I wrote an article back in December last year claiming iPhone from Apple was just hype. It turned out I was wrong. Apple actually has a product with the name iPhone, which is not approved by FCC and still in dispute with Linksys over the product name.
So what’s good about iPhone? It’s a mobile phone and not a VoIP phone that was announced by Linksys last month. It’s a phone that you hardly see a button. In fact, there is only one “home” button. You control the phone by sliding a finger across its 3.5-inch touch screen.
iPhone combines three products - a mobile phone, an iPod, and an Internet communications device into one small and lightweight handheld device. It has the same power of a state of the art Symbian or Windows Mobile powered device. Despite its innovative new user interface (UI), I have to say it is only equally powerful.
Apple has added a new tab on Apple.com promoting iPhone. The QuickTime based web site is very intuitive to use, showing all the main features of iPhone in an incredibly presentable way. That is what I like about Apple - they work hard, they sell hard. You do not need to read any other publications to know exactly about iPhone.
The Digital Decade, as addressed by Bill Gates on October 2001 is a vision of making PC the platform to supersede TV. In the Digital Decade, you’ll no longer think of the PC as a tool you use only to carry out specific tasks, it will become something you come to rely on all the time.
How true is the above statement in the beginning of 2007? As Bill Gates addressed the crowds in CES 2007 in Las Vegas, “Over 40 percent of U.S. homes now have multiple personal computers. And if you look at young people, the new generation, they actually spend more time on their Windows PC than they spend watching TV. Now that’s a pretty dramatic change.” In other words, the market is ready for Digital Decade.
The hurdles of realizing Digital Decade had always been PC was not the focal point of a family - it was television. PC was first for scientific calculations and later business spreadsheets. When multimedia finally arrived with the launch of Intel Pentium processor, there was not much to play except encyclopedia contents.
I have been a Mac fan lately due to the disappointing Windows Vista. As we are approaching Macworld Expo 2007 due next Tuesday, speculations start to emerge as to what Apple will announce. Here is a list of possible products from Jason D. O’Grady’s blog order by most to least likely.
- iLife & iWork ‘07 - Apple usually updates these software at Mac Expo.
- iTV - A promise to bring TV to Mac. Just let me watch TiVo-like TV on my Mac ok?
- Mac mini - The Mac to host iTV or just boring regular updates.
- Mac OS 10.5 - It’s the perfect time to show the world that Apple does not “copy” ideas from Microsoft. More new features should be unveiled.
- Mac Pro - Upgrade to the top of the line horsepower, quad-core Intel Xeon Processor for desktop Mac.
- Displays - More displays with built-in iSight and HDCP/HDMI support but make sure you support PS3 HDMI 1.3!
- iPod - iPod with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi should be enough to kill Zune.
- Apple Phone - Not much room for Apple to innovate here. Turning iPod into a phone is the same as a Nokia phone with music player.
- Thin 12″ MBP - 12″ MBP is awesome! If Apple is going to reintroduce the model after dropping it during the transition to Intel in early 2006, it will sure catch lots of instant buy.
- Mac Tablet - Not another ultra portables!
Microsoft security guru Michael Howard put the sign (the title) on his door on commemorating the completion of Windows Vista. Last week, Microsoft’s shares closed above $29 for the first time since November 2004. The market looks ready to embrace the day for Vista - Jan 30, 2007.
Vista has improved reliability and security, protected mode IE, Aero glass UI and media centricity together with gratuitous UI changes, degraded performance on older machines, new compatibility issues and high cost of migration. Despite mixed views from market watchers, Microsoft remains bullish about its latest operating system.
“Our market is so much larger now than five years ago when we introduced Windows XP. We expect Vista to be the fastest-adopted OS in our history,” said Mike Sievert, Corporate Vice-president for Windows Client Marketing.
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