Apart from knowing what is in the device, how well the touch surface works, rf performance, etc etc etc ... the question of a software development kit and "openness" looms. If the iPhone is 80% as good as Mr Jobs suggests, developers will want to be all over it - it is easy to imagine any number of non-telephony applications that would be just dandy on such a platform as well as telephony enhancing applications.
I would be more interested in buying one free of a service agreement (even if it costs several hundred dollars more) if it is open and if I can program it. There are any number of interesting things it could do as a small wifi device (including voip).
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I think it's a ridiculously high price for a new toy, but enough Macolytes will spring for it (maybe not the 1% of the market Mr. J. predicts) that it will do okay. I noted that at 230 pm PST there were 3x times Google news references to this than to our air strikes on the border of Somalia. Wonder if the gunship pilots had ipods to keep out the noise.
Posted by: Steve Cisler | January 09, 2007 at 17:36