iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs

ElvaWSJ writes with a link to a Wall Street Journal interview with Steve Jobs and AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson. As you can imagine, they're pretty enthusiastic. Just the same, they address the possibility that the iPhone will slow internet access on Ma Bell's cell network. "Mr. Jobs acknowledged that the company's new iPhone won't surf the Internet as fast as he would like on the network, called "Edge," but added that the device's ability to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots would give consumers a speedier alternative for Web browsing. For his part, Mr. Stephenson said the iPhone represents a broader push by AT&T into Wi-Fi services, including, potentially, mobile Internet calling. The two men also discussed the iPod's "halo effect" and reflected on the origins of their corporate partnership."

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[morgan_greywolf]

People don't need to WTF that is. All they need to do is try surfing the Net with Smartphone A vs. Smartphone B. If Smartphone B is faster because it's on a 3G network, then people who care about the performance of their Net connectivity won't be going with Smartphone A, no matter who is pushing it and no matter how 'cool' it looks.

Most people will get it for it's look.

Here let me fix that for you:

Most teenage and some 20-something people will get it for it's look.

Apple should have went with Verizon first.

[MtViewGuy]

Flame me all you want, but I think Apple blew it by going with Cingular/AT&T for the iPhone.

Apple should have gone with Verizon Wireless, which would have given the iPhone the ability to access EVDO wireless networking that has data transfer rates in the 350 to 800 kilobits per second range. In that case, the iPhone would have actually been a truly useful device to access the Internet and corporate email systems.

Fuck the iPhone

[rAiNsT0rm]

Seriously. I even like a number of Apple's products, surprisingly not the iPod either, but honestly this thing is going to go nowhere outside of the 20-somethings who just need to be trendy. The network isn't all that hot, the phone is fairly low on storage for a "Jesus Phone," and it is lacking a lot of important things.

I'm so tired of the frothy masses herded like sheep into believing this is some life altering product. I guess I got the un-tainted Kool-Aid, but we'll see in a few weeks/months what the response is...