Comments on: The iPhone isn’t anything new http://drrobevans.com/2007/05/30/the-iphone-isnt-anything-new/ Sun, 29 May 2011 09:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: <![CDATA[Karim Bakhtiar]]> http://drrobevans.com/2007/05/30/the-iphone-isnt-anything-new/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Thu, 31 May 2007 12:32:01 +0000 http://drrobevans.com/2007/05/30/the-iphone-isnt-anything-new/#comment-126 The iPhone could offer something new IF it was offered on an unlimited data tariff with a bundled napster-style subscription service, and a mobile version of the iTunes store. "Any tune, any time, anywhere, for a flat monthly rate" would be is a compelling proposition. The mobile connection does away with the need for an iPod-style devices to connect to a computer. Given that computer penetration is far lower than mobile penetration, the iPhone will remove a significant barrier to the adoption of iPod-style devices. Add some blue-tooth based playlist copying and very local broadcasting, and speaker functionality and I think you have a device that would be ubiquitious in every playground. I don't expect the iPhone to be that good at the start. But a few generations out, once unlimited data tariffs have become commonplace, I can see it having a great future. And don't forget that mobile handsets are subsidised by the networks. So many young mobile phone users will see the iPhone as being a way to get an iPod for next to nothing. The iPhone could offer something new IF it was offered on an unlimited data tariff with a bundled napster-style subscription service, and a mobile version of the iTunes store. “Any tune, any time, anywhere, for a flat monthly rate” would be is a compelling proposition.

The mobile connection does away with the need for an iPod-style devices to connect to a computer. Given that computer penetration is far lower than mobile penetration, the iPhone will remove a significant barrier to the adoption of iPod-style devices.

Add some blue-tooth based playlist copying and very local broadcasting, and speaker functionality and I think you have a device that would be ubiquitious in every playground.

I don’t expect the iPhone to be that good at the start. But a few generations out, once unlimited data tariffs have become commonplace, I can see it having a great future.

And don’t forget that mobile handsets are subsidised by the networks. So many young mobile phone users will see the iPhone as being a way to get an iPod for next to nothing.

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