[internetworkers] iPhone is useless

Tony Spencer tony at tonyspencer.com
Fri Jan 12 11:04:05 EST 2007


Oh man that stinks.

Hopefully someone will crack it quickly.

On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

> I don't get the buzz and hype around this iPhone Apple is putting  
> out.  You
> can't even run 3rd party applications on it.
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd-apple.html? 
> _r=1&oref=slogin>
> <http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/0430200>
>
> Umm, hello, but what freaking good is a handheld computing /  
> communication
> device if you can't run your chosen application(s) on it / write  
> applications for it?
> Assuming - for the sake of argument - that one would typically one  
> carry around
> one such device,  I don't see how carrying this thing is any more  
> useful than carrying a brick.
> Or, well, at least any more useful than any other generic cellphone.
>
>
> TTYL,
>
>
> Phillip
>
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