Think Different!

    Yesterday something happened that the Internet community had been waiting for several months. The idol of IT-employees - Steve Jobs presented the latest Apple products at the opening of the WWDC 2008 developer conference. I’ll try to tell about my feelings and thoughts about this presentation. I think that my
    opinion does not coincide with the majority opinion. Briefly - I wasn’t screwed.


    Let's start with the long-awaited iPhone 3G. What's new in it?

    • 3G
      The feature, of course, is pleasant and necessary in a phone of this class. At the
      moment, it is present in almost all top communicators. And not in the
      top either. That is, here Apple rather catches up than overtakes.
    • Install applications and games.
      The feature is good and necessary. Again, it is present in all the top
      communicators of competitors. It is hard to
      say what
      it is possible to download and purchase applications from only one source - a plus or minus . But the fact that Apple wants to make a face here too. I do not
      like it.
    • GPS
      Again, good, but many others do. For me, personally the feature is
      not a priority, but its presence gives “weight” to the communicator. I use
      GPS not often, but sometimes it is necessary.


    What are other news? Never mind! That is, the new iPhone is
    nothing revolutionary, as almost all online publications blow it.

    In addition, it has a lot of negativity, such as:

    • The impossibility of acquiring the device without a contract officially.
      It's minus big and bold. For me, this factor is one of the main ones. I want freedom of choice of operator and contract!
    • Not the strongest camera.
      I use the camera on the phone often. In a device of this class I want to see the camera cooler.
    • The lack of voice dialing, which makes the device inapplicable in the car.
    • Touch control is cool, but not for everybody.
      The lack of
      feedback and the impossibility of blind dialing are very big
      disadvantages. Do not think that I have not tried. I tried it. At first I really
      like it, then it starts to strain, then it causes irritation.


    Of the advantages of Phone and it is worth noting the Safari browser. So far I have not seen anything more convenient for working on the Internet on a portable device. There is nothing to complain about.

    Summary. Nothing new. Good presentation of the evolutionary model. Not ah-you, uhhhh-you and wow, but thank you very much for the features that it would be nice to introduce last year. Before the
    presentation I expected to see something new and interesting. I was almost sure that in a month I would go and buy andPhone. I even thought about changing the operator. At the end, he cooled to the device. More hemorrhoids than pleasure.

    I can not say about MobileMe. Everything is very interesting and looks cool. But why take all this money? I think this is the next malice of Apple. I use .Mac myself
    service for the third year. Last year, I seriously thought about whether
    to continue to pay. I decided to extend the contract for another year. This year I will not renew. Service is very slow. Very - it means VERY. Problems with encodings are present. Galleries look beautiful, but because of the brakes it is impossible to use them. MobileMe may be faster. But anyway, I don’t want to pay 100 bucks a year for this business!

    Another redneck from Apple is a paid firmware update for the point. Not only paid, but also for this, and a Tunes account is required. Complete disgrace.

    I titled my Think Different article. So Apple positioned itself in the
    past. Computers and gadgets for the elite. But wait, it's already in the
    past. Now, wherever you spit, everyone has either a macbook or, at worst
    end, under Now, to be different means to have Windows or
    Linux on your computer and not use the Phone. Think differently, just
    think. And if you can, then soundly.

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