Let’s Retire the iPhone Smartphone
Posted on December 13, 2011
The iPhone resembles a smartphone less than a BMW does a horseless carriage.
As noted five years ago in this Inside Digital Media video podcast, the device is more accurately labeled a “teleputer”. (The podcast is so old it was done in Windows Media Video). George Gilder originated the concept about twenty years ago when he envisioned a hand-held unit providing convenient wireless access to a global computer network. It was kind-of the evolutionary destination implied by a popular computer industry slogan at the time, to wit, “the network is the computer.”
Download five minute audio narration to iPhone, iPad, and iPod here.
Each day Gilder’s concept becomes increasingly obvious to a growing proportion of iPhone users. Today everyone realizes telephone conversations are only one of many useful iPhone functions. More significantly, iPhone users are progressively learning that computer applications are becoming the unit’s raison d’etre. In short, the phone’s digital capabilities such as photography, geo-location, audio & video playback, and especially Internet access, are the defining characteristics. Applications like Skype and FaceTime portend an era when cellular telephony per se, becomes irrelevant to iPhone owners. Read more…
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Will the iPhone SDK Live Up to Expectations?
Posted on March 30, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know whether the new Software Developers Kit for the Apple iPhone is a genuinely significant industry development, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the new SDK is a truly important and will live up to the general media hype. He feels that in the future there will be a multitude of 3rd party applications that will make the iPhone a portable “teleputer” upon which voice conversations shall be merely one of a great many applications. Read more…
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How Important is The iPhone & What Might Go Wrong?
Posted on June 25, 2007
Alan Reiter has been a wireless industry consultant for nearly 30 years. He was with the leading Radio Common Carrier trade association before the first cellular licenses were awarded. Now he runs the Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing website, newsletter, and consultancy. He and I discuss the future of the wireless internet and the iPhone. Read more…
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