Iphone, Ipod Touch, no phone?
So even before the iPhone has left the US shores there’s been a price cut and Apple have released the iPod Touch, which has a safari browser, is wifi enabled and is much cheaper then the iPhone. I don’t know who would be more pissed off AT&T or the collective geekdom that purchased the iPhone the first couple of months it was out – the peeps who waited till the last 14 days will at least get a bit of their money back.
Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) has a great couple of posts about this. And Business 2.0 has a great article on the potential reasons for the price cut on the iPhone.
I wonder what the entry price will be for both the iPod Touch and the iPhone here in the UK… hmmmm. I bet they don’t even release the current model and just launch a 3G model here.
The big question that the iPod Touch put in my head is whether this is the first step to making “traditional” mobile phones obsolete? Think about it, if you can get Skype on your iPhone – albeit with some hacking, if you can get Skype on an iPod touch, who needs a phone?
I can’t see the mobile going anywhere soon, but heck if we have wireless internet devices, wifi, and messaging clients that are voice enabled who needs a mobile phone? How great would it be to just have to give out email addresses or messaging client id names instead of mobile numbers? I wonder if Apple has some kind of agreement with AT&T not to put the iChat on it’s iPhone, wonder if it has the same kind of agreement prohibiting them from doing this on the iPod?!
Ho ho, someone thinking along the lines that I started on when I first saw my cousins PSP last February.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pmI [now turned 61 and not earning that much] cannot afford to buy and test every gizmo out; are you aware of any site that does? Media players that have caught my attention are the aforementioned PSP, Archos wifi models [the 605 looks tempting even if having to pay for add-ons; wonder if the are related to Peugeut...] and now the Touch.
I just want to reduce the load when I go down-under and take loads of photos.
That’s it. The death of WAP. As ‘quick’ as WAP can get, who needs actual phone service when you can all get skype on the smart object?
One this is wifi is not as popular as what it can be. I’ve love to get hold of the new ipod!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:05 pmGod I can’t believe how many typos I have - probably not a good idea to post anything on Monday…
Forgive me!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:23 pm