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  • From: Rowland Smith <rowland AT cashi.us>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] iPhone?
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:02:50 -0500

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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