ZnU <znu@fake.invalid> wrote
> 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.

More fool you. High end phones with all sorts of extra capability
have been around for a hell of a long time now, years, literally.

> 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.

Yes, and it wont now, you watch.

Most want a much cheaper phone that combines
phone, media player, camera etc capability.

And those who want to be able to do email etc mostly
want a real keyboard, not a touchscreen one too.

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

Nope, nothing like it. You dont need much controls wise for a media
player and the ipod design is rather elegant and well done in that regard.
And virtually everyone didnt already have a media player at the time that
the ipod showed up. Virtually everyone already has a cellphone now and
most of those already have a media player now too if they use one much.
Hordes of them have a media player/phone/camera combined already.