How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry (by making the network provider irrelevant)

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by gibsonf1 • 19 years ago

22 11 19 years ago

Writing this now from my iPhone. The Edge really isn't bad, and the WiFi is great. It really is a nice Internet platform.

gibsonf12• 19 years ago

I admit it - I'm impressed :)

mattculbreth2• 19 years ago

It's funny--I was in bad shape for a bit with my wife yesterday. But then I let her play with it and browse the net and she ended up really liking it.

So far both Reddit and news.yc work perfectly. My Netvibes is a bit off due to some Javascript issue, but other than that it's been great for browsing.

youngnh• 19 years ago

Which makes me think that there will be no "last great battle" for the PC. Just sync your iPhone with every piece of data in the universe by plugging it into some to-be-determined shaped hole in your wall.

jimbokun• 19 years ago

The hole will be shaped something like this:

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230404933.jpg

sethjohn• 19 years ago

Even more exciting than the possibility of switching from ATT to Verizon will be in 15 years when wireless is everywhere and the iPhone runs by VOIP.

That's how they'll really take over the wireless industry.

ph0rque• 19 years ago

Let's hope it'll happen in 5 years, not 15.

pg• 19 years ago

A friend whose opinion I respect says that the iPhone is the real deal-- that it's so good that it will shift the balance of power in favor of device manufacturers, and reduce the carriers to a commodity.

uuilly• 19 years ago

I can't wait to see what they do to the hardware industry. I have had my iPhone for a day and already my macbook pro feels like an arcane instrument. I am so used to touching the screen that a trackpad feels distant and uncontrolled. I really think that what apple did is as big a ui leap as the the mouse. I don't think that multi-touch will stop at handhelds.

Here's to hoping they change the cell industry too!

(posted from an iPhone)

How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry (by making the network provider irrelevant)

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