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What did you all expect to pay for a phone like this?

Sony Ericsson smart phones, HTC, etc are all around the same price? I'm baffled to what you all wanted the price to be. It's Apple for one, this phone isn't for everyone, in the U.S. 3G and UTMS isn't everywhere so it doesn't matter to me in the least. I am a little dissapointed it isn't offered by other carriers, I hope I'll be able to get it unlocked. This will be the perfect upgrade for my blackberry pearl.

I wish he would've released either a new iPod or another product. Apple isn't stupid, they know what they're doing. I am also unimpressed by the AppleTV, maybe he'll release AppleTV 2 with DVR capabilities - then I'll look into it.

They've been touting products i don't want. Admittedly the iphone is incredible and could start a revolution... if it weren't for the price. Plus, both the iphone and the appletv require that you constantly shell out; pay for itunes content and pay for a monthly cell contract (which you can bet will be priced at a premium). Where were the incredible stand-alone products? Leopard, ilife, iwork, even new mac models would have been nice. I'm getting a bit annoyed with tech companies, both electronics and media, bringing out products that require you to keep constantly paying for more.

I looked on macrumorslive .... so no updates on OS X or software? Correct? And no system annoucements? So when is the next keynote, in the summer?

IMO, the big annoucement was really for Apple as a company (its share prices). This is good for their long term sustainability which is good for all Mac users. Lets face it, it not like they can dominate the market with 100 million Macs in the next 2 or 3 years.

Does anyone else not see what I'm thinking: with the movies, music, phones, multimedia, and computers, portable audio, and bigger displays (though that's still rumoured) I think Apple is trying to take on a direct battle with Sony. Its the only gravy train they can ride that doesn't try and take out MS/Dell/HP etc and there's plenty of money in it for a lot of players.

I like the iTv product. I'm going to get one when my budget allows. My stereo and TV are further from my computer and I don't want to direcly hook my expensive stereo into my Mac. Plus I want to play my music proper on my stereo through iTV.

Onto the iPhone. I'm not a big fan. Nice big screen like that is easy to crack, break and get damaged. It gets stuffed in my jeans and gets lots of wear and tear it won't last. Its doing too much and probably will have an 8 hour battery life if that. Cell phone providers really need to get their customer phones that at $200 or $400 will last 10 years. I don't see any like that on the market. Disappointed.

Dissappointed here to - was looking forward to Leopard preview and was kind of hoping for Mac Mini updates.

From the "Welcome to 2007", I really expected something bigger than a phone. Sure it cool but I expected it to be revolutionary in that it wasn't connected with any one network.

Listen, Apple knows they completely ignored Leopard this keynote. I always wondered how they were going to fit everything in since I considered OS X to be a guaranteed show for this keynote. Well, it wasn't. Today was all iPhone, all the time.

I have a guess and I think I'll end up being right. Apple won't not deliver on the Spring of 2007 for Leopard. WWDC is way too far off.

My guess is we'll see a special event scheduled just for Leopard like the Showtime! event for the iTunes Store and iTV debut.

isn't software usually relegated to WWDC keynotes?

They still normally give demos at Macworld. I could have sworn that Steve Jobs said at the WWDC '06 that we'd find out more information and those top secret features at Macworld. What bunch of BS! I say we boycott Apple :crazy:

Must have had some pretty low expectations! I certainly didn't expect them to launch the iPhone with technology from 2004.

I, too, was surprised by the fact that the phone doesn't have 3G. I figured that would have been included since more and more Cingular phones are 3G capable and Cingular is switching over most, if not all, of their towers to 3G by the end of this summer. That and the price are the biggest disappointments to me.

The iPhone is the first widescreen ipod/phone/browser/web communicator

Hardly a let-down

3 years ago I had a hand held device which played widescreen movies, it played MP3's, it was a phone, it was a web browser, it was a web communicator, look for P900

iPhone is nothing new.

The only wow factor is that it can run OSX

Still, baaaaaaa (that's the sound of sheep) ;)

Spending almost the entire MWSF talking about phones that aren't for everyone is not the way to go.

I agree with that. I was hoping for more. I'm still extremely impressed. I'm sure Apple has more in store for us.

I am probably wrong here, so correct me if I am. But did I not read a new piece recently that says that mobile phones(in US) should not be tied to one network and should be unlockable? Is this going to be law in US? And if so, how will this work with Apples phone, as they are going to be tied to Cingular.

I was wondering the same. I remember reading about that the week after Thanksgiving.

iPhone look good as concept for a TBA 6Gen iPod. For the first time Apple make a device with plenty of features...

As I already said, the Apple TV is a joke to me.

The rest is as always, nothing interesting to me. What I would do to have MacOSX running on all Computers... *sigh*

I, too, was surprised by the fact that the phone doesn't have 3G. I figured that would have been included since more and more Cingular phones are 3G capable and Cingular is switching over most, if not all, of their towers to 3G by the end of this summer. That and the price are the biggest disappointments to me.

Whether EDGE is 2G or 3G depends on implementation. While Class 3 and below EDGE devices clearly are not 3G, class 4 and above devices perform at a higher bandwidth than other technologies conventionally considered as 3G (such as 1xRTT). Because of the variability, EDGE is generally classified as 2.75G network technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE

I'm not sure what everyone is complaining about, the iPhone is one of the most revolutionary pieces of hardware Apple has released. You do realize that the iPod part of the iPhone is a precursor to the new iPods that are soon to come.

I think the iPhone is a good showing of what we should see in a new iPod later this year. I live in New Zealand (which is not likely to see an iPhone for many years to come, and doesn’t have movies on iTunes – not that our internet speed is fast enough to accommodate downloading movies any way) so the iPhone and the Apple TV are fairly useless to me at current.

I really (like most of you) wanted to see some new features of Leopard, maybe a new iPod (iPhone doesn’t count as far as I’m concerned) and new (or at least updated) Mac computers (especially a new brand new style iMac), so yes, this was a pretty disappointing show for me.

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