11.29
You’ll have it next year
…says AT&T Inc. C.E.O. Randall Stephenson. Sounds like as good a source as any.
Some say “this isn’t news”. Hokum, I say. It’s news because it is a second affirmation of the inevitability of a 3G iPhone and it’s news because, as vague as “next year” is, it is a more definite date than “sometime in the future”. It’s “next year” not two years or three years from now.
So, the only question that remains is when? Macworld ‘08 or the WWDC 08?
I wonder if Mr. Jobs is freaking out that Mr. Stephenson has a such a big mouth (talking about a better product that comes out next year right in the midst of the holiday buying season? Hmmmm…). Damn partners.
11.28
Verizon Plans Wider Options for Cellphone Users (@NYT).
There has always been talk of the iPhone contributing to the end of the pernicious business-as-usual practices of locking the consumer to a particular carrier. And so it begins. Thanks, Apple.
8.2
You might be paying $1,000 per MB for SMS @ mobilejones
7.29
Daring Fireball’s “Jackass of the Week” and the iPhone class action suit.
7.23
An interesting post by Michael Urlocker on issues related to the low rate of adoption of the wireless carrier’s video services. He makes valid points and asks good questions but doesn’t touch on any sort of usability issues to wit the screens are small, the content incredibly limited (really just a sliver-like subset of “real” TV) as well as weather or not people really want to sit for a half hour to an hour to watch their favorite TV show gazing into a tiny screen holding a tiny device in mid air close enough to the face to clearly view the content. The arm does get tired.
7.18
7.6
Another cool thing about the casing is that if you hold the iPhone correctly in bright sunlight, you can shine the reflective Apple logo onto a wall like the Batman symbol. I played around with this for about 20 minutes on the seatback in front of me on a recent plane ride.
The person next to me didn’t get it.