--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > Steve Job's announced earlier today. > > > > The iPhone > > > > "This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half > > years," said Jobs. "Every once in a while a revolutionary product > > comes along that changes everything." > [snip] > > I don't doubt that the iPhone may be a truly great smartphone-class > handset, but with the vast majority of the people I see using small > clamshell phones, I just don't see people switching in droves to an > expensive humongo clunker like that. >
Never underestimate the RDF (reality distortion field) aka "Steve Jobs." It looks like it has an embedded version of MacOS X in it, just as the Apple TV does. This makes it VERY expandable and would allow all sorts of Newton-esque applications, if Apple chooses to go for them. You could, with VERY minor changtes, have a deep sea version that would alllow realtime podcast of video of your exploration of a sunken ship, for instance. A version to allow touch control of important equipment should be quite possible. Even trivial. The current version has a full 3.5 double-touch touch-screen in full color, with flippable vertical/landscape resolution. It looks like it auto-detects how its being looked at. It turns off the video screen if you hold it to your ear to use as a cell- phone. It includes a VR typewriter that covers the entire screen. It apparently has a wi-fi connector for internet connectivity and integration with Apple TV (which in turn has a wi-fi broadcaster built-in). It has a 2 MByte camera built in. No doubt a video camera version is in the works since Apple's high-end web-cam, iSight, is no longer for sale. There's no GPS option currently, but given its UNIX under the hood, such a thing will be trivial to add. The price tag is VERY high, but for just-gotta-have-it yuppies, it will be the gadget du jour for a while. And as I said, the vertical market potential for it is unreal and Apple's name-change reflects that.
