In article <5ebjlmF387qclU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> zeez <UltimaUW@excite.com> wrote:

> > The iPhone looks like a nice peice of equipment, but the biggest beef
> > I have with it is a lack of an SDK for 3rd party companies, freeware
> > developers, etc. to write software on it that runs on the "bare metal"
> > of the phone. This hardware has a hell of a lot of potential, but if Apple
> > decides "no SDK", then it's little more than a pretty device, and at the
> > price it's being sold at, I expect more than a souped up V-cast style
> > "teenybopper" phone. Personaly, I wouldn't buy it until an SDK is released
> > for it.
>
> Me neither, but I realise I'm nothing like who its aimed at.
>
> Bet it will do as well as the ipod did, just because
> it integrates a decent phone with a media player.
>
> Tho plenty will already have one of those, so it remains to be
> seen how much effect being very late to market will have.

I wouldn't consider Apple to be "very late" to this market. True, some
other devices that combine these capabilities have existed for some
years. But the market for them has never really taken off and gone
mainstream.

Apple introduced the iPod into a market that was in a similar state.

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