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Information Technology News iPhone will do for phones what Mac did for PCs
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 16 February 2007 | |
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"The problem with phones up to now is that they were designed around being a phone like all the rest before, then with some new features to help users get things done. But, even though all phones today have a colour screen, can play games and ring with snippets from Elton John or Celine Dion, they seem to be stuck in the dark ages in ease of use." For those of you too young to remember, when the Apple Mac was launched in 1984 it had a graphical user interface with pull down menus not dissimilar to those you see on Macs and Windows machines today. But at that time just every other PC had a command line interface - you had to type a (non-intuitive) string of text to get it to do anything. Microsoft followed with Windows a year or so later, and the rest is history. Purdy claims that "On, January 9 Apple reset the bar for the entire phone industry by introducing the iPhone ... What's so important about the iPhone is the nature of the user experience. It's fundamentally different from any phone that has been developed and released up to now. It has a great VGA display, a great natural user interface with easy 'velocity scrolling' that allows you to push the images on the display as if they were floating on Teflon ... Realize that this is just the very first model of the iPhone. There will be an entire product line in future years spanning a number of user segments with different features." Purdy makes several predictions on future iPhone developments: • It will be more tightly integrated to the AppleTV; • Apple will build a model with a slide out keyboard for those who are email centric or do a lot of messaging; • Instant messaging will be expanded. "Using the inter-operator agreements, Apple can build a great IM network that hopefully will allow Yahoo, AIM, MSN Messenger and Google users to carry out IM with iPhone users." • Apple will expand the iPhone's Widget capabilities. "This could be huge on the iPhone so that users have easy access to all the snippets of information that are important to them such as news, weather, sports, financial and personal media." • Apple will leverage the relationship with Disney and other content resource centres like XM, ESPN and others to provide up-to-date personal information delivering into the Widgets or separate channels.{moscomment}
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