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I can't help but notice here in Perth Australia the number of people listening to iPods/iPhones. Almost every solo jogger/walker is listening to an iPod. You've got to see it to believe it.

Yeah, that iPod (now iPhone & Touch) on every jogger/commuter has been über-apparent stateside for 6+ years now.

It won't be long before it'll be 50%.

It's saved a few people getting lost in the rain forest, with it's GPS.

And it has a time table for rail and you have an app to see which restaurant to avoid, if they've had fines in the past.

It has been a massive uptake. For example.
3G launches (1st in Aus) Me, Paul and Brad get them.
Now
My brother has one.
Brad's girlfriend, girlfriend's mum
My old girlfriend and her mum
My mate Dom, his girlfriend
My mate Gareth, his girlfriend soon after, then his girlfriend's mum.

When I go to a party with these guys, we all take out our phones, out of about 20 people, about 4 don't have them. It is actually ridiculous. Every bus, there is a large amount of people on iPhones. Every restaurant, every meeting I go to. They are everywhere here!

It's funny that even with the horrible inconsistency for dropped calls (fairly often) and other problems, every person loves their iPhone, even with it's faults, and can't imagine life without it! I do hope the whole reliability thing gets better, it can be frustrating sometimes...

Oct 13, 09 - 09:44 am Comment from: ron

"It has been a massive uptake. For example.
3G launches (1st in Aus) Me, Paul and Brad get them."

What about Brad's cat?

Oct 13, 09 - 09:46 am Comment from: ron

SB. Bred's cet.

Oct 13, 09 - 09:52 am Comment from: Joshua Maynard

Just think what the numbers would be like if:

Telstra australia's largest and fastest 3g 850 network was actually half interested in selling the iPhone

And

Apple had enough stock for Vodafone and Optus to sell

I'll be traveling to Australia with my unlocked 3G. Who should I buy a sim card from to get decent coverage in Sydney and Cairns? Cheers.

Of course, to Dances With Monkeys, 21% is just a rounding error.

I guess Australians have never hear of Microsoft Mobile?

Oct 13, 09 - 11:53 am Comment from: Big Als MBP

From the article,

"'What the iPhone has done is ensure that all other manufactures have had to include similar features. The whole industry has benefited as a result of the iPhone in terms of the rapid pace of innovation, which has intensified of the past couple of years.'"

INNOVATION?

Dude, there is no innovation involved in copying Apple's iPhone, feature by feature.

Now, do you want a second or third class copy with App-Lack or do you want the real thing?

Birdbath, mate.

Oct 13, 09 - 03:25 pm Comment from: Bogus Jimmy

@K

Telstra has the best coverage by far but is also the most expensive.

In my Chemistry and Physics Lab classes at uni the number of these devices is astounding. I encourage the students to photograph their experiments to assist in the write up.

I don't know what I would do without the thing in tutorials or lab classes.

It has my notes (Aji - a brilliant pdf reader - it will handle 2000+ pages, though slow at times); our module notes, lab manual, textbook, reference books etc. Over 4000 pages. And DocsToGo for word/excel (naturally I don't have these on my computer - I use pages/numbers and convert. I would prefer native pages/numbers but the Uni won't be there for a very long time ......

I have my periodic table (Elemints) at hand with all the extra things that it does such as calculating molecular weights

My calculator an SCI-15C

FM touch with class records and marks

a unit convertor

MSDS (material safety data sheets)

and of course iCal - timetable; safari - in class checking of data with cambridgesoft and other reputable sites.

I photograph the paper class lists/marks at the end of each session in case of the paper ones going missing

and that doesn't include signal scope (a "CRO"), signal suite (dual channel signal generator), sound meter (decibels) in physics

ipod

oh, and occasionally make/receive phone calls.

It is my lab/classroom/preparation office in a single device and I am less likely to lose it (unlike a pda, calculator, ipod, phone, notebook) because I am using it all the time.

and, good for a scientist, my mdn word is evidence!

It's a bloody blood bath!

The Goon Show forever:
Little Neddie Pugh Seagoon

@K

http://www.pennytel.com/au/ have a PennySim and an iPhone app for cheap calls.