Comments on: iPhone is Out! And the world can finally exhale again… http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/ An online community engineer coping with the social media explosion Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: bjornlee http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-438 bjornlee Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:05:26 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-438 actually Yahoo CEO was not there, it was jerry yang who's co-founder. I think terry semel is on his way out from the look of yesterday. He doesn;t belong in Silicon Valley but thats another story. actually Yahoo CEO was not there, it was jerry yang who’s co-founder. I think terry semel is on his way out from the look of yesterday. He doesn;t belong in Silicon Valley but thats another story.

]]> By: Rachit http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-439 Rachit Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:35:39 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-439 Man ... it's so goooooood. I was up all night watching the lame live commentary (AJAX supported) on some third party site. Engadget wasn't refreshing fast enough. Bad bad Steve ... made me miss a morning meeting. To me, the most amazing part was the charm of this man in the black turtleneck ... he got the Google CEO and the Yahoo CEO to appear on stage within 30 seconds of each other! Although I wonder what Yahoo did to get on Apple's good books ... Yahoo's new moves into the mobile space make me think they'll be overtaking Google in at least one medium. I agree with Bjorn though, I'm also gonna give the first gen iPhone a miss ... by 2nd gen, they should have some awesome new features (15-20GB of storage, one of those virtual holographic keyboards, WiMax support, smooth out the 1st gen finger scrolling bugs etc etc) Man … it’s so goooooood. I was up all night watching the lame live commentary (AJAX supported) on some third party site. Engadget wasn’t refreshing fast enough.

Bad bad Steve … made me miss a morning meeting.

To me, the most amazing part was the charm of this man in the black turtleneck … he got the Google CEO and the Yahoo CEO to appear on stage within 30 seconds of each other! Although I wonder what Yahoo did to get on Apple’s good books … Yahoo’s new moves into the mobile space make me think they’ll be overtaking Google in at least one medium.

I agree with Bjorn though, I’m also gonna give the first gen iPhone a miss … by 2nd gen, they should have some awesome new features (15-20GB of storage, one of those virtual holographic keyboards, WiMax support, smooth out the 1st gen finger scrolling bugs etc etc)

]]> By: bjornlee http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-440 bjornlee Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:57:01 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-440 iphone working well with wifi coverage will mean this phone works well only in two places, SF and Mountain View. We shall see how well iPhone does. Dun forget, they still have a lag time of up to 5 months to work on the software while listenng to the whole world give customer feedback. Thats smart i think, especially if we start hearing lead users/ bloggers secretly beta-testing the iPhone and stress-testing it to work out the kinks. But yea, stephen o' grady did have a lot of valid points, especially the proximity sensor crapping out and the battery issue. My ipod video battery died on me after 7 months of usage due to the video function's high power consumption. With the iphone's video+++ feature-packed specs list, it will die in no time once someone calls in the midst of u watching even sometime as short as a 5 min clip. I wonder if this iPhone has too many features for its own good. It seems they tried to do everything possible to show off OS X as a competing platform for mobile usage. I am most likly to give the 1st generation iPhone a miss, it comes out here in 2008 anyway, but the 2nd Gen is likely to be better. Now that we have seen the future of phones, we are unlikely to turn back. ;) iphone working well with wifi coverage will mean this phone works well only in two places, SF and Mountain View. We shall see how well iPhone does. Dun forget, they still have a lag time of up to 5 months to work on the software while listenng to the whole world give customer feedback. Thats smart i think, especially if we start hearing lead users/ bloggers secretly beta-testing the iPhone and stress-testing it to work out the kinks.

But yea, stephen o’ grady did have a lot of valid points, especially the proximity sensor crapping out and the battery issue. My ipod video battery died on me after 7 months of usage due to the video function’s high power consumption. With the iphone’s video+++ feature-packed specs list, it will die in no time once someone calls in the midst of u watching even sometime as short as a 5 min clip. I wonder if this iPhone has too many features for its own good. It seems they tried to do everything possible to show off OS X as a competing platform for mobile usage.

I am most likly to give the 1st generation iPhone a miss, it comes out here in 2008 anyway, but the 2nd Gen is likely to be better. Now that we have seen the future of phones, we are unlikely to turn back. ;)

]]> By: Harish Mallipeddi http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-442 Harish Mallipeddi Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:20:13 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-442 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/09/no-im-probably-not-getting-an-iphone/ Stephen O'Grady does a pretty good job summarizing the pros and the cons. http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/09/no-im-probably-not-getting-an-iphone/

Stephen O’Grady does a pretty good job summarizing the pros and the cons.

]]> By: Harish Mallipeddi http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-443 Harish Mallipeddi Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:00:16 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-443 Everything is awesome about it except that it is not 3G and it does not have a proper keyboard. If you watched the keynote, all that Steve Jobs managed to type was "see you there" and he had to stumble for it. Now I have seen people (that includes me) who can type really quick on their Blackberries and Treos. So not really useful for sending messages and emails. Now the second flaw. He shows all the good stuff about built-in Safari, Google Maps, etc. But he was quietly running them on WiFi not on regular GPRS. Now the whole point of the mobile phone is to be able to do it everywhere - not only in the places where there's WiFi coverage! I'm pretty sure if he switches to GPRS, the user experience will be dramatically different (aka sucky). Everything is awesome about it except that it is not 3G and it does not have a proper keyboard. If you watched the keynote, all that Steve Jobs managed to type was “see you there” and he had to stumble for it. Now I have seen people (that includes me) who can type really quick on their Blackberries and Treos. So not really useful for sending messages and emails.

Now the second flaw. He shows all the good stuff about built-in Safari, Google Maps, etc. But he was quietly running them on WiFi not on regular GPRS. Now the whole point of the mobile phone is to be able to do it everywhere - not only in the places where there’s WiFi coverage! I’m pretty sure if he switches to GPRS, the user experience will be dramatically different (aka sucky).

]]> By: Tony Chung http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-441 Tony Chung Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:39:20 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2007/01/09/iphone-is-out-and-the-world-can-finally-exhale-again/#comment-441 Eye candy galore :) I've got photos up from Macworld on my flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/tonychung Eye candy galore :)

I’ve got photos up from Macworld on my flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/tonychung

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