Comments on: Is Apple’s iPhone too good to be true? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/05/is-apples-iphone-too-good-to-be-true/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Oakes http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/05/is-apples-iphone-too-good-to-be-true/comment-page-1/#comment-14118 Rob Oakes Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:12:19 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/05/is-apples-iphone-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-14118 To be frank, nothing is capable of living up to the hype that the iPhone is generating. It's a nift little device, but I find it unlikely that the common consumer will pay the price premium. I am purposely excluding the Apple fanboys of thw world (of which I am certainly one). I will probably go down on day one to try and secure my iPhone, but of the many people in my immediate circle, I am the only one I know of who even plans on getting one. The real question of "will it be a hit" is to ask my siblings, friends and geeky but not fanatical parents. As of right now, many are simply not in the market for a massively expensive integrated device. In a non-scientific poll I conducted, 15/20 people don't want an integrated device which includes a phone. Simply: they often take their iPods into surroundings where they don't want to be connected to the world or they don't want to be interrupted (despite my pointing out that they can turn the phone functionality off). I received such responses even from people who own Apple stock and usually buy all things Apple. To be frank, nothing is capable of living up to the hype that the iPhone is generating. It’s a nift little device, but I find it unlikely that the common consumer will pay the price premium. I am purposely excluding the Apple fanboys of thw world (of which I am certainly one). I will probably go down on day one to try and secure my iPhone, but of the many people in my immediate circle, I am the only one I know of who even plans on getting one. The real question of “will it be a hit” is to ask my siblings, friends and geeky but not fanatical parents. As of right now, many are simply not in the market for a massively expensive integrated device.

In a non-scientific poll I conducted, 15/20 people don’t want an integrated device which includes a phone. Simply: they often take their iPods into surroundings where they don’t want to be connected to the world or they don’t want to be interrupted (despite my pointing out that they can turn the phone functionality off). I received such responses even from people who own Apple stock and usually buy all things Apple.

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