Comments on: iPhone probably not going to change the world… yet

By: Gadget

Gadget — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:00:33 +0000

Gadget…

Great article, Go Gadget go…

By: Stodge

Stodge — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:12:23 +0000

Closed == Apple, does it not? Though I agree that maybe it should be more open in time.

By: Ryan Anderson

Ryan Anderson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:48:30 +0000

I agree that the iPhone was a major advancement in terms of UI and integration, but I also agree with Stacey’s point that if it had been opened up to technologies like Flash, and other development tools, the community could have made iPhone much more. Maybe Apple will allow more user-development as the device stabilizes over time, but even as someone who wants an iPhone slightly less than he wants oxygen, I was pretty disappointed to read how closed it was.

By: Stodge

Stodge — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:28:54 +0000

It may not change the world per se, but it probably raises the bar for all other competing companies. Isn’t that what they did with OSX? OSX has its flaws and will never capture certain markets, but it made Microsoft sit up and listen. Seamless is probably the key word here; I imagine we’re getting to the point where the actual computing device can be really small, but the required input/output interfaces are holding us back. Which is where the iPhone comes in. Even if the name is somewhat predictable!

I don’t own one and never will.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:48:41 +0000

Dave -
I agree with you, its changing the mobile market entirely, but I think that power users will be a bit disappointed in terms of sharing and accessing content they are used to doing daily amongst other things. Those people are growing in number as the barrier to entry for many of these social media applications is lowered.

Seamless connectivity comes to mind, especially for the household of the future. You can say the same thing for the Nintendo Wii - people started building applications/ sites just for those specs,and the Wii has changed the game console market significantly by increasing the target audience. So perhaps I should take that back - its changing the world for sure and mobile development , but I still think its got a ways to go in terms of the growing market of power users.

By: Dave Forde

Dave Forde — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:40:40 +0000

Stacey - the mere fact that companies are now developing and launching iPhone products should indicate that it has changed the world work, right?

By: Jeff Murray

Jeff Murray — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:24:06 +0000

‘Buy second generation’ … that’s how I do all my major purchases