I was there, the first day, buying the iPhone, after months of reading all the speculation and argument about it. I was actually on the fence on it. When I walked into the Apple store on June 29th, I wasn't even certain that I'd be buying the iPhone. I had some serious concerns. But I made the plunge. I bought it, and I've been using it heavily ever since. With one month clocked with the iPhone, here's my road test report.
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They'll move a ton of iPhones in Japan (and the EU, for that matter). You can't expect to have every little feature in a 1.0 release. When the iPhone adds 3G at a future point it will simply further humiliate Nokia, MOT, LG and the others.
I wouldn't call "a little feature" those problems that Adam talked about. Plus, I don't think Apple can change iPhone design so easily as many think and as of now, EU carriers refused it.
Don't get me wrong: Apple is not dumb. Limitations they put in aren't by chance but were designed for their own purposes. Take battery: they know that, if battery could be replaceable, a big unofficial market of non-Apple batteries will have flourished, as it happens for all phones on the market. So they made it non-replaceable to force you to send Phone in to change it. Is that wise? Sure, for them! But I don't think customers will like that.
I expect iPhone having hard times. Take myself: to sell an iPhone to me, they would need to change 70% of it (save touch-screen, save big flash and... nothing more!). I agree I'm not an average user but also consider that average users will pay their phones 100-200€ and they will have more than iPhone!
Member since:2005-07-06
It will very hard. First of all, it will take time to modify iPhone. Many people give this as easy to accomplish but IMO it's not true. You can't easily trash a design and put up another one.
Plus, Apple had a bad history in asian market. Remember when Apples were the only PCs which weren't able to display japanese chars? It won't be easy to ship such product to Japan expecially when crafted like this. Better to avoid than fail: Apple's myth could be affected.
We'll see what happens.
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2005-07-06
I agree, but I think that it will be even worse in Japan, which started 3G and which has always the best phone.
I wonder if Apple will even try to sell the i-Phone in Javan..