Comments on: “You had me at scrolling” http://aldoblog.com/2007/01/you-had-me-at-scrolling/ Michael Alderete’s Weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Alderete http://aldoblog.com/2007/01/you-had-me-at-scrolling/#comment-16921 Alderete Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:15:07 +0000 http://aldoblog.com/blog/571#comment-16921 @goldcoaster: In writing the post, I simplified away a few qualifications I might make, such as capacity. My assumption was that if you took out the phone and other wireless stuff, there's room for a hard disk to get up to a capacity similar to the current full-size iPod, e.g., 30 gigs and up. In regards to 2.5g vs 3g, you gotta start somewhere, and I would imagine that cost, size, or (most likely) power requirements dictated that EDGE was all they could do in the first version. C'est la vie. Even bigger fanboys than me can come up with plenty of things it would be nice to have in the iPhone, but then only celebrities would be able to afford the $3,000 price tag. There is only so much you can do with today's technology. The question is, is it better than anything else out there? If you gotta be able to surf or text message people under the table while sitting in a boring meeting, maybe not. Don't buy it. But I think it's hard to argue that it's not clearly a breakthrough in both capabilities and usability. @goldcoaster: In writing the post, I simplified away a few qualifications I might make, such as capacity. My assumption was that if you took out the phone and other wireless stuff, there’s room for a hard disk to get up to a capacity similar to the current full-size iPod, e.g., 30 gigs and up.

In regards to 2.5g vs 3g, you gotta start somewhere, and I would imagine that cost, size, or (most likely) power requirements dictated that EDGE was all they could do in the first version. C’est la vie.

Even bigger fanboys than me can come up with plenty of things it would be nice to have in the iPhone, but then only celebrities would be able to afford the $3,000 price tag. There is only so much you can do with today’s technology.

The question is, is it better than anything else out there? If you gotta be able to surf or text message people under the table while sitting in a boring meeting, maybe not. Don’t buy it. But I think it’s hard to argue that it’s not clearly a breakthrough in both capabilities and usability.

]]> By: goldcoaster http://aldoblog.com/2007/01/you-had-me-at-scrolling/#comment-16917 goldcoaster Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:34:24 +0000 http://aldoblog.com/blog/571#comment-16917 You say take the phone / conectivity away and it is still great. I thinks is pretty expensive for a 4 or eight gig player (with no expansion). As a phone, it has a pretty interface (but I hate using phones with just a touch screen, they are a pain to use for dialling and sms/mms'ing). There are plenty of smart phones around at the moment. One thing they should have done was make it a 3g phone not the 2g, especially seeing it is not available in the us for 6 months and next year sometime in my country. oops, one more thing - the battery isn't user replacable - a must for mobile phones. but the screen does look pretty, just like my ipaq (which is 640x480) You say take the phone / conectivity away and it is still great. I thinks is pretty expensive for a 4 or eight gig player (with no expansion).

As a phone, it has a pretty interface (but I hate using phones with just a touch screen, they are a pain to use for dialling and sms/mms’ing). There are plenty of smart phones around at the moment.

One thing they should have done was make it a 3g phone not the 2g, especially seeing it is not available in the us for 6 months and next year sometime in my country.

oops, one more thing – the battery isn’t user replacable – a must for mobile phones.

but the screen does look pretty, just like my ipaq (which is 640×480)

]]> By: iPhone | alexking.org http://aldoblog.com/2007/01/you-had-me-at-scrolling/#comment-16895 iPhone | alexking.org Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:32:42 +0000 http://aldoblog.com/blog/571#comment-16895 [...] Steve thinks the device is too expensive, Aldo thinks it’s a bargin. [...] […] Steve thinks the device is too expensive, Aldo thinks it’s a bargin. […]

]]> By: mike http://aldoblog.com/2007/01/you-had-me-at-scrolling/#comment-16811 mike Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:05:57 +0000 http://aldoblog.com/blog/571#comment-16811 <a href="http://mikepop.vox.com/library/post/apple-iphone-development-cycle.html">speaking of the Message Pad...</a> speaking of the Message Pad…

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