Johnnymack

Apple's iPhone vs. RIM's BlackBerry: Who Wins on Comparison?

The phone sucks? really?
What about 'fancy' functions, supposedly available for YEARS on other phones, but very hard to actually use?
CONFERENCE CALLS? very easy to do on an iPhone, or to add someone in to a discussion if they call during another call. Very crappy to do on FIXED tiny keyboards. You hang up on both people, get embarrassed, and vow never to do that again.
What about bluetooth earpieces? You know, when they're ON, but you put it in your pocket? I laugh when I see people answer the phone, hear nothing, and franticly fish through their pockets for the bluetooth earpiece! iPhone, with it's lack of fixed keyboard, is beautiful when your BT earpiece is in proximity! Three buttons come up on the display: answer phone, answer via speakerphone, or answer through Treo BT device. (yup! I had a Treo before, and the matching BT earpiece works BETTER on the iPhone than it ever did on the Treo!
Ex- Treo users are usually the biggest iPhone fans.

Was the iPhone Deal Worth It for AT&T?

Should we also factor in not only TAKING new customers, higher margin customers, into ATT, but also the effect of TAKING those customers AWAY from the Verizons/TMobiles/and Sprints of the world? Those folks are going to be less able to compete, and will be left with the whiners who want everything for nothing! Cheers to them!

$1.2 Billion in iPhone Apps? Not Likely.

ALSO!!!
When developers make a neat game for an iPhone or Touch, MOST of their work is done to actually bring it to the MAC itself!
What a difference an OS makes!
Of course, I recall all the critics forever harping about how "Gamers" drive the PC world and the success of Windows, etc. Where are those voices on the iPhone now? Won't this kill Symbian and WinCE?

$1.2 Billion in iPhone Apps? Not Likely.

How much? I dunno, but a LOT of apps will fly! Many of the games shown at the WWDC will be $9.99, and likely stay there! That's CHEAP for a game from these companies! And the convenience of downloading it directly or through iTMS just KILLS every other type of game systems software distribution! I HAVE a Wii, and I think you can go online and get games, etc...I just never got around to figuring it out! But I, along with MANY others have figured out how to download BILLIONS of 99 cent songs through iTunes. This will be the same process, NO learning curve. Very little pirating expected too, so developers will see RESULTS instead of wondering what they might have lost this month to pirates!
You have about a month left to criticise the Apps store! Everyone get in now and pick it apart! You'll join the ranks of naysayers who thought iTMS would fail because "people can get all their music free from Napster".