This crap again?
- will not use the same OS X that you use on your laptop - so your
apps won't run in it
Duh.. But the core tech is the same, and its still a tiny
multitouch gui unix box in your bourgeois pocket.
And I guarantee you that there are people working on hacking in all
sorts of fun new things even as we speak.
Audio apps are an easy guess. Can't wait to see what develops there.
- only Apple will be making apps for the iPhone -- i.e. no 3rd party
apps planned as of yet
Pure crap: Any asshole that can program an OSX widget can write
programs for the iPhone.
You put too much faith in Apples desire and ability to reign
absolute over the machines they sell.
Or perhaps just paranoia. After all, Apple is an
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeville corporation, right?
Anyway, this ties nicely into the item above.
- doesn't have external storage capability
Uh, hello, NETWORK anyone? Wifi. Bluetooth. Edge. What more is
needed? Transfer as you see fit.
- uses DRM as does the iPod
Waah girlfriend. As distasteful as DRM itself is, I have yet to
experience a problem with my iPod due to DRM.
- doesn't have GPS
That would have been nice. And yet, there is always Mapquest.
Somehow I think users will get by. And there's always the next
version.
- locked to Cingular service in the US
Unbound phones will be sold as well.
They're just pushing Cingular, who were, recently, bought out by
AT&T, so theres hope there.
And maybe something they know that we dont?
- costs way too much
Don't they all.
- the usual Apple overhyped piece of bourgeois tech
More whining. All new tech is an 'executoy', or more accurately,
targeted to early adopters.
Early adopters pay to have the first gen of the neat new stuff,
then economy of scale lets the mature tech reach more people for
less money in each successive generation. Economics 101. OMG READ
SOME *insert pet philosopher here* I only buy second generation
and later, personally.
Read:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/
Yawn,
~!J!
http://www.endif.org
http://www.crunchpod.com
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