Apple unveils it's new product: The Iphone! Now, I'm not a huge Apple follower but I have to admit that they have done a brilliant job with this latest Ipod incarnation. If they keep this up, they may very well turn me into another loyal customer... must fight it.. must... but so pretty... so damn cool looking... what? Touch screen? Wifi?.... okay, I want one :)
Yes, among it's other features are the abilities to play video, music, and of course make and take phone calls. The touch screen is a cool new feature but I think some will definately miss the circular click wheel. Plus, wouldn't the thing get dirt and prints all over after just one day? Does it come with a free pair of white gloves? heh heh. Oh did I mention that the screen intelligently flips and adjusts the image depending on how you hold it? It even turns the screen off automatically if you hold it like a phone to your ear to save power.
Does this mean that Apple will take over the cell phone market as well as the mp3 market? Well... not yet as the price is slated to be $499 for the 4GB version and $599 for the 8GB. I have one question for Apple: why even have the $499 version? If you have $499 to shell out for a cell phone/mp3 player, wouldn't you just pay that little bit more and get twice as much storage? Then again, they probably thought of that and are banking that most will go for the more expensive model. Also, there are rumors that the price will fall quickly after it's release.
The only problem I have with this thing is that it should have more storage for such a device that does so many things. If it can play music and video, then you have to give the customers enough memory to actually put some music and video on it. I think it should have a bare minimum of 30GB of storage. Of course knowing Apple, they probably won't have a 30GB version until the 3rd generation of this thing. I hope not though. For everything else Apple, I tip my little hat to you.... this time!
Note to Microsoft: What is wrong with you guys. All you came up with is a stupid outdated mp3 player with a stupid name... and it came out too late in the game! Fire all of your marketing guys and hire me on. You guys are far behind the big "Apple". Start "Innovating" already! Too bad Walt Disney's not around when we need him. Now he was a genius! If he were still here, "Tomorrow-Land" would be here today and we'd all be riding flying cars.... Yay! Flying Cars, Woo hoo!
