[BNM] No-one has mentioned the iPhone so far?

[Ant]

On 1/10/07, iestyn lloyd <iestyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ..and there i was thinking this was a geek mailing list. pff... :)
>> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

> Yeah, but ipods and iphones aren't geekish. They're stylish, designer,
> consumer items. They're barely hackable, and therefore of little
> interest to geeks. users, however, froth at the mouth over such
> shinyness.

Words out of my mouth, there, D. It's more amazing how Apple has managed to 
keep tapping into the marketing concept of "geek cool" whilst now delivering 
nothing more revolutionary than the modern equivalent of a decent hi-fi.

"Buffs" maybe. "Geeks", nah.

It is, however, about time that someone with charisma dragged the general 
consuming public kicking and screaming towards the mobile all-in-one ideal. 
Hopefully by the time the competitors have caught up (which, using the iPod 
as a model, should be about three or four years), the combined take-up will 
reduce the average running costs and increase the capacities to the extent 
that one can actually do something useful with it.

Apple are only one step ahead as usual. Still, in such a flat field, that's 
all it takes... a lesson there, imho.

:)

A