I wanted one when they were announced, but had tempered my enthusiasm in the 6 months since — it’s expensive, and was yet to be seen if the product would be as revolutionary as was preached.
But after reading the generally positive reviews, getting a chance to play with one first-hand, and realizing that my T-Mobile contract had expired, I was short on excuses. What really convinced me was seeing that Apple sold 700,000 of these over the weekend, putting it on track to become the best selling consumer electronics device of all time. Given it’s popularity and tight integration with the Internet, I don’t think it’s been overstated that this little device is going to change how people are going to work online. It’s going to push web application development to a new level, and anyone in this industry should get familiar with this device fast.
So I dropped by the Apple store Tuesday afternoon, and have been playing with it since. Overall I’m very pleased. It’s a beautiful device, fun to use, and does a lot of things very well.
My experience hasn’t been all positive though. Within the first minute of use, as I tried to activate it through iTunes I got:
which was followed shortly afterward with a nice Blue Screen of Death.
And Apple, pretty please with caramel on top, give me a way to select multiple email messages for deletion. I’ll pay whatever you want (under $100) to save myself from the boredom of scrolling through messages that I’ve already read with my primary email client.
But yeah, overall this is a pretty sweet tool. It’ll be interesting to see how it evolves over time. One of the best things about it is that it’s mostly software, and it’s not hard to see the realm of potential that Apple will continue to tap with new versions.
And I for one can’t wait until we at Recursive Function release our first web application built for the iPhone. The wheels are spinning….
4 responses so far ↓
1 diskgrinder // Jul 6, 2007 at 12:36 pm
UK-based and envious, looking forward to your first app
2 chrisp // Jul 8, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I’m defnitely on board with the iPhone. I got one myself… I’m actually using it now.
It’s definitely the most revolutionary product I have ever used since the orignal Mac. All of the sudden all of my friends and family (and work) are getting far more calls and emails. It definitely keeps me connected. There are a few problems with it, the most notable being how slow edge is. The others are just little things that will probably be added with software updates down the line. Surprisingly most of my complaints don’t really match up with the “reasons to not get an iPhone” articles. I’m definitely glad I bought one, despite my aversion to getting rev 1 products.
3 ade // Jul 9, 2007 at 8:55 pm
@diskgrinder: I feel for you … it would be hard to wait. Although, you can sleep well knowing that you won’t have to deal with the Edge network.
4 Shon // Dec 16, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I want Iphone too, but in my country is so expensive
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