Why do people want the Applephone so much?
It’s true, rumors of the long-awaited Applephone (that took me a couple tries — I kept typing “iPhone”) are at a fever pitch. Not that it’s necessarily a barometer, but Mac fanboy haven Digg has seen no less than 39 “iPhone” related articles hit the front page of its tech section this month. The questions people ask me more than any other: When is the iPhone Applephone coming out? and What do you know about it? But why all the fuss? Well, there are a few reasons why there’s such a pent-up demand for an Apple cellphone:
- Cellphones today suck. Especially smartphones. It’s 2006 and a good phone — and I mean an honestly really good phone — still hasn’t been made. A new competitor — any new competitor, be it ALP or Linux or the Applephone — is highly anticipated.
- People are already sick of Windows Mobile dominating the landscape. I’ve been a long time Windows Mobile user, but let’s face it, it’s pretty much the only smartphone game in town in the US. You can go Symbian, but the devices just aren’t there through carrier purchases. Palm is obviously a joke, and Linux / JUIX is nowhere to be found.
- Cellphones haven’t gotten music integration right. Sure, there are enough phones with media buttons and microSD slots to go around, but that doesn’t mean they work well.
- Using your phone and your Mac is often a painful and tedious experience. In fact, the same goes for using your phone and most any computer.
- People are curious to see how radically the cellphone can be re-envisioned, and they expect Apple to lead that charge.
Now let’s square that off against the realities about the Applephone that people probably don’t want to face.
- The battery life will probably be pretty awful. And if it’s going to be a small phone, battery life will be even worse. Even phones with massive 1000mAh+ batteries drain off fast when playing media. A two battery design isn’t going to change anything software battery partitioning couldn’t solve. Unless Apple is waiting to announce a major advancement in battery tech, that is just the way things are.
- The phone will be buggy. Anyone ever use the first few releases of OS X? It took Apple years — specifically until about 10.3 — to get it right, and it’s taken Microsoft a good five years to get Windows Mobile to a state decent enough to be mass-market. Remember, this would be the first cellphone from a company that’s never made a phone before. Do you really think it would be perfect?
- It won’t be what people want. People want a QWERTY slider flip phone with a numeric keypad, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and A2DP, a mini USB slot, 3.5mm stereo jack, and 3 megapixel digital camera (with flash). In other words, when a new product is merely rumored about, it takes a polymorphous shape. It won’t be everything — we should all know this by now that Apple’s design philosophy isn’t found in what they include, it’s in what they omit. The iPhone will undoubtedly be, comparatively speaking, under-featured.
- It probably won’t have 3G. At least not at first. I don’t think the US carriers are ready for what Apple wants to do with this phone. If it does have 3G, it’ll probably be sold through Apple — not through a carrier — meaning you’ll have to pay the full $500 for a first gen Applephone.
- It’s safe to assume it won’t work with Windows out of the box. At least not fully. It’ll probably sync with iTunes, but getting your Outlook contacts on board probably won’t come until later (or will only happen via third party apps).
- It won’t be revolutionary. If anything, it’ll be a well designed, well thought-out phone — which is, I suppose, revolutionary considering the market. But only because no one else is really pushing the envelope. From a device standpoint it will be fairly conventional in form-factor, shape, size, etc.
I’m not trying to be a buzzkill, believe me. But I’ve seen enough product launches — especially Apple ones — to know hype very rarely intersects with reality. Then again, it’s only a rumored product, right? Who knows, maybe Apple will really surprise us, and never actually even release a cellphone. THAT would be interesting.
People don’t want the apple phone. It sounds like a load of bollox if u ask me.
Fair play to apple for using the guerilla marketing. It worked well for them with the ipod revisions and tbe mac mini, which turned out to be another piece of useless crap despite all the hype they still managed to get people to want it and buy it.
Comment by mark — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 11:14 am
Why is Palm an obvious joke. The only thing that is obvious is your lack of experience with it. I have a Treo 650 and I am very happy with it. Its smaller than a Windows phone, is more reliable, has a higher screen resolution and allows me to access Google maps, use a GPS device, watch videos and movies, watch live TV, listen to MP3 files and streaming radio stations. It also comes with software to read and edit MS Office documents. Slider phones suck, are too big and fragile.
Comment by Edward Thomson — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 11:19 am
Apple - If you’re reading this: ignore it!! Use a Blue Ocean Strategy approach, like Nintendo did w/ the Wii. Specifically, decide what attributes exist and which you want to Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, and Create.
Here are my votes, if anybody cares:
Eliminate:
* Email
* Camera
* Web browser
* Plug-in storage: use the network
Reduce:
* Address book: keep it simple w/ lots of storage
* GPS: only meet legal min rqmt
* SMS: basic send/receive msgs
Raise:
* Antenna strength
* Wi-fi connectivity integrated w/ computers
* Tactile feel of keys
Create:
* ipod integration using ipod interface
* External battery option
In essence, create the Wii of phones — a streamlined phone that’s easy to use, fun, and effective — not the bloated, overburdened, expensive PS3 of phones.
Comment by Michael O — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 11:39 am
For much of my adult life I’ve despised mobile phone design and hate using them. I want an iPod Phone because there’s a high probability that Apple will take an existing technology and make it a pleasure to use, being that that is generally what they’re good at.
Comment by Anthony — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
your right, it’s going to be buggy for a while and it will definitely not have the features everyone wants. i’ll be curious to see someone walking around with: applephone, ipod nano or 5.5 ipod and a widescreen true ipod video.
consumerism at its finest. im happy with my dash for now, my ideal phone would be a slimmer version of the sk3, a true OS and a better screen. am i asking for too much?
Comment by Zhoe Garcia — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
I think people will like it for the coolness, but as for competition, I’ve had 3 Windows Mobile 5 phones, and they’ve all sucked badly. Great PDA, great for TOMTOM and even works ok for the Mac with missing sync, until missing sync decides to go wafferty and start duplicating contacts like a madman. But as a phone they were atrocious. Dropping calls, not receiving calls because they had hung and gone to sleep. I’ve gone back to the Sony Ericsson P990 which until it’s first software update was pretty bad, but is mostly stable now and is much much more solid than the WM5 phones at their best and it’s worst. I’ve had the web browser and media player both crash the same as the WM5 (HTC Tytn) devices but it still made calls which WM5 can’t seem to do.
Comment by Ian — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
How do you watch movies on a Treo? I know it is possible, but last time I checked, doing so involved a HUGE multi-step process of installing an armada of beta, possibly spyware and adware, conversion utilities with suspicious sounding names and then going through a long series of conversion / transcoding steps with lots of driver installations and other iffy steps along the way. Is there an easier way now?
Comment by Lance Barston — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
I don’t know about the that Treo being all that small. Especially the 650. Reliable? Eh. I had one for about a month and had to do a master reset about once a week because it went into power cycle hell. Just reboot and reboot. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that phone but what if i didn’t sync it everyday? I’d lose all my info. Sold that and bought an E61. Symbian device with wifi. Took some getting used to because of the lack of touchscreen. Even let my brother use it for a month. But i think symbian is the way to go. Windows mobile is just that an extension of a piece of crap OS that’s buggy and requires classes to learn. The blackjack? Jack of all trades master of none. with just a 200mhz processor and 3 applications running you can forget seeing what you type in an email in real time.
Comment by sean — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
I also don’t understand your comment about Palm. It’s faster, smaller, and more stable than “Windows Mobile.” The truth is, Microsoft makes many the OS’s for cell phones, not just Windows Mobile (which flat out sucks).
Comment by Chris — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
If the iPhone is coming or not I’ll leave that in the middle.
But syncing with windows will probably be there, even with outlook. Currently iTunes supports Outlook contact for the iPod, so why not for the iPhone when it comes?
Comment by Bert Goethals — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
Palm isnt a joke, but I dont think its that easy to use..(wife uses treo650, I use the 8525)
I just cant see how people like Palm more..
Joke is probably strong, but I enjoy using WM5 more.
I have a 8125, 8525, sx66 and a TReo 650 (my wife uses it).. I could get Palm if I thought it was better.. Of course I dont though..
Comment by Wayne Bienek — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
Until we have actually seen and tested a device it is hard to speculate, all we have right now is speculative and unconfirmed.
I will buy one to give it a fair crack of the whip and see if it works out - I find it interesting that people are already slating the product when it hasn’t even been released yet.
I think your comments on Windows Mobile VS Symbian are unfounded - if you actually look at market statistics I think you will find Symbian Mobiles outsell WM mobiles by 10 to 1 (if not greater). WM cripple themselves by offering very little for those consumers who don’t want to sync with a Microsoft PC.
I have no doubt that Apple have taken this challenge very seriously and have learnt from the past mistakes of Nokia, Motorola and Microsoft. I am sure we will all find out soon enough.
Comment by Matt Scott — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 1:57 pm
Why is Palm a joke ? Seriously. My Treo can do everything you mentioned above (GPS (also with TomTom), qwerty keyb, SD slot (not mini), Mp3 playing, camera, web browsing, E-Books, bluetooth, oh and yes: call Phone.) It also has a 320×320 65K color screen, plenty of memory, it can be programmed by the user. Oh, and it runs good apps like : google maps, gmail and Opera, as well as thousands of Indy Palm applications and games.
Comment by Anibal — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
I’ve used Palm and Windows Mobile and without a doubt I recommend anyone buying a PDA to buy Palm. It’s easier to use, more stable, and can do anything you’d ever need. It’s hardly a joke and I was very happy when I heard I could buy a Treo700p and not have to deal with Windows Mobile.
For videos on a Palm, you can just buy this program called MMPlayer for it and with an SD card reader you can put XviD or DivX videos on it and play with just that program, I’m not sure what other formats it supports, though.
Comment by Ryan — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
Palm Treos are well designed, very funcitonal, and practical.
You do have to restart them now and then but when you compare
them to the alternatives all-in-all they are comparateively awesome devices.
Based on my real experience with MS application and OS software
I don’t trust the opinion of anyone who elevates MS products above
any thing remotely as useful as Palm OS.
Comment by planetfinder — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
You fogot about the Blackberry 8100 Pearl. It has everything you asked for but the 3G.
Comment by ryan — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 8:10 pm
I’m excited about an Apple phone because I hope there will be an Apple cell network (MVNO) to go along with it. Current phones are a reflection of the values of the network operators (Cingular, Verizon, etc.). An Apple phone in conjunction with an Apple network would “get it.” I’ll pay for valuable services — but not ring tones, backgrounds, etc.
Comment by Brendan — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
“The phone will be buggy.”
Um, the ipod? The current Apple company has essentially released one consumer electronics device and they pretty much hit the nail on the head - we want a portable device that with a few scrolls will allow me to access THOUSANDS of songs, and artists (the other capabailities were added later) … and itunes - how many other online music stores are there on the planet? How many tries before Apple got it right? ONE. I’m not saying it’s perfect nor that they needed to or did add capabilities later but all people wanted in an online store is like a real store. I walk in. It’s alphabetized (online stores have the advantage of a computerized seach) and I know here and how to pay for it. There are still some online stores that require you to buy each album track one by one … du’h.
That’s why people are looking forwrd to an Apple phone. I have recent Moto - it syncs yes but it created 4 listing for FRIEND A’s home, work, cell & other number - what human wants to scroll through 20 lines when it’s only 4 names? Yes, the Moto let me arrange them manually so I had 4 numbers per entry but why was it stupid enough not to do that first?
Because the telcos are just that - telco utilities who are clueless. palm had a state of art OS for 1996 … unfortunately, it’s 2% improved since 1996. MS? bwhahahaha … they haven’t created a sucessful consumer product since 1995 (not one where you give away $400 to sell it for $250). They’ve been working on a mobile oS to knock off Palm for NINE years and they still haven’t come close to Palm … which is frankly embarassing.
Even if you measure their OS updates as more appropriate than coming with the ipod OS, it still wins. Is the phone interface OS (any phone’s OS) better than it was 5 uyears ago? No … that means even if Apple comes up with a middling UI, in 2 years, it’ll be world class - either way, us conusmers win.
The telcos are morons run by bureaucrats who only understand crippling technolgy they don’t undertand …
Comment by jbelkin — Monday, January 1, 2007 @ 10:12 pm
Ever checked the nationality of all the people lusting for the ApplePhone?
Most aren’t European or Asian, as we’ve already got great Symbian or Sony Ericsson music phones from most of the carriers. Windows Mobile, Palm and Blackberry phones are very much in the minority. Sure, phone-computer interop is still pretty crappy, but for many folks the phone is their primary (and sometimes sole) device.
We’ve also got established 3G networks with pretty much universal coverage - i.e. Three went live nearly 4 years ago in Europe, and DoCoMo have been live for longer than I can remember.
In short the reasons we’re not bothered by the ApplePhone hype could be put down to us not being stuck with Verizon, Cingular, Palm, Windows Mobile, patchy coverage and weird wireless interfaces like CDMA and EV-DO.
Comment by Jim Hughes — Tuesday, January 2, 2007 @ 4:13 am
I have lived in the dark ages for most of my life, as concerns technology anyway, and I was completely blown away last summer when I actually saw an iPod last summer (yes, I really am sad enough to have only seen aq real iPod last summer). The interface, as far as I could tell, was flawless. The design was superb. If Apple can give me a mobile which has an interface as intuitive as the iPod, and as elegant as the iPod in design, then I will certainly buy it.
As goes features, I can do without a slide-out qwerty keyboard, bluetooth would be nice but not essential, camera (and any other thing that is cool and makes me want to buy it) would be appreciated, and iPod compatibility should be a must for Apple.
I live in the UK, and quite frankly Brendan, I can do without yet another network that will over-charge me.
Overall, I can’t see how an Applephone could be a bad thing. (Just as long as it isn’t too pricey….)
Comment by Huckle — Tuesday, January 2, 2007 @ 4:45 am
To counter Jim Hughes comment - I’m european and i am looking forward to owning an Apple Phone.
Nokia/Symbian Mobile probably are the best around at the moment in terms of functionality, stability, ease of use and availability of software and features - if the Apple Phone takes off I see no reason why it shouldn’t provide significant competition to Nokia.
3G Networks are not mature enough, certainly not in the UK - the service is not stable - GPRS is far more reliable and less power-consuming. You only have to evaluate Hutchinson 3G (Three) to see how shody 3G networks actually operate. Every 3G tarriff is loaded with the immense cost the UK government charged the carriers for the operating licenses - something they will aim to repeat with the forthcoming 4th Gen Network.
Lots of the aforementioned phone have forgotten the core application - its a phone for making calls and sending texts - thats 80% of its functionality right there, everything else is a nice-to-have. The Apple Phone will be relatively basic, a phone with a music player - the selling point will be its great design and ease of use - that is what sells apple products - give the power back to the user.
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jbelkin has it exactly. The telco’s are creating the need for an iPhone. If they were just a wee bit greedy and a wee bit more concerned about the user experience (don’t get me started on ANY telco’s customer service.. holy mother of all that is … ) then Apple wouldn’t NEED to create an iPhone. God, I hope they do. I’m dumping my Verizon, paying the early contract reem-you fees, taking my 6-phone family plan to where ever Apple decides to reside and signing up ASAP.
Comment by dbcoyle — Tuesday, January 2, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
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This may sound funny to you users, but I have as yet understood WHY anyone wants a cell phone? I’ve had three and found them far too expensive for what they deliver. I hate the carriers who lie about FREE TIME all the while charging air time, long distance, and roaming in my home area. Even in my HOME, how can that be roaming?
Who do people talk to at 7:30AM on the way to work that can’t wait until they get there? Or any other time for that matter? What’s so important?
Now you say you want iTunes, GPS, MP3, games, movies, Internet radio and a slew of other features and complain about battery drain! Sheesh! How about a mini-inkjet printer and scanner while you are at it? Oh year, almost forgot a fax device! And a mini-roll of toilet paper for emergencies. Yeah, get it all!
Comment by JimboNC — Tuesday, January 2, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
a few commenters here have it right. ryan, maybe you want all those things you list, but i certainly don’t. and i actually think the vast majority of phone buyers don’t find them that important. under-featured? i wouldn’t use that term. many of today’s phones, especially smart phones (who made up that term, and did they intend it to be ironic?) are over-featured, imho. so if apple works its mojo on a phone device, my guess is they’ll try very hard to get a good mix of the features you *need* - the ability to make phone calls, and… nothing else, really - and a few features people will like, and actually use. text message or chat of some kind: yes. music: yes. camera: maybe. pda features: i doubt it. smart phones are a small share of the market, and apple is not interested in going after that, as they’ve shown with the ipod. these are commodity devices, and they will go for the big numbers.
if they do it at all. i sure am hopeful, as i’m due for a new phone, and i don’t like much of what’s out there. so we’ll see.
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It will not be an “iPhone” or an “Applephone.” It will be an iPod with wireless. Therefore, it will not be marketed as a mobile phone, but as a new iPod with several new “must have” capabilties involving wireless. Being a phone will just be one of these functions, but not its defining characteristic.
So…
1. The battery life will probably be pretty awful
Battery life will be compared to other iPods and iPod-like devices, not to mobile phones.
2. The phone will be buggy
Why?
3. It won’t be what people want
Apple is good at giving “people” something they don’t even know they want. For example, the original iPod five years ago. It may not be what people like this author expect, but will be something a lot of people will “want.”
4. It probably won’t have 3G
It’s a iPod with wireless, so its wireless standard will be whatever is needed to perform its designed wireless functions in the markets where it is released.
5. It’s safe to assume it won’t work with Windows out of the box
Every iPod since the first generation has worked with Windows “out of the box.” Why would this one be different?
6. It won’t be revolutionary
It will become the basis for the iPod morphing into a wearable computer platform. Third parties will release new software and hardware once the “iPod” has the horsepower and Internet connectivity to be the hub (the brains, data storage, visual feedback, and user input) for the system. Think of the Nike partnership as the (already taken) first step. I can’t think of anything more revolutionary.
Comment by KW — Wednesday, January 3, 2007 @ 12:41 am
If Apple does not present a phone, I really would like to ask Steve Jobs (or Jonathan Ive) which cell phone he is using. I can’t imagine any of the available phones out there to be good enough for these gods of usability and the KISS principle.
Comment by hessi — Wednesday, January 3, 2007 @ 5:12 am
My Mac Mini is not a load of crap. well it wouldnt be if i had bought the latest one!
Comment by Colin Watts — Wednesday, January 3, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
jimboNC keep living in the dark ages of slow-paced enterprise, while the people talking on the phone have made more money than you by 8AM than you did the whole day.
Comment by efficient and productive — Thursday, January 4, 2007 @ 12:37 am
People, People - lets not get so aggresive here - its about the phone! Lets not take a pop at one another, chill!
Its getting closer to the 9th and I must admit I am getting a bit excited - I hope Uncle Jobs does not let us all down!
How long before we see a Zune Mobile….
Comment by Matt Scott — Thursday, January 4, 2007 @ 5:48 am
mark… (first commenter) people don’t want it? so you’re saying that everyone talking about it, and reading about for the last year don’t want one but just like speculating about products they will never own?
Comment by c — Thursday, January 4, 2007 @ 8:31 am
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I have a Treo 650 and I like it, but I need the missing synch to get it to work. I synch at least 3x a day to make sure it synched and backed up properly. As soon as Apple comes up with a mobile input device, I am all over it. I just want to add and edit Contacts in AddressBook and Events in iCal. Communication is a plus, but I can’t expect everything from a first product of this type- I would prefer a bootable profile firewire drive that I could plug into any mac and check my email with, seeing my own desktop until I logout and eject it. Make it work with a bluetooth keyboard and the main device stays simple. Then I can use a regular bluetooth phone to get a mobile data connection for email & text chat when I have time to kill.
Comment by EJE — Friday, January 5, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
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Its out, not released in US for 2 months, Europe Q4 2007 and Asia in 2008 :o(
looks cool but may be “too much” and “too complex” for basic users
Comment by Matt Scott — Tuesday, January 9, 2007 @ 11:04 am
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Looks like you were pretty damn close with your predictions Ryan!
:-)
Comment by Gary — Wednesday, January 10, 2007 @ 2:21 am
If Apple’s smooth trasition to intel chips is anything to go by, I think that the iPhone won’t have any major bugs. It’s been in development for 2 1/2 years and they’ll have tested it alot. Also to quote you “it’s taken Microsoft a good five years to get Windows Mobile to a state decent enough to be mass-market”. How can you even begin to use that statment as some sort of comparision between Microsoft and Apple?! Windows is crap and we all know it and is full of bugs. Mac OSX is wonderful and has hardly any. As you said they worked out the major issue in the first few versions so it does lend to the idea that the iPhone’s OSX will be fine.
If I’m wrong then I’m wrong. I was sceptical about the switch to intel and thought there would be lots of bugs. I lived by the old philisophy’ Let others test it and then buy the 2nd gen”. I was wrong and Apple only keep proving that they don’y make many mistakes. Lets not loose sight that the iPhone is going to be great!
Comment by Geoff — Saturday, January 13, 2007 @ 5:58 am
I think it was a nice move for apple to come out with the apple iPhone. The iPhone apple has most features consumers have been wanting to have. I also think the price will not deter people from buying the apple iPhone. I even think they will sell more then the 10 million apple iPhones they expect to sell within the year.
Comment by iphone apple — Sunday, January 14, 2007 @ 2:28 am
iPhone, makes me happy and I really really really want one.
Comment by D Dykzeul — Friday, February 23, 2007 @ 11:12 am
The interest of the iPhone is mainly from fans of the iPod. I don’t know if there will be a new iPod released, but the iPhone pretty much seems like the new version. Before it was a hip and cool mp3 player. Then it became a hip and cool mp3 player with video capabilities. Now it’s a hip and cool mp3 player with video capabilities that you can make phone calls with.
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