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iPhone 3G: Once again, Apple has changed the rules, and nothing will ever be quite the same again

Monday, July 28, 2008 - 06:10 PM EST

"Whatever one's view of Apple as a manufacturer of digital equipment, as an author of operating systems and designer of software, as a multinational corporation, as a lifestyle statement or as a quasi-religious cult, it remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iPhone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever. An incredible three-quarters of all mobile web browsing is now done on the iPhone, despite its market share being far smaller than that of either Windows Mobile, BlackBerry/Java or Nokia/Symbian devices. iPhone users report an unprecedented level of customer satisfaction (between 82% and 90%, compared with the second placed BlackBerry at 50%)," Stephen Fry writes for The Guardian.

MacDailyNews Take: And, those so-called "satisfied" BlackBerry users have never touched an iPhone.

Fry continues, "This is not a surprise to anyone who has lived with an iPhone for even a short while, and even less of a surprise to anyone who has also had to work with a WinMob phone."

Fry writes, "A year of living with iPhone One has proved to me that the camera lens and its operation is good enough to produce better photos than phones with twice the resolution, that EDGE speeds allow swift email and full browsing in most areas of the country, that the Google Maps implementation and music, video and photo playback are stunningly impressive, and that other deficiencies are made up for by the sob-worthy beauty, elegance and lovability of another Jonathan Ive-designed Apple masterpiece."

"Nonetheless, we want it all... [And] finally, here it is, the iPhone 3G... This new phone's greatness is not revealed in its outer lineaments, however, gorgeous as they are, software is crucial. Simultaneous with its release comes Version 2.0 of the operating system," Fry writes.

"It means that the power of the iPhone as a beautiful, smooth and function-rich handheld computer can now be realised. Anyone may now write for the iPhone. Existing applications (games, utilities, ebooks, dictionaries and so forth) already written for other platforms can be ported into Apple's elegant and intuitive developer's kit with astonishing ease. All applications have to be downloaded through the iTunes store. Believe me, in a very few weeks you will see things being done on an iPhone that will make you gasp," Fry writes.

MacDailyNews Note: On July 21, a mere 10 days after the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 software launch, Apple announced that over 25 million apps had already been downloaded from the App Store.

"Now that the Applications store is up and running, you will soon find it a very common sight indeed to see people crowded around each other's iPhones showing off the latest impossible, breathtaking and groundbreaking application... Once again, Apple has changed the rules, and nothing will ever be quite the same again," Fry writes.

Much more in the full article - recommended - here.

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Jul 28, 08 - 05:20 pm Comment from: Driver

Take that you suckas. Talk about a RIM job.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:21 pm Comment from: Something rotten

Jep!

Jul 28, 08 - 05:32 pm Comment from: Cubert

"Once again, Apple has changed the rules, and nothing will ever be quite the same again"

The universal headline about Apple - just change the subject.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:42 pm Comment from: occams razor

I love that man

Jul 28, 08 - 05:45 pm Comment from: occams razor

Oh and check out his podcasts, feckin' brill.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:47 pm Comment from: Dijonaise

hellO: he "gets" it.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:48 pm Comment from: Doghouse Riley

What makes this even more interesting is that Stephen Fry isn't your basic techie... he's a famous British actor. Not so well known in the States, maybe, but he was in "A Fish Called Wanda", and narrated a number of the Harry Potter films. He was also half of a comedy team with Hugh Laurie of "House MD". Among other things, Fry played Jeeves to Laurie's Bertie Wooster in the PG Wodehouse comedies.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:49 pm Comment from: anthony

I need a job, I am going for my Apple Cert.

also a Girlfriend, anyone please.

Jul 28, 08 - 05:55 pm Comment from: bizlaw

My kids have already drained my iPhone's battery on one occasion playing Spinner, and my 11 year old son used it to watch his eBay Bionicle searches while we visited family.

They're bugging me to download Monkey Ball, but then I know I'd never see my iPhone again.

Jul 28, 08 - 06:00 pm Comment from: Not Bill

Finally, an unbiased, level headed review of the iPhone! I could not agree more. Is no one paying him to say it does not cut and paste, or Mobile me, a very ambitious undertaking, has some glitches?

Jul 28, 08 - 06:01 pm Comment from: Tiger

What! No blood bath comment yet?

Jul 28, 08 - 06:16 pm Comment from: MARCO

this be great news is the OS wasnt so buggy.
Im not happy with software 2.0
its got more bugs than any OS i used. Far worse than Microsoft.

Jul 28, 08 - 06:27 pm Comment from: GizmoDan

The author claims that the Diamond phone (iPhone competitor) has multi-touch. Is that true? I thought it was patented. Apple lawyers, start your engines.

Jul 28, 08 - 06:34 pm Comment from: Nutcracker

"Apple: Changing the rules since 1984."

MaWo: 'serious'.

Jul 28, 08 - 06:47 pm Comment from: Rainer

"Things will never be the same again".
A classic headline.

Jul 28, 08 - 06:57 pm Comment from: Malthus

Perhaps MobileMe actually works in the UK? And if they didn't suffer from the same activation roadblocks on Day 1, it further points to the real culprit being AT&T;.

Jul 28, 08 - 07:30 pm Comment from: dd

THIS is why I use the AAPL dips to buy. It's only a matter of time before AAPL>300.

Jul 28, 08 - 07:46 pm Comment from: Crazylegs

iPhone will do wonders for RIM. You guys have no idea how economics work. Elasticity of demand is a wonderful thing! Believe it.

Jul 28, 08 - 08:16 pm Comment from: qka

MARCO = JAllard in disguise

Jul 28, 08 - 08:23 pm Comment from: Road Warrior

@ marco.

Really? OS 2.0 have more bugs than an MS OS system...I mean other than DOS?

Impressive.

I bet it has more viruses too.

Jul 28, 08 - 08:34 pm Comment from: CYxodus

marco is a typical windows troll. Come back when you have some truth and you grow up.

Jul 28, 08 - 08:39 pm Comment from: thepumpboy

Had iPhone with v1.0 jailbroken, now iPhone 3G with v2.0 legal downunder, love it. MobileMe is working perfecting after second day, push is great. But have noticed AUS app store and US app store have different apps. No Last.FM / Pandora for example in AUS store. We still restricted by region... again?!?

Jul 28, 08 - 09:00 pm Comment from: MacSheikh

Stephen Fry's a funny guy, good actor too. And he comes across as a straight-talking, unbiased writer. Although he has been a Mac user for quite a while (apparently he was introduced to the Mac years ago by Douglas Adams).

Jul 28, 08 - 09:54 pm Comment from: Some of the guys in my office

have Blackberries. They're no longer thrilled with them, since they've seen my iPhone. The iPhone's screen is larger, and the Blackberry's screen seems fuzzy by comparison. Ease of use goes to the iPhone too.

Jul 28, 08 - 10:59 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Change the Rules ?

Change the World™

BC

Jul 29, 08 - 09:44 am Comment from: gedboy

I think Fry claims he had the second Mac in Britain when Douglas Adams had the first.

He is pretty much a renaissance man in the breadth and depth of his abilities.

If you haven't seen him in the film 'Wilde' about the great Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills, then you have missed a treat.

A serious cool personage.

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