At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, Steve Jobs rolled out the anticipated and predicted iPhone 3G to the hungry fans, developers and fanboys.
Whilst to some it has now become the best mobile device on the market by also adopting the use of downloading data via the 3G mobile network which has been estimated at being 3 times faster than the EDGE network and 10 times faster than standard GPRS, it does seem to lack certain features that other manufacturers of mobile devices have had for years. Also the inclusion of assisted GPS has not swayed the public towards the device as some predicted.
It could be seen that Apple are taking a Zen like stance on the iPhone by keeping the design and application of the phone simplistic.
It does email, and can email photos – so why would you need Multi Media Messaging?
Why clog the iPhone up with too many applications that do too much and cause general instability in the underlying operating system? It does make sense for the iPhone to have 3rd party applications and games developed for it, but it also makes sense for there to be some kind of control over the way the applications are developed and deployed to the iPhone. Keeping tabs on each application means that Apple can guarantee that the device will still be stable no matter how many applications you install.
I am sure that all the nay-sayers will be happy once the iPhone App Store launches in July 2008. They will be able to get their multi media messaging, video recording, bluetooth file transfers and copies of Nokia Snake on there to play with. Its all a matter of time.
A large tipping point for the iPhone 3G will be the price. In the UK, the iPhone 3G can be had for as little as
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