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iPhone Release Date Is June 29
willith writes "Apple has placed three iPhone commercials on their Web site today, and each ends with a tag: 'Coming June 29.' This puts to rest the question of when the thing will hit the streets, but there are still worries about allocation — AppleInsider is reporting that the supplies at Cingular/AT&T stores may be relatively tight." And some fanatic sites are already parsing the ads for such enigmas as the "mystery app."
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Wait you've been able to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, got the feeling to eat calamari, look up seafood in Google maps and then make a call to the restaurant? All on your Blackberry, 3 years ago?
I'm not saying it's a new innovation but leaving out select details kinda kills your argument.
No thanks Apple, unlike portable music players, people actually are happy with their cellphones.
Guess again, Mr. Ballmer. Apple's done the research, and found that you are mistaken. They don't jump into a crowded market unless they know that it's very poorly-served.
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Right from the beginning, at the speech made by Jobs at MacWorld, he mentioned that the iPhone was going to be sold for $499/$599 with a two-year contract with Cingular (now AT&T). This is on par with other high-end devices on all carriers. They never said that the price was going to be for the unemcumbered unit.
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I thought that Apple made a big fuss about not allowing the Cell companies to lock users in to long term contracts with subsidized phones and that was why were were going to pay 500+ for the iPhone.
They said it would carry a 2 year contract during the initial announcement at MacWorld in January. They did say no price subsidies, though. The running theory has been the combination of high purchase price and a 2 year contract must mean really cheap plans (like free unlimited data), but I doubt that will happen. I think the purchase price was chosen as a combination of the average prices of smart phones and ipods.
I have the cingular 8525 phone. It has a touch screen.
When do I look at the buttons while I'm using it? Whenever I'm going through one of those phone based menus: "Press 1 for english". Older phones, I'd keep the phone by my ear and press the buttons. I could generally be doing something else, and not pay much attention to it. Now, I have to either put it on speakerphone (bad at work), or be ready to pull the phone away from my ear, hit the button, then get the phone back into position.
Yes, well who do you think the target audience is for this phone? If Apple was going after tech savvy users, they would have made something like existing smart phones. Most people praise the Blackberry or some palm device. A few people like the MS products. Apple is trying to repeat the success of the iPod where they got ordinary users to buy an MP3/AAC player. This is a logical upgrade for them. People don't like carrying phones and iPods around with them. They want one device. Apple now has to compete against various phones with MP3 or WMA support. This is their answer.
You can put Apple down for a lot of things, but making this device isn't one of them. Perhaps it was fatally stupid to make it exclusive to Cingular/AT there are a lot of cell phone subscribers on other networks why might want an integrated iPod/phone. Apple will eventually lose the number one spot in portable music just as Sony lost it previously. Apple fans will be sad and "PC" fans will be happy.
Apple did not innovate with the iPod either but that was a big success. They have massive marketshare... almost windows like. Apple used the Microsoft business model of duplicating existing ideas but changing that one little thing that makes all the difference. Steve used the Bill Gates play-book.
Personally, I won't be purchasing an iPhone. I hate cingular and I don't want to spend $500 on a phone. Apple does not get pricing for the midwest. $500 isn't that much money in New York City or San Fransisco. Its a lot of money in Michigan, or Iowa.
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I assume you mean that the user can't get to the SIM card. Of course, you're wrong. The SIM card is accessible.
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What Apple is trying to do is to make contacts actually usable to well, contact people with. Just because you've not had that experience in the past on a phone does not mean it cannot be done.
I've had that experience with every mobile phone I've ever owned. Even with hundreds of "contacts" in my phone book I can get to one of them in a few seconds and (at worst) half a dozen button presses. For the 5 or so people I call frequently and regularly, it's just a matter of holding down a number on the keyboard or saying their name. Heck, it was true (except for the voice recognition) on the Nokia 5310 I had a decade ago.
Of course, I've never owned anything but Nokias - other phones' phonebook interfaces may well suck as much as you imply, but they certainly don't by definition.
if Apple didn't want to flog Poles computers they wouldn't have a Polish website (iTunes redirects to the UK before you ask) and Apple stores in Warsaw, would they?
Apple, Inc. doesn't have any stores in Poland. Only US, Canada, UK, and Japan. Whatever shop you were in wasn't an Apple store.