..or at least one concept design posted at dotdosh. [Others have imagined more radical possibilities.] We don’t know what to expect, but the next generation arrives July.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
“Don’t beam me up yet, Scotty — I want to finish this game of Tetris.”
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
This only furthers the analogy I use on the iPhone. It’s like getting a sexy new car that will only let you drive to one particular grocery store and back. Despite being fully capable of driving to different stores or driving to a friend’s house, Apple won’t let it.
I only bought an iPod after I was sure of two things: That I could successfully jailbreak it, and that I could replace significantly wasteful portions of my work with it. Both of these are true: it’s now replaced 95% of the paper I use at work or at conferences, along with about 65% of my general internet use (i.e. checking mail and feeds). (I’d considered a Blackberry but a jailbroken iPod or iPhone is just better at the job.) The sad part is, I shouldn’t need to fight the manufacturer to accomplish this.
Apple’s trying monopolistic tactics just as fiercely today as Microsoft was a decade ago, except Apple also seems to want to control the creative content as much as the tools we use. People seem content at giving them a free pass at it because the tech looks nice — are we so easily swayed by shiny things that we seem to miss this?
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Mmmmm…shiny!
I’m sorry, what were you saying?
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
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May 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
People seem content at giving them a free pass at it because the tech looks nice — are we so easily swayed by shiny things that we seem to miss this?
Frankly, if the demand for such activities were as high as you assume, Google’s open-source Android would have eaten the iPhone’s lunch by now. For most people, the quality, polish and yes, attractiveness of Apples products more than make up for the downsides compared to the downsides of Microsoft/Zune and Linux/Android options.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:21 am
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May 24th, 2009 at 6:14 am
wow it looks really thin, for something that takes a lot of the bulk of your money.:-P
May 24th, 2009 at 7:28 am
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May 24th, 2009 at 11:12 am
BrianD, I agree that closing the iPhone reduces its utility. However, that decision was part of an overall strategy that includes pricing decisions. Apple was able to make more money on the iPhone by closing it. Had they opened it up, they would have had to generate that revenue by some other means, such as raising the price. This is all a matter of “six of one, half a dozen of the other”.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Will this model have a video camera? i was pretty P.O. when i bought the last one and i cant even catch an amazing moment on film. even the shittest phones have vid cam…. apple should get on it..
May 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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June 1st, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Erasmussimo: True, but opening an iPhone and jailbreaking it are different technical processes. I can buy that argument for closing the phone (and in fact agree completely with your depiction of it), but that doesn’t explain why we have to jailbreak it to get it to do half of the things it’s capable of doing instead of having Apple cash in on the obvious demand for these things. For instance:
Shaking Head: The iPhone can capture video (fairly decently for a phone, too). However, Apple’s default software won’t let you; you have to jailbreak it to use this function. Everyone using the iPhone for video is now using free software like Cycorder, rather than an app or plugin that gives Apple money each time it’s downloaded. This would be the “go to a friend’s house” in my original analogy.