[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Ads

[Mark Schraad]

Pauric,

Why all the hostility over an apple product. What is your complaint?

The retail price of a RZR - or most other phones is $300. If they add a bunch of functionality to the phone is it not worth another 300? 

If I can now take my iPhone into meetings to accoomplish wp, email and project pdf's... and I can watch movies/listen to music on my commute home... is that not worth something? I think there is promise of significant value in the iPhone inspite of what some people think is a high retail price. 

I am anxious to roll funtionality into my phone and not have to deal with a treo/blackberry/windows OS. My only concern is apples history of releasing not so great first products. I gotta think waiting 3-6 months will be worth it.

Mark


On Monday, June 04, 2007, at 01:38PM, "pauric" <radiorental at gmail.com> wrote:
>Will, granted Apple could market mad cows to farmers, a story beats a
>solution every time and  I'll accept open source is an engineering
>centric dysfunctional clusterfark. 
>
>The Openmoko hardware is unlocked, software is free, they'll have
>GPS etc.  Yes its being designed by german alpha geeks with hardware
>from taiwan, aside from the issues that implies, I feel confident
>that open-mobile will play large in the long term.  Just look at what
>happened with DRM on the iPod.
>
>It can be argued that UI's, Hardware & design -do not- sell product
>I'll point at ~6% of the PC market.  Cheap sells.
>
>In my negative viewpoint the only reason the ads are UI focused is
>that price, performance & coverage are shocking, average and poor
>respectively.  Yes the UI rocks but are you willing pay $2000 for it?