So the iPhone was unveiled today and goes on sale in June.
I'll give you two reasons why it won't catch on as well as they expect.
1. It's very expensive at $500!
2. The touchscreen will get all scratched up!
Remember the controversy about the iPod Nano and how the surface was easily scratched? You can protect your iPod in a case, but the iPhone has a touch screen, which means you need to touch the surface. Maybe someone will figure out how to protect the touch screen.
About the price thing; I disagree because this is more than just a phone. Phones alone cost $200-400 anyway.
The whole problem with the cell phone market is that people want more out of their cell phones. They want it to be music player, a web browser and a phone. Heck, I'm surprised you can't auto-start your car with one of these things by now.
Really this is an iPod with phone and internet capabilities.
[quote][cite] Triniman:[/cite]2. The touchscreen will get all scratched up! [/quote]
Yes, I thought the same thing when I heard this. My digital camera viewscreen is all scratched up after only a year of having it in my pocket with my keys and coins. Yet my cell phone closes, preventing any scratching.
That said, the easy option is an iPhone cover. Accessories, accessories, accessories!
I dont think its an ipod with phone capabilities, but the other way around.
Its only a 4gig device, that speaks of phone to me.
But I'm surprised there isn't more of the data features that cingular has been pushing around so much lately. I know when I was in bc and had contact with them, they were saying that within two years there wont even be data/minutes plan for cells, but rather just strictly data, and that it would take a revolutionary phone to make that jump. What is going to be more revolutionary that the iphone? then again, they probably had to bend over backwards just to get the apple agreement.
Google search and maps are built in: users will be able to make calls directly from Google Maps. iPhone is scheduled to start shipping in the U.S. in June.
* In the U.S., the iPhone will be sold exclusively by AT&T/Cingular Wireless. No Canadian provider has been announced, but it is a GSM phone, and Rogers Wireless is the only GSM carrier in Canada.
* Cisco Systems is suing Apple for using the name iPhone, a trademark used by Cisco’s Linksys subsidiary.
Rogers might offer this do you think? If so, they need to lower the price of their data plans as well as speed them up, otherwise most functions on this phone will be quite useless.
If Rogers is the only only GSM carrier in Canada, then really there is no need to change anything. If you have a monopoly, why fix anything? (insert smiley here)
I wonder just what the hell Apple is thinking with their seemingly obvious trademark infringement with their use of the name "iPhone".
Cisco has owned the name since 2000, with Apple attempting to acquire license rights in 2001, and even going so far as to create a phony company — called Ocean Telecom Services LLC — to get around Cisco's trademark.
Apple's marketing staff is pretty good (wink) and easily come up with a different name. This mutli-million dollar fight makes no sense to me.
Toronto-based Comwave Telecom, a VoIP provider, points out that it has registered the iPhone trademark in Canada and has been offering services under that name since 2004.
I don't know. It may seem accidental that they are where they are, but I think it's quite deliberate.
Apple has been sued many many times for things like this, and will continue to be sued as they expand into new markets.. especially with simple words prefixed with a simple "i".
You'd think that the incredible amount of money they will have to spend on legal fees would be better spent promoting a new name, rather than defending their use of someone else's.
Maybe that's what you get when asking lawyers for advice. (wink)
Not really. The whole Zen Creative lawsuit that sought that Apple got their iPod idea from them only cost $100 Million. While iPod sales now make billions every year.
Lawsuits sometimes can bring more attention to the product, and when you're making 10:1 sales to legal payouts, it's no wonder that Apple continues to get in trouble.
[quote][cite] alex:[/cite]Not really. The whole Zen Creative lawsuit that sought that Apple got their iPod idea from them only cost $100 Million. While iPod sales now make billions every year.[/quote]