..where he unveiled the iPhone 4. If you are as obsessed with his on-stage prowess as me then you got to have a look. He makes all the Ted Talk speakers look like a nervous wreck.
Category: Tech
Today at WWDC, Steve jobs unveiled Apple’s new iPhone 4. Which will hit the shelves on 24th June in the US and UK. Jobs could have presented an onion as the iPhone 4 and I would have still gotten it, but the phone is actually cool.
Okay the first thing you will feel the minute you get your hands on it is the urge to get one. I mean although you are familiar with most of the features already, it is still pretty insane. I personally felt, I finally got my hands on something as a kid I always imagined would be available in the future. Only obvious bad point way too overpriced. I mean £450 quid for the basic 16Gb non-3G model.
All the iPhone apps really come to life on the big iPad screen. My second favourite iPhone game (after iCopter, obviously) Flight Control was always meant to be played on the iPad. Other than that, new featured apps like Mail, iTunes, Pages, Keynote, etc. absolutely blew me away. The biggest miss of all was the absence of the USB slot. I think a must need for the next update.
The iPad is definitely a luxury more then a necessity. But if you are into gadgets and with no cash restraints, I recommend you get one.
This post is a reply to Maneck for his blog post: Why the new iPad is a glorified iPod Touch… not even an iPhone 3GS
I agree with all of this. All I am saying is Apple has taken the initiative of bringing out a proper quality product for the gap in the market between the phone and the laptop, that is more then what any other company has done.
I agree there are a lot of features missing, like they were missing in the iPhone when it first came out. But it is this first step, in addressing this market gap which is important. Features can be added with constant updates and refreshes. Coming out with a new product is risky stuff, let alone a new category. And Apple has addressed this issue time and again taking this risk and raising the standard of the industry.
You see these Android phones, and HTC phones, etc. which are very similar to the iPhone. But none of these companies took the risk of actually coming out with the new groundbreaking phone, it is Apple which did that and the rest of them just juiced on their success. What Apple did for the music industry for the iPod was similar and you cannot deny them that, they found a gap in the market, they came up with a groundbreaking product and launched it, while others followed.
