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The iPhone makes technology history
I've never seen enthusiasm from bloggers and journalists like this for any technology launch, and I've seen a lot of launches.
It appears that Steve Jobs has scored a massive coup with the iPhone: here's BoingBoing's review, and here's Kottke's take. Both of those blogs are usually understated, if not downright skeptical, so their excitement is a good barometer.
I think that Apple stands to "change everything," again, just as it did in 1984. The main short-term risk I see is that AT&T's service doesn't hold up. The device itself seems to work as advertised, which merits a rare correct use of the word "revolutionary."
In the New York Times today, Joe Nocera played counterpoint, warning pointedly that the iPhone's battery can only be replaced by Apple. If and when repeated charges drain it within a year or two, customers will have a choice between buying a new iPhone or mailing the whole thing back to Apple and waiting several days for it to come back. (For a cell phone, that could be a tough situation.) Here's Nocera's column, but registration is required, unfortunately.
Congrats to Apple on changing the game. (It's long overdue: way back in September 2000 Zimran and I wrote about the constraints, back then at least, in the wireless experience.)
Apple is amazing when it comes to fixing it's products. I had to send my MacBook to be fixed and I thought it would be gone for the full seven days they quote. DHL picked it up on a Tuesday at 4:00, I had it back Thursday at 9:00 am. If that's the standard, 41 hours without a phone isn't bad.