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  tunequest

  2 years ago

  Nah, The iPhone doesn't suck. But I think using the name "iPhone" is overly narrow and restrictive from a marketing POV.
  
  The mobile computing applications are the real paradigm shifts here. Being able to surf and email on a handheld with Apple's legendary elegance is breakthrough. It doesn't make sense for the company to brand it as a phone when that capability is the second fiddle. I remember reading somewhere that the iPod was called "iPod" because Steve didn't want the device to be boxed in as strictly a music player.
  
  Though with the Cisco suit, there's now an excuse to change the iPhone's name before June...
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  webomatica

  2 years ago

  Hey. (I saw your post regarding iPhone, which was good BTW).
  
  Actually you raise a good point. The iPhone is probably not the best name. This is some kind of entry point into pocket computing - the Newton's Revenge.
  
  Most likely it's called the iPhone because so many people expected it to be, and it's a hook to get all the cell phone users out there looking at Apple - plus it immediately generated a lot of marketing buzz. Then, down the road they can transition it (or the iPod) into the pocket computer-PDA-type thing we're starting to drool over, now.
  
  Cisco can just keep its restrictive name in the end.
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  Aneel

  2 years ago

  Expecting another innovative design in cell phone arena. Let's see
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  webomatica

  2 years ago

  Gee Aneel I'm wondering if your comment got chopped in half. Oh well...
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  Rolf

  2 years ago

  Yeah, well, if you just want a phone for making calls and sending texts, then buy a phone that claims to be a phone and nothing more. Don't buy a phone and tell me it's a smartphone, even so it's a thousand times dumber than my Nokia 6600 from 2003, which is a REAL smartphone. (Meaning that it can run compiled executibles.) And don't tell me that my phone is "crippled" or "not so smart" and that the iPhone is "years ahead" like Steve Jobs did - it isn't, and it's more crippled and stupid than any "smart" phone I've ever seen. If you want a REAL smartphone then get the Nokia N95. Or even a 6600 like me, for dirt cheap. Dude, I've got ports of Doom and Quake on it, and a fricking SNES emulator.
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  webomatica

  2 years ago

  You sound like a power user... and obviously aren't the target market for the iPhone.
  
  Does not being able to play Doom and Quake and SNES games stop anybody from buying an iPod?
  
  Thanks for reading and commenting!
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  Joe Realist

  2 years ago

  A US poll revealed:
  
  “75 per cent didn’t send any form of data other than text messaging, the cheapest data service.”
  
  A Canadian poll revealed:
  
  “15 per cent said they text message, 11 per cent download ring tones, 7 per cent use e-mail, 3 per cent download music, and 3 per cent said they watch TV or video”
  
  Umm buddy...this doesn't show that people will want the Ipod because most people don't use advanced features. What it shows is that only power users use these features and if a phone cant do it well they have no reason to buy it. And since normal people don't use these things, WHY WOULD THEY WANT AN IPHONE???
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  webomatica

  2 years ago

  Joe Realist, Apple is already working on the iPhone Shuffle, just for you. :)
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