The Perfect Phone Storm?

peter deacon writes "Is the iPhone the next Segway, the next Zune, or the next iPod? The Perfect Storm offers some iPhone details that aren't secrets, but tend to be lost upon the analysts and journalists cranking out hit pieces on the iPhone. Why is everyone from Gartner to Gizmodo calling for a boycott of the iPhone? An interesting take on how Apple's new mobile phone will push to open up the web as a mobile platform for every mobile device on the market with a standards-based browser, and how Apple 'hacked the hackers' by releasing Safari for Windows in advance of its new phone."

Re:Is this a joke?

[Spazntwich]

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Please stand by.

I'm torn, really

[rueger]

Segway? Zune? ... Zune? Segway?

Zuneway!

Re:Wow.

[locokamil]

Sir, that is without a doubt the best/geekiest characterization of the article I have come across so far. If you have a newsletter, I would like to subscribe to it.

Re:Article text

[Wellington Grey]

Apple has dropped just enough information at just regular enough intervals to create a level of anticipation for the iPhone that can only be described as off the hook.

No kidding. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs announced that the iPhone would be the harbinger of the technological singularity.

-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]

Re:Is this a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

I never wear my treo clipped to my belt. It gets in the way of my sliderule.

Re:Is this a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck! (sadly unclipping my sliderule from my belt)

Re:Apple zealots

[suv4x4]

Jesus Christ, why are you still giving this shill a platform?

In Jesus Christ's favor, he was at one point considering literally taking away this shill's platform right from under his feet, so to speak.

But then he thought and said "let he who is without an iPod, throw the first stone". Everyone stood still.

Re:Is this a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahem... [typepad.com]

Re:Is this a joke?

[jamrock]

Actually, clipping anything to your belt, whether it's a sliderule, calculator or phone looks stupid.

What about a holster? And a few grenades? My former colleagues at the post office didn't feel inclined to point out any fashion no-no's when I stopped by to pick up my severance check.

Re:Is this a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

Batman here. I'd like to schedule an ass-kicking for you. Tuesday morning good?

Re:Biased, iPhone not ready for enterprise use

[ngg]

"These people made the bomb."

No, they Set up us the bomb.