iPhone shall be mine..
So just a couple days now till the much anticipated iPhone 3G hits the stores and I am pretty much 99% sold on getting it at this point. I know I know, it’s an over priced closed device that nobody should buy, don’t pay into the Apple Machine.. blah blah blah. Truth is I never even considered getting the original iPhone instead settling for a iPod touch. I needed an iPod and I didn’t have 300gb of music to store like some folks do and the multi touch screen really appealed to me.
This time around though they’ve pretty much fixed or added anything I didn’t like about the original. First off it was a 1st generation device which you knew would be improved upon in short order. Second it was overpriced, I couldn’t justify the cost of the original plus the data fees. Third there really was no expandability to the device. All of those things among others are now fixed and I honestly can justify the costs associated with it. I’ve used and managed a variety of devices from Windows Mobile, to Palm, to Blackberry. Most of them were a bitch and a half to manage, some downright suck ass (Blackberry I am looking at you..)
The additional features some of which I never expected like Microsoft Exchange Active Sync support and some pretty sweet GPS capability with Google Maps, and even add to that the ability to download and install apps from the new “App Store” pretty much finally sold me on it. Sure you can bag on Apple all you want but what they are doing for the average Joe and for the SmartPhone industry in general is great (ie Mobile Me “Exchange for the Poor Man”). Sure some of this functionality has been around for a while but what makes Apple successful is they make it easy enough for any average Joe to use. Many tech heads can’t look past their own geekery and see that this device appeals to the masses. So even if you can’t do something ridiculous on it or if it doesn’t have some obscure ass feature nobody cares about people will still buy it.
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