interesting iphone article
Thoughts?
"And despite all the prelaunch hype and fear mongering, you don't hear many gripes that the novel, finger-driven user interface doesn't work, or that videos look crummy, or that the battery doesn't last long enough.
If anything, most of the iPhone's features have exceeded technological expectations, because in reality, it's a miniature Macintosh that happens to be a cellphone."
I think that sums it up pretty well. I don't have one, but from what I've heard from friends who do own them is that they're actually pretty darned nice. I think there are a LOT of people out there who, for whatever reason, really don't want to like the iphone. They would be thrilled if it were a buggy piece of ju...
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I would like instead of apple saying that at&t's network is sluggish to instead say "One of the issues is that apple chose to support only at&t's EDGE network which is an older slower form of data transmission instead of the new high speed 3g network which is on par with other nationwide broadband networks offered by competing carriers" I sometimes wonder if any of these tech writers actually research their articles before typing or if they just hear rumors and then type.
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"And at the price points when they were first released, they should've had UMTS. However, Apple lucked out as people decided to pay such exorbitant prices anyway." 😈
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I love your description of the problem, chainsaw. I would like to think the tech writers write that way. But I'm sure there was an editor somewhere who said, as my writing instructor would say, "too wordy, try revising". So, your accurate description of the problem becomes "at&t's sluggish network". Both phrases accurately depict the situation from the user's perspective, but the short version doesnt accurately reflect reality. Sometimes, Mr/Mrs Editor, wordy is necessary.
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Good point, Editors most hold a low opinion of the people that read their articles by dumbind everything down.
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lilgabe1 said:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/15/technology/iphone_pr ... »
Thoughts?
Seems basically on the money. Not perfect, but still a successful product, despite a lot of shrill end of the of world predictions from doomsayers.
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