Decius wrote:

I can tell you that in the first hour it works a little better than I thought, but I’m still not sure it works as well as a regular keyboard.

The iphone looks really slick, but ...

You know, the sidekick's keyboard isn't really a keyboard either. Given that neither of us has handled an iPhone, I think it's enough to leave it at "Some people will be pissed, others will find it ok." and i don't necessarily think that's going to be along the lines of who's more technically minded.

I send a shitload of text messages, on my keypad. Yeah, predictive text pisses me off sometimes (thanks, patents!), but more because of dictionary implementation than anything else (hint:learning is more fucking important than a large initial dictionary!).]

The Internet is about transmitting and not just receiving, and nothing "works great" with it if it doesn't have an efficient transmitter.

As long as safari is good at keeping URL history (and has bookmarks), everything will be mostly fine. A large percentage of my browsing on my main computer is to a handful of common resources. On a phone device, that's far even more the case.

I'm cautiously optimistic, at least.

Add to this the prospect of downgrading your ipod hard drive or having your ipod hard drive size directly connected with phone upgrades

Yeah, this is my biggest problem... I don't want a fucking iPod nano, especially not now that i have a big, beautiful screen... this is a battery consideration as much as a space consideration. All it does is make me even more interested in a device that looks exactly like the iPhone, but is only an iPod. With a big disk. Alas, it won't happen anytime soon, that's pretty much sure.

"Apple says, 'We're not selling to the person who lives on his Blackberry, we're selling to the person who listens to music and surfs the Web,'" he said.

Apple, you don't understand the Internet.

We'll see. Apple isn't perfect, but usually when i hear people saying "WHAT? APPLE'S CRAZY!" it turns out Apple was just ahead of them.

see, for example : "NO FLOPPY!? THEY MUST BE RETARDED!"

and : "iPOD!? WHO'S GONNA BUY THAT OVERPRICED WALKMAN!"

RE: Apple 2.0: Apple iPhone: All Eyes on the Keyboard (Or Lack Thereof)