The iPhone hype
Posted by bordalix Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:39:00 GMT
The iPhone will debut a week from tomorrow, and everyone is getting crazy about it. According to a AT&T document, Apple and AT&T stores will close at 4:30 pm and then reopen at 6:00 p.m. to "set the store up for iPhone sales and prepare your staff for a successful sales event". The document also refers to "Crowd Controls Devices" that should be in place a week earlier.
Meanwhile, Engadget got access to some pictures of the possible iPhone dock, as of the new Apple bluetooth headset. Will people be able to buy this tomorrow? Nobody really knows, but everybody is expecting really hard.
The stock market is also going crazy. On one side, it seems highly sceptical about the iPhone launch, with Apple shares dropping almost 3% in the last two trading sessions. On the other side, rumours refer to a "40% premium on the Apple share price", and the past days saw the birth of a new rumour: could Google buy Apple?
In the mean time, Opera launched is new Opera mini, the next generation browser for cellphones. For the launch, they mimic the Apple worldwide known "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign, with a comparison between the Opera mini and the iPhone. Come on guys, you can not compare software with hardware, the comparison is truly unfair. Could this mess be a result of the growing Opera Software internal problems?
As stated by the San Jose Mercury News, " There's hype, then there's iPhone hype".
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Aren't you missing something? iPhone will debut only one week after tomorrow, not tomorrow. June 29th is the iDay.
You are right! I've been abducted by the hype force! Article changed, thanks for the tip.
Apple is marketing the iPhone on the premise that it is the first time you'll be able to 'truly' browse the web on your phone, which makes Opera Mini a fair comparison to it. Daniel Opera Software
@Daniel: are you and Opera joking? How can you even try to compare a real browser like Safari/iPhone with the Opera mini? Ah I get it, you said "truly browse the web" and not "browse the true web". Opera mini is great to access most websites because it does content adaptation and works wonderfully on Java devices. And for me, as an operator employee, is way more important for the user than the iPhone. Thank you Opera for that. But Opera mini is not the real web experience. The real web experience is the full Opera browser (for Symbian, etc) and the latest Symbian browser. Now guess what the Nokia browser is based on? Tcham! Webkit. So Nokia had "Safari" before the Apple iPhone. The only advantage, so far, and from the existing information, is that the iPhone might support Flash, something that will hardly ever happen for Symbian. So the Opera vs. Mac video for me was a very bad taste joke without any meaningful message.