This looks awesome. If Apple can get that thing to run PDA software (specifically medical software), then I'm getting one. Period. I've been looking at Pocket PC/Palm smartphones, and they are just clunky, slow and drain batteries.
I'm still trying to convince my wife that my next computer will be a MacBook Pro. I did notice that now Best Buy is an official Mac dealer. They're selling iMacs already. It's only a matter of time before Apple becomes mainstream again.
I watched the Keynote address from Steve Jobs, and the thing is, in fact, awesome. And it will set you back a pretty penny. Like you said, it looks like Cingular is the only carrier that will accept the iPhone, as its super-duper features require carrier support (visual voice-mail, for instance).
What I think this will replace is the BlackBerry. At the moment, I can't see it competing with the Palm or Pocket PC Smartphones, just because they have access to the entire library of Palm and Pocket PC software. If Steve Jobs told me tomorrow that I could run many OS-X programs on the iPhone, I'd be good to go.
Yeah, but with a hot item like that, it won't be long before there's tons of stuff out there--look at the insane amount of third party stuff for iPods. Oh, and you should totally get a macbook pro, I've got a 17" and I'm absolutely in love with it, the hardware is amazing and it can do everything I need, the quality of freeware/shareware programs for OS X are amazing, some are better than the stuff put out by big companies. For instance, when I first tried using AIM on this thing it was buggy as hell since it wasn't a universal binary and AOL never made that reliable of a program in the first place, then I got a program called Fire. Fire is amazing, it seemlessly allows you to connect to every IM service you've ever heard of and a few more, and you can have multiple screen names logged in at the same time, and they've had tabbed message way before AOL. Most programs I've found for the Mac are like that, if a popular piece of software from a PC won't natively run in OS X, somebody has already made something better for Mac. The
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I'm still trying to convince my wife that my next computer will be a MacBook Pro. I did notice that now Best Buy is an official Mac dealer. They're selling iMacs already. It's only a matter of time before Apple becomes mainstream again.
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What I think this will replace is the BlackBerry. At the moment, I can't see it competing with the Palm or Pocket PC Smartphones, just because they have access to the entire library of Palm and Pocket PC software. If Steve Jobs told me tomorrow that I could run many OS-X programs on the iPhone, I'd be good to go.
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