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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
iPhone philosophy
Now when the release dust has settled, and no more people are sitting outside phone shops for days, and they might even start to regret why they purchased two iPhones with a 2 year contract each, here are two more or less philosophical notes about the iPhone.
Is this the future of mobiles?
Noting that the iPhone is not optimized for business use. Not that it matters volume-wise, as it's a very small segment. More important is if iPhones sell to multimedia freaks that will generate a lot of after market revenue by downloading tons of music and videos.
Web 2.0 Startups Bypass Restrictions on iPhone
This article is kind of strange, because it describes how "some savvy startups are figuring out how to make their applications work on it—without cutting a separate deal with either Apple or AT&T", but actually describes the only way the iPhone supports Internet service access (hence not too hard to figure out): via the integrated browser. Of course, the same could be done with any phone. Yet, as the iPhone supports Javascript the user experience can be a bit better than via a WAP 2.0 / basic HTML or (worst case) WAP 1.x browser. Of course also Series 60 phones and many other support Javascript.
Is this the future of mobiles?
Noting that the iPhone is not optimized for business use. Not that it matters volume-wise, as it's a very small segment. More important is if iPhones sell to multimedia freaks that will generate a lot of after market revenue by downloading tons of music and videos.
Web 2.0 Startups Bypass Restrictions on iPhone
This article is kind of strange, because it describes how "some savvy startups are figuring out how to make their applications work on it—without cutting a separate deal with either Apple or AT&T", but actually describes the only way the iPhone supports Internet service access (hence not too hard to figure out): via the integrated browser. Of course, the same could be done with any phone. Yet, as the iPhone supports Javascript the user experience can be a bit better than via a WAP 2.0 / basic HTML or (worst case) WAP 1.x browser. Of course also Series 60 phones and many other support Javascript.
