“There’s hype. There’s hysteria. And there’s history,” May Wong writes for The Associated Press.
“The hype around Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhone is abundantly clear. So is the hysteria. But how the iPhone will leave its historical mark after Friday’s launch is to be seen,” Wong writes. “Will the gadget — which triples as a cell phone, iPod media player and a wireless Web device — be as ‘revolutionary’ as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has claimed?”
“People want more now. There are plenty of slim, ultra-thin options out there, but not many make finding photos, saving phone contacts, picking up voice mail and selecting ringtones insanely easy,” Wong reports. “‘This is the most anticipated phone since Alexander Graham Bell did his,’ said Michael Gartenberg, an industry analyst at JupiterResearch. ‘Part of it is the fascination with Apple’s products and how well they design them, but it’s also about how poor the design in software is in cell phones now, and how much time Apple has spent working on this.'”
Wong reports, “‘A few handset makers have been trying to make the phone simpler without having to refer to a manual that’s 18 times the size of the phone,’ said Richard Doherty, president of The Envisioneering Group, a research company. ‘But Apple is going for the moon here.'”
Wong reports, “With its iPod players and Macintosh computers, the Cupertino-based company has already cemented a reputation for making products that are intuitive and easy to use. Other electronics makers have admitted that Apple has set the bar there for those product categories… The proof will come once the iPhone gets into users hands.”
Full article here.
Mr. Schiller—Come here—I want to see you”
The iPhone is…
…the best thing since sliced bread
MW: since
Dr. Bell’s telephone was NOT anticipated. After it was shown, the public reaction was “So what?” At one time, it was envisionedthat youy would have a phone in your home so that you could listen to concerts, lectures, and other entertainments. Person-to-person communications came later – and that has its own history.
I hate it when anal-ysts get their history wrong.
And just like Alexander Graham Bell, not many people out there see the significance. But, in a few years, they will.
Let the Star Trek era begin!
Three items on the iPhone, none on the iPod and none on the Macintosh. When will there be another split-off – iPhoneDailyNews? I’m not really all that interested in the iPhone, won’t be getting one … (yawn) … looking for Mac News, and can get through “Apple News” not Mac-related.
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qka, I thought about including a similar remark but declined because it appeared they were going for a time-based benchmark rather than an anticipation-based benchmark. You are correct that Bell’s invention was not anticipated, nor its implications understood, in its early years. Heck, it’s still evolving!
Right on QKA, you beat me to it.
And after watching the “How To” video on the iPhone, I don’t really need to get one in my hands to get a good feel on how easy that thing is going to be to use.
But for me, I really can’t justify it. I don’t listen to music on the go except in my car. I have no real need to browse the net or get email when away from my home/office; on a long trip I’d take my MacBook to do that. And for my phone I use an LG8600 (Alltel) and I can make & receive calls on it, take pics, make movies, and transfer to/from my Mac via Bluetooth. As for the teenager in the house, well, that’s a different story entirely…. I think her next boyfriend will be the first one she sees with an iPhone.
“…but it’s also about how poor the design in software is in cell phones now”
You said it sister, THAT”S going to be the difference. The phone will be a pleasure to use. If it’s easier to navigate THEN people will use it more often for more things.
It’s use will grow. Sales increase and market share spreads. I won’t go so far as to say the notebook will then lose out to the all-in-one phone like the desktop computer is losing to the notebook but it’s a small possibility, depends on peoples habits in 10 years. I’d like to see Apple work a deal with MySpace and include it on the iPhone.
Get the most popular web sites to work nice with the phone? Priceless.
Sorry DL, but no way around it…
Anybody that does not want to hear about the iphone or is fed up with the hype, please stop reading any news for a week! take a hike or visit the moon. Even Paris and Hillary will be jealous of the attention the iphone will get the next few days.
“If Alexander Graham Bell knew what blunders men would make with his invention, he would have scrapped the whole idea.”
Doc Love
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” – A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” – Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
“It’s a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?” – Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. President, after a demonstration of Alexander Bell’s telephone, 1877.
“A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires.” – News item in a New York newspaper, 1868.
“Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.” – Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962.
So…. What is the possibility of Apple doing a license on OS X (for the Phone) to other phone makers. Clearly the only other alternative would be for phone makers to go with Microsoft – or is this strictly another Hardware sale for Apple?
With all of the patents that Apple has for protection?? What is up Steve Jobs’ sleeve now?
Iphone will sure be better because it’s a real Apple’s own invention. Do not compare it to Alexander Graham Bell’s because this last one was a thief. Antonio Meucci was the real phone inventor. Bell just stolen the meucci idea and presented it as himself’s idea. He just had the crowd of glory because Meucci died before the trial was over. The American congress paid tribute and justice to Meucci as the REAL phone inventor – http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.RES.269:
Sorry but I like historical justice not thiefs.
… Well some form of Linux could also make it’s way to phones. But is hasn’t done a great job of it so far. Who is going to build it?
Then there is the Apple patent issue.
There was, at one time, a pay phone on every corner. Now thew are hard to find. This device, and others like it, will replace the PC.
Should say “they” are hard to find.
you must be interested…you read the article. You know you want one…and bad.
@ larry
Thanks for the quotes. Very interesting reading!
I am waiting for the next generation. Too much of an innovation to go for it now, although it is extremely tempting. I saw the video on Apple’s website, an outstanding piece of marketing. It actually made me think about breaking my Verizon contract early and chucking my BlackBerry.
Problem is if I go to the iPhone, I will lose my MS Exchange email capabilities (I think). I think our IT admin has to support the iPhone with MS exchange even if it does work. With the volume of iPhones that could potentially be gigantic, this may not be an issue in the future, but for now….
Any thoughts? Thanks.
But nothing was as anticipated as my morning Graham Cracker.
“It’s a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?” – Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. President, after a demonstration of Alexander Bell’s telephone, 1877.
“A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires.” – News item in a New York newspaper, 1868.
“Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.” – Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962.
‘ Transporting the molecular structure of a human being from one place to another is and will always be science fiction ‘; – 2962
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
— Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
— Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”
— The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
“But what … is it good for?”
— Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,commenting on the microchip.
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
— Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
heres a neat link link, we will see the fud writers here in a few years , concerning the iPhone
http://www.westvegas.com/bad_techno_predictions.html
Problem is if I go to the iPhone, I will lose my MS Exchange email capabilities (I think).
Which is why Apple must, MUST open the iPhone to developers! The current “Safari as SDK” idea is no answer.
Just think… there could already be third-party answers available for issues like this. Apple could endorse or even buy these solutions.
It’d be a true shame to see the 1984-1995 era repeat itself, this time on phones…
Personally, I found Apple’s iPhone video demo very eye-opening. The interface, which must operate in a really tiny space, is very innovative and is sure to have an impact on the design of desktop computer apps—not to mention cell phone interfaces. I agree with the author that “Apple is going for the moon here.” Steve Jobs wants to take us to the next quantum leap in computer interface design, and right now he’s the only one who really sees where that leap might take us. The comparison between the iPhone and Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone is very appropriate in the sense that no one (except Bell himself, perhaps) foresaw how huge the telephone would be, just as no one (except Steve Jobs, perhaps) sees where the iPhone is going. Happy trails to us all!
The last quote from the link above
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about
funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went
to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.'”
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer Inc., on his and Steve Wozniak’s early attempts to distribute their personal computer.
Buy AAPL now, sell the rest, prepare for more FUD, ignore it and move upward.
Just think… there could already be third-party answers available for issues like this. Apple could endorse or even buy these solutions.
——————–
Yes, if Apple wanted to embrace these solutions, they could… However, Apple doesn’t want to embrace these solutions..
….Apple wants to change them.. With iPhone, they probably will.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
— Bill Gates, 1981
Anyone who has seen the 25-minute demo video has to be amazed. Just as a phone, doing things like making a three-way call and managing voice mails were so intuitive. AT&T needs to pay Apple some licensing fees and make a “regular” (not mobile) phones with the same interface. I’d like to have a at-home phone that worked like iPhone (just as a phone).
Engadget has a brie review of the iPhone from someone who received an advanced model. Some of the posters had a great idea: For SMS and e-mail, the keyboard should be able to go into landscape mode for better accuracy. The reviewer said the intelligent keyboard wasn’t that intelligent, only for simple words. If such is the case it would really steal the thunder from the launch.
>I’m not really all that interested in the iPhone, won’t be getting one … (yawn)<
yeah, kinda like how everyone feels about your dumb pod cast huh No one cares yet you keep spamming us with your link
There is a lot of stuff written about Exchange support in the iPhone which confuses me.
Surely, the iPhone’s mail client is IMAP, and Exchange Server has an IMAP option: I know it does, because I set it up for a customer and I log into my account on their server using the IMAP functionality on mail.app.
Even if your enterprise IT people are raving paranoids, Exchange’s two-tier function would allow you to have an IMAP server at the edge of the network leveraging data held on Exchange data servers inside the network.
As I say, I’m confused.
“mission accomplished”
GW
I love living in the future.
…” There is a lot of stuff written about Exchange support in the iP”
Hey guys,
About the Exchange Issue, I think may be able to help as far as I know,
As I have setup Macs for mail exchage a few times.
Yes exchange has support for Imap, this allows any Mac to connect and get email,
The Phone needs to be on a IP range that exchange will except normally so all computers in the office, but outside the phone may not be on a IP address,
So Using Wifi Normally in the Office the Iphone should get email fine. But the Only system I believe out of work is Webmail using MS outlook exhange, many companies have this.
Or a VPN,
OK Hope some help here,
Future Stuff:
PS: Electric cars,
Food made in a Cup,
Chocolate that grows itself.
I just checked on the prices for the IPHONE from AT@ T.
For everything advertised that the iphone does, you will be charged a whopping $120.00 dollars a month.
Have fun. I won’t buy an iphone until prices drop all around..
OK,
Here for people who are unsure about email
I may setup a mail server :
If anyone wants to help me with this > iphonewebmail.com
Any people can have all email forwarded to this server and can access there mail. Just put a mail rule in: and forward to balbalbal@iphonewebmail etc
OK,
Dam Prine ,
See I wish they just charged more for the iphone.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian and so is the telephone & JAVA programing language for that matter, the base for AJAX and the iPhone’ true web potential.
The Truth about Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone: Bell moved from Canada to the U.S. while actively working on it. Diplomatically, he said at the time, “The telephone was conceived in Brantford (Ontario) in 1874 and born in Boston in 1875.”
I knew it. I totally blame Canada.
“mission accomplished”
But unfortunately for us the mission Bush meant was getting Laura to swallow.
If you think Safari/AJAX doesn’t cut it as an SDK, then you’re just stuck in Web 1.0 thinking. The iPhone is going to take us into Web 2.0, but some people just aren’t ready to accept that yet.
When in doubt, blame Canada.
To all you guys that keep mentioning Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, please read RH’s message above and above all click the link to the U. S. Congress resolution (H. RES. 269) dated October 17, 2001 that he very conveniently supplied, where full credit for the invention is given to Antonio Meucci, a Florentine, like myself.
Meucci demostrated his invention in 1860 but was never able to turn it into a commercial reality, for a number of reasons that are very clearly detailed in the resolution.
Saying that Bell invented the telephone is like saying that Bill Gates invented the modern day personal computer. We all know that it is not true.
He was however able to turn it into a viable commercial and technological reality.
That should be his sole merit.
My best, and thanks again to RH for posting his clarifying message.
..anticipation can get so big ..then you have trouble breathing. When I was little I waited in line for a special gift that was being given to kids. I waited so long, the kid in front of me got his and then the guy said to me they were out, sorry. That night several homes in the expensive hills section of town burned ..they said it was arson. I don’t know. Now, there’s anticipation for the iPhone and somewhere it’s disturbing the harmony of a weak mind. The iPod has evolved steadily over 5 years. The anticipation for the iPhone evolution is enough to put a grown man on a gurney let alone just standing in line and not getting one …heaven forbid the kid in front of me get sick or something.
the iPhone demo on the net is probably all most people need to watch, no need to read manuals…it’s like the difference between a high end GUI and a C prompt, with all Apple’s competitors sitting at the C prompt level.
Probably the most useful advanced Canadian invention is the Robertson screw, the one with the square hole. It beats the pants off the Phillips screw, the one with the little cross. Why has the U.S. not adopted the Robertson after all these years? The best technology doesn’t always win the major share of the market.
For all of you saying Bell didn’t invent the telephone:
John Sculley, long before he was Apple CEO, invented the vertical shadow mask for CRT displays. So did Sony. Sony got to the patent Office first. They called their product Trinitron. The rest is history.
This has happened innumerable times in history. Get used to it.
qka: That was probably Amelio who had a huge background in electronics and physics.
Sculley studied architectural design and business.
qka, Sony might have registred trinitron first but do not compare apples with lemmons. Bell was a thief of the worst species. Read the history to learn. This is probably one of the most disgusting illegal intelectual appropriation in history. The Bell robery only prevailed throught history because he was an american. If Bell was an Italian the history could be different. At least the congress agreed with this view in 2001 and returned the truth to it’s place. ANTONIO MEUCCI was THE INVENTOR of the PHONE period. The problem is that Meucci did not had the money to pay the patent. Read the resolution from the congress, learn, and then speak:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:1:./temp/~c1072daOn1::
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:2:./temp/~c1072daOn1::
By the way, I’m not Italian but I like historical justice.
@Ferf Muckmeyer
The Exchange Integration issue is silly. For a start, Exchange has supported web-based mail access for 5+ years. Secondly, any mail client which supports SMTP or IMAP can connect to Exchange. Entourage on the Mac talks to Exhcange, but Apple Mail on the Mac works perfectly well with Exchange, including calendar invitations.
The nonsense propogated by IT people about security issues or integration issues is just that – nonsense. They are ill-informed and too lazy to investigate. But they will have to – iPhones are going to be everywhere in a flash.
mw=able (to be integrated with exchange) !!
Hey if we are going to talk about thieves and misappropriated credit, how about EDISON VERSUS TESLA?!!!
Cubert said, “Let the Star Trek era begin!”
I want the version of iPhone that can beam me up (and down and all around), Scotty. Release 3.0?
Hi Mac Writer
Edison Vs Tesla was a little different issue because they were both geniuses, at least in my opinion and their war was just a question of a best option dispute and not a direct dispute for the same invention or a act of robery such as the Bell one. And, in this case, Tesla genius was recognized by the history because we all use AC devices now. Oh, and by the way, Tesla is the name of a SI unit for the measurement of the intensity of a magnetic field. Edison does not have his name in a SI unit
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But, as I said, Edison and Tesla were both great.
Yes, I read May Wong’s Associated Press article in Portland’s “Oregonian” newspaper. One of the paragraphs that I liked the most in the article was when they mentioned that,
“The software is going to sell this phone– it’s going to be so easy and obvious and will correct a lot of problems in other phones. Other phones, even Blackberries, can do a million things but you can’t figure out how to do anything on them.”
Once again Steve Jobs and company has thought differently and came up with a mobile phone that your grandmother can learn to use, and that your kids will love to use. I with them well with that and only hope that AT&T won’t take too much advantage of this technology with their monthly rates.
$120/Month did you say Dave Smith? That’s highway robbery, but I know that people will still pay it to have this wonderful device.
I think that there is no doubt at all that the iPhone is going to truly revolutionise the cell phone industry. Apple have already introduced a new way of thinking – just imagine what it is going to be like when we get to iPhone gen 3!
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