It's fitting that on that day I launch this blog, Steve Jobs tries to outscoop me by announcing that he's making a bigger and better 16GB iPhone:
Apple Doubles iPhone Capacity (CNET).
Ever since I bought my iPhone, everything seems to have become a compeition. I have to be cooler, faster and trendier. Before my conversion, I was a resigned, uninterested and otherwise unengaged consumer of emerging mobile technologies who owned a RAZR and was quite content, thank you very much. Now, it seems every time we're out and my iPhone makes an appearance, it's greeted with "Oh, someone has an iPhone, well now..." Hell, even my ex-boyfriend ended up getting an iPhone shortly before we broke up, in what my shrink has since described as a last-ditch attempt to bring us closer. (!)
When I think back to why I bought my iPhone, I realize I was either:
(a) suffering intense iPhone envy of any myriad of the hot guys I saw carrying one or...
(b) so desperate to be connected that I didn't want to miss out on the next big thing.
Everything about the iPhone involves competition and size. In a matter of months, the bigger iPhone was the clear favorite, the smaller 4 GB was discontinued and its small owners emasculated forever just for having the smallest iPhone. When I was shopping for cases/protection for my iPhone, I saw the words "girth" and "thickness" used freely on packaging. The MacBook Air is the world's thinnest laptop. Look at the Mac and PC guys. You can either be unattractive, middle aged and round, or hot, scruffy, and dark-featured. No need to go into the size issue here.
So, the iPhone really got bigger so that Apple can capitalize on the video feature it launched in software update 1.1.3 that finally added the functionality that users were looking for. I haven't really embraced the movie feature yet, but it's only a matter of time, right?
When it comes to the competition for size, I couldn't help but wonder, does Apple want to be bigger and better or just smaller, faster and a whole lot cuter?
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6 comments:
My question is, what's with the entire iTouch phenomenon? It's like an iPhone, almost as expensive, except without it's seemingly most important functions (cell phone and wifi anywhere). I don't get it. Spend the extra $100 and just get the phone.
Hey Triple D,
Thanks for stopping by IATC! iTouch is all about looking good. It's for the Verizon devotee who can't bear to cross over to AT&T. It's also for that person who has to have the coolest, newest, best looking iPod. iPod touch has all kinds of features never before in an iPod (including wifi capability with mail, maps, weather and Safari). All that, plus its sleek size, make it very attractive.
Now, tell me, if you saw someone using an iPod touch out and about, would you at first glance be able to tell it wasn't and iPhone? I think not, and in that, we have the answer to your query.
Oh, about the money... even though the iPod touch is cheaper, it doesn't come with the monthly bill that iPhone does. I imagine it's one thing to cough up $499 to get the 32 GB touch. It's quite another to cough that much up for the 16 GB iPhone, not to mention the roughly $100 bill each month just to use the thing.
i had the very same dillema between getting the itouch and the iphone. it didn't make any sense for me to get an iphone, because i have a helio ocean and it essentially does all the same things, but it also didn't make any sense to me to get an itouch rather than an iphone... they legitimately were the same price, not $100 difference, but the same. so, i got an iphone. granted it's costing me tons of money because i have to upgrade my ibook's operating system and cacel my helio contract, but hell, i'm 30% cooler now, right? RIGHT???
Trafficcones,
Having an iPhone makes you about 400 times cooler than a Helio ever could. Helios are too obscure and not techy enough to progress past the functionality a 14-year old girl needs. Good luck with the upgrade and thanks for stopping by IATC.
Eddie
That's true about the phone bill, though I assume people with the Touch also have cell phones with accompanying bills.
Anyway, shoud Apple ever open up iPhones to other cell phone companies -- specifically T-Mobile, my forever love -- I'm all over it. Knowing Apple, it'll be in the next 2 years.
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