Why I’m not impressed with the iPhone
You have probably read about the iPhone, the latest endeavor from Apple. Think iPod meets mobile phone meets Palm, but OS X style. The blogosphere’s all over this.
I’m not impressed, by the way. The iPhone lacks 3G and is arriving at a time when that’ll be the norm. The camera is just 2 megapixels which will be less than half of what the main competition will offer at the time, and it’s really expensive. $499 $599 (thanks David) for the big one isn’t so much? Dude, that’s with a 2 year subscription to Cingular!
People will buy it, it’ll probably be good, and it looks nice as well as sporting the Apple logo. Go figure. I get gadget crazy too. I’m no better, but I won’t get it. Lack of 3G is my reason.
OS X in a phone is cool, indeed it is. It sure sounds like you have a stripped down Mac in your pocket. However, it’s a closed system so you won’t be downloading OS X software to the left and right. It’s not Palm OS or Pocket PC, it’s a mobile version of OS X where Apple are in charge, from start to finish. Maybe that will change over time, but it doesn’t impress me. If I dish out lots of money for a smartphone (or whatever they want to call it) I’d like to put the software I want in it. It’s kind of the idea, you know.
Don’t get me wrong, the iPhone looks great and I do not doubt it’s a good product. But looking at the coverage in the blogosphere you’d think it was the solution to all our problems. I guess that’s the way it is, the majority of bloggers with an audience are interested in gadgets, especially the sleek Apple ones.
I am too. I’m no better. I work better in an esthetically designed environment. I’m more motivated to use a clean interface, than an ugly one.
Then I wake up and realize I can’t afford being design picky all the time. Functionality has to come first.
Someone should give me a pile of money.