(keitai-l) Re: iPhone comments

From: Brian Topping <topping_at_orb.org>
Date: 01/10/07
Message-Id: <8968A4F7-40AB-4B5D-A702-70EFBAB15576@orb.org>
I just saw it in person a few hours ago.  It looks good.  There was  
only one, and it was in this plexiglas cylinder, turned on in some  
demo mode, slowly rotating so all the fanboys and fangirls could  
gather around it.  It reminds me most of a head in a jar from an  
episode of Futurama, except it was the iPhone.

The only concern I had at the display was when I asked "So this is  
running OS-X, can I create apps for it with XCode?"  The response I  
got came after a noticeable pause and visible discomfort on the part  
of the Apple guy standing the booth.  He basically said "there may be  
opportunities for that and the information will be posted to the  
developer website when it is available."

It wasn't what he said, it was how he said it.  He was clearly  
briefed on what to say and his delivery said to me that they were not  
at all confident that the options we developers were going to get  
were going to be at all well-received.  It felt like he was bracing  
for a storm.

The future should be interesting.

Brian


On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Kyle Barrow wrote:

> I would be interested in hearing fellow keitai-lers comments on the
> Apple iPhone.
>
> It looks like Asia won't see one until 2008 which seems to be a silly
> move given the size of the mobile market here.
>
> I'm guessing the eventual Asia release will upgrade to 3G, squash 1.0
> bugs and hopefully include some 3G apps like iChat AV and an online
> iTMS.
>
> Kyle
Received on Wed Jan 10 02:31:26 2007