BunsenHoneydew - 07 September 2007 01:59 PM

I think they are very aware of the fact that we have choices, and they want us to choose Apple.  Customer support is a great way to get people to want to use your products...I use Apple stuff because I want to not because I have to.

I agree.  I think its also the personality of Steve Jobs.  He strives for perfection and pushes his people hard to deliver the goods.  If it was easy to design great products, then everyone would do it.  Its hard and takes serious effort, which is why so many products suck. 

Why?  I think its just the way Steve is.  Even if there was little competition, he would be pushing to deliver better products.  Part of it is that Steve’s ego is large and his name is associated with the company.

Oh No doubt he drives it.  Just look at what Apple did during his “hiatus” not much innovation and just beige boxes.

duke22 - 05 September 2007 10:21 PM

went to apple store to buy my new iPod until I read 16GB are they kidding me I have 80GB on my current iPod so what does apple want me to do with 16GB?????

I stick to my old 80GB Video and apple lost some money on me

I thought the new iPod classic was 80GB and 160GB.

justme2 - 15 September 2007 01:34 AM

I thought the new iPod classic was 80GB and 160GB.

They are 80 gig and 160 gig. I guess he was looking at the iPod touch.

Its fair though...the ipod touch really isn’t that interesting to me precisely because of the anemic amount of storage.  I love the look and opertation, but not neary enough storage.

I have a theory, with which and $1.89 you can buy a cup of coffee, that this is only the beginning of a very carefully-planned two-year revolution in technology. Of course everybody expects flash memory to get denser and cheaper; things usually progress by cutting the feature size in half, thus giving you 4 times the capacity. Plus at least one company is bringing out two-layer devices. That takes us from 16 to 128 GB in the same form factor. Now we’re talking! If Apple anticipates storage like that being available in two years, just when the AT&T;albatross is removed from their neck, that would be the time to bring out the device they had in mind all along: an iPhone/iPod Touch combined, that will do everything either unit will do now, probably on the 3G network everybody’s so exercised about, and with storage right between the two iPod Classics. The beauty of it is, all the early-adopters of the iPhone have already paid off the R&D;on the whole system, and hopefully by two years from now, they will have gotten over it.

The real wild card would be if the rumors are true and Apple really is planning on bidding in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, and plan on setting up their own cell phone/ISP service. I don’t know if this would be a wise move, considering how much everybody hates their cell phone company, but it would sure shake things up!

I previewed and edited this twice; I can’t get it to stop putting semicolons instead of spaces after AT&T;and R&D;. Sorry!

Again I think this is another case of the other guy sucks more!  I have owned a Treo 650, three different BlackBerry’s and a Motorola Q, and none of them hold a candle to my iPhone.  I still use the Q for work and it drives me insane with it’s junk interface.  Truly designed by people that don’t get it. Apple then is doing well for itself in spite of the missing natural features that have been outlived above.  I suspect that will change as Nokia, Moto, and the rest will not sit buy and let Apple do to them with the iPhone what they did to other MP3 players.  Unless they are worse off than I think this improved competition should move Apple to extend the product in other ways to remain competitive.

Almost forgot to point out my biggest disappointment with the iPhone. It’s lack of full Bluetooth support and phone events.  Not sure if anyone here was bleeding edge 4-5 years ago but the old Sony T68 and T616 supported both.  Back then if your phone rang your Address Book app would open to the caller’s card and the number would be displayed on your screen like a caller ID.  The call would be logged including duration.  If I wanted to make a call I could find the person in the Address Book and select “Call...” or “Send SMS...”.  If I wanted to copy pictures or files I could via Bluetooth. It was easy, it was fun, and it was the promise of technology. I hope one day this changes.