So, will there be an Apple phone announcement?
Steve Safran January 4th, 2007
Poll time: who thinks Apple will/will not announce the long-rumored, previously-known-as-the iPhone? Macworld is next week. Predictions? I’ll start: Yes. And they will cut deals with all the major carriers so that it will be non-carrier-centric. Mind you, I was way off on my video iPod guess. Plenty of interesting ideas and mockups at the iPhone Concept Blog. (The funniest is below.) Your wild guesses in the comments below, please…
The Apple iPhone as tongue-in-cheekily designed by Matt Hoffman at iPhone Concept Blog.
10 Comments Add your own
1. Cory Bergman | January 4th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Frankly, I’m more excited about the ITV or whatever they’re going to call that device that wirelessly connects your PC to your TV.
2. theTVaddict | January 4th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
As a card-carrying member of the Apple Cult, I’ve got my Credit Card in hand and ready to pay whatever it costs for the much anticipated Apple Phone!
3. thomas | January 4th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Surely it will be of mediocre quality but it will be pretty so all of you Mac nuts will buy them up like hot-cakes just because its Apple.
4. thedetroitchannel | January 4th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
why would you say “mediocre” quality?
mind you, i couldn’t operate an ipod if my life depended on it. but my kids have had everything from the original click wheel to the shuffle to a mac book .
never a problem save the battery on the original ipod, which was immediately replaced simply by presenting it at best buy (where i always purchase the service contract).
mediocre? please explain.
expensive? i’d agree there.
5. Rex | January 4th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Safran, did you already forget my God-iPhone comparison?
6. KFF | January 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Will the iPhone also break at the 18 month mark so you need to go and purchase a new model…a brilliant business model for the iPod, so I’m sure they’ll do the same.
And yes, it will be announced at Macworld, with Steve Jobs calling Bono.
7. Z | January 4th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I’m still waiting on the iSuppository. It’s coming, I’m sure of it. Medicine is too lucrative.
8. David Westin | January 5th, 2007 at 12:53 am
How about a $200 price chop on the 24″ iMac? I have never owned an Apple product until receiving an iPod a few weeks ago. I will be getting a Macbook Pro by the middle of the year; it is just plain easier the Apple way.
I would like to see Apple come out with their own printer with wireless capability in it.
For real predictions instead of wishful thinking, the iTV with the ability to watch multiple streams.
9. DJ Carli | January 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I’ve been using Apple Macintosh computers since 1994, and after two wholesale platform abandonments (the first being the move from the classic Mac OS to the FreeBSD based OSX and the second being the move from Power PC to Intel) in conjunction with the mediocre build quality of their recient products, it will be a long long time before I purchase another Apple anything. (Note that I’m not including Apple’s switch from NuBus to PCI or ADB/serial to USB in my platform abandonment peaves.)
thedetroitchannel asks above…. “mediocre? please explain.”
Build quality. Apple doesn’t manufacture them like they used to, or at least they don’t manufacture the iPod line to the same build standards of the Quadra 840av (which I still use a few times a month) or the PCI Macs of the 1990s. See comment below.
KFF states above…. “Will the iPhone also break at the 18 month mark so you need to go and purchase a new model….”
This is an important point that one needs to consider seriously before purchasing the proverbial “iPhone”. “Non-functioning iPods being offered as parts units are frequenly listed on the various electronics/computer swap lists that I watch, which indicates a less-than-stellar reliability rate within the iPod product line. If the iPod has a habit of developing problems after a year or two of use, then there is no way I’d trust a telephone built by the same company, especially since that phone might be my lifeline to the world in an emergency. YMMV
I have electronic equipment which was built in the 1970s and still works as new. There is no reason why Apple computer couldn’t build iPods and other products to the same longevity standards.
David Westin says…. “How about a $200 price chop on the 24″ iMac?”
Now that Apple builds their computers using Intel chipsets and offers no classic application support (that I know of) on the Intel machines, unless one has a specific need to run OSX, one can build an Intel clone PC from parts for easily a third or even less of the price of a new Mac if they are a good shopper. Many/most OSX functions can be duplicated using the FreeBSD system (on which OSX is based) or one of the various flavors of Linux running on generic Intel hardware. Considering this, I don’t see how Apple can justify the big-buxx they are asking for their post-switch-to-Intel offerings.
Just my opinion - YMMV
73’s - DJ Carli
10. Tana | January 11th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
how much will the new apple phone coast??
and when is it coming out in australia??
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