Apple’s iPhone And The Head Rush Of REAL Innovation
Instances of REAL innovation are so painfully rare, so few and far between. There’s so much HYPE, so much hollow, empty promise, it just weights you down — but there’s nothing like the head rush of...
View ArticlePlatforms Vs. Experiences
Dave Winer and many others don’t like that Apple’s iPhone is a closed device, which doesn’t allow you to change the software or use other software. While I can appreciate how frustrating it must be for...
View ArticleRecord Profit for Apple’s Closed System
Apple turned in a record $1 billon quarterly profit after selling 21 million iPods — yeah, that closed system strategy is sure weighing them down — when the iPhone hits the market, they’ll probably...
View ArticleApple iPhone Follows Facebook In Creating A Web 2.0 Platform For Third-Party...
Never underestimate Steve Jobs. After all of the hand-wringing over Apple’s iPhone being a closed platform, today Apple announced that the iPhone will indeed be open to third-party applications —...
View ArticleWhy I Didn’t Buy An iPhone: The Network
I just bought a Blackberry 8830 from Verizon, forgoing the opportunity to be among the first iPhone owners. This decision surprised me because I had been eagerly looking forward to the iPhone after...
View ArticleiPhone Blindness
This is a follow-up to my post on why I didn’t buy an iPhone, i.e. because the AT&T network sucks. I’ve been amazed at how the iPhone has caused so many tech commentators to be blind to the network...
View ArticleThe iPhone Line Effect: Would Anyone Stand In Line For Your Product?
For all the hype and criticism of the iPhone, one thing is undeniable — people are willing to stand in line for it (via Engadget): Would anyone stand in line for your product? A question everyone else...
View ArticleHow Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry
Steve Jobs isn’t stupid. He knows that AT&T Wireless sucks. So why lock the revolutionary iPhone into a crappy network? Because Jobs knows that everyone will buy an iPhone anyway, even if they hate...
View ArticleThis Post Is Viewable Only On iPhone
No, I’m not turning Publishing 2.0 into an iPhone-only blog, but the debate over how revolutionary the iPhone is as a media device and as a mobile device on the AT&T network is as at the white hot...
View ArticleiPhone Reality Check
I took a lot of flack for suggesting that iPhone buyers were blind to the significant impact the poor AT&T network would have on their experience and that, despite this (or rather because of it),...
View ArticleMy iPhone Test Drive
Ok, so shame on me for writing so much about the iPhone without actually having used it, but I fixed that today by spending a couple of hours in an Apple store playing with the iPhone. Granted this is...
View ArticleiPhone Is Not Competing With Blackberry (Yet)
I presented at an internal conference for the interactive division of a major media company this week, and among all the conference attendees, I didn’t see a single iPhone. Not one. It was wall-to-wall...
View ArticleMobile Network vs. Mobile Device
This weekend we drove from our home in Leesburg, VA to visit my wife’s family in Staten Island, NY. Along the way, we passed through rural areas of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. I had my laptop...
View ArticleBeware Hostility Towards Users
The most striking aspect of the reactions to my “Mobile Web Sucks” post — which was much more about my own frustrations as a USER than any kind of industry analysis — was the overt hostility that many...
View ArticleApple Wins: Verizon Is First Wireless Carrier To Open Network
When Apple launched the iPhone exclusively on AT&T’s crumby edge network — and I refused to buy one for that reason — I predicted that Apple’s real endgame was to break the wireless carriers’...
View ArticleBy: Daily Rambling Thoughts
<!--%kramer-pre%--> Steve Jobs isn’t stupid. He knows that AT&T Wireless sucks. So why lock the revolutionary iPhone into a crappy network? Because Jobs knows that everyone will buy an iPhone...
View ArticleBy: FinanMart.com (More Finance)
<!--%kramer-pre%--> Apple's iPhone: True Innovation [IMG ] [IMG scott karp]Scott Karp submits: Ok, so shame on me for writing so much about the iPhone without actually having used it, but I fixed...
View ArticleBy: Hashim
You’re missing the point here. Mobile phones are fashion items, meant to turn heads. And the iPhone will do just that
View ArticleBy: Scott Karp
Hashim — it’s not missing the point at all. When fashion is more important than function, then you can turn a blind eye to flaws in the function.
View ArticleBy: iPhone Slowness: Obviously No Workaround is Possible « Parsing Mobile
[...] iPhone Blindness (Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0): “Buying an iPhone is like buying a MacBook that only supports dial-up access. […] How can iPhone reviewers tout the web browser as the “real...
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