Comments on: all together now … http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: enjelani http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-121819 enjelani Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:19:35 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-121819 i'm just gonna get one and keep it, unopened, in a climate-controlled storage space for 30 years. :) i’m just gonna get one and keep it, unopened, in a climate-controlled storage space for 30 years. :)

]]> By: syndromes http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-121673 syndromes Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:38:12 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-121673 I'm sorta mixed on the iPhone. I dunno how I would feel about using a touchscreen for a phone, but I can see the advantages, especially when married with a landscape mode that would switch to a qwerty keyboard for texting. But I like me some tactile feedback! Here's <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confirm-no-3rd-party-iphone-apps/" rel="nofollow">another blurb</a> about it not really being OSX or an open platform. I agree with you completely Eric - how friggin could would that be to develop homebrew apps for your cell?? I'm indifferent w/cingular being the carrier, but that's possibly because i've never used them ;) Anyway, I still think the iPhone is incredible from a conceptual point of view, just not sure it'll live up to the concept quite yet. PS - DRM, DIE DIE DIE!! I’m sorta mixed on the iPhone. I dunno how I would feel about using a touchscreen for a phone, but I can see the advantages, especially when married with a landscape mode that would switch to a qwerty keyboard for texting. But I like me some tactile feedback!

Here’s another blurb about it not really being OSX or an open platform. I agree with you completely Eric – how friggin could would that be to develop homebrew apps for your cell??

I’m indifferent w/cingular being the carrier, but that’s possibly because i’ve never used them ;)

Anyway, I still think the iPhone is incredible from a conceptual point of view, just not sure it’ll live up to the concept quite yet.

PS – DRM, DIE DIE DIE!!

]]> By: eric http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-121669 eric Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:56:45 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-121669 Thanks for the link, Jim. "Radical and revolutionary," Mossberg said. He was pretty glowing. I'm hoping in a year or so some of the initial problems will be worked out, including the openness of the platform. On a similar note, I hope they open whatever extra technologies they've developed with Cingular so that they're not permanently married to Cingular -- visual voicemail, for example. On the other hand, I imagine more general internet-based technologies will overtake cellular technologies as time goes on anyway ... Thanks for the link, Jim. “Radical and revolutionary,” Mossberg said. He was pretty glowing.

I’m hoping in a year or so some of the initial problems will be worked out, including the openness of the platform.

On a similar note, I hope they open whatever extra technologies they’ve developed with Cingular so that they’re not permanently married to Cingular — visual voicemail, for example. On the other hand, I imagine more general internet-based technologies will overtake cellular technologies as time goes on anyway …

]]> By: jim http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-121466 jim Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:51:41 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-121466 Talk of the Nation did about 20 minutes on the iPhone today... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6783324 Apparently it's closed. No 3rd party app support. And the exclusive Cingular deal made me scratch it off my want list just like that. Up to that point I was drooling too. I spent way too long on Apple's site going through all the animation demos. Talk of the Nation did about 20 minutes on the iPhone today…

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6783324

Apparently it’s closed. No 3rd party app support. And the exclusive Cingular deal made me scratch it off my want list just like that. Up to that point I was drooling too. I spent way too long on Apple’s site going through all the animation demos.

]]> By: Karin http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-121071 Karin Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:58:16 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-121071 I was all set to buy one and then they had to go and say Cingular. I hate Cingular. Grr. I was all set to buy one and then they had to go and say Cingular. I hate Cingular. Grr.

]]> By: eric http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-120996 eric Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:30:39 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-120996 <i>Some report said it was a “closed platform” — I’ll be surprised if people other than Apple can write for it.</i> What a waste of an opportunity if that's so. <i>And I’m sure that the plan you’d have to get to make its mail and web access work will just add to its priciness (10 cents for each of those SMS balloons?)</i> Grr. Again, why aren't we using a real IM client instead of SMS? (Or iChat AV.) At least when on WiFi. Makes you wonder how much control of the platform Apple had to cede to Cingular for this to work. Well, someone's probably made an IM-to-SMS gateway on the web. Or will soon enough. I'll use that. Some report said it was a “closed platform” — I’ll be surprised if people other than Apple can write for it.

What a waste of an opportunity if that’s so.

And I’m sure that the plan you’d have to get to make its mail and web access work will just add to its priciness (10 cents for each of those SMS balloons?)

Grr. Again, why aren’t we using a real IM client instead of SMS? (Or iChat AV.) At least when on WiFi. Makes you wonder how much control of the platform Apple had to cede to Cingular for this to work. Well, someone’s probably made an IM-to-SMS gateway on the web. Or will soon enough. I’ll use that.

]]> By: daveo http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/2007/01/09/all-together-now/comment-page-1/#comment-120994 daveo Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:12:02 +0000 http://balanceinmotion.net/blog/?p=202#comment-120994 Some report said it was a "closed platform" -- I'll be surprised if people other than Apple can write for it. And I'm sure that the plan you'd have to get to make its mail and web access work will just add to its priciness (10 cents for each of those SMS balloons?) But it looks like fun. Some report said it was a “closed platform” — I’ll be surprised if people other than Apple can write for it. And I’m sure that the plan you’d have to get to make its mail and web access work will just add to its priciness (10 cents for each of those SMS balloons?)

But it looks like fun.

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