iPhone, new laptop or ?
Posted by Z on July 2nd, 2007 -
The craze over the iPhone is unwarranted I think. While the phone is “very nice” it’s not revolutionary - more evolutionary (I played with one on Friday). If the price was more in line with other phones, it had an SDK for developers, expandable memory, downloadable songs (OTA), and it supported Blackberry email maybe I’d reconsider, but to put things in perspective consider what $499 can buy - e.g. a new Dell laptop for the price of the 4GB iPhone! Dell InspironTM 1501: AMD Turion X2 Dual-core Processor, Windows VistaTM or Windows® XP, 15.4″ Widescreen with TrueLife, 1GB Memory, 60GB Hard Drive, CD/DVD Burner. Although, engineering, and more likely marketing, costs must be recovered somehow…