iPhone: Product of the Year?
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered one of his most dazzling MacWorld keynotes as he unveiled Apple’s new iPhone. The device uses a patented touch screen system called multi-touch. Cisco, which owns the iPhone name, says it expects to close a deal with Apple on some sort of trademark royalty for the moniker. In this podcast Jobs introduces the device, which is combination of iPod, phone and Internet device. Price points are $499 for a 4 gig model and $599 for an 8 gig.
Tags: Steve Jobs, MacWorld, iPhone, multi-touch, Cisco
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January 9th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
[…] In fairness Jason give me a break. Its a phone, it allows people to speak to each other. […]
January 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
[…] Update: Lot’s of coverage of the iPhone. Julie Ask, Mark Evans (he wants one and rightly states this could be the Blackberry killer), PodTech’s Jason Lopez, WebProNews. On the other side of the story is the Linksys iPhone from Cisco. Man I’d love to be a trademark attorney right now. […]
January 9th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Product of the year? We’re 9 days into the year. Let’s have a look after the release date of the thing. Are they going to be like Nintendo or Sony with their stock on hand? Will it scratch like the Nano?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great looking device, but product of the year is WAY to premature.
January 9th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Apple and Cisco reportedly have had an agreement not formally signed, which Cisco assumes kicked in when Jobs unveiled the name iPhone this morning.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Thanks for the “scratch” concern. Yes, durability could be an issue, and that could slow the adoption if too many horror stories surface right after launch.
But my reason for throwing the question of whether this is the product of the year stems from the clear significant advances of the device. The touch screen allows the iPhone to display whatever UI is needed. This solves the problem of too many buttons, confusing drill-down menus, and such.
Plus, it appears Cingular has loosened its grip over Internet access and will allow iPhone users to surf the Web over any WiFi connection. That’s a profound change, if there isn’t some fine print or gotcha from the carrier.
January 9th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I have to say I’ve agreed with that sentiment (a phone is a phone) for years. And “wait and see” is the right approach, hence the question mark in “product of the year?”. But man, Jobs blew the doors off with the features and ease of use… unless the whole presentation was choreographed like some Chung-Ling Soo act. But I doubt it.
The key, to me, is that the iPhone appears to allow Internet access through WiFi instead of having to use Cingular’s pipes. There’s no fine print on this. But if that’s true it could unleash a wave of content development for portable devices–almost a billion phones globally in use with high replacement rates. Still, hard to believe AT&T would have given up so easily, so there could be a gotcha in it.
January 10th, 2007 at 12:36 am
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January 10th, 2007 at 1:01 am
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