Comments on: iPhone = iHype http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/06/18/iphone-ihype/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Colin Smillie http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/06/18/iphone-ihype/#comment-5736 Colin Smillie Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:41:30 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/06/18/iphone-ihype/#comment-5736 I disagree on the availability of cool phones and I think the real opportunity for the iphone is to succeed where the technology is extremely painful. I've had a Razr for years and the v1 had the ability to play MP3s but it was painful to setup and required Motorola software. The iTunes version was limited in the number of songs and still pretty difficult to use with proprietary head phone jack etc... Apple has an opportunity is to make all that easier. And thats just music. BlackBerry and GPS maps are available but hard to use. Video on any of the current generation of phones is painful and lacks the iTunes inventory. Check out of the Amp'd content as an example of this problem. I disagree on the availability of cool phones and I think the real opportunity for the iphone is to succeed where the technology is extremely painful.

I’ve had a Razr for years and the v1 had the ability to play MP3s but it was painful to setup and required Motorola software. The iTunes version was limited in the number of songs and still pretty difficult to use with proprietary head phone jack etc… Apple has an opportunity is to make all that easier. And thats just music.

BlackBerry and GPS maps are available but hard to use.

Video on any of the current generation of phones is painful and lacks the iTunes inventory. Check out of the Amp’d content as an example of this problem.

]]> By: Blog World Expo Blog » Sick of the iPhone yet? Join the club http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/06/18/iphone-ihype/#comment-5715 Blog World Expo Blog » Sick of the iPhone yet? Join the club Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:19:26 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/06/18/iphone-ihype/#comment-5715 [...] Mark Evans is on the same page with me on the iPhone nonsense. Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple, Brightcove, net neutrality, Google, Safari for Windows, Mozilla, [...] [...] Mark Evans is on the same page with me on the iPhone nonsense. Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple, Brightcove, net neutrality, Google, Safari for Windows, Mozilla, [...]

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