[internetworkers] iPhone?

Rowland Smith rowland at cashi.us
Wed Jan 10 10:02:50 EST 2007


Don't forget the accessories, I'm sure someone will make an iGuard  
that's like the glass sneeze-guard at the buffet that keeps people  
from getting grease, ear wax, saliva, and other tasty bodily fluids  
all over their new iPhone :)

On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Michael Williams wrote:
>
>> I'm a Mac user and fanboy, and I think the iPhone looks/seems really
>> cool, but I have a couple of major hurdles to get over:
>>
>> 1)  Let's be honest here:  face grease.  Maybe I'm just a big
>> greaseball (what do you mean I *shouldn't* bathe in a replenishing  
>> mix
>> of butter and light sweet crude?) but I am constantly having to wipe
>> off the screen on my current phone.  The iPhone is *all* *screen*.
>> That thing would look terrible after a week of being shoved up  
>> against
>> my face.
>
> I totally agree with you on this.  Its not a show stopper for me, but
> there's going to be lots of people rubbing these things on their
> shirts and pants to wipe of sweat if they put it to their faces to
> talk.  Maybe that's where the blue-tooth ear bud comes in?  You'd
> never have to put it to your face then...
>
>>
>> 2) $500?  I can't describe, on a family-friendly list, the things  
>> that
>> phone would have to do to be worth $500.  However, I have never been
>> much enchanted by the whole concept of smartphones and PDAs and such,
>> so maybe that's a great price, I dunno.  It just seems, like... wow.
>
> The presentation goes into that.  Currently "smart phones" like the
> Treo are $499 to $599 *with* a contract!  You can get cheaper
> smartphones like the Blackberry from between $249 and $349 with a
> contract.   The iPhone is also a 4 or 8GB iPod, which is $199 or $249.
>
> So, add up the cost of both the phone and an iPod nano, and you're
> ahead of a Treo and an iPod, and somewhere in the range of a a
> blackberry and an iPod.
>
> The problem with this logic is:
>
> 1. I just bought an 60GB iPod last year.
> 2. I just got a new RAZR.
>
> How, oh how could I possibly justify spending $500 on another device?
> How can I ever live without using Cover Flow on my iPod :-)
>
> http://www.apple.com/itunes/jukebox/coverflow.html
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