The most short-sighted thing I've heard from any commentator (so far - they'll get worse) about the new iPhone from Apple, is that few people will ditch their current cell phone plan just to get one of these things.
They miss the point.
The cell phone is secondary. This is the long-awaited true video iPod that also allows me to surf the net, get email, watch movies, share photos and more. As an aside, it also eliminates the need to carry a separate phone. The phone part is secondary.
With the coming of Wimax, the day of having full access to a single, personal entertainment and communication account from anywhere in the country is fast approaching. Apple just showed us how that future will look. We'll use the same account to access the internet and email at home as at an airport or in our car, or at the mall, or grocery store.
iPhone probably signals the end-of-life for the current main iPod.
Don't think of it as a cell phone. Think of it as an iPod that also does all this other amazing, frontier of technology stuff at just a bit more money than an iPod that does comparatively little. Positioned in that way, they will sell much faster than they can be manufactured.
People will buy it for the other stuff, even if they can't use the phone part right away.
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