Tog on iPhone

Great article & I agree with most of it.

It is odd that he shares a criticism that a lot of people have made of this phone, that of its 5 hour talk time. Not to be confused with standby time, 5 hours talk time is about typical of phones. Most will last for much longer in the typical mix of use and standby. Apple lists 16hrs for playing music.

I've lost count of the flaming posts that talk about having to get chargers for home, work, and car just to keep the thing from dying. A little perspective, please.

"(You can imagine Bill Gates’s frustration. He probably has a cadre of engineers ready to take it apart, put it back together with a couple of screws missing, and paint it brown.)"
Fantastic.
Of course, it would take Microsoft engineers 2 1/2 years to do this; the amount of time it took Apple Engineers to design the iPhone "from scratch".

Yes multi-touch has been around a long time, as was the mouse, but technology just sitting in a laboratory is useless. Apple is great at bringing formerly obscure technologies to the market and revolutionizing the industry in the process. I bet we'll see a lot more multi-touch devices once the iPhone arrives.

"I have yet to get my hands on an iPhone—frustrating! (You can imagine Bill Gates’s frustration. He probably has a cadre of engineers ready to take it apart, put it back together with a couple of screws missing, and paint it brown.)"

thats too funny.

Agreed, I love it when Tog comments on these things, but his entries have been VERY rare of late. ;-(

love me some Tog. great read!