Re: [NTLK] Ipod, IPhone, Newton

I would tend to disagree with you John.

Personally I believe the iPhone will not cannibalize iPod sales but
they do overlap as music players so it will be up to Apple's
marketing and Steve's and other members to decide on that, no doubt
the day may come as production costs keep dropping. I think it will
be a few years after the launch whether Apple will take that approach
or not.

iPod is a huge brand for Apple and the iPhone has piggy backed the
brand somewhat by keeping the prefix 'i' in the branding but the
Cisco/Apple litigation may have an influence but that is another
story that is still to unfold.

To get to the essence of your point. Firstly the Newton is dead as
far as Apple is concerned but as far us we are concerned it lives on.
iPhone application development is still unclear as it has the
potential to be hacked and potentially carry malware. On the maccast
forum I left a message and links to these reports. That being said,
development on the iPhone is something that developers are eager for
but security issues may prevail leaving smaller development team at
Apple to carry out innovation, hence driving the market into vertical
markets beyond the killer app, the phone.

I think this device is the closest Apple will ever get to developing
a handheld device with the potential to be really big - in many ways
it's the Newton of this century. This is huge and quite frankly has
the potential to go above and beyond anything the Newton was ever
designed to do, simply because it was released today versus the years
ago the Newton was. Also networks are much more prolific now than
ever before, the cell phone was at it's infancy when the Newton came
out. As much as the Newton strived to be a communications device it
was too early, too late, the iPhone on the other hand has landed at
just the right time with an incredible interface and a very powerful
OS, namely OSX. The potential here is huge to say the least and 6
months before it's out, there is huge interest in the community and
the press.

The next few years will be very interesting to watch. Expect copy cat
devices everywhere. Apparently LG already has one.

Alex

On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:15 PM, jg wrote:

> After watching IPhone presentation on apple.com I am sure that IPhone
> will kill Ipod not Newton.
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