This article sucks.

Leopard is in every way a better operating system than Vista. Vista has received numerous awards for worst tech product of the year and most people choose to downgrade to Windows XP. Leopard however is a vast improvement from Tiger.

Leopard is certainly a better operating system than Vista. Vista has received awards for Worst Tech Product of 2007 and Worst Tech Product of All Time. Numerous Vista users end up downgrading to Windows XP while Leopard is a vast improvement from Tiger.

This is a great article.

Obviously MicroSoft & many other won't heed the advice; until .... they get better marketing resources. Product marketing's to blame here. Less is more, unless that "less" slimmer line of products is truly deficient.

And, yes ... there are too many iPod choices; but only one per each relatively discreet price range.

I wonder why this "1 million sold units" is such an "pro" argument.
In the mobile market one million is not impressive at all (Motorola RAZR has much more than 50 mio sold units).
And nobody but the mobile phone industry would count Apple as "newcomer" as they have a well known brand.
Given the ubiquitous marketing I would say that one million sold units is actually a failure (they did the price-drop only to hit the 1 mio mark).

It took Motorola over a year to sell 1 million RAZR's. In a couple of weeks Jobs will announce that he has sold 5 million iPhones already. (in 6 months)so yeah, the number may not seem fantastic at face value, but if you do a little research you will see the timeline is what is truelly impressive. BTW, I had a razr and other than the size, it sucks in every way possible...My iphone is amazing..

I was so excited for the iPod Touch. The iPhone is useless to me until it gets 3G and push email support, but the idea of an iPhone interface on an iPod is outstanding. I was literally going to go buy one at launch...then I saw the storage space; 8Gb or 16Gb. I did a triple take. I was already debating with myself on whether to get an 80Gb or 120Gb model. 8 and 16Gb? That is useless. What a terrible decision to go with flash storage. So here I sit with my 60Gb 5G iPod until Apple gets its head out of its a$$ and adds some usable storage to the Touch.

An interesting argument.

And certainly no argument that Apple really have re-invented the mobile phone.

I expect Steve will have some pretty amazing sales figures to share at his keynote next month.

I'll let Malcolm Gladwell offer you a counter though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y

please dont confuse better product with better marketing. I personally think the idea that the iphone succeeded because there's only one choice is the dumbest thing i've heard. The iphone succeeded because of a few reasons:

1. a very cool looking interface
2. marketing - apple is good at this
3. fanatics - there are some people who will buy anything new from apple

Add all that together and it explains why there were idiot people willing to stand in line over-night to get one or to fly to another city to get one. It explains why people are willing to pay so much for a phone/media player with a fairly limited amount of memory considering it has no external flash card slot AND does not have a user replaceable battery. Those last two reasons are reason enough for me to stay away from the iphone. I only own a cell phone and there's no way in hell i'm going to buy a phone that requires me to return it to replace the battery. Only apple could pull that off.

i posted a short blog entry on the iphone a while back:
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ian_lipsky/archive/2007/01/11/my-own-thoughts-on-the-IPhone.aspx

yeah.. sorry.. no..

this article blows, almost as much as the millions of fanboys on steve job's junk.

Anyone who doesn't like or agree with this post should start their own blog and post their thoughts.

This article does not suck, noob. You suck. Enjoy obscurity. You will always be a nobody.

Get a clue, the world wasn't much different before the iPhone. Please stop writing this pretentious bullshit and go back to masturbating at a picture of Steve Jobs.

@Bubba

"Obviously MicroSoft & many other won't heed the advice; until .... they get better marketing resources. Product marketing's to blame here. Less is more, unless that "less" slimmer line of products is truly deficient."

Money doesn't necessarily buy quality or smarts.
; j

The do fine meeting market needs, they FAIL in meeting customer needs.

"Engineers create the world we live in, designers make it worth living in."

Mircosoft behaves like it only employs Engineers and Public Relations - reminds me of GM.

i'm not an apple fan boy but i'm going to assume most of the people on here putting down the iphone have nevere really picked one up or navigated through it. it's really really simple and smooth. that's all most people want. this device is a no brainer. so what it costs $400. i've seen clunkier nokias and motorolas anywhere from $500-$600 if you want them before they get subsidized by the carriers.

Choice is far, far, too difficult. The supermarkets reek of overabundance and stale fecundity. All I want is a Klondike Bar / Klondike Bar that is also a phone.

But isn't it really just a matter of the iPhone being the new kid on the block? We all like shiny new things.

Looking forward, unless the iPhone can improve performance (access to hi-speed networks) it won't keep up with user expectations.

Wow; it isn't obvious who the 12 year olds are.

I agree completely, my family all bought Dell laptops at the same time, and there isn't a single bit of design that is even vaguely similar, save the Dell logo. That is not enough to establish a definitive product. All have completely different hardware features, even the keyboard layouts are randomly different. I got a Macbook pro, and vista ultimate. Disappointed with vista, wasn't worth the price. Leopard was. If you're in a position to choose, methodologies aside, 399 vs 129? No competition. Get Win Server 2003, or wait.

This is the same thing that happened to the Sony PS3.

There was one PS2. It did really well. Sony brought out the PS3 in different models and look what happens. Its only just started to pick up momentum with the price drop and the introduction of what seems to be the most popular model, the 40GB.

And which console has done the best this year. The Nintentdo Wii, which comes in one model!

Exactly the same thing going on the the gaming console world as the computer, Mp3, Phone and other technology's.

This acturally relates to studys that say when there is to much choice and range of products for the consumer they are less likley to purchase a product.

If i remember correctly the study was taken on two jam shops. one had a extremely large range while the other had three simple flavors. the one with the simpler flavors had more sales because the customer was not confused, overwhelmed or feeling ripped off or having second thoughts about their purchase.

Very Good article. When my friends ask "What laptop I should get?" I always say MacBook. But then they look at the £699 price tag. So i say a vaio but there are loads and the website doesn't say what they do!

Wow, who the f**k are you again... Brilliant article, one of the best I've read about the iPod. I was surfing the interwebs and I found some great content. I don't know you, or your blog... but well I do now.

Peace

Reg

Why do PC users hate or even sound jealous of there being "mac fanboys"?

you get it on every single forum in the world if you dare say that you like an apple product.

FACT 20 or more of my PC loving friends have slowly over the years become such Apple fanboys. Says something.....

Use the product and then slag it off...not before. I've never used Vista and therefore will not judge it. Have however used Zune..not as good as ipod...Xbox 360....amazing microsoft product...xp...ok ish etc etc

You know what I want? A phone that is actually easy to use to make phone calls. I want one that is easy to dial, I don't want to have to go through a dozen menus to get to the phone book. I want to hear the person on the other side over everyday background noise without having to wear a weird (and yes you all look ridiculous, way too self involved and self important wearing them get a grip the world won't end if you miss a phone call) ear mounted mini-head set. I don't want my phone to store every MP3 ever made, I don't want it to surf the web, I don't want to shoot music videos with it. I can't read the menus on my either my cell phone or my I-pod w/o my cheater glasses so I have no desire to try to watch a movie on the insanely tiny screen of any hand head device.

Maybe I'm just a crazy old kook, but I want to use my phone designed to make phone calls. I want it to stand up to being tossed in my purse, or pocket for a couple of years, and want it cheap enough that if I loose it I can replace it without having to skip a house payment. I don't think they make anything like that anymore.

It's amazing. Criticize their beloved Macs and Mac peripherals even a little bit and the Mac zealots go utterly knutz in their rabid denunciation of the vile perpetrators. Look, every product has its faults; even Apple products, and the Mac community will be considered a cult and not ready for prime time until they learn and accept this hard truth.

One thing about the iPhone. What kills it for me is the service. I will never go back to Cingular/AT&T. The broadband simply doesn't measure up to what I get with Verizon, and neither does the customer support.

Interesting addition that I never hear people comment on: The RF noise that these phone throw out. When there's an incomming call or some form of net access they broadcast a horrific noise, picked up by any close by PC and stereo speakers with a static blast. We had a party on Saturday, and I'd put a bunch of wireless speakers throughout the house. Two of my friends came with iPhones, we had to ask them to turn them off because of the noise they were generating.

And yes, that does go into whether a product is superior or not.

"What about the concern that consumers don't want to be sitting on the subway next to someone with the same gadget? Well, the iPod blew that notion away."

No it didn't. The iPod was a success because no one else had one. Once everyone had one, Apple had to introduce variety into the line so that users could differentiate themselves. The whole Apple premise is that its products are exclusive and that you are special because you have one.

Really enjoyed your article. I agree simplicity is a core essential. I posted a link over at informednetworker.

Did the iphone dominate the year, really?

Maybe 'cause I live in a country where it's not released yet I don't have to watch all those idiots gloat with their new toys..

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