I haven’t ever really been a fan of Apple, especially since they limit expandability (e.g. support for memory cards in the iPhone). Granted, Apple “stuff” (e.g. software) works well and that’s a major reason for people loving what Apple produces. That being said, as I watched the phenomenal mega biggy uber long crazy tennis Wimbledon match this morning I saw an Apple commercial highlighting the new iPhone’s ability to cut, copy, and paste. I laughed. Are you kidding me? This is a feature worthy of a commercial? My Blackberry has had the copy and paste feature for over 2 years. Here’s the commercial showing “incredible things”:
Perhaps it is just me, but a mandatory mating of a device to use a specific set of headphones? It would seem that many people would want to periodically use another set of headphones for a variety of reasons. Is “Voice Over” innovative? Not so much – the technology has been around for a long time and I’d question the value of it telling the user the song name. Do most people not know the songs on their iPod? C’mon Steve, is this along the lines of the sub-par iPods (e.g. no bluetooth in iPods?!) that are produced? …or perhaps the inability to upgrade memory in all Apple iPod-like devices. Then again, Apple has done well in the recent-past, and perhaps behavioral economics will prove me wrong – i.e. being cool, fasionable, and simple rules the consumer market.
