iPhone will bring mobile video to the masses
Cory Bergman January 9th, 2007
A little prediction. Up until now, watching video on your cell phone or your 5G video iPod has been a nice little extra, but not something we do very often. In fact, I watch more iTunes video on my TV or PC than I watch on my iPod. Cell phones have very poor video quality due to deep compression and tiny, crappy screens. And we don’t really carry our 5G iPods around with us. The new iPhone solves these problems, and I believe it will bring mobile video to the masses, from a specialty to an addiction. Just about everyone already has an iTunes account, and we’ve already downloaded video. But now it will be with us, at all times, just a button push away. It’s pricey, at $499, but when faced with buying a new iPod and a new smart phone, it’s actually less expensive. So over time, I believe the iPhone will gain some serious market share, and it will do more to advance mobile video than Verizon’s new V-CAST Mobile TV service and others to follow. Yes, it can’t handle live video (yet), it’s just for Cingular (for now) and it lives in the closed iTunes loop, but it’s leaps and bounds ahead of its mobile video competition in quality and functionality.
5 Comments Add your own
1. thedetroitchannel | January 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
this week we’ve heard that safran is now working for ar&d.
and the more i read cory it sounds like he went to work for apple!
2. Cory | January 9th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Yeah, and I’m not a Mac guy. It’s really that cool, folks.
3. Michael Gay | January 9th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I’m with you Cory. It looks very nice. Once stations can find a way to send live breaking-news video to it, we have a whole new audience to which we can report.
4. thedetroitchannel | January 10th, 2007 at 5:53 am
surely, you know i jest.
carry on.
5. Zack | January 11th, 2007 at 5:40 am
I’m not a big Mac guy either, but I’ve never been so excited over a gadget. I’ve started an iPhone piggy bank.
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