It was bound to happen eventually. Now the long lines of techno fetishists waiting in front of Apple Stores to buy a phone have been replaced by lines of creepy 40 year olds dressed as wizards, standing in front of bookstores to buy a children’s book.
There was some brouhaha about the iPhone on Duke’s network, something about it bringing the network down, and some network or school administrator blamed it on the iPhone. Well, it turns out that maybe the iPhone wasn’t at fault. Duke officially said it was something else’s fault. I hadn’t reported on this earlier (part of that whole editorial process; why report on something that isn’t related to news?), as being a sysadmin in a former career, it sounded like there was a configuration mistake on their network. And you know, it still sounds like there was a configuration flaw in their Cisco kit to me. Let’s go to the source of it and translate. I speak a few languages poorly, and press release happens to be one of them:
“The reality is that a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service. Those conditions involve our deployment of a very large Cisco-based wireless network that supports multiple network protocols.”
Translation: “It’s pretty much Cisco’s fault.” Duke’s Cisco-based wireless network sucks!
Santa is watching you. Well Steve Jobs is anyway. AppleInsider says that Apple will introduce new iPhone models in Q4, hoping to expand its Smartphone line.
Extremely reputable sources have told AppleInsider in recent weeks that the company’s iPhone roadmap for the 2007 calendar year includes not one but two distinct models, the second of which is set to turn up just months after the first. According to one source, development of the second model has followed so closely on the heels of the inaugural iPhone that it was making its final pass through engineering around the same time that today’s model hit the manufacturing lines back in May or early June.
Harry McCracken writes on PC World’s TechBlog that after spending one week with an iPhone he found the device to be incredibly cool, but also impractical for his needs. So traded it in for a Windows Mobile device, the AT&T 8525 (HTC Hermes).
He outlines 13 reasons why he doesn’t want the iPhone.
According to SeekingAlpha, supply of iPhones in the retail channel are drying up as demand remains strong. Analysts had expected consumer adoption to taper off past the first four weeks, post-launch, but so far no signs of a slow down yet.
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Hello? Barnes? Ah, good, I reached you. Listen old chap, I’ve just been glancing over the newswire coming across my teletype and apparently this so called iPhone thing seems to be causing quite a stir. Yes, quite.
This website claims that some commoners may even watch video on the bloody thing. Yes, rubbish…that’s what I thought as well, but apparently it’s quite true. What? No, no I don’t want one. I still don’t believe there is anything to this whole notion of mobile communications. It’s a mere fad, nothing too it really. Give me a good landline connection and a Padilla cigar any day. Must run along now. Ta!
Robert Scoble grabs his camera and heads to the Web 2.0 Summit Party to interview high profile attendees. He says that everyone there seemed to have an iPhone, except for himself. Come on, Robert - you know you want to join the cult. Drink from the fountain of Kool-Aid, it will make you sleepy.
My favorite quote comes from his interrogation of Robert Sears, Chief Architect of Multimedia Experiences at Nokia, about the Finnish company’s answer to the iPhone…
I proudly showed him I hadn’t yet joined the iCult, even if the rest of my family had. Whew, dodged that one. I came real close to buying an iPhone tonight before the party. Anyway Sears smiled when I asked him if Nokia had an answer to the iPhone. Ahhh, I love the smell of cell phone competition in the evening, don’t you?
LOL! Robert, Nokia has no answer to iPhone. And when such a product does see the light of day it’s going to suck donkey testicles. The challenges Nokia faces in replicating an OSX-like experience are enormous. The Symbian OS that powers Nokia Smartphones is fundamentally inferior to OSX and doesn’t even support a touch interface. They sold off their touch framework (UIQ) to Sony-Ericsson last year. Sears can smile coyly all he wants, he’s bluffing.
Remember that post I wrote last week about my buddy Matt Miller returning his iPhone and going back to a Nokia Smartphone? Well the poor guy just couldn’t let it go. He writes on his blog that just two hours ago he went back to AT&T and got another iPhone. This time it appears he plans on keeping the device long term.
the iPhone drew me back in hour-by-hour over the weekend and I just could no longer resist it so I just picked up a new iPhone at the Apple store a couple hours ago. Over the weekend I tried using a Nokia N95 tethered with a N800 and both are excellent devices in their own way and I actually found some new applications for the N95 that made me like it even more. However, the Apple iPhone is slick and so refreshing after using other Palm, embedded Linux, Windows Mobile, and Symbian devices over the last 10 years that I was pulled back to it.
Welcome back Matt. We saved you a glass of Kool-Aid.
Tech writer Steve Gilmorr grabs his Sanyo Xacti cam and hits the headquarters of Salesforce.com to interview Marc Benioff, Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, and other technocrats to share opinions on various topics including iPhone and Microsoft’s waning dominance. Enjoy.
Germany’s biggest retailer says iPhone mania is sweeping the land of Beer and Wursts. A spokesperson told to German newspaper Tagesspiegel that it receives more than 1,000 inquiries a day about iPhone, asking when it will be available.
As a nice segway to the earlier story posted today revealing that 25% of iPhone users have switchted to AT&T, more than 50% of Germans say they too would switch carriers to get an iPhone.
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