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I was one of the lucky ones who was able to get my hands on the iPhone 4 one day before it was released to the public. Activation went fine and all is well in my tech world these days. After having the device for almost 24 hours, I wanted to share some iniital thoughts and pose some questions.
I'm all caught up in the iPad mess. Like Pookie, it be callin' me and callin' me. The hype got me thinking about my entre in the world of Apple and expansion plans.
My first Apple purchase as the second generation iPod, which was roughly in 2005, just a short five years ago. That purchase did me well up until the first generaion iPod Touch was released. I got that within the first week of it's launch.
The iPod touch purchase held me at bay for quite some time. I even avoided getting the first generation iPhone mostly because I was on Verizonwireless at the time.
ThinkGeek's iCadeOut of all the of the April fool's jokes online today, the one that seemed to catch the eye of the blogosphere was the iCade Arcade Cabinet, a retro dock with old-style arcade joysticks and Mashable buttons.
From the first letter in the name, you know that it's based on something Apple, and specifically the iPad.
Apple's most anticipated announcement in years has had some people jumping in joy with excitement, and others saying ho-hum. In fact, a recent survey of 1,000 consumers showed that while buyers were pumped before the announcement of the iPad was made, their excitement fizzled after learning the product details.
The survey, conducted by Retrevo, an online marketplace for consumer electronics, may indicate that not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it may have lost many potential ones in the lack-luster announcement.
In a blog post, the company explained that their polls showed that the number of respondents saying they had heard about the tablet rose from 37% shortly before the announcement to over 80% after the media frenzy on January 27th.
It's bad enough that AT&T is getting whacked by customers and their top competitor, but now they adding fuel to the fire by basically saying that iPhone users are sucking up their network bandwith. The company is thinking about providing incentives to users for curtailing their data usage.
Are you kidding me? As time moves along, mobile will no longer be the frontier, it will be THE main point of entry for consumers to digest and create content on the web. I envision that devices like the iPhone will be so powerful at some point that it will act as a desktop and sync with your monitors, keyboard and mouse via bluetooth. We won't need laptops and desktops anymore. The mobile device will be our ONLY device.
AT&T, don't you think that you'll need to expand your network coverage and widen the pipe so to speak? Why ask people to curb data use and reward them for it. You had the idea right by launching an app that will help you find dead spots and improve network coverage. This incentive data move is yet another big chunk out of the brand.