Paul Thurrott - "You need an iPhone"

a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.

Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008

"I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
device to just $200, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008, there are precious few reasons to
ignore this seismic shift in mobile and cloud computing. I've said it
before and I'll say it again: The iPhone is a dramatically important
computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've
used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."

much more here....

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

In article
<meetme-4DCFEA.00303011062008@n003-000-000-000.static.ge.com>,
David Moyer <meetme@world.com> wrote:

> a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.
>
> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>
> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
> device to just $200, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
> How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008, there are precious few reasons to
> ignore this seismic shift in mobile and cloud computing. I've said it
> before and I'll say it again: The iPhone is a dramatically important
> computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've
> used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
> on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."
>
> much more here....
>
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp
>
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Ah, everybody knows that Thurrott is just a "Maccie"...

LOL

--
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

On Jun 11, 2:30*am, David Moyer <mee...@world.com> wrote:
> a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.
>
> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>
> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
> device to just $200, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
> How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008, there are precious few reasons to
> ignore this seismic shift in mobile and cloud computing. I've said it
> before and I'll say it again: The iPhone is a dramatically important
> computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've
> used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
> on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."
>
> much more here....
>
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp
>
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

He should try using one. I dumped the iPhone and went to the BB8830.
You can understand what people are saying on the bb, not so on the
iPhone.

David Moyer wrote:

> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>
> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
> device to just $200


Yebbut, what about that $800 long tail of service obligation...


, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
> How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008,


Yebbut, what about the lack of APPS? Still NO APPS.

Still a fashion accessory, no more.

In article <OYudnXVjR4ldKdLVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@speakeasy.net> ,
News <News@Group.name> wrote:

> David Moyer wrote:
>
> > Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
> >
> > "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> > than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
> > device to just $200
>
>
> Yebbut, what about that $800 long tail of service obligation...
>
>
> , while fixing all of the major issues I described in
> > How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008,
>
>
> Yebbut, what about the lack of APPS? Still NO APPS.
>
> Still a fashion accessory, no more.

This great new iPhone still does not do MMS. WTF?

and no SMS with the $30 data plan?

Talk about service contract hell.....

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:24:08 GMT, Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net>
wrote:

>In article
><meetme-4DCFEA.00303011062008@n003-000-000-000.static.ge.com>,
> David Moyer <meetme@world.com> wrote:
>
>> a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.
>>
>> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>>
>> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
>> than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
>> device to just $200, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
>> How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008, there are precious few reasons to
>> ignore this seismic shift in mobile and cloud computing. I've said it
>> before and I'll say it again: The iPhone is a dramatically important
>> computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've
>> used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
>> on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."
>>
>> much more here....
>>
>> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/iphone/
>
>Ah, everybody knows that Thurrott is just a "Maccie"...
>
>LOL
100% WRONG

Dont like the message try to descredit the messanger?

Paul is a Microsft person, and has dozens of great books
telling about Windows the things Microsoft left out of their
manuals.

His book on Windows XP, I belive is the largest selling XP book
out there. Windows XP Secrets

He has Windows web site:

http://www.winsupersite.com

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:19:24 -0400, News <News@Group.name> wrote:

>
>Yebbut, what about the lack of APPS? Still NO APPS.


Guess you didnt see the announcement of the iPhone App store, where
you download apps straight to the iPhone, many of them (like a Reuters
feed) FREE.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/appstore.html

Best of all, they're vetted by Apple, so you wont have the issues with
apps causing lockups, like on Palm, Windoze, and RIM devices.

"Ron" <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
news:p0lv44po0cd3p3u665aojm27q8ar4n0ae6@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:19:24 -0400, News <News@Group.name> wrote:
<bollocks snipped>
> Best of all, they're vetted by Apple,

Do you have to get up especially early to practice being this ****ing
stoopid?

Now take your cross-posted shite and keep it to relevant groups.

XP'd & FU'd

--
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www.UselessInfo.org.uk
www.ThePhoneLocker.co.uk
www.GSM-Solutions.co.uk

"David Moyer" <meetme@world.com> stated in post
meetme-4DCFEA.00303011062008@n003-00....static.ge.com on 6/10/08 11:30
PM:

> a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.
>
> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>
> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> than later. With Apple dropping the entry price on this innovative
> device to just $200, while fixing all of the major issues I described in
> How Apple Can Fix the iPhone in 2008, there are precious few reasons to
> ignore this seismic shift in mobile and cloud computing. I've said it
> before and I'll say it again: The iPhone is a dramatically important
> computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've
> used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
> on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."
>
> much more here....
>
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp
>
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

But... but... Steve Carroll wants me to defend the idea that the iPhone is
industry changing. Maybe if he read a thing or two about the device he
would understand.

Then again, speaking out of his other brain he claimed to agree me.
Someday, I hope, he learns to be consistent. :)


--
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
--Albert Einstein

On Jun 10, 11:30*pm, David Moyer <mee...@world.com> wrote:
> a very good read from one the most hardcore Windows Users on the planet.
> Paul Thurrott -- June 10, 2008
>
> "I cannot stress this enough: You need to get an iPhone. Sooner rather
> than later.
<snip>
> Trust me, once you've
> used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling
> on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."
> much more here....

it will? i ported over from verizon to at&t and tried out an iphone
for a few weeks, and just ported back over to verizon and a htc touch
(xv6900 on verizon) this weekend, and i'm digging it so far. maybe if
some extra super news about the new iphone comes out in the next few
weeks i'll port back over, but i'm really digging the customizability,
flexibility, and speed of this phone. :D


> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...3g_preview.asp
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/