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Author Topic: Are you gonna get an iPhone? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 12:35 PM                        According to Billboard, the Apple iPhone will be available at retail on June 29. Do ya want one? Are you gonna get one? I don't have a cellphone at all right now so I guess I won't be getting one.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-05-2007 12:37 PM                     What is the problem with Apple and their stupid i naming??? And what is an iphone and why would I possibly want one?  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 01:05 PM                        Yeah, those IMac and Beatle guys should figure out how to market themselves before they slip into obscurity.... About five years ago I was talking to a VC (venture capitalist) who told me the future was in the integration of electronic do-dads. The IPhone is just one more step on the way to the future. (One of the unintended consequences of cell phones is the reduced sale of watches by almost 40% in the US alone. Why would a kid with a cell phone ever need a watch?) But to answer Mike's question, I don't plan on getting one yet, or even for a while. At least not at $400-600. I'll let the kids de-bug it for a couple of years before I jump. Steve Jobs has his eye out on making the cell phone obsolete. If you have a tool that's about the size of a cell phone that hooks to the internet with a web browser, takes and stores pictures, loads and plays music, receives and sends emails, tells the time and probably will do a lot more in the future, what do you need your Nokia or Motorola for?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-05-2007 03:07 PM                        I have been wondering for years why Nokia or RIM haven't sold a phone identical to the Apple, not Linksys, iPhone. One of the senior engineers at RIM actually told me I was nuts when I bugged him about it in the spring of 2002. I'd consider buying one if they release a CDMA version. I'll probably wait for the iPhone nano though. Yes, there will be an iPhone nano, there will.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-05-2007 03:37 PM                     Hell no will I buy one of those. Firstly, Apple's marketing this as being a "smart phone" despite the fact that it's gotta be about the only smart phone on the market where you CAN'T install your own software. In fact, that was one of the selling points of most smart phones: the ability to use their stuff along with putting on other stuff of your choosing. So Apple will be one of the most expensive smart phones out there and functionally beaten by the others on the market. Secondly, I'd beat the shit out of that touchscreen. I tend to put my wireless phone in my pocket which would simply kill that screen in a day. And thirdly, I simply don't have $600 to spend on a phone, especially when that's the price WITH a 2-year service agreement. So until they are cheaper, add functionality to install stuff of my choosing (or when it gets hacked; it'll happen), and they come up with a design with a simple screen cover (if I spend $600 I shouldn't have to buy that as an accessory) I will steer clear of them. Though I wonder what will come of the lawsuit from Cisco. iPhone is a trademark of their's. In fact, the trademark predates the iMac.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-05-2007 04:09 PM                        quote: Chris Slycord Though I wonder what will come of the lawsuit from Cisco. iPhone is a trademark of their's. In fact, the trademark predates the iMac. That was settled long ago.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-05-2007 04:28 PM                        This is clearly being marketed for the style/design/fashion kudos rather than functionality or versatility. Like the ipod, my guess is that this thing is deliberately being marketed at non-techie types, for whom locked down configurations and not being able to install additional software (translation: the thing is idiotproof) is a blessing rather than a curse. The Ipod still sells well, despite there being cheaper, more versatile and higher capacity rivals on the market. I guess the same thing will happen here: people who want trendy, consumer-friendly technology will buy it. Those who want power, versatility and functionality and are prepared to sacrifice snob value and user-friendliness will go for an alternative smartphone.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-05-2007 05:15 PM                     Me? Spend $600 on a mobile phone? Nah. There's too many other things I want or need to buy that I feel are far more important than some touch screen cellular phone. My truck needs new tires. I just spent $600 on a Adobe CS3 software suite upgrade. I'm trying to set aside some money for the eventual purchase of a good quality HDTV. On top of that, I need to get crowns on three teeth. That's going to be damned expensive. The only way I'm going to be hauling around a iPhone anytime soon is if Cingular/AT&T gives me one for free.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-05-2007 05:44 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley I don't have a cellphone at all right now so I guess I won't be getting one. Do they actually have cell phones in Montana?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 06:19 PM                        Oh yes, they're just as ridiculous here as they are in California. Of course many Montana residents these days are former Californians so it figures. quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea Yes, there will be an iPhone nano, there will. I'll wait for the iPhone Shuffle, where it calls your friends at random.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-05-2007 06:50 PM                        That feature will be available with the iPhone nano and a case of beer.  |  IP: Logged Kyle McEachern Expert Film Handler Posts: 165 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 06-05-2007 07:07 PM                 quote: Daryl I'd consider buying one if they release a CDMA version. The exclusivity contract with AT&T that Apple has is for some ungodly period of time like 5-7 years. CDMA iPhone ain't happenin.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 07:10 PM                        I dislike the concept of cell phones and refuse to get one. That said, I might actually re-consider my position if anyone ever makes one with sound quality at least as good as I get with a 50-year-old Western Electric 500 set.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-05-2007 07:35 PM                        I too dislike the things and went cell-less until just this last month. The airline I work for requires me to have a cell so I finally had to come over to the dark side. The company recommended I go with what was Cingular so quad-band GSM is the way I went - at least I can use it (with local SIM cards) when I start traveling overseas again (everywhere except Japan dammit!). The phone itself is a Moto KRZR, a $300 phone which cost me all of $10 when I signed up for the service. iPhone for me? Not a chance.  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-05-2007 07:43 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I'll wait for the iPhone Shuffle, where it calls your friends at random. Brilliant!  |  IP: Logged

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