Mmmm... this reminds me of something... the start of another OS war? ;-) My 2c worth - I have had Macs all my working life and remember the old OS flame wars back in the '90s (yes, I'm an old stager!)
I own the latest macBook Pro yet don't have an iPhone. My Nokia 6650 works fine; has for some time. Just came back from a conference (UX Australia) and still didn't get a good BUSINESS case for owning one from any of the many Mac and iPhone toting attendees! However I love them - just don't want to spend a motza for the privilege (here in Australia data plans are ridiculously expensive and the phone itself is over $1,000 to own - my last one was free on quite a cheap plan). There will be people who love them and depend on them- that is my main worry. I'd prefer NOT to be as connected and contactable when it suits me - to the point I don't take my laptop to conferences so I don't get bugged by work while I'm away - they shouldn't need my hand to hold every day and if they do I don't know how they got hired in the first place :-) Which brings me back to- via a tortuous route - to the original "all iPhones are crap" kind of argument I get from paranoid Apple haters (who also often say iTunes is the Devil BTW!). They often put up with their own often disappointing choices and dig themselves into holes defending them. Thus the all Apple stuff MUST be crap roundabout. We've had the OS wars - Microsoft won the software war through the conservative nature of corporates who forced decisions on the general punter, also mainly conservative not knowing what else to do. Apple won the hardware war due to doing what they know best - complete integration of the hardware/software micro-economies with the Mac and its iLife suite, iPods and now iPhones. I can only see Apple continuing on its upward path, and Microsoft being distracted by such oddities as the Surface! ;-) Apple, through the iPhone, has changed the nature of mobile communication and commerce - get over it Apple haters ;-) TFIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45220 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
