I only have one word for the ultimate phone. "Mogul" :-D

Well, here goes Apple again, trying to change the para-diggum.

 

Apple Positions IPhone as Rival To the BlackBerry

 

By NICK WINGFIELD

March 7, 2008; Page B1

 

Apple Inc. unveiled plans to make the iPhone more appealing to corporate users, part of an ambitious effort to reshape the cellular-phone business that has picked up a deep-pocketed new backer.

 

 

--Rebecca Buckman and Ben Worthen contributed to this article.

 

Write to Nick Wingfield at [email protected]

 

 

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1446784491

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120482859010317101.html

 

 

 

 

I only have one word for the ultimate phone. "Mogul" :-D

 

 

lol ... I'm trying to sell my Wing now ... It's unlocked if anyone is interested! ;)

 

 

Speaking of RIM and iPhone, I read yesterday that the iPhone will support Enterprise Activesync by June ... this is great news!

^^I am ecstatic about this. Although 30% seems a bit hefty to me, it's just at that price point that I would probably put up with as a developer for the easy distribution and update channel they'll provide (that really seems to be Apple's genius; finding those just-barely-acceptable price points).

 

The push Apple is making to become more "enterprise business" friendly (remote-wipe, Cisco VPN, Exchange compatibility) is wonderful as well and legitimizes it as a mobile platform. I personally am excited to play around with the SDK and start brain storming application ideas, which is a first.

 

And I'm realizing there are far too many buzz words in this post. I'm not an Apple fanboy, I swear -- the iPhone is my first Apple product.

 

It's nice that if you develop free software, Apple will not charge to download it, and you can still distribute it through iTunes. There is a $99/year charge to publish software through iTunes, which I can only assume means that freeware will likely be beta's, with the option to purchase the full version. And the 2.0 firmware update in June, all pretty cool...

worst sentence ever: "Will deliver more immediately"

Ugh, I HATE my iPhone and I want more than ever to return it.  But Apple won't take them back.  That's complete BS.  And their warranty doesn't cover ANYTHING.  Apple's the only company I know that can get away with that.  They don't have any warranty on their iTunes music downloads either.  I've had quite a few songs that I've purchased from there simply stop working.  Or they get about a minute into the song and stop.  To me it seems that it'd be easy for them to just let you redownload bad songs for free (they have a record of you paying for it originally)  But instead they make you rebuy the bad tracks. 

I used to be a HUGE Apple fan.  I love my MaBook to death.  But their latest craze of hyping up crap and then creating a monopoly with that crap is simply NOT COOL. 

 

I'm so depressed, does anyone want my phone?  I'll sell it for $300.

 

I really need to Bluetooth sync my phone. 

Ugh, I HATE my iPhone and I want more than ever to return it.  But Apple won't take them back.  That's complete BS.  And their warranty doesn't cover ANYTHING.  Apple's the only company I know that can get away with that.  They don't have any warranty on their iTunes music downloads either.  I've had quite a few songs that I've purchased from there simply stop working.  Or they get about a minute into the song and stop.   To me it seems that it'd be easy for them to just let you redownload bad songs for free (they have a record of you paying for it originally)  But instead they make you rebuy the bad tracks. 

I used to be a HUGE Apple fan.  I love my MaBook to death.  But their latest craze of hyping up crap and then creating a monopoly with that crap is simply NOT COOL. 

 

I'm so depressed, does anyone want my phone?  I'll sell it for $300.

 

I really need to Bluetooth sync my phone. 

 

Dude if you don't load a song you need to look at your receipt and click a link if you have an issue with a bad song or duplicate song.  There are also forums like this with helpful/friendly tips.

Yeah, I had some issues with some songs purchased on my phone not transferring correctly to my Mac. I simply followed the process and Apple resolved it in less than a day.

 

I wish Bluetooth contact and calendar syncing was possible, but it's not like it was a secret that you couldn't do that before you bought the phone.

Ugh, I HATE my iPhone and I want more than ever to return it.  But Apple won't take them back.  That's complete BS.  And their warranty doesn't cover ANYTHING.  Apple's the only company I know that can get away with that.  They don't have any warranty on their iTunes music downloads either.  I've had quite a few songs that I've purchased from there simply stop working.  Or they get about a minute into the song and stop.   To me it seems that it'd be easy for them to just let you redownload bad songs for free (they have a record of you paying for it originally)  But instead they make you rebuy the bad tracks. 

I used to be a HUGE Apple fan.  I love my MaBook to death.  But their latest craze of hyping up crap and then creating a monopoly with that crap is simply NOT COOL. 

 

I'm so depressed, does anyone want my phone?  I'll sell it for $300.

 

I really need to Bluetooth sync my phone. 

 

I wish I didn't get a new phone recently, I would have bought it off you. What don't you like about it? The interface? Just the music issues?

The part I hate the most is that it doesn't Bluetooth Sync.  I never thought to ask that because I assumed that because it had Bluetooth it would have no problem syncing an Apple product to another Apple product.  I still can't figure out why it won't sync.  The only answer I've gotten from Apple Store Reps is that the data load would be high...but that makes no sense at all.  It would be really easy to have it sync just contacts and calendars without the music.  Even still, I've Bluetooth Synced thousands of songs between my two computers without one problem. 

 

I also don't get why there's not a ToDo list.  (It sounds small but I really used it a lot for school)

 

I HATE how you have to use Apple brand headphones because they screwed up the jack.

 

There's no "profile" feature, so I can't set it to class mode and have it vibrate, or driving mode to make it louder.  (Not the end of the world)

 

No AIM, which I guess makes sense because of whatever agreement they made with Cingular.  But I think other Cingular phones have AIM...whatever

 

They won't service the phone for ANYTHING.  I swear, if you load a non-iTunes downloaded song onto it they'll refuse to look at it.  (Not really, but close.) 

 

Basically, it's got a bunch of incredible features.  But when it comes to the basic stuff that you'd expect on every phone, it's seriously lacking. 

The part I hate the most is that it doesn't Bluetooth Sync.  I never thought to ask that because I assumed that because it had Bluetooth it would have no problem syncing an Apple product to another Apple product.  I still can't figure out why it won't sync.  The only answer I've gotten from Apple Store Reps is that the data load would be high...but that makes no sense at all.  It would be really easy to have it sync just contacts and calendars without the music.  Even still, I've Bluetooth Synced thousands of songs between my two computers without one problem. 

 

I also don't get why there's not a ToDo list.  (It sounds small but I really used it a lot for school)

 

I HATE how you have to use Apple brand headphones because they screwed up the jack.

 

There's no "profile" feature, so I can't set it to class mode and have it vibrate, or driving mode to make it louder.  (Not the end of the world)

 

No AIM, which I guess makes sense because of whatever agreement they made with Cingular.  But I think other Cingular phones have AIM...whatever

 

They won't service the phone for ANYTHING.  I swear, if you load a non-iTunes downloaded song onto it they'll refuse to look at it.  (Not really, but close.) 

 

Basically, it's got a bunch of incredible features.  But when it comes to the basic stuff that you'd expect on every phone, it's seriously lacking. 

 

AIM on my Cingular Treo sucks....but Toccer works great if you don't mind being told you are logged on multiple locations on a semi-regular basis.

Great new features! GPS is the deal breaker for me ... anyone else biting?

 

http://www.apple.com/iphone/guidedtour/tour/large.html

 

I just bought a blackberry pearl.  Screw the iPhone - is AT&T still not allowing customers to buy phone insurance for the iPhones?  That was my big catch.  I hate not having phone insurance cause paying retail for a replacement suuuuuuuuucks.

I love my iphone.  I've had it for almost 7 months and it's been nothing but a joy.  The ipod player, the internet, the various interfaces - all awesome.  The good far outweigh the bad (my biggest complaint being phone reception). 

 

However, I will certainly not upgrade to the 3g for a number of reasons and can't understand any iphone owners who will.  First, the internet speed difference is not substantial because I'm usually in a free wifi place or use the google proxy server/mobile websites when I'm not.  As such, the internet speed really won't be that different.  I can't use the google proxy for youtube so I guess the 3g would be helpful there, but still...

 

Second, the new phone has virtually no new features.  I can't believe Apple is releasing this phone in the first place; it's not really the next generation iphone but instead is just a minor hardware update.  The GPS (which I don't need) and a slightly better battery (which is not incentive enough) are the main hardward differenes , in addition to the 3g of course.  Seriously, they want me to spend $$$ for just that?  Three main improvements???  What kind of upgrade is that?  Think of how the PS1 compared to the PS2 and then draw the analogy to the iphones.  No way. 

 

I'm not really bothered by the STILL missing flash player, flash photography, video player, cut and paste, MMS because third party developers can develop software for that stuff.  Software 2.0 comes free anyway so I'll get all the same new apps with my original Iphone that the 3g owners can get.

 

What does piss me off and is an ABSOLUTE deal breaker is the same damn 2.0 mpx camera.  I'm sorry but that is beyond retarded - we have cell phones coming out later this year with, what, 5.2 and even 8 mpx, yet Apple won't update their's?  Ridiculous, just ridiculous.  I'll wait for the Iphone 3.0 just for that reason alone.

 

I love my iphone and if I didn't have one I'd probably consider buying the 3g.  But there is no way I can justify buying a new one and spending an extra $200+ along with another $15/month for basically the exact same thing.

 

Finally, Apple has lost its mind if it think it can overtake blackberries as the business savvy smart phone.  Ignoring all the coding and security issues that have not been resolved, in addition to the keyboard which even I don't always like, there is something more professional about a blackberry/trio.  The Iphone has its place but its more for commercial use.  It's a music player and mobile computer that happens to make phone calls.  A blackberry is...something else and, at least at my job, we're not making the switch.  I'm pretty sure most other companies are the same. 

Apple has released 2.0 ... below is a link not from iTunes ... Engadget is in the process of installing it on a 1st gen iPhone and everything appears to be moving along. DOWNLOAD and install at your own risk! Remember, this link will probably re-lock your phone and you'll need to re-unlock it!!!

 

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

 

It's amazing how a company can create so much hype around a product ... only Apple ...

the whole "twice as fast, half the price" ad campaign I see as  giant slap in the face to the first generation customers.

 

Then again, I suppose you pay a premium for flocking like sheep to any first generation product.

Look at all the people lined up for the phone.

 

 

 

This line is worse than the initial roll out line.

 

 

the whole "twice as fast, half the price" ad campaign I see as  giant slap in the face to the first generation customers.

 

Then again, I suppose you pay a premium for flocking like sheep to any first generation product.

 

Apple is not new to this, and it is one reason why I refuse to buy Apple's products. It's not like Microsoft that rolls out a crappy Vista with lackluster features for $400, and then rolls out another version one year later with the bells and whistles for $100.

DAMNIT

 

I downloaded the new itunes - check

I installed the new iphone software - check

Now itunes is not loading - check

Now my phone is speaking in gibberish, I'm 4 hours late to work, and I can't do anything outside of "emergency calls" - check

Now apple won't answer their phones - check

Now I know going to the apple store is pointless since they have 3g buyers there - check

Now I'm pissed about this all day, have to work late to make up for time missed, and go home and deal with this hell all night - check

 

Rah!

This might be the cause of your problem.  Some of the interns are out there.

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Glitches mar Apple's iPhone debut

Reports of activation problems cloud the much-awaited rollout of a faster, cheaper phone.

 

By Scott Moritz, writer

Last Updated: July 11, 2008: 12:00 PM EDT

 

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The new Apple iPhone went on sale Friday morning, but early reports of problems activating the device threatened to overshadow its debut.

 

With eager buyers flocking to Apple stores, news sites chronicled reports that Apple's iTunes store was struggling with the heavy traffic.

 

 

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/11/technology/appleiphone.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008071112

Yeah, I'm reading similar articles to that as well.

 

This is unbelieavble: all I have on this brick is a picture of a plug going into an itunes icon with the word emergency contact flashing in English, Spanish, Japenese, and a few other languages.

 

And I was originally going to do this tonight but got so excited with some of the applications i.e. Super Monkey Ball that I bailed on common sense and tried installing the damn thing.  $#$^##*

the whole "twice as fast, half the price" ad campaign I see as giant slap in the face to the first generation customers.

 

Then again, I suppose you pay a premium for flocking like sheep to any first generation product.

 

The new iPhone is, in the long run, actually more expensive than the first-generation.

^Yeah, that's why I'm not getting it.  Mobile websites/google proxy/wifi more than compensates for the 3g, and the software is the exact same. 

 

...Or at least it was supposed to be as opposed to my phone just flashing "Emergency Contact" in Japanese and other languages.  I can't tell if I'm more pissed at myself for trying to install the software today or at Apple for so poorly coordinating this

Exactly why it is always best to let the bugs get worked out first. I sent an email out today to the staff at my job asking them not to even think about asking me to connect it to our Exchange Server.

^.  I was going to but then last night the applications store opened early.  And I saw Super Monkey Ball for $10.  And then logic got thrown out the window.

anybody get their new cheepee iphone on today? i was in midtown manhattan this morning and got an eyeful of iphone hopefuls. enjoy some queue action mates!:

 

a long line on 6th avenue

 

media coverage, long lines and nuttiness at the 'ol apple cube on 5th avenue.

 

peppy apple tools on hand to answer all you geeky questions  :-)

 

 

a greek chorus waits to for purchasers to come out  :wtf:

 

get this -- they all clap and cheer you when you come out! ego boosting=good pr!!!  :clap:

 

 

***  i hear someone say,"did you hear in tokyo the lines are a mile long?!"

 

so there it is.....reporting almost live from unh, the big apple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good lord, you would think one just donated a liver.

 

funny, I didn't see any of them applauding me as I angrily stormed out of my room after bricking the phone. 

 

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^ lol! seriously i havent heard any reviews of it -- is it that bad?!?!!

^who knows??  no one's is working

Around 3:45, an apple employee on the phone at the Kenwood store said here was currently about a 4 hour wait to get into the store.

 

ifight!

 

ifight!

 

 

 

July 11, 2008

iPhone Frenzy Reaches Hobo Fight Stage

 

 

As reader djmac captured an iPhone 3G-related fight outside a Lexington Avenue AT&T store, the customers who managed to snag the new device were bereft when problems prevented their phones from activating both in the physical stores and on the iTunes store. (Gizmodo has tips for fixing some problems.) Many AT&T stores are reporting they don't have anymore iPhone 3Gs; some remain at the Apple stores.

 

http://gothamist.com/2008/07/11/iphone_frenzy_reaches_hobo_fight_st.php

Look at all the people lined up for the phone ...

 

... This line is worse than the initial roll out line.

 

Someone should go there and pray for all those people and lay hands on them. They've fallen under the spell of the Great Satan that is Apple.

Look at all the people lined up for the phone ...

 

... This line is worse than the initial roll out line.

 

Someone should go there and pray for all those people and lay hands on them. They've fallen under the spell of the Great Satan that is Apple.

 

Although I'm hatin' men right now, I wouldn't mind "laying hands" on one of those guys! :wink:

stop

 

now.

I am an apple user. I love the computers and they do make good products.  But this is just totally ridiculous.  Sometimes I really wonder how stupid some people can be.  Just wait, man.  Oh yeah that's right, no one can wait for anything anymore.

^ Especially when last year people lined up overnight and none of the stores sold out.  So others were able to waltz into the store later that day and buy their own iPhone without waiting at all.  Ouch.  I'm shocked that people lined up again.

Yeah, and didn't a lot of the brand new iPhones have a lot of problems last year too?  If Verizon offered the iPhone, I would probably want one.  But they don't.  And seriously, for all of these new things coming out, wait a while before you buy it. More than ever now, they have problems.  Wait a month or two for the next batch that would be updated and better than the first.

I am not bashing the iPhone, nor Apple at all, but Apple is known to push things out really fast and the first round of products would be defective.  So keep that in mind when you go out and buy this new iPhone.

^ I think it was just with the activations.  I believe the iPhones themselves were fine after AT&T sorted out the activation issue.  I could be wrong though.

actually the iTunes site was acting up.  I had to upgrade my iTouch and I get getting a message that it couldn't be done at the time and to try later.

 

I haven't tried today, but I think it affected many products.

I think Apple's whole site was acting up today. I ordered a new printer and the store was a little more sluggish than normal.  It'll probably be like that for another day maybe.  Haha, it's amazing what just ONE product can do to a company's server.

I give Apple props, their marketing has made hipsters and scenesters, "want" their products.  Their products are considered sexy and as KOOW has coined a "successury". 

 

You can't just have a phone these days, you must have a iPhone/iTouch, Treo and as of recent a Instinct.

I have an old gen iPhone and was one of the many impatient people trying frantically to upgrade to the 2.0 software.

 

The difference in the actual software isn't really all that big but the applications that you can now get with 2.0 are absolutely incredible.

It's like I've been carrying around a nintendo wii in my pocket for months - and it just now decided to start working.

 

The largest and biggest deal about 2.0 is the exchange support. This is HUGE.

Despite the new software bricking my iphone (first generation), everything is okay with it now.  Some quick thoughts:

1. There are a number of awesome new applications (Super Monkey Ball is hard but fun) and I can't wait for new ones to come out.  Aol im on the iphone is nearly perfect.

2. There is also a lot of crap (there are at least 6 or 7 tip calculators) on the applications site.

3. I feel like the phone is a little slower - maybe it takes some time for the phone to get used to the new software?  I don't think anything is running in the background (I've disabled the push feature, which is only useful if you use mobile me). 

4. The battery is definitely getting drained a little faster, but that's understandilbe due to my using the new applications.  There's a program (can't remember what it's called) that is just like guitar hero, only you tap the board.  It's a lot more fun than you'd think and also free; however, I've been playing it a lot and it's clearly affecting the battery more than I thought it would,

5. A lot of the web applications i.e. New York Times are pointless since I don't have a 3g and there are mobile sites already in place. 

6. Overall, it's been a pretty cool weekend and I can't wait for more applications to come out.  I can't wait till some non racing games come out in particular! 

 

I give Apple props, their marketing has made hipsters and scenesters, "want" their products.  Their products are considered sexy and as KOOW has coined a "successury". 

 

If only: http://www.successories.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.home/home.cfm

 

I give Apple props, their marketing has made hipsters and scenesters, "want" their products.  Their products are considered sexy and as KOOW has coined a "successury". 

 

If only: http://www.successories.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.home/home.cfm