Re:John Dvorak: Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone (2007)
by zinssmeister on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:00PM
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What people saw back then is that Jobs was selling a phone. When in reality Steve was selling a post-pc device that could also make phone calls.
That's why the usual fashion cycle didn't apply.
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Re:John Dvorak: Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone (2007)
by mechanical_fish on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:07PM
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The categories are still quite confusing, because Apple's products stubbornly fail to fit cleanly in any of the old ones.
Is the iPod Touch a phone? No. Is it more-or-less like an iPhone? More, rather than less. Is the iPad a PC? No. Does it replace a PC? Yes and no. Does it replace an iPhone? No and yes.
It's reminiscent of the elder days when "microcomputers" were new, and one could have an extensive debate over whether a microcomputer was a real computer or just a toy. In the long run, of course, the very word microcomputer died out.