I love it.
Well, I love what I've seen of it on the Apple website (apple.com/iphone). There is a cool Flash demonstration of the features of the phone. Worth watching for sure.
Here's what impresses me most about the phone: it is a Mac shrunken down to fit in my pocket. Its no secret I'm a Mac fan, and I am for good reasons. The OS X platform just plain works. Period. Day in, day out, it just works. My Powerbook is two years old now, and I've had all of two system crashes in the two years of ownership. This machine gets unpacked, set up and run hard every single day. I run that poor thing hard too, normally running at least six applications at the same time. Not little "foo-foo" apps either. We're talking Photoshop amd Illustrator at the same time along with Mail, Daylite and Safari. This thing just keeps working. And it does it in a beautiful, elegant, well thought out manner.
Anyway, I digress. The purpose of this post is to say why I love the iPhone. One of the big issues with running a Mac and wanting to sync it with a cell phone is that nobody really supports it. My Palm Treo 650 syncs, sort of. Duplicates of names and wrong tags on contact's email and phone numbers are very common. The sync process is slow, and overal a pain. The iPhone will sync perfectly with my machines, even down to the bookmarks in Safari, my web browser.
The interface is beautiful. The moving menus are awesome and the feel of the OS is very, well....Mac like. And it should be because it is running Mac OS X, same as my Powerbook and my Mac Mini.
All that being said, I do have a MAJOR ISSUE with the iPhone. Steve (Jobs), why, oh why did you sign an exclusive agreement with Cingular? Why did you pick the one carrier that I've had really bad experiences with? Why can't I use your beautiful, superior iPhone on the superior network of Verizon? Why'd you do that to me Steve?
Steve, buddy, if you had chosen Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltel, my decision to buy an iPhone would be merely based on money. But now I have to decide if I want to go to the inferior (in my opinion) network of Cingular.
Apple, congrats on producing a simply amazing product, but boo on you for signing an exclusive contract with Cingular.
