Comments on: Don’t Buy an iPhone on Friday

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:56:04 +0000

I have money to burn and want to look cool so I’m getting one.

Not really…but that is what I see a lot of…buying for the sake of buying and being “hip”.

Steve Jobs needs more money, he’s jealous of Bill Gates, so go buy 2 iPhones y’all!

I agree with your view completely; buyers will be beta testers for Apple and AT&T (now the most dropped calls of any provider).

Cheers!

By: Ajeet

Ajeet — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:45:42 +0000

You know, by the x = x + 1 logic that you are proposing, we should never buy anything as a much better version will soon be coming. I strongly dislike that the iPhone is tied in to AT & T, but that is a smal price to pay to get the opportunity to fondle such a cool device.

By: platinum batt

platinum batt — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:24:27 +0000

well. you do make a good point with price but as you say the main reason most people are not commiting them selves to the iphone is because of the 2 year contract. well do you really think that is a problem right now. i just bought an iphone and unlocked it. NOt sim unlock, just activate unlock. which means i don’t need to sign up for a 2 year contract.. now i am sure you wrote this before the iphone launch. but this is what you failed to realised. the amount of hype surrounding the iphone has generated a lot of mobile phone hackers to take interest in apples new toy. Granted it’s the first phone by apple. but as you know in the real world no one cares. No one really cares about the difference b/n a mac and a pc. They want something that works. and which ever system gets them there fastest and cheapest then so be it. the iphone has generated so much hype that hackers are having a field day with it. and this is where apple might crumble by it’s own creation. Apple has never in the history had so many hacks on just one product. if apple is to fix these by realsing a new firmware every time a new loop hole is found then they might survive. but since apple has one of the worse track records for fixing bugs in their products from time announced this will cause lots of problems for them. basically this is is how is going to work. the iphone is and will be the most hacked phone on the planet and from what i am seeing only iphone customers will benefit from this. regardless of how stubborn apple tends to fight it.

By: pauldwaite

pauldwaite — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:29:32 +0000

I’m not grown-up enough to remember the first Mac, but what was wrong with the first iPod? No wireless and less space than a Nomad, granted, but a friend at university had one and it seemed to work just dandy.

I was so very jealous. Then so very smug about 8 months later when I got a 20 GB one for the same price he paid for his. Then less smug when the lighter, slicker 3rd generation came out about a month later. I hadn’t quite cottoned on to Macworld in January back then.

By: Don Park

Don Park — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:33:00 +0000

Unless you are a developer, that is.

Heck, I got my hands full but I can’t resist dreaming up new apps for iPhone just so I’ll have a reason to get one. So far, a mountain of work is successfully keeping the dang phone at bay.

By: iMac Pr0n

iMac Pr0n — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:27:58 +0000

I have a policy to never pay for sex, but in the iPhone’s case, I’ve made an exception. And I’m glad I did. You’re right. There will be two or three better iPhones before my contract with AT&T is up. That’s always the case with the computer industry. It won’t make me appreciate my sexy toy one bit less. And even my first gen iPhone will get better, every time Apple releases a software update.

See ifiMob.org for my vision of one future for the iPhone, possible with today’s hardware.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:15:44 +0000

Using the iPhone now (but not to post this)…the keyboard is weird…you do need to trust its error correction abilities which are pretty amazing but I’m still faster with my Treo’s KB. The speed and smoothness is incredible though! Must be tried to be belived. YouTube over WiFi flawless and the internet truly is in your pocket. Weather and Google Maps very slick. POP mail nice and easy to setup, but the test will be with corporate push (someday)…until then, CrackBerry addicts will stay away unless they just want to be entertained. The most amazing thing is the responsive touchscreen on such a tiny device. Noticed that it’s getting a little warm playing back video under the apple icon on the back, cpu must be underneath.

If you like gadgets, you owe yourself a hands on test drive…then see if you can resist. Any other phone or even laptop will feel like last century’s tech.

By: Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:14:23 +0000

Sprint has unlimited data for $15/mo on top of your voice plan (in my case, the $35 “Fair and Flexible”), with a faster network. As far as I can tell, there’s no upper limit on bandwidth. I’ve used it as a bluetooth modem for my laptop and had no extra charges.

But while I love the expandability of my Treo 650p, it’s a painfully inferior device to the iPhone.

My finances won’t let me buy one *today*, and in any case I was wary of the first-shipment bugs, but it’s still a device I must have as soon as it’s practical.

I do remember the first-generation iPod. While limited, it was vastly superior to every other mp3 player.

By: Rick DeNatale

Rick DeNatale — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:04:29 +0000

I’d probably buy one if I could afford one. David Pogue gave it a pretty good (p)review yesterday in the NYT, with a FAQ follow up today.

As for waiting for iPhone v2, as I understand it since the device is pretty much defined by the software, future upgrades will be just that, upgrades, at least that’s the impression I got from the NYT article.

As for the value of the unlimited data for $60/month, I wouldn’t expect to get that much data over the ATT/Cingular edge network anyway. The performance of the network is the real achilles heel of the iPhone. It’s just too slow, so I suspect that most iPhones are going to be getting most of their data through wiFi at home, the office or at hotspots, NOT via ATT, and the real data cost will be the cost of those services if any. The ATT data plan is just a tax to get the iPhone to work.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:33:33 +0000

Thanks for the advice Elliotte and my left brain cannot disagree, but the right side that appreciates beauty and sexiness, is overruling. I’ll post later how much I like/dislike iPhone 1.0 along with actual usefulness. [note, i bought US Robotics Pilot 1.0 and was very pleased...original Treo Communicator (flip style), less so].