Look where you are posting...5atex....

We are all smarter than that...

:rolleyes:

I would hope so!! However, noting the obsession with post counts of some folks on here, you can never be too sure. That thing will let them admire their count on the go!! :D

[PaulinPlano]

I happen to drive by an AT&T store in Allen this afternoon and there were over 70 people in line. The first few people had a tent.:p

[svhorns]

Someone sold their spot in line for 200 dollars on Craig's List here in Austin:eek:

[Dawg Fan]

My youngest son's girlfriend just got one today. They drove by the AT&T store and walked in and got one this afternoon. She used some of her graduation money to get it. $500 for a phone is ridiculous IMO.

[svfootball45]

I got one and it is already on ebay:D
Best investment of my life

[yankee]

was at southlake town square today and the line was rediculously long and all i wanted to get was a look...came back later and one of the kids who works there said they sold over 520 iphones today! pretty pathetic that people camp out for these things when in a few months they start knocking down the prices.

[t-long20]

My youngest son's girlfriend just got one today. They drove by the AT&T store and walked in and got one this afternoon. She used some of her graduation money to get it. $500 for a phone is ridiculous IMO.

especially for a "brick" phone i would never dream of paying that much money for a phone i dont care what it has on it

[dragons08]

was at southlake town square today and the line was rediculously long and all i wanted to get was a look...came back later and one of the kids who works there said they sold over 520 iphones today! pretty pathetic that people camp out for these things when in a few months they start knocking down the prices.

acuttaly he said they recieved 520 phones.


but yeah. those things = overrated. any of you used it? its impossible to type on.

[BAMF cowboy]

acuttaly he said they recieved 520 phones.


but yeah. those things = overrated. any of you used it? its impossible to type on.

Have you used it? How would you know?

I don't think it's overrated at all. Overpriced? Yes. But even then, for a device that holds 2 - 3 gigs of music (which is more than enough for the mostly random times you will be using it), full service internet (not the mobile kind), 2 mega pixel camera, and of course phone, I think it's a pretty decent buy.

Once sprint gets them, I will probably buy one, and maybe when the price drops a couple hundred.

[Winston]

Yeah, blowing money on a revolutionary product is surely a dumber investment than blowing it on gas-guzzling vehicles and pro sports playoffs tickets.

[Bobcat81]

IPhone? In my dreams!

[KT2000]

What'll they think of next...toilet paper with action sound effects? ITP? It's a freaking phone people. Get a grip.

[CyFallsMom]

This woman at work was going on and on about getting her stupid I Phone - she asked if I was getting one and I told her my Nokia works just fine. As long as I can a) talk to someone on my phone and receive calls and b) have the ability to text at least 200 times during any given football game to my Katy and Cy Fair friends then that phone is good to go:D

[rwilleby]

Well... I have to admit I'm a Mac guy and I would have bought one if I could have signed on with T-Mobile...

Now, those of you who know me know... I will only stand in line for Katy games so I wouldn't be in the first wave, but maybe the second... Oh wait, I have kids... They could have stood in line... Damn...

Jobs has done a pretty good job (no pun intended) of turning the tech world on it's ear... He was right with the multi-colored iMac (everything became multi-colored and they sold a ton of Macs), he's right on with the Intel Mac (run everyting on one computer... Windows/OS X/Linux...) and he was dead on with the iPod (You know you either have one or want one)...

I expect the iPhone will change some things... It's a little to early to tell what or how... It's a pretty cool device with some really breakthrough technologies...

The next version of OS X is pretty cool too... Star Treks not far away, Captain...

[slorch]

I bought mine and set it free in the house last night. The laundry, dishes and vacuuming all got done. It cooked dinner, took out the trash, and tucked me in when I when to bed...;)

I don't buy stuff usually until it's been out for a while. i still haven't bought the Fusion Razor with 88 blades because it's too damn expensive! My method lets them work out the kinks and lower the price. So I'm not cutting edge...well at least I'm not wasting my money on crap like that. Afer all this time, I still prefer booze and women...:D (translation- I get a case of beer every once in a while, and the wife spends my money for me!:D )

[rwilleby]

Yeah... I have to make this stuff work for my clients... Fun job... I'll also usually wait until the kinks are at least figured out... Saves me time and my customers a little money... Right now I have a T-Mobile Dash... It's replaced my laptop in my truck and I use if for email, internet (for 5A of course), traffic reports (I drive a lot around Houston), weather (to know where not to drive) and a bunch of other stuff... Yep, I'm an old geek... And my wife doesn't care what I do as long as I come home by dark and bring in the dough...:D

[stevefoxsc]

Have you used it? How would you know?

I don't think it's overrated at all. Overpriced? Yes. But even then, for a device that holds 2 - 3 gigs of music (which is more than enough for the mostly random times you will be using it), full service internet (not the mobile kind), 2 mega pixel camera, and of course phone, I think it's a pretty decent buy.

Once sprint gets them, I will probably buy one, and maybe when the price drops a couple hundred.

basically a damn ipod that can call people... i got a phone with a flash drive that has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more then 3 gigs of music, and guess what i didn't pay over 50 for it PWNT


they're just like a ps3 all this built in hype comes in, then pop the fall.

[t-long20]

Once sprint gets them, I will probably buy one, and maybe when the price drops a couple hundred.

thats the thing, they signed a contract with AT&T for 5 years and once those yers are up im sure something better will be out but if you want to wait 5 years for a phone be my guest;)

[ktCarl]

I think after you buy all the accessories you're going to be out of almost $1,000!! For a telephone?! Those things are too expensive and take too much eye focus to operate. You just wait...in a couple of months traffic accidents due to people playing with these things while driving will soar.
By Christmas they will be under $250.

[mad_fan]

I think after you buy all the accessories you're going to be out of almost $1,000!! For a telephone?! Those things are too expensive and take too much eye focus to operate. You just wait...in a couple of months traffic accidents due to people playing with these things while driving will soar.
By Christmas they will be under $250.

:eek: Geez...for those kind of bucks we should a be getting free universal iphone service.:D

[FeeltheHaka]

I have the cheapest phone that Sprint offers with an alarm. I am happy with it. I believe in keeping it simple, and using my brain to store information; and figuring things out.

[RocklandDragon]

What'll they think of next...toilet paper with action sound effects? ITP? It's a freaking phone people. Get a grip.

Well, yes, the I-Phone is being hyped up like it's the best thing since sliced bread...however, people do have a need for the features.

I don't care if people think I'm ridiculous because I spent $400 on my Palm Treo. I use it for Xcel, Word Processing, Web Browsing, Video, E-mail to keep up what's going on in the workplace. The QWERTY board is a necessity. I can't carry a laptop everywhere I go, so this phone is extremely useful to me. Plus, in the event I decide to actually use it as a music player, I can. Just store some of the songs I have on my computer on a SD card. Put the SD card in my phone. Music to listen to with the Media Player.

I can't hate anybody for paying a lot of money for a phone. Just people need to slow down and see if the Phone is worth the hype or if it's worth it at all.

I'm not too keen on a full-touchscreen keyboard though.

:cool:

[Slim-Rob]

When the LG Chocolate came out I wanted one. It was for Verizon only too so that helped me a lot cuz i had verizon already. But i didn't get one for a while. And lucky me because the first ones didnt have speakerphone, they didn't have a few other features that they do now. PLUS there were problems with them. I expect the same out of the Iphone. Now, i doubt it's missing anything any other phone has, but it will have problems. People will complain, it will get bad reviews, then Apple will fix it and they will sell again like hotcakes

[yankee]

Have you used it? How would you know?

I don't think it's overrated at all. Overpriced? Yes. But even then, for a device that holds 2 - 3 gigs of music (which is more than enough for the mostly random times you will be using it), full service internet (not the mobile kind), 2 mega pixel camera, and of course phone, I think it's a pretty decent buy.

Once sprint gets them, I will probably buy one, and maybe when the price drops a couple hundred.

overrated in a few areas...the battery life is only estimated at around 5 hours, the virtual keyboard is a nightmare, the glass that is so infamously known for scratching on ipods is still in use on the iphone, and for cingular users it will be using the edge network (nortoriously slow)...then factor in that it's 500 bucks for the cheaper version.

[yankee]

acuttaly he said they recieved 520 phones.


but yeah. those things = overrated. any of you used it? its impossible to type on.

you're right, i misheard him...but he also said they completely sold out of the 4gb phones and they only had a few 2gb phones left. adds up to around 500, give or take.

[mtbray]

I'm not sure who said its features fulfilled a "necessity" but I wanted to clarify. It's in no way shape or form a necessity, it just brings a little convenience.

[rwilleby]

Like everything Apple does... It's a bridge to the next level of technology... Just like when they "borrowed" the GUI... Or dropped the floppy for CD... Or the CRT for Flat... Or the Motorola for Intel... Sometimes they are way ahead of the curve... Newton and Voice Recognition... They always push the envelope and drag the rest of the industry with them... This is just the next thing on the list...

[stevefoxsc]

Like everything Apple does... It's a bridge to the next level of technology... Just like when they "borrowed" the GUI... Or dropped the floppy for CD... Or the CRT for Flat... Or the Motorola for Intel... Sometimes they are way ahead of the curve... Newton and Voice Recognition... They always push the envelope and drag the rest of the industry with them... This is just the next thing on the list...

you're joking right? you know how many world wide companies have been a step ahead of apple? Apple for the i-pod they trust for apple faithful.

[rwilleby]

No, how many?

Have you ever opened a Mac and looked at how it's built... I've seen both and not one PC (HP/Dell/Sony/Toshiba/You Pick it) even comes close to the quality of design or workmanship that is put into a G5 Intel... The ONLY thing the PC world has over the current Mac product is MARKET SHARE and GAMES...

But wait, now you can run ALL of your PC software on a Mac... So I guess it's just market share...

Do you know how many IT people rely on the failure of PC's to keep their job? Virus attacks... Spyware... A bunch... Many of my customers have PC IT guys on staff just to keep the things running... Have you seen OS X? Have you seen Leopard? How about Vista? Do you know how easy it is to connect a Mac, any Mac, to a networked printer? Not one with a PC for a print server, but a simple printer hanging on an ethernet network...

I could go on and on... But you already know that...;)

[mtbray]

No, how many?

Have you ever opened a Mac and looked at how it's built... I've seen both and not one PC (HP/Dell/Sony/Toshiba/You Pick it) even comes close to the quality of design or workmanship that is put into a G5 Intel... The ONLY thing the PC world has over the current Mac product is MARKET SHARE and GAMES...

But wait, now you can run ALL of your PC software on a Mac... So I guess it's just market share...

Do you know how many IT people rely on the failure of PC's to keep their job? Virus attacks... Spyware... A bunch... Many of my customers have PC IT guys on staff just to keep the things running... Have you seen OS X? Have you seen Leopard? How about Vista? Do you know how easy it is to connect a Mac, any Mac, to a networked printer? Not one with a PC for a print server, but a simple printer hanging on an ethernet network...

I could go on and on... But you already know that...;)

Everyone loves to say Macs can't get viruses. As Macs get more and more popular and they take a larger portion of market share, there will be viruses.

[rwilleby]

Okay, on the virus thing... Do you really thing Jobs hasn't thought about them? The number one problem in the PC world and he's just gonna look past it... Come on, if you believe that then you really don't know much about Jobs...

Second point... Don't you think one of the "Virus Guys" would want to be the first one to get the Mac with a REAL virus... Their whole world is based on attention... I am not aware of any true virus that has attacked OS X... There was something about a hook into iChat, I believe... It wasn't a very big deal...

Will it happen, sure... Will it be easy, nope... Until that time, we'll just truck along enjoying the virus-free computing world... I honestly don't know why you PC folks put up with that crap...

Oh, I love this commercial...

"The Mac user wants to show you an Apple ad, Cancel or Allow" Vista Security. :cool:

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

[mad_fan]

No, how many?

Have you ever opened a Mac and looked at how it's built... I've seen both and not one PC (HP/Dell/Sony/Toshiba/You Pick it) even comes close to the quality of design or workmanship that is put into a G5 Intel... The ONLY thing the PC world has over the current Mac product is MARKET SHARE and GAMES...

But wait, now you can run ALL of your PC software on a Mac... So I guess it's just market share...

Do you know how many IT people rely on the failure of PC's to keep their job? Virus attacks... Spyware... A bunch... Many of my customers have PC IT guys on staff just to keep the things running... Have you seen OS X? Have you seen Leopard? How about Vista? Do you know how easy it is to connect a Mac, any Mac, to a networked printer? Not one with a PC for a print server, but a simple printer hanging on an ethernet network...

I could go on and on... But you already know that...;)


Ah...the old BETA vs VHS arguement...only without mentioning the $$$...

PS In the Windows networked world you just click the Add Printer icon...pretty basic stuff...

Signed,
NOT an Apple hater.

[rwilleby]

Ah... The old BMW vs Ford argument... ;)

(The Mac's the BMW, BTW)

I'm not a PC hater either... They make my life very prosperous... Peace...

[svfootball45]

Ah... The old BMW vs Ford argument... ;)

(The Mac's the BMW, BTW)

I'm not a PC hater either... They make my life very prosperous... Peace...

i hate PC's the bad thing is i have one and it sucks it shuts down when it wants to. it freezes a 100 times a day and just plain sucks.

[dragons08]

Have you used it? How would you know?

I don't think it's overrated at all. Overpriced? Yes. But even then, for a device that holds 2 - 3 gigs of music (which is more than enough for the mostly random times you will be using it), full service internet (not the mobile kind), 2 mega pixel camera, and of course phone, I think it's a pretty decent buy.

Once sprint gets them, I will probably buy one, and maybe when the price drops a couple hundred.

i used it last night thank you.

[rwilleby]

i used it last night thank you.

SWEET!

[Winston]

overrated in a few areas...the battery life is only estimated at around 5 hours, the virtual keyboard is a nightmare, the glass that is so infamously known for scratching on ipods is still in use on the iphone, and for cingular users it will be using the edge network (nortoriously slow)...then factor in that it's 500 bucks for the cheaper version.

Yeah, here are some specs on the battery life from apple.com:

Power and battery
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Talk time: Up to 8 hours
Standby time: Up to 250 hours
Internet use: Up to 6 hours
Video playback: Up to 7 hours
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours

Of course, that could just be an example of the "liberal media" in action.

Yes, it's true the iphone searches out wi-fi and defaults to it over EDGE anywhere wi-fi is available, which enables users to surf the net and talk on the phone at the same time.

It is true the intelligent keyboard may take about a week to get used to I hear, maybe longer for certain individuals. It is similar perhaps to the Blackberry Pearl in that regard, only it it has software that predicts and corrects what you are typing based on your past tendencies and entries.

The iphone has a special scratch-resistant glass surface.

[Winston]

you're right, i misheard him...but he also said they completely sold out of the 4gb phones and they only had a few 2gb phones left. adds up to around 500, give or take.

Yeah, the iphone actually is available in 4GB and 8GB models. There is no 2GB model to speak of.

[yankee]

Yeah, here are some specs on the battery life from apple.com:

Power and battery
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Talk time: Up to 8 hours
Standby time: Up to 250 hours
Internet use: Up to 6 hours
Video playback: Up to 7 hours
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours

Of course, that could just be an example of the "liberal media" in action. that would be the liberal media in action...there's always "small font size" on those kind of things

Yes, it's true the iphone searches out wi-fi and defaults to it over EDGE anywhere wi-fi is available, which enables users to surf the net and talk on the phone at the same time. edge is slow and unreliable, isn't it?

It is true the intelligent keyboard may take about a week to get used to I hear, maybe longer for certain individuals. It is similar perhaps to the Blackberry Pearl in that regard, only it it has software that predicts and corrects what you are typing based on your past tendencies and entries.

The iphone has a special scratch-resistant glass surface. the same glass used on the ipods, i know.

to tell you the truth, it's very fancy shmancy looking, but it's not worth the money. yeah, there's a youtube link right on the main screen, but that's just extra **** no one needs. gimme a regular cell phone anyday, that's JMO.

[yankee]

Yeah, the iphone actually is available in 4GB and 8GB models. There is no 2GB model to speak of.

whatever...all i know is that one is half of the other as far as GB size...

[BAMF cowboy]

Guys c'mon, these videos just show how incredible these devices really are.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1765295

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1765297

[dragons08]

Guys c'mon, these videos just show how incredible these devices really are.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1765295

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1765297

haha those were pretty good.

[rwilleby]

iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time.

...the 3.5" display has been upgraded from plastic to "optical-quality glass" for superior clarity and scratch resistance.

[GoOwls]

Yeah, blowing money on a revolutionary product is surely a dumber investment than blowing it on gas-guzzling vehicles and pro sports playoffs tickets.

Yep, over $10,000 for the first piece of crap VCR was a brainy move. $2,000 for one a few years later was smart too. The first one I bought, back in 1984, was $425. Stupidest investment ever. I learned my lesson.

Anyone, who plinks down the cash for new technology is thinking with the wrong side of the brain.

[rwilleby]

Yep, over $10,000 for the first piece of crap VCR was a brainy move. $2,000 for one a few years later was smart too. The first one I bought, back in 1984, was $425. Stupidest investment ever. I learned my lesson.

Anyone, who plinks down the cash for new technology is thinking with the wrong side of the brain.

Sometimes... But if no one bought the new stuff... You wouldn't have the cheaper stuff... Remember when microwaves came out... and cell phones... and calculators... Those in the front of the tech line pay for the R&D and those near the end get the benefits... It's just a cycle...

[GoOwls]

Sometimes... But if no one bought the new stuff... You wouldn't have the cheaper stuff... Remember when microwaves came out... and cell phones... and calculators... Those in the front of the tech line pay for the R&D and those near the end get the benefits... It's just a cycle...

True, I just allow someone else to be the stupid guinea pigs and work out all the bugs, then I swoop in later and get the finished product for a fraction of the cost.

[rwilleby]

True, I just allow someone else to be the stupid guinea pigs and work out all the bugs, then I swoop in later and get the finished product for a fraction of the cost.

I'm hearing you... **looking around** I don't see my iPhone either...

1) But I must say that the AT&T part is what turned me away at first... I'm not changing from T-Mobile for anything...

2) The the newness of it... Let someone figure out the problems first...

3) The line... I don't care to wait in line with a bunch of folks... They get rude and I get pissed...

4) Then the cost... Which I can write off as a business expense so it's not that big of a deal...

I think I can wait for the iPhone 2.0...

[Winston]

Yep, over $10,000 for the first piece of crap VCR was a brainy move. $2,000 for one a few years later was smart too. The first one I bought, back in 1984, was $425. Stupidest investment ever. I learned my lesson.

Anyone, who plinks down the cash for new technology is thinking with the wrong side of the brain.

I am waiting to get one too, either until I can convince myself I can reasonably afford one and/or it goes down in price, and/or the next version comes out with more features. I just don't like seeing people talking out of their @$$. Why does it not shock me at all that the iphone would be a big enough glamor and status issue up there as to generate smear posts from the neighborhood "have-nots?"

I could know where those posts were coming from without looking at the location, and so could you.

[svfootball45]

i got one but couldnt open cause then i wouldnt be ables to sell it for as much on ebay. I sold it for 2,200 buy it now. That means i profited alot. so thank you apple.

[yankee]

i got one but couldnt open cause then i wouldnt be ables to sell it for as much on ebay. I sold it for 2,200 buy it now. That means i profited alot. so thank you apple.

somebody bought your iphone for $2,200?:eek:

[RedRage00]

somebody bought your iphone for $2,200?:eek:

That person is a ******! lol

But svfootball45 made a nice profit!

[mtbray]

This woman got pwned when she tried to buy an iphone...very funny

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a76_1183278403

[Mhs06]

Using this phone is going to hurt someone's wallet a lot farther down the line than just the initial purchase, imo. If someone has the money to surf the internet, look at YouTube and talk on the phone all day, by all means, get this phone, but its completely unnecessary.

Apple got insanely lucky with what they got in the iPod, and honestly I dont like people around that brag about how awesome it is, like a certain individual on this board.

Wanna know why people dont buy apple products? Because they see what apple turns people in to.

[mojotrain]

iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time.

...the 3.5" display has been upgraded from plastic to "optical-quality glass" for superior clarity and scratch resistance.

Whats next after iPhone? How long will it be? Who will make it. You can bet it's on someone's drawing board. New and improved seem to be coming out fairly often.

I was thinking the initial cost was high until I heard what the monthly service could be.:eek:

If the sucker is making you money and more money that whatever you had then it's a good buy. If it's not making you money then you have too much money.

[rwilleby]

Wanna know why people dont buy apple products? Because they see what apple turns people in to.

Happy Customers?

[svfootball45]

somebody bought your iphone for $2,200?:eek:

haha yep i think i might buy one to keep now or maybe ill save for college:rolleyes:

[Mhs06]

Happy Customers?

That never, ever, ever, ever, shut up.

[pied]

Using this phone is going to hurt someone's wallet a lot farther down the line than just the initial purchase, imo. If someone has the money to surf the internet, look at YouTube and talk on the phone all day, by all means, get this phone, but its completely unnecessary.

Apple got insanely lucky with what they got in the iPod, and honestly I dont like people around that brag about how awesome it is, like a certain individual on this board.

Wanna know why people dont buy apple products? Because they see what apple turns people in to.


Interesting article:

iPhone turns 4: Early predictions rewound

Four years ago, Apple's first iPhone went on sale, a benchmark that comes at a time when all eyes are on the company to announce a fifth-generation of the device.

It's easy to look back at the iPhone's rise and success and see how it's managed to work out so well: Apple took aim at a product category with the same approach it used with the iPod, creating its own hardware and software, then eventually bundling it with extra services and features. Proof enough of that is the App Store, something that began with Apple's mobile devices, and has since jumped across to the company's computers with the Mac App Store.

But when the original iPhone was announced, many wrote it off before it even hit store shelves. There were issues like the price, the hardware, the feature set, and what carrier Apple was going with. But more than anything it was just the doubt that the company could venture into new territory with all these variables and find success.

The iPhone has gone on to become a company-defining product, transforming Apple's image of a computer maker with a hit portable music player and booming music service into a major player in an industry it merely dabbled in as an unsuccessful partner with Motorola just years before. In Apple's most recent fiscal quarter, the iPhone made up around half of the company's monster revenue. It's also had an impact on other Apple products, spilling out design ideologies to Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and the company's notebook computers.

Below are a smattering of predictions from pundits (including us), along with Apple competitors, all placing bets on where the product would land with consumers and the market ahead of its announcement and eventual release.


Ahead of Apple's iPhone unveiling

December 7, 2006
CNET's own Michael Kanellos (now of Greentech Media) calling Apple's phone a "flop"a month ahead of its unveiling:

Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits. Remember the Mac Mini? It was supposed to ignite a revolution for small computers. It didn't. The flat-panel iMac? Some predicted that Apple's price tag would drive other prices higher. Whoops.

Why won't the Apple phone succeed? It will be a great piece of hardware that, if I wasn't the cheapest man in North America, I might buy. The entire strategy, however, is based on what I call "iPod magic." Apple succeeded with the iPod, the theory goes. Therefore, they can break into other categories and turn them upside down.

December 23, 2006
Bill Ray of The Register speculates:


Apple will launch a mobile phone in January, and it will become available during 2007. It will be a lovely bit of kit, a pleasure to behold, and its limited functionality will be easy to access and use.

The Apple phone will be exclusive to one of the major networks in each territory and some customers will switch networks just to get it, but not as many as had been hoped.

As customers start to realise that the competition offers better functionality at a lower price, by negotiating a better subsidy, sales will stagnate. After a year a new version will be launched, but it will lack the innovation of the first and quickly vanish.

January 9, 2007
John Gruber of Daring Fireball on the eve of the iPhone's unveiling:

Even just a few days ago, I did not expect to see Apple announce a phone this week. But over the weekend I flip-flopped, and I now think it's more likely than not. Not a VOIP phone that depends on Wi-Fi or anything like that, but an honest-to-god mobile phone. It seems like there has to be some sort of "Wow, I thought maybe Apple would announce a phone but I didn't think they'd do it like this!" factor, but damned if anyone knows what it is. My wild unlikely-but-wouldn't-it-be-cool-as-s**t guess: that it's not an iPod phone, but rather the introduction of a new mobile device OS.


Post-announcement

January 11, 2007
In a reactionary preview post-iPhone unveiling, David Pogue of The New York Times writes:


What [Apple] does have, however, is a real shot at redefining the cellphone. How many millions of people are, at this moment, carrying around both an iPod and a cellphone? How many would love to carry a single combo device that imposes no feature or design penalties? Considering that the cellphone is many people's most personal gadget, how many would leap at the chance to replace their current awkward models with something with the class, the looks and the effortlessness of an iPod?

February 26, 2007
David Haskin of Computerworld in a piece comparing the iPhone to Apple's failed Newton device, wrote:


I'm more convinced than ever that, after an initial frenzy of publicity and sales to early adopters, iPhone sales will be unspectacular. If Apple doesn't respond quickly by lowering the price and making nice to AT&T, which surely will be ticked off, iPhone may well become Apple's next Newton. Remember that two years after Newton was introduced, a smaller, cheaper PDA appeared -- the Palm Pilot -- which truly did rock the world.

March 28, 2007
John Dvorak writing for Marketwatch in a story titled "Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone," wrote:


There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive. Even in the business where it is a clear pioneer, the personal computer, it had to compete with Microsoft and can only sustain a 5 percent market share.

April 30, 2007
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking to USA Today's David Lieberman in an interview brings up market share and software saturation:

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them, than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get."

May 10, 2007
While at the Software 2007 conference answering a question about how the company would deal with Apple's entrance into the mobile phone business, Motorola CEO Ed Zander famously quipped back "how do they deal with us?"

June 7, 2007
In his Crunchgear column, Seth Porges laid out ways in which the iPhone "will bomb" but pays special attention to the fact that the product will be rushed to market with buggy software:

"Until June 29, it's hard to tell too much about the iPhone, but I can tell you with near-certainty one thing: the product was almost certainly rushed to market before Apple's engineers would have liked."

June 17, 2007
New York Magazine writer John Heilemann in a feature story about Apple CEO Steve Jobs, makes predictions about sales of the iPhone:


Of course, if the iPhone is a runaway success, Jobs won't have to surrender anything--and it very well may be. Less than two weeks from now, when the phone hits the streets, the consumerist pandemonium will likely be hysterical. Once again, Jobs may have fashioned a totemic object that will capture the culture--and cause rival CEOs to have coronary events.

June 21, 2007
Providing a contrarian opinion to Heilemann (though indirectly), author David Platt once again uses the f-word (flop), while bringing in the movie references:

The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld (dating myself again, aren't I) combined. And it's not for reasons of price, or limited cell carrier options, or lack of corporate IT support, which are the mainstream media's main caveats when they review it. (See the June 19 issue of the Wall Street Journal for the latter).

Instead, the iPhone is going to fail because its design is fundamentally flawed. The designers and technophiles who encouraged development of the iPhone have fallen into the trap of all overreaching hardware and software designers; thinking that their users are like themselves. As I expound in great detail in my book Why Software Sucks your user is not you. The iPhone's designers have forgotten this fundamental law of the universe. The market will severely punish them for doing so."

June 23, 2007
Bill Plummer, VP of Nokia's multimedia group in North America, gets quoted in a New York Times story by Matt Richtel saying the iPhone "is an evolution of the status quo." In that same interview, Mike Lanman, the chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless is quoted as saying: "For Apple, I think the big risk is the AT&T network."


http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20075254-248/iphone-turns-4-early-predictions-rewound/?tag=cnetRiver

[mojotrain]

I think I'll wait for three months when the newer and better version comes out. One born every second!:rofl:

[pied]

***note this thread is four years old***

[RedRage00]

***note this thread is four years old***

...as old as FailOwls avatar.

[hunterbunter]

4 years, why can't they come up with something better than "If you don't have an IPhone, you don't have an IPhone."

[rwilleby]

4 years, why can't they come up with something better than "If you don't have an IPhone, you don't have an IPhone."

My three year old grand daughter was sitting in her living room and said, in her three year old voice...

"If you don't have an IPhone, well, you don't have an IPhone and if you do have an IPhone then you do have an IPhone."

Three years old... Funny she's not repeating any RIM, Motorola, HTC, et al commercials... Yep, their advertising sucks...

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150246557566416&comments

[tchamblee67]

My three year old grand daughter was sitting in her living room and said, in her three year old voice...

"If you don't have an IPhone, well, you don't have an IPhone and if you do have an IPhone then you do have an IPhone."

Three years old... Funny she's not repeating any RIM, Motorola, HTC, et al commercials... Yep, their advertising sucks...

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150246557566416&comments


Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but good point!

[rwilleby]

Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but good point!

Yep, her mom just got a 4 and gave her 3G to the little one... Now she can watch her Taylor Swift and Zach Brown music videos... No phone of course but she does do the hippo, cat and bird...