"They say Apple products are not for everyone, but you are not everyone".
I think above statement is going to change forever with the unveiling of iPhone 2.0 starting at $199 and introducing this phone to over 70 countries from July 11th, 2008 onwards.
"The only thing that can beat an iPhone(1.0) is a new iPhone(2.0)".
Today at World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Fransisco, Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone 2.0 which looks more or less the same as last generation of iPhone but it comes with 3G, GPS and its quite cheap in price (8 GB for $199 and 16 GB for $299 with 2 yr contract).
I find pricing very competitive and with support for Microsoft Exchange, Apple is all set to enter corporate world which till now is dominated by Blackberry and with host of security features such as Cisco IPSec VPN, they are making sure that they comply with security needed in Enterprise environment.
I personally believe that iPhone had much bigger impact on masses on how they started perceiving and accepting Apple products beyond iPod and iPhone. Reading from last year statistics Apple's Macintosh line of Computers such as Macbooks and iMacs are selling 30% more than previous year. Now the question might pop up in your mind, how iPhone and Macintosh sales related. The answer is, iPhone is build on the same software that Macintosh uses which is OS X (Darwin) which is based on BSD implementation of UNIX OS. iPhone users are mesmerized by the stability, user friendliness along with the eye catching features of iPhone.
Potential Users of new iPhone would be-:
1) Big Corporations which needed Enterprise wide support which was lacking in previous generation of iPhone.
2) Corporations sick and tired of monopoly of Blackberry(s).
3) Individuals who are willing to pay extra with Contract and use phone for internet surfing( Safari), listening to music (iPod), email, GPS, photos, Youtube-ing, SMS than merely to call someone.
The only roadblock that I see is the contract for 2 years but without contract, Apple cannot sell this phone for $199 and to use 3G services one has to pay $30 extra every month( though I am not sure that getting 3G service is mandatory or not).
So with this development what should one be thinking if they are existing iPhone owners (1st generation). I feel there's no reason to feel sad or to repent if one has bought last June(when it was released, though $200 price cut in 2 months would have made experience sore) or in September'07( this was the best time to experience at lowered prices). One should remember, one has to pay substantially more being early adopter of the new technology. If one has waited a whole year for lowering of prices, then you never know next January(2009), Steve Jobs unveil a whole new iPhone at even more lowered price. What I mean to say is, if the product is awesome, then the best time to buy it, is right now.
To conclude this topic, I think iPhone is pretty awesome phone. It has changed how people conceived and used phones. With releasing of this phone to over 70 countries including developing(third world) countries such as India, it would interesting to see how it competes with well established and dominant brands such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson and watching people tapping their multi fingers on touch screen which they never ever did before.
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did someone pay u to talk about apple.. they are like communists... they want to force their, so called "Superior thought" on the users of their products.
Contrary to what you are saying, I have always paid Apple to buy their products ;). I suspect either some Anti Virus company or Bill Gates have paid you to write this...hahaha just kidding!
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