Trends and predictions
The New Year always begins with predictions for the upcoming year. Technology, business - magazines are coming up with their top 20 companies to watch out for or top 10 gadgets you must have. This year isn't any different.
Backbone magazine published Predictions 2007: Top 7 tech trends for the year (Available online). Unfortunately, their list wasn't shocking. It didn't name any new developments. It reiterated what already exists. It only affirmed that the technology is already there and 2007 is just going to see an evolution to a better product.
That evolution may already be here. 2007 started off with a blast.
To summarize it in two words: iPhone.
It was one of the most anticipated product announcements. It has long been rumoured that Apple will hit the cell phone market with a product that will send the gadget industry buzzing.
Apple CEO and chairman Steve Jobs unveiled the phone in a speech that opened MacWorld, Apple's annual conference and product show in San Francisco. Couldn't be there for the announcement? You may download the address and have your mouth water.
The phone is only a centimeter thick. Has a flat screen and just one Power button on the front. It's a widescreen iPod, a phone and an internet device that allows you to email, web browse, search - all of this in one tiny hand-held device.
Apple is known to offer you a number of versions of the same product (all depending on what your pocket can afford). Not surprisingly, you have a choice: 4 GB for $499 and 8 GB for $599.
In other words, Apple wants you to buy the 8 GB phone. More power to do more with the hand held toy. If Apple decided to make a 2 GB phone, what services of the iPhone would it have to sacrifice?
Would that mean people would still purchase the iPod separately to have both the mp3 player and the phone. Or was Backbone magazine right to predict that hand-held devices are seeing a "continuing convergence of multiple functions into a single device." And what other companies are going to pull their services together and create the motherload of hand-held toys?
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Backbone magazine published Predictions 2007: Top 7 tech trends for the year (Available online). Unfortunately, their list wasn't shocking. It didn't name any new developments. It reiterated what already exists. It only affirmed that the technology is already there and 2007 is just going to see an evolution to a better product.
That evolution may already be here. 2007 started off with a blast.
To summarize it in two words: iPhone.
It was one of the most anticipated product announcements. It has long been rumoured that Apple will hit the cell phone market with a product that will send the gadget industry buzzing.
Apple CEO and chairman Steve Jobs unveiled the phone in a speech that opened MacWorld, Apple's annual conference and product show in San Francisco. Couldn't be there for the announcement? You may download the address and have your mouth water.
The phone is only a centimeter thick. Has a flat screen and just one Power button on the front. It's a widescreen iPod, a phone and an internet device that allows you to email, web browse, search - all of this in one tiny hand-held device.
Apple is known to offer you a number of versions of the same product (all depending on what your pocket can afford). Not surprisingly, you have a choice: 4 GB for $499 and 8 GB for $599.
In other words, Apple wants you to buy the 8 GB phone. More power to do more with the hand held toy. If Apple decided to make a 2 GB phone, what services of the iPhone would it have to sacrifice?
Would that mean people would still purchase the iPod separately to have both the mp3 player and the phone. Or was Backbone magazine right to predict that hand-held devices are seeing a "continuing convergence of multiple functions into a single device." And what other companies are going to pull their services together and create the motherload of hand-held toys?
Need more info?
Apple - iPhone product
Find out what others are saying at Slashdot
posted by Anna Kat at 11:28 PM
1 Comments:
You are completely right. The next day, Apple found themselves being sued over the name. Cisco owns it - so they claim. Who knows if they'll have to change it now, or Apple will win (don't they get their way with everything?)
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