Comments on: The Futurist: How The iPhone Will Change Mobile Devices http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: eman http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-294099 eman Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:04:55 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-294099 بحبك وحشتنى بحبك وحشتنى

]]> By: Richard Bloor http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-282006 Richard Bloor Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:56:41 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-282006 If you take the premiss that "Windows Mobile ...i s available on more phones, by far, than any other smartphone OS" then most of what you say is true. If you were aware that, in actual fact, Symbian OS is on the most mobile phones then very little of this holds true. A Sony Ericsson P990i can easily do two days on a single change with more than a satisfactory amount of game's play, video and music. Third party Symbian OS applications allow you to control almost every remotely controlable consumer appliance. Symbian OS rarely freezes or crashs - some of our test phones have run for month non-stop. The Web Browser for S60 has offered the Web 2.0 features for the iPhone browser (its built on the same technology) for over a year - on 10s of millions of devices - now that's an opportunity. The iPhone is a worthy entrant to the mobile phone market. However, a technocal revolution it is not, a marketing revolution it may be. If you take the premiss that “Windows Mobile …i s available on more phones, by far, than any other smartphone OS” then most of what you say is true.

If you were aware that, in actual fact, Symbian OS is on the most mobile phones then very little of this holds true.

A Sony Ericsson P990i can easily do two days on a single change with more than a satisfactory amount of game’s play, video and music.

Third party Symbian OS applications allow you to control almost every remotely controlable consumer appliance.

Symbian OS rarely freezes or crashs - some of our test phones have run for month non-stop.

The Web Browser for S60 has offered the Web 2.0 features for the iPhone browser (its built on the same technology) for over a year - on 10s of millions of devices - now that’s an opportunity.

The iPhone is a worthy entrant to the mobile phone market. However, a technocal revolution it is not, a marketing revolution it may be.

]]> By: Eric http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-281069 Eric Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:35:02 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/21/the-futurist-how-the-iphone-will-change-mobile-devices/#comment-281069 See, this is what makes Apple great. Not just that they make cool products of high industrial design that work well. They push others, of out of nothing more than shame, to whip their products into shape. Sure most of the results are pale imitations of the original. But in the end the whole computer industry benefits as other computer/software makers improve their products out of shame for their shoddy design and user-unfriendly features. Now Apple is doing it for the mobile phone world too! Everybody wins. Especially iPhone user. As someone who admittedly loves to tweak our "tail wag the dog" IT departments - who decries the iPhone's security compromises, all the while distributing Windows to the masses in an ironic lack of awareness of the inherent hypocrisy of such a claim, I look forward to CEOs falling in love with the iPhone and making IT people everywhere come up with a way to shoe-horn another platform that uses a real OS into the mix. We really do all win - outside of IT anyway. See, this is what makes Apple great. Not just that they make cool products of high industrial design that work well. They push others, of out of nothing more than shame, to whip their products into shape.

Sure most of the results are pale imitations of the original. But in the end the whole computer industry benefits as other computer/software makers improve their products out of shame for their shoddy design and user-unfriendly features. Now Apple is doing it for the mobile phone world too!

Everybody wins. Especially iPhone user.

As someone who admittedly loves to tweak our “tail wag the dog” IT departments - who decries the iPhone’s security compromises, all the while distributing Windows to the masses in an ironic lack of awareness of the inherent hypocrisy of such a claim, I look forward to CEOs falling in love with the iPhone and making IT people everywhere come up with a way to shoe-horn another platform that uses a real OS into the mix.

We really do all win - outside of IT anyway.

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