Yesterday happened what the Internet public has been waiting for a few months. Idol IT-Schnick - Steve Jobs presented new items from Apple at the opening of the WWDC 2008 developer conference. I will try here to tell about my feelings and thoughts about this presentation. I think my
opinion does not coincide with the majority opinion. In short - I was not lost.
Let's start with the long-awaited iPhone 3G. What's new in it?
- 3G.
The feature is certainly a pleasant and necessary in the phone of this class. On
This moment is present in almost all top communicators. And not in
top too. That is, here Apple is catching up rather than overtaking. - Installing applications and games.
The feature is good and necessary. Again present in all top
communicators competitors. What is the ability to download and purchase
applications from only one source - plus or minus, say
difficult. But the fact that Apple wants to make money on the face. It's not me
like. - GPS
Again, good, but there are many others. For me, a personal feature
not a priority, but its presence gives the "weight" to the communicator. I use
GPS is not often, but sometimes it is necessary.
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What are other news? Never mind! That is, the new iPhone is not
nothing revolutionary, as almost all Internet publications trumpeting.
In addition, there is a mass of negative in it, like this:
- The impossibility of acquiring the device without a contract officially.
There is a minus big and fat. For me, this factor is one of the main ones. I want freedom of choice of operator and contract! - Not the strongest camera.
I use the camera in the phone often. In the apparatus of this class I want to see the camera cooler. - The lack of voice dialing capabilities, which makes the device inapplicable in the car.
- Touch control is cool, but not for everybody.
The absence of
feedback and the impossibility of blind dialing is very large
minuses. Do not think that I have not tried. I tried. Getting very
like, then begins to strain, then causes irritation.
Of the benefits andPhone worth noting browser Safari. So far I have not seen anything more convenient for working in the Internet on a portable device. There is nothing to find fault with.
Summary. Nothing new. A good presentation of the evolutionary model. Not ah-you, uhhhh-you and wow, but thanks a lot for the features that it would be good to present last year. Before
presentation expected to see something new and interesting. I was pretty sure that in a month I would go and buy a telephone. I even thought about changing the operator. At the end, the same cooled to the device. More hemorrhoids than pleasure.
I can not say about MobileMe. Everything is very interesting and looks cool. But why take money for all this? I think this is another wickedness of Apple. I use .Mac myself
service for the third year. Last year, seriously wondered whether
keep paying. I decided to extend the contract for another year. This year I will not sell. Service is very slow. Very much - it means VERY. There are problems with encodings. Galleries look beautiful, but because of the brakes it is impossible to use them. MobileMe may be faster. But anyway, I do not want to pay 100 bucks a year for this business!
One more zhlobstvo from Apple - paid firmware update for the exact. Not only paid, so for this, and also the Tunes account is required. Complete disgrace.
I titled my article Think Different. So Apple positioned herself in
the past. Computers and gadgets for the elite. But wait, it's already in
the past. Now, wherever you spit, everyone has either a macbook or, at worst
the end, and Pod. Now be different to have on your Windows computer or
Linux and do not use iphone. Think differently, just
think. And if you can, then sensibly.