iPhone p0rn
I was mulling over an iPhone post, the good and bad, but Jason Kottke pretty much nailed everything that was rattling through my brain.
So instead, I will throw out some iPhone links, in no particular order:
YouTube – A Closer Look At The iPhone
iPhone Countdown to June (including a pdf to print, cut out and glue together)
Boing Boing Cisco vs. Apple: lawsuit over iPhone name
“Apple’s New iPhone Availability in Canada?” by John Wiseman
(Still waiting on some details from our insider at Apple…)
January 12th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I was amused by the following article in The Star (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/170455) on the topic of the iPhone. I say amused, not because I agree with it, but because I love when “technical journalists” don’t understand the difference between a device and a service. The iPhone is a sleek looking beast regardless of where in the world you do your handset shopping and whether or not you use it to do things like “buy your train tickets” has very little to do with the handsets that are available in North America and far more to do with the networks (and cultural biases to a certain degree).
Alas, I was admittedly far more impressed by the iPhone than I have been by any iPod (or iMac, for that matter).
January 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am
If you remove the reference to the iphone, the Star article seems like a typical ‘Wow the Japanese have great technology’ article.
The iphone follows in the path of the ipod. Taking existing technology (nothing is really new here) and merging things together seamlessly and thoughfully.
It is also about compromise.
There is no keyboard, adding one would just not work.
The battery isn’t removable, the same compromise seen with the ipod.
Besides Steve Job who deserves a lot of credit, the other driving force is Jonathan Ive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive), the industrial designer behind all the current apple products.