Comments on: iPhone+SDK+App Store=Market Buster

By: Moctod

Moctod — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:59:24 +0000

The entire experience of your 6th paragraph on my S/E handset. Only, I found some freeware — that drains the batt life, so rarely gets used. [Plus the nonsense of having to install DRM onto an MP3 ringtone that I choose to use, find: drm_packager]

Great piece, I totally agree. SJ must finally feel vindicated.

It took longer, but it seems that pulling is easier than pushing.

By: moose

moose — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:34:19 +0000

It’s probably why Apple, in the second Jobs era, always refused to enter the PIM market, while everyone and the dog was shouting that Apple should do some Palm competitor, they should revive the Newton and so on. The technology wasn’t mature enough for Apple to do for PIMs what they did for the personal computer.
But now, the time is right.

By: Petros

Petros — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:24:47 +0000

Yes I agree. Something that will define what we will carry with us. Its not a cellphone, its not an Ipod, It will be callled “The personal device.

It has has and does everything you want it to do, Entreatment, communication in any way you want, productivity, educational, business.

By: piro

piro — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:55:46 +0000

It seems to me that Steve Jobs slowly, but surely, takes Apple where he said he would take It back in 1999. The iPhone is the next step (oh oh…Next… Didn’t we see that once before ?) to this digital hub. The first one, according to me, was iTunes. Now that the whole software suite slowly but surely melts into iTunes, we need a new device, a new platform to gather all the contents, the one we create and the one we read, listen to, consult, consume. The important thing in the iPhone is not the Phone part, despite everything people (from Nokia or Moto, for example) said, it’s the “i” thing. It’s not a phone. It’s a device. A tool and, soon to come : so much more than a gadget.