Hey Scott, update the Paul McCartney-Post! They've been avaliable for HOURS now ;)

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Couldn't agree with you more. Now if you could please tell your friend David Chartier to do the same before he starts knocking Leopard, we'll be OK.

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Totally agree with your point on trying it out before bashing it; and totally agree with No. 2 on Chartier and Leopard. His post on the Menu Bar in Leopard was...lame.

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He is missing the BIG problem with the iPhone -- NO replaceable battery.

It won't be a surprise to anyone who has used a smart cell phone, but battery life for the iPhone will likely be awlful.

How can one live with a cell phone that has no replaceable battery?

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I second the replaceable battery. We all know batteries degrade a little over time when it's charged. However, many have said the same about the iPods battery yet you can buy a new, higher capacity iPod battery for about $20 and it'll last you another two or three years. It's just a matter of time for some battery manufacturers to get their hand on an iPhone, take it apart and begin making batteries that work with the iPhone. We'll also see repair shops like iResQ offering overnight battery replacements for iPhones. It'll happen and people will most definitely pay.

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I've been using a cell phone for ten (+) years and I've never felt the need to get an additional replaceable battery. I find that charging it every few days does the trick. Why do you want to be on your phone so much in a single day that you'd need more than one battery? The iPhone gets 16 hours of ipod playback, and 5 hours talk time. How many more hours in the day do you need to be on your phone?? Again, I've used cell phones for years and never had a problem with charging when the battery gets low...

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I'm sick of these harbL's writing so called "reviews" of the iPhone listing the things it doesn't do. I've seen about 3 so far. No doubt there is more wofting around the internets somewhere. But hey glad TUAW said exactly what was on my mind. Hold your "reviews" until you actually have an iPhone to review!!

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I can understand if the post was written to warn potential buyers, but this seems like it was written in anger and hatred for the iphone. i had a feeling too which is why i almost didn't want to click it.

Fishes,
narco.

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A lot of those points are just plain WRONG for the iPhone. It uses capacitive touch technology (if I'm interpreting the tech video correctly, most likely the same as what's in their notebook trackpads). And also Steve Jobs said at the keynote that they were working hard to engineer a screen that doesn't get all smudgy and other people, who have actually used the phone, say that the smudges don't show up as bad as they do on other screens.

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"Why do you want to be on your phone so much in a single day that you'd need more than one battery? The iPhone gets 16 hours of ipod playback, and 5 hours talk time"
A. 16 or 5 hours of "supposed" talk time. No one outside of Apple has tested this...

B. Batteries degrade. As an example, my 1.5 year old Powerbook got 4+ hours of battery life when I bought it. Last week I had to buy a new battery because I was getting less than 45 minnutes. Same goes for iPod/iPhone/Cell Phone batteries. If someone uses the iPhone as much as expected (being the "end-all be all device") the batteries will likely degrade quickly. It was the same way with my Treo 600, that's why every Treo since that model had a replaceable battery.

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Except, my Nintendo DS has a touch screen, which I use with my finger all the time, and it works fine, hasn't scratched and works fine in the sun. Has anyone ever heard of a broken Nintendo DS touch screen? I've personally never seen one, and people abuse those things hard, much harder than they will an iPhone.

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Ironically, the "hype" that everyone keeps talking about around the iPhone isn't even generated from Apple. I mean, a couple of posters at a local AT&T store and a webpage on Apple's own site.
Yet, the hype machine (and every blogger who needs to draw attention to their paltry web counters) needs to go into overdrive.
What has this got to do with the article?
Nothing, of course. Much like the substance of the article itself.

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First Apple gets slammed for not being green, now they are being slammed because they are trying. Fickle people. Millions of iPhones means millions of batteries. Take them to be properly replaced and disposed of instead of filling landfills with them. Of course someone will probably moan about this too.

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The article even deals with stylus-related issues, and there won't be any stylus with the iPhone. Looks like an article copied and pasted here but written for other devices.

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Well, those are all good points, exept number 8. Wich states that dirt under the screen will be able to select things for you... not true for the iPhone. The iPhone uses a capcitive touch screen- like a clear trackpad on your laptop, and last time I checked, dirt isn't moving my mouse around. If they iPhone used a RESISTIVE touch screen where it relies on two pieces of plastic to complete an electric courent then dirt could select something by completing the circuit. So this guy needs to do just a bit more research into the underlying technologies of the iPhone beofre he bashes it.

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I think after WWDC this week, most people would say the thing wrong with the iPhone is the lack of SDK. And Jobs saying "Sweet". Old men should not say "sweet". It was embarrassing.

Anyway, here's a suggestion on how they could make it a little "sweeter".

http://curmi.com/blog/2007/06/17/iphone-development-not-so-sweet/

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"Never mind that much of what it does isn't groundbreaking (that's usually the case with Apple's products. It isn't the features, but how they go together), the iPhone is a game changer."

I was very surprised to read this on a blog about all things Apple. Here's a short refresher list of innovations Apple has brought to the marketplace which have gone on to become standards.

The iMac: No floppy drive, someone had to put that deadman walking technology out of its misery and Apple was the first to do it. The iMac came with USB ports before any other major computer manufactures were doing USB.

iEEE 1394 aka firewire, need I say more?

802.11b (Not developed by Apple but Apple was the FIRST Computuer manufacturer to sell it on their desktops and laptops. Apple branded it as Airport and it caught on in a big way.

iPod: First harddrive based MP3 player. This was unheard of at the time as most older units came with paltry flash storage that was capable of holding maybe a 100 or so songs at the most. Compared to the rest of the mp3 players by RIO and company circa 2001, the iPod was on a whole other playing field. 1000 sounds in your pocket was "ground breaking" not just a couple features Apple through together in a pretty package.


And last but not least what about what iTunes. With the iTunes music store Steve Jobs has literally taken the Bull by the Horns and thrown the music industry into the 21st century. Forget the technology, the progress Apple has made on the business side is nothing less than "groundbreaking."

This is just a short list that popped into my head as I write this, there are certainly other innovations I've left out that were even more groundbreaking.

I'm sorry but I think it's absoultly ludicris for you to be so cavalier about all of the major "groundbreaking" technologies (and I havn't even scratched the tip of the iceberg) that Apple has brought to market over the past 23 years. I enjoy your blog and I read it on a daily basis but I (And the majority of my friends in the IT industry) consider Apple to be a cutting edge company that is usually at least a year ahead of what the rest of the industry is doing. With all due respect, if you consider Apple to be anything less than one of the most innovative and groundbreaking technology companies ever...well you're flat out wrong.

Before you peg me as an Apple fanboy, I'm actually writing this from my laptop which is a Dell Inspiron 5100.

p.s. Did someone saw something about an iPhone? =)

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The Creative Nomad Jukebox had a hard drive before the iPod. So for the iPod it was how users are able to interact with it. Sorry.

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@Chris, iPod was not the first company to release a hard drive based mp3 player, there were a couple before them but the definatly made then very popular.

anyway i think the iPhone needs iChat, flash support (yes i know they said "unavalible for now"), and open development so companies like sling media can develop players for it.

im still debating wether or not to buy one, it will come down to if i like how it feels to me.

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This site is fully of whiny posts lately. I don't want to read diatribes that are low on news value or even interesting information. Come on, you're better than that.

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