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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Apple iPhone finally real
Update 2007011:
Cade Metz at PC Magazine has tested the iPhone and was very impressed, especially of the touchscreen.
It's sad it doesn't support MIDlets, but I think they will instead focus on establishing Apple's own application platform, and provide those games and applications via iTunes. That could become a killer, as many will want to develop for that platform provided the phone(s) themselves sell well, but it simply can't push away MIDP from the throne. In the extension to providing an application platform would be to collaborate with major service providers like Google, Yahoo, MySpace etc to provide consumer services and applications with a much better user interface than e.g. MIDlets can provide. That's definitely an Achilles heel of MIDP, as well as the lack of native access to functionality.
I read somewhere that it doesn't provide audio feedback on key presses. I hope that's not true, as a touch screen is not tactile, but in any case it would be a simple software upgrade.
Update 20070110:
Apple iPhone hits handset makers' shares is a sign of a slightly irrational stock market
QuicklyBored has made its own iPhone news roundup
News is still coming in on the iPhone, and I added some more commentary today, but I'll stop here.
If you've followed all that's been written about this to-be phone, you might have thought Apple created the hype, but actually media and users did.
Steve Jobs announced the upcoming Apple iPhone at CES. It runs a mobile-adapted version of OS X, and is optimized for multimedia viewing/playing and also looks very much like a portable media player (see photos at the listed sites). As Apple iTunes offers both music and videos, this is logical. It's more focused on PC-like applications (full web browser, HTML-capable e-mail client) than mobile ditto. There's supposedly no support for Java applications.
Release is said to be in June.
OS News: An Initial Analysis on the Apple iPhone
MEX: Apple’s new mobile experience
Yahoo!: Apple shares up after Jobs introduces mobile phone
Yahoo!: Apple rolls out much-anticipated iPhone
Yahoo!: Apple unveils new iPhone
Yahoo!: Apple renames itself, unveils iPhone
MobileBurn: Apple iPhone Finally Announced, Release With Cingular in June
QuicklyBored: Apple announces the iPhone
MobileTracker: Apple iPhone officially introduced
Mobile Opportunity: Apple's iPhone: That isn't a phone, it's a PDA done right
Engadget Mobile: The Apple iPhone runs OS X
Cade Metz at PC Magazine has tested the iPhone and was very impressed, especially of the touchscreen.
It's sad it doesn't support MIDlets, but I think they will instead focus on establishing Apple's own application platform, and provide those games and applications via iTunes. That could become a killer, as many will want to develop for that platform provided the phone(s) themselves sell well, but it simply can't push away MIDP from the throne. In the extension to providing an application platform would be to collaborate with major service providers like Google, Yahoo, MySpace etc to provide consumer services and applications with a much better user interface than e.g. MIDlets can provide. That's definitely an Achilles heel of MIDP, as well as the lack of native access to functionality.
I read somewhere that it doesn't provide audio feedback on key presses. I hope that's not true, as a touch screen is not tactile, but in any case it would be a simple software upgrade.
Update 20070110:
Apple iPhone hits handset makers' shares is a sign of a slightly irrational stock market
QuicklyBored has made its own iPhone news roundup
News is still coming in on the iPhone, and I added some more commentary today, but I'll stop here.
If you've followed all that's been written about this to-be phone, you might have thought Apple created the hype, but actually media and users did.
Steve Jobs announced the upcoming Apple iPhone at CES. It runs a mobile-adapted version of OS X, and is optimized for multimedia viewing/playing and also looks very much like a portable media player (see photos at the listed sites). As Apple iTunes offers both music and videos, this is logical. It's more focused on PC-like applications (full web browser, HTML-capable e-mail client) than mobile ditto. There's supposedly no support for Java applications.
Release is said to be in June.
OS News: An Initial Analysis on the Apple iPhone
MEX: Apple’s new mobile experience
Yahoo!: Apple shares up after Jobs introduces mobile phone
Yahoo!: Apple rolls out much-anticipated iPhone
Yahoo!: Apple unveils new iPhone
Yahoo!: Apple renames itself, unveils iPhone
MobileBurn: Apple iPhone Finally Announced, Release With Cingular in June
QuicklyBored: Apple announces the iPhone
MobileTracker: Apple iPhone officially introduced
Mobile Opportunity: Apple's iPhone: That isn't a phone, it's a PDA done right
Engadget Mobile: The Apple iPhone runs OS X
