::Tuesday, January 09, 2007::
WHY I WON'T BUY THE iPHONE, NOT YET AT LEAST.
.. Apple was so busy popping the champaigne they forgot there is a whole new revolution in media outside Cupertino, and that we now look at the world with YouTube eyes. The whole point of this new YOU world is self-expression, the ability to share a bit of yourself to the world through pictures and video. Apple still goes around wearing the cloak of cool and carries it proudly. Problem is, definition of cool has changed. It has metamorphosed from "having" the latest it product to BEING the latest product paraded around.
.. More people than ever take pictures and forward it to their blog through email or text. They take videos of everything that moves and upload it or pass it on to their friends. The 2megapix cameraphone is so 2006 and video on other phones will get better and better in 2007. Suffice it to say that not everyone will throw their phones in the garbage and pick up the latest iPhone available. Think Europe and Asia here. Unless Apple makes it easy to do all the things mentioned above and not confine iPhone would-be users in an OSX environment, all will be well in the cellphone industry.
.. Fear not, loyal Apple fans. The company is certainly not that stupid and somehow in the not-so-distant future, the iPhone will carry a camera with a resolution higher than 2 megapixels, put a front VGA camera to support iChat/WiFi-based video call to give Skype/JaJah/Yahoo!Messenger a run for its money, upgrade its storage to 30 or even 80 GB and most important of all, at least for me, allow iPhones to be unlocked and sold outside Cingular. Umm, don't count on the last one to happen anytime soon but consider Apple warned. Customers have soured on Cingular's useless roll-over gimmick, expensive monthly plans and rumor has it, increasing text messaging rates. Three out of four is TOO bad. That's why I'm going to wait for the oh-not-so-distant future.
Labels: Apple, Cool, Gadgets, iPhone, Technology
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