“Last week, Apple announced iPhone 2.0. It’s not a new phone model (although that will be coming this year, too)—it’s new software for the existing phone. And in my considered opinion, it will be an even bigger deal than the iPhone itself,” David Pogue reports for The New York Times.
“I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest. The iPhone will be valuable for far more than simple communications tasks; it will be the first widespread pocket desktop computer. You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone,” Pogue reports.
“Sure, there are add-on programs for the Treo, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. But they’ll never achieve the ubiquity or popularity of iPhone apps, because Apple will preinstall the iPhone Apps Store right on every phone. That’s an online catalog of iPhone programs, which you can browse, download and install wirelessly, wherever you happen to be. That’s several thousand fewer barriers and steps than you’d encounter on the other smartphone platforms,” Pogue reports.
“The release of iPhone 2.0 is over three months away, but I’ll stick my neck out and make a prediction: it will be a gigantic success, spreading the iPhone’s popularity both upward, into the corporate market, and downward, into the hands of the masses,” Pogue reports. “iPhone 2.0 will turn this phone into an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader, a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch…and that’s on Day One.”
More in the full article here.
Of course, everything Pogue just wrote also goes for iPod touch*. So, take “huge, gigantic success” and extrapolate.
*Hardware microphone accessory required for the free-calls Skype phone bit.
” ‘You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone,’ Pogue reports.”
Oooh, the Linux people are not going to like that quote.
Can’t wait till June!
I want Quicken on it, and perhaps some way to hook up Bento or some sort of database.
I hope it will be just a easy to remove apps as it will to install them.
For me having the iPhone work with Microsofts Active sync will be huge !!!!
David Pogue is spot on again.
iPhone/iPod touch IS the third platform!
Amazing. Funny there’s no mention of Linux. Yeah, right.
And Apple owns TWO!
“it will be the first widespread pocket desktop computer.”
Call me a semantic freak, but by definition a “desktop” computer can’t fit in your pocket because it’s on the desktop.
Of course, we all know what he means (the POWER of a desktop computer in your pocket), but that’s not what he said…
Pogue: iPhone Software 2.0 is going to be a huge, gigantic success.
Yes, why not add – large, big, humungous, tremendous and the kitchen sink?
@ericdano
I expect Filemaker to create a version for it. They have a Palm version of Filemaker now so an iPhone version should be a no brainer.
I know a few Filemaker database programmers that were just waiting for this.
I have a very small desk.
“You see, something’s going to happen. You must leave.”
“What? What’s going to happen?”
“Something wonderful.”
Bento would be interesting but I’d like to see an iPhone version of Delicious Library.
I also hope there will be a way to demo the apps before purchasing them.
It will be ginormous (not to be confused with a large section of Rosie O’Donnell). Suck on that, MAC dorks.
Well isn’t this interesting:
FileMaker, Inc. discontinues FileMaker Mobile
As of the end of the business day, December 19, 2007, FileMaker, Inc. will no longer sell FileMaker Mobile.
Key Dates
December 19, 2007: Last day to order FileMaker Mobile 8. The product will be available until the end of the business day, local time.*
June 18, 2008: Last day to receive support and order replacement media for FileMaker Mobile 7 and FileMaker Mobile 8. They will be available until the end of the business day, local time..*
* Availability is dependent on inventory
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Well guess that means they got some engineers with some free time to work on an iPhone vesion.
It’ll outsell the Celestial Home Care Omnibus. It will supplant the Encyclopedia Galactica as the repository for all knowledge. It will toast bread, AS YOU SLICE IT.
@ChrissyOne
Very good quote!!
This will be Apple’s assault on the two major areas which it has bypassed up till now—enterprise and gaming! MicroSoft built up all it’s defenses around the desktop but left the soft underbelly of mobile computing guarded by the sad apparition of WinCe.
It is truly a masterstroke by Apple. They are simultaneously taking mobile computing, mobile phones, software development/distribution, music and gaming into a whole new dimension. And MicroSoft, Sony, Nokia, Moto and the telcos can only sit there dumbfounded in awe and disbelief.
Apple owns them for at least the next ten years.
@ Macman, is that a desktop in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
@ Franko
I think they should do an iPhone-as-monolith ad campaign. iPhones covering a planet a creating a new sun. I think Jobs is capable of that kind of hubris.
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@ Synthmeister. Isn’t WinCE also know as “Windows Portable Operating System” AKA Win POS?
@Wandering joe
Yes, WinCe reminds me of those special effects ghosts in the haunted mansion at Disney World. Scary when you were a kid, but kind of amusing in a sad way now that we’ve seen the iPhone.
Good thinking think! That was quite a revelation. Was wandering when a DB would pop up for iPhone
Sorry, I meant “Think” not “think”.
@ChrissyOne
Ya know….standing on its edge the iphone or ipod touch kinda looks like that obelisk from the movie.
Weird coincidence. Or is it??? =/
Am I right in saying that the iPod Touch doesn’t have an external speaker? I am planning to buy an iPod Touch, after the June update. Say I am playing a game like Super Monkey Ball, would I have to wear the headphones to listen to the game sound?
But you’re okay with ‘wandering’?
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@ olternaut
I think naut. It’s a shape that seems to resonate. Power conveyed with a sense of utter simplicity. no moving parts. Just a brick of energy.
Suck on that, MAC dorks.