The iPhone's broken connections

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: November 16, 2007 11:34:54 PM EST
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
Subject: The iPhone's broken connections


The iPhone's broken connections
For Steve Jobs and his touchy-feely telephone, it's been a bumpy
ride, says Fortune's Brent Schlender.

By Brent Schlender, Fortune editor at large
November 16 2007: 4:08 AM EST

(Fortune Magazine) -- Nearly five months have passed since Steve Jobs
unleashed his flashy iPhone upon the world, and the sleek,
do-everything gadget has met his ambitious initial sales targets and
then some -- so far, more than 1.5 million have been sold.

And despite all the prelaunch hype and fear mongering, you don't hear
many gripes that the novel, finger-driven user interface doesn't
work, or that videos look crummy, or that the battery doesn't last
long enough.

If anything, most of the iPhone's features have exceeded
technological expectations, because in reality, it's a miniature
Macintosh that happens to be a cellphone.

Still, the iPhone frenzy seemed to evaporate more quickly than it
built up, and these early days have turned out to be what
euphemistically might be called a "learning experience" for everyone
involved -- the customers, its wireless service provider, and
especially Apple (Charts, Fortune 500).

No doubt the iPhone will improve as time goes on, but it has become
apparent that the business of designing, selling, and supporting
smartphones is a lot trickier than selling PCs, even for a company as
gifted as Apple. Little gotchas seem to pop up at every turn.
Can Apple stop being a control freak?

What's so different about the iPhone? In an acronym: AT&T.

...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/15/technology/iphone_problems.fortune/



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