Wait wait wait. It’s fine to get excited but let’s not get fanboy on the iphone before it stands up to scrutiny. I’d like to see what some independent reviewers like Anand and so on say before it gets whatever golden seal its looking for.
Unike Devindra, I do have some concerns about execution and it’s precisely because, as David pointed out, Jobs is a showman and a consummate speaker. I’ve been playing around with the latest versions of Dell’s axim for years now and if you take a look at the x50/51 series, the look and feel are seriously similar to the iphone model we’ve seen this last week. While the device is not a phone, it’s a serious multimedia platform, running a full version of win mobile and thus all of the applications that one can run there. It’s quite an awesome device and if you read around, for what it does, most reviewers will agree that there’s nothing better. I purchased the Axim because it offered reasonable room for drag and drop media, lots of latitude w/ what it could do w/ its resources and a screen that was to die for (and still is). My bottom line was that I wasn’t gonna drop $400 on a walkman alone.
Enter the iphone. It’s an axim w/ a talk capability and electronics, that, after two years, have been significantly reduced in size. It still has the same five hour battery life as the axim and allows wifi and all that jazz—that it doesn’t allow for are the little things—drag and drop capabilities for media files outside of itunes, a screen that actually support VGA (if dell could do it in ’05, apple can certainly do it in ’07), and Bluetooth synching/allowing to swap files (even off of itunes) through the PAN.
Now I can see dropping $600 on a nano-class walkman, a gsm telephone (serious latitude there once unlocked), and what appears to be a pda….but I don’t want that at the cost of proprietary foolishness (refer to the itunes/only interface and the non 16x9 widescreen it offers). The proprietary nonsense is what left apple behind in the tech game for so long—it took UNIX in the flavor of OSX to get them some real machines of the line and then it took them accepting that x86 was the only chip platform worth dealing w/ before it could truly bring those chips to bear. It’s what kept them from becoming the “SONY” of computing. I don’t need apple tweaking found and established technologies more than I need them to drop the pretentious proprietary B.S. and let me guide the hardware the way I want….you know, being the sophisticated, dark-rimmed-glasses-wearing professional that Apple’s been pushing in their ads since 1999.
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Unike Devindra, I do have some concerns about execution and it’s precisely because, as David pointed out, Jobs is a showman and a consummate speaker. I’ve been playing around with the latest versions of Dell’s axim for years now and if you take a look at the x50/51 series, the look and feel are seriously similar to the iphone model we’ve seen this last week. While the device is not a phone, it’s a serious multimedia platform, running a full version of win mobile and thus all of the applications that one can run there. It’s quite an awesome device and if you read around, for what it does, most reviewers will agree that there’s nothing better. I purchased the Axim because it offered reasonable room for drag and drop media, lots of latitude w/ what it could do w/ its resources and a screen that was to die for (and still is). My bottom line was that I wasn’t gonna drop $400 on a walkman alone.
Enter the iphone. It’s an axim w/ a talk capability and electronics, that, after two years, have been significantly reduced in size. It still has the same five hour battery life as the axim and allows wifi and all that jazz—that it doesn’t allow for are the little things—drag and drop capabilities for media files outside of itunes, a screen that actually support VGA (if dell could do it in ’05, apple can certainly do it in ’07), and Bluetooth synching/allowing to swap files (even off of itunes) through the PAN.
Now I can see dropping $600 on a nano-class walkman, a gsm telephone (serious latitude there once unlocked), and what appears to be a pda….but I don’t want that at the cost of proprietary foolishness (refer to the itunes/only interface and the non 16x9 widescreen it offers). The proprietary nonsense is what left apple behind in the tech game for so long—it took UNIX in the flavor of OSX to get them some real machines of the line and then it took them accepting that x86 was the only chip platform worth dealing w/ before it could truly bring those chips to bear. It’s what kept them from becoming the “SONY” of computing. I don’t need apple tweaking found and established technologies more than I need them to drop the pretentious proprietary B.S. and let me guide the hardware the way I want….you know, being the sophisticated, dark-rimmed-glasses-wearing professional that Apple’s been pushing in their ads since 1999.