Apple iPhone Bonanza!
Wow, so there’s all kinds of iPhone madness sweeping the intertubes. They center around the three new iPhone ads, check’em out on apple.com as usual. The commercials are pretty good - eschewing the iPods lifestyle appeal for an actual show of functionality. Hope it works. One thing that they make me wonder about, though, is whether you can use them one handed or not. All that screen touching and multitouching (dirty!) seems to require both hands to do anything. The nice thing about my Treo is the 5 directional pad and hardware keyboard lets me do many things one handed, even if sometimes it’s a little slow, it isn’t ridiculous. I hope that it is possible on the iPhone.
Anyhow June 29th is now the date. Exciting!
Then there’s everyone wondering about more apps for the iPhone. Last week at D5 Jobs said that they might make an SDK available for developers of small programs to easily convert them to run on the iPhone. That definitely sounds like Widgets to me, as opposed to full on cocoa apps. But that works, there’s a remarkable amount of functionality that you can cram into those widgets and their usage seems ideal for the iPhone - small, purpose built apps. Sounds like a good tradeoff to make in terms of reliability and security that opens up the platform.
Looking forward to this thing launching - but I wonder if Steve’s claim that availability will not be a problem. It seems like there’s a lot of people wanting a lot of these phones!
June 4th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Is it going to be sold at the Apple Stores? I’m trying to figure out where would be the ideal place to try to get me grubby mitts on one. A call to my local AT&T wireless branch revealed that they weren’t taking preorders (although some branches apparently are maintaining waiting lists). The guy didn’t even know when the thing was to be launched. And then when I mentioned the new commercials and date to him he was like “oh well I’m not obligated to say anything about it.” WTF?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Yeah, Jobs has said that it’ll be sold in Apple stores and AT&T stores, but not their partners like Best Buy.