Apple Makes My Head iSplode
Other near-winning headlines for this article were:
“I Feel Like a Caveman For Using Phone Numbers.”
“Your Video iPod Sucks,” and
“Who The Hell is Going To Want Anything Else Ever Again?”
I was expecting the iPhone. I was expecting a widescreen iPod. I was not expecting them to be the same damn thing with fully functional web and email, widgets, and earth-shattering awesomeness packed in and the ability to use all of those feature simultaneously. Seriously. I mock everyone who has lived their lives from Blackberries to this point. I laugh out loud when I think of Microsoft’s‚Ķ what did you call that? I feel like a caveman for using phone numbers to call people which now feels so akin to typing in an IP address instead of a URL. To that point, aren’t URLs just about obsolete? (you can’t have that idea, Steve, its mine.)
Apple didn’t reinvent the phone like Steve Jobs claimed. It kicked unholy kinds of ass all over the phone.Be sure to watch the product demos on apple.com. They’re better than sex.
There’s also the Apple TV, which syncs wirelessly to your home computer (via iTunes) and brings anything and everything you have on there to your television in high-definition. But it doesn’t act as a Tivo, which I was hoping for. In business theory, I suppose I wouldn’t have much of a reason to buy TV shows from iTunes if I could record them effortlessly. Dang.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I’ve never gotten lightheaded watching online product demos before. I’m not normally an all-out Apple evangelist, but this is perhaps the most awesome thing that has ever existed. In the history of time. Ever.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Thank you very little for not putting a ‘Spoiler’ notice in your email. I haven’t watched the MacWorld keynote yet.
I do agree with you though.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Spoilers are for movies and Final Fantasy VII. Didn’t realize that was a faux-pas on MacWorlds, so “my bad,” Vonny.
*Aeris dies.*
January 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I am pretty sure that this iPhonePodPuter will rock everyones faces so hard that nobody will be able to see.. But thats ok, since they will have a hands free headset.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
We will all be in the poor house for this one. Hopefully the price will drop fast. I’m looking forward to seeing someone actual interact with this device.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
That’ll be me, Bennett. You’ll be watching me.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I was betting against the rumors of the iPhone because it was such a massive undertaking. Phones interface and design is SO bad that it would take a revolutionary product to really address all the issues that a phone raises. Even harder to do it in Apple fashion. To my amazement Apple tackled the product and far exceeded even the highest expectations. If it is really as good as it appears, I *need* one.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Yes, but did you also catch that the name of the company has officially been changed to “Apple, Inc.” No more “Computer”…
My initial feeling upon hearing this was that Steve Jobs has dumped his old wife — the Mac — for his new trophy wife — the iPhone.
I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
It actually runs OSX. Yikes.
January 9th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Oh, Apple, how you love my money so..
January 9th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Yes, yes, and more yes. This is the phone I’ve been waiting for, down to last detail and more. An actual device worth $600.
Blackberry, Samsung (including Helio), Sony Ericsson, Motorola, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint… it was nice knowing you. Shut the door on your way out, but don’t lock it… Microsoft is running a little late, but will be catching up with you soon.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
My words were: “Oh my god… it’s… it’s… full of stars”.
I will have to wait longer being in Canada… but I WILL have one.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:01 am
What happens the first time you knock that screen into the side of your desk?
January 10th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Aren’t you missing something here Guys???!!!
Which nobody has discussed or supposedly you didn’t CATCH.
Yesterday, Apple Repositioned itself as Apple Inc.
No longer Apple Computer.
Doesn’t that SIGNAL WORLD DOMINATON.
I No Longer use a Cell Phone. Haven’t in Four (4) years.
Even I’m excited about this.
JonSel, hopefully, they’ll make them similar to the new laptops Rugged, Damage Resistant, Water Resistant, Shock Resistant and Dust Proof.
That’s having your Cake and Eating too.
Less I forget, the photo you’re showing of the NEW CRACK APPLE will more than likely not have the Cingular Avatar Identity.
Get it. CRACK APPLE???
Crack Berry = Blackberry, Not my play on words. That’s what the Industry Name them.
The Demise of the Cingular Avatar Identity.
http://news.digitaltrends.com/article10286.html
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22860
DM
January 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?
It looks like they go rid of the shinny back, like what is on the iPod. I wonder if they will make a white version, since all over the website are black iPhones.
I thought the Apple TV is a little weak. Not my kind of product. Probably since I only have one computer in my house.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Well. I typically HATE product-worship. But this latest Apple is as tempting as the one Eve plucked in the Garden.
Notice that Apple Computer is now Apple, Inc. to reflect its very recent foray into MUCH more than computers.
AND notice that brilliant bit of branding with
(Apple)TV? They used the Apple logo in lieu of another “i” prefix, and I think it ushers in a new level of brand
The name is succinct, branded, accurate, easy to say, and impossible to rip off the gimmick like the “i” in “iPod”.
Just thought I’d throw that out there. It’s almost like a logo becoming a grapheme, a word-symbol, like in eastern languages.
It’s another meta-level of the trademark or logo.
(And all without drop shadows, lens flares, and 3-D shmultzy stuff that typifies the current Avatar trend.)
I’m quite pleased. Except for that fact that Apple went with an exclusive partner for its iPhone integration: with Cingular wireless. I hope that Apple wears the pants in that relationship.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Espressoman:
Read my Links.
There is Vehemently NO MORE Cingular Wireless.
Cingular Wireless is NOW at&t wireless.
Ed Whitacre, CEO at&t with his current Abominable and Diatribe at&t Identity has Killed Cingular Wireless and Products.
at&t wirelsss is Wearing the Pants.
DM
January 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Actually, there’s a great article on TIME.com about how Apple is wearing the pants in that relationship.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Nate:
Great Editorial.
Much Obliged for the Time link.
DM
January 10th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
If Apple dominating the world is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I took my Grandmother down to the corner last night to try and sell her for one of those things. The next guy ahead of me in the very long queue said some guys had been down there with their Grandmothers for hours, some camped out the night before the Keynote. No one was bothered about the long wait, some of us got to talking, some kicked ’round the Hackey Sack. My Grandmother is holding my place in the queue while I am at work. I’ll head back down tonight…
January 10th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Nate, Interesting link indeed.
So, will Apple eventually come out with a basic iPod (80 gig) with the touch-screen technology, for those of us that can’t get Cingular service or don’t want a really expensive cell phone? It will be interesting to see where they take the iPod line.
January 11th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I think Justin Timberlake made his ” Sexy Back” song just for this phone. Apple is not just good design. Apple is great design, because they redesign life.
January 11th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
It looks like Cisco is suing Apple because they have their own iPhone and have owned the trademark for iPhone since 2000. Apple says that their cell phone is a different kind of product. Apple mentioned that there are other products out there with the iPhone name as well. I would think that Cisco wouldn’t have much to stand on, if they haven’t gone after these other companies as well. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Maybe it is all just a PR stunt from Cisco.
From CNN. From Cisco.
Apple says: “We believe that Cisco’s U.S. trademark registration is tenuous at best,” . . . . “Apple’s the first company to use the iPhone name for a cell phone. And if Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we’re very confident we will prevail.”
Cisco says: “Today’s iPhone is not tomorrow’s iPhone. The potential for convergence of the home phone, cell phone, work phone and PC is limitless, which is why it is so important for us to protect our brand,”
January 12th, 2007 at 11:49 am
My point about Cingular is this: AT&T, Cingular, whatever. I just hope that with Apple choosing an exclusive communications partner, it will not cause any kind of backlash in terms of the device usability or versatility.
I don’t want a communications provider to hinder the great advancements Apple is trying to make.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:48 am
For a quick cure from your iPhone fascination, just take a look at Kottke’s cardboard mock up. It’s frightening how it loses it’s gloss and charm next to that hairy arm.