And this year’s “things we say that come back to bite us right in the ass” award goes to Palm CEO Ed Colligan, who was interviewed back in November ‘06 during a Churchil Club event by the New York Time’s John Markoff about his thoughts on Apple’s secret development of a mobile phone device. Colligan proudly boasted…
“PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
Oh, Ed. I feel your pain. If only I hadn’t consumed that last Gin and tonic at the company Christmas party I might not have told my boss he looked sexy in that suit he was wearing. He still gives me nervous looks as we pass each other.
On a serious note, it remains to be seen just how “right” Apple may have gotten it. But Apple’s vision of mobile software certainly forces the moguls of mediocrityTriumvirate of telephony (RIM, Palm, and Nokia) to rethink product strategies and begin taking software development more seriously. That is especially true of Palm whose orphaned Operating System, the beleaguered PalmOS Garnet, has languished.
This is your wake up call, boys! Pick up the phone before the market hangs up on you.
The tech world’s greatest child custody battle continues; it’s Kramer vs. Kramer, or Apple vs. Cisco. Who will win, who will lose. Slowly I turn…Niagra Falls!
Carl Weinschenk from ITBusinessEdge calls the iPhone a “Milestone in Business Mobility”. But can Apple really lure corporate customers with what is clearly a consumer play? I don’t see that happening. iPhone is, by design, an entertainment device…not a business oriented mobile productivity tool like the Treo or Blackberry. It would be nice to see the IT world embrace such a lavish smartphone, but it’s going to take much more than style and software elegance to dislodge Blackberry.
ComputerWorld has posted a list of top questions that remain unanswered about iPhone. Things like…oh, I don’t know…whether it will be offered unlocked, or whether battery life will suck. I know these questions are certainly on my mind.
Macworld attendees have been busy capturing the iPhone in video. One user posted a really good product demo given to attendees by Apple, which shows off more of the device’s features in action. Nothing that we haven’t already seen, just done by someone other than Jobs. Enjoy.
Apple finally launched its much rumored mobile phone at MacWorld yesterday, immediately triggering a massive worldwide drool-fest among gadget freaks. While it has been widely known that Apple has had such a product secretly in development for at least two years now, the device itself remained shrouded in mystery. Some analysts speculated the device would prove to be nothing more than a relatively simple inexpensive iPod phone, while others expected more of a Blackberry style Smartphone, done in a sleeker package. Both camps got it wrong…and right. iPhone isn’t what anyone really expected.
When I first gazed upon images of the iPhone I was immediately awestruck by its unique industrial design, which oddly resembles a PDA more than a phone. We’ve come full circle back to tablet style form factors with large screens again. Didn’t see that coming. At the same time I was also slightly disappointed. As amazingly slick looking as it is, I have a great deal of reservations about typing on a flat screen display in place of fixed keyboard input. Hardware buttons offer good tactile feedback when entering text. The idea of tapping on a smudge prone screen with my fingers doesn’t exactly fill me with delight. Whether it will work or not remains to be seen since we have yet to see this scheme in action other than well staged product demos.
But Apple may be onto something with software based input. And God knows the Operating System alone will move this product in massive volumes. Everyone is talking about this device, and everyone seems to want one.
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The iPhone Blog merged with the Phone different site in May of 2008. Both sites were founded on a premise that comes one from one of Apple's old slogans: Think different. The iPhone Blog: for people who dare to phone different.
