[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Ads

[pauric]

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

Just being contrarian.  Asking questions and highlight issues as I see
them.  I'm not hugely anti-iphone but I aint got a boner for it
either.

Someone asked backchannel about where I got the cost of 2K;
http://www.centernetworks.com/true-cost-of-the-iphone
Or just search for 'iphone total cost'

As a hardware eng I know battery will get better although we're pretty
much 100% with current tech.  I'm just a little lost as to why the
experience purists on the list seem to be giving this a thumbs up.


On 6/4/07, Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>