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iPhone 3G and MobileMe: New features add little value
Buying An iPhone Is A Huge Pain In The Butt For Business Customers
Fitness, Med Apps Turn iPhone Into Health Monitor
Mobile Executives Spar Over IPhone
iPhone 3G and MobileMe: New features add little value
MacFixIt's Ted Landau says:
The more time I spend with my new iPhone 3G and the new MobileMe software, the more I find that neither of these upgrades were worth the bother. Now, before you start sending me hate mail, let me be clear:
I still consider the iPhone to be one of the greatest technology inventions of the decade. And the new iPhone 3G is even better than the original. The iPhone 2.0 software, especially the App Store, is a significant leap forward from iPhone 1.1.4. As for MobileMe, on balance (assuming the service can ever get past its initial hassles and actually work as intended), I believe it is marginally superior to the .Mac service it replaces.
So what's the problem? The problem is this: The new hardware features in the iPhone 3G and the new options in MobileMe are largely irrelevant to me (and I suspect to a lot of other people as well).....
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Buying An iPhone Is A Huge Pain In The Butt For Business Customers
Consumerist.com says:
So there appears to be something of a shortage of iPhones this time around, and while it's probably good for "creating buzz" it's not so great for wooing busy business customers away from their Blackberries, according to reader James. You see, only the Apple store has iPhones, but only the AT&T store can activate them for James.....
I see this as a very broken customer experience, as ATT has no stock compared to Apple stores, but I cannot buy one from an Apple store since I must activate before leaving. So as a 'business customer', I have to jump through extra flaming hoops for this? As I understand it, the iPhone is a direct competitor with other business solutions such as the Blackberry Bold.
This is not a very good start to my first experience with an iPhone. Something that is supposed to make my life easier and more convenient has already wasted more time and frustrated me quite a bit. If anything, business users usually get leverage, not the run around.....
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Fitness, Med Apps Turn iPhone Into Health Monitor
The Chicago Tribune's Julie Deardorff reports:
Card games and restaurant finders aren't the only things for sale at the iPhone App Store. It's also a place to get applications designed for fitness and medical-related tasks. There are even applications that will make all your medical records readily available to you anywhere.
Dozens of new health and fitness Web applications are now available for use with the Apple iPhone...
The apps, which likely will eventually be available on other phones that will run on a Google-based operating system, enable third-party software developers to create a new breed of health services.
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http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/63958.html
Mobile Executives Spar Over IPhone
IDG News Service's Stephen Lawson reports:
Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion threw down the gauntlet to Symbian, Android and other software platforms to match the impact of the iPhone.
Talking only about two weeks after the introduction of Apple's iPhone 3G and the App Store, where third-party software for it is offered, heads of some software companies reported huge numbers of downloads and proclaimed a new day on the mobile Internet. The jury is still out on whether the open-source phone platforms coming from Google and the Symbian Foundation will be able to match Apple's success, according to the panelists at the TechCrunch Mobile Web Wars event in Menlo Park, California, on Friday afternoon.
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http://www.cio.com/article/439767/Mobile_Executives_Spar_Over_IPhone
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