Murphy Mac

My New iPhone 3GS: Beyond Awesome

@ Vassar

There's nothing to understand, the AT&T vs. Verizon discussion is almost pointless. AT&T works for you. It drops calls for me. It's geographical. I was in Miami a couple weeks ago and AT&T had full bars EVERYWHERE I went.
Here in Charlotte there are giant gaps in highly populated areas four miles outside the city center. I live one mile out and even here I fail to get a signal at times. Verizon never dropped calls for me.

That said, outside AT&T the iPhone 3GS surpasses virtually every expectation I had. Except the still-photo camera.


On Aug 03 09:48 AM vassar wrote:

> I don't understand the problems people have with ATT. I had Verzion
> beforehand and now ATT and have not had any problems, both in rural
> and in metropolitan areas.

Does Palm's Pre Have Anything on the iPhone or Storm?

I don't think Paris Hilton was the driving force behind runaway iPhone success. It'll take a lot more than shots in People Magazine to compete with iPhones and Blackberries.

iPhone is just getting started. Do you know how many times analysts declared the iPod space was saturated - nobody left to sell them to? Wrong quarter after quarter. Repeat coming with iPhones.

Blackberry users rival Apple fans in terms of loyalty. Not quite as loyal - but it would take a lot for them to consider switching to Sprint for a device that may or may not be part of a company (Palm) on the verge of bankruptcy.

Wireless vs. Landlines: Past the Point of No Return

Things would be a lot different if the POTS providers had bothered to innovate AT ALL. What have they done since adding voicemail and some very basic features like call forwarding all those years ago?

Same with the cellular industry. Why did it take Apple to force something as obvious as visual voicemail?

The landline industry has ignored the VOIP phenomenon going on around them - too slow to even offer new features as PAID services. And now Google is going to offer more than the Bells ever would have dreamed of charging us for - for free.

We never learn about monopolies. Time Warner wants to charge us for Internet consumption by use, fine. But they don't even have the means in place to tell us what we consume. Like other monopolies they're fat and lazy - they just want their check.

Google is taking these businesses apart - like the Fed should have.

RIM's Secret Weapon: Lower Bandwidth Consumption

The Blackberry doesn't have an interface anyone would want to browse with. So they should leave it that way to conserve bandwidth? Huh?

And should Apple muck up their phone a little so people won't want to use it for browsing or streaming video? That should save bandwidth.

What is the point of this story?!

Can Anything Displace the iPhone in Consumer's Eyes?

I agree with comment #1 - Peter Cooper. It's so easy to forget who really makes up the user base. Most iPhone customers are far more interested in the fact that it now comes in white than whether or not it's open. Eavesdrop on some conversations in the Apple Store and you'll know, they don't even know it's NOT open, or what open is.

Android will appeal to the linux boys. But the iPhone has the Apple marketing machine behind it. Macs are stealing market share from Windows at an amazing rate, not linux. I'd expect Android to experience the same thing.