Personally, I am taking a wait and see approach to the iPhone right now. I know I want one, I just don’t know if I want one badly enough to be able to get past the compromises in the first release (no choice of carrier, no 3rd party apps, retrograde mobile data network). My opinion may change, which is why I’m interested in other people’s reactions.
My friend Jeff posted a short but enthusiastic review over on his private live journal before he even left the Apple store.
- The out of box experience was pretty much enough to get Scoble to declare that it “lives up to every bit of hype” But he himself has also been taking a wait an see attitude. His son and wife have iPhones, but he’s waiting to see if he wants to unload his Nokia N95 for one. So far, the pleasure of using the iPhone seems to overcome the fact of it’s limitations vs his Nokia N95.
- Scoble’s friend, Dave Weiner also has a review. Dave is old and crotchety (in a mostly good way), and so he is not so easily seduced by the sexy young thing he’s got his hands on. As a music player, it doesn’t work like his old iPods. He finds the default font choice (or zoom factor) in the web browser to be nearly unusable for most websites. I think this last one is a tough one. It sounds like he had no idea about the multitouch interface, and isn’t enthusiastic to learn about it.
- Thomas Hawk’s first big post on the subject is about the experience of waiting to buy an iPhone, rather than the device itself (not an uncommon theme).
- Moving further afield. Someone points out that only 7% of facebook users polled indicate they plan to buy an iPhone. More later on not reading too much bad news into this statistic.
- Back to the blogging mainstream. John Gruber on Daring Fireball shares his first impressions. He’s 95% enthused, 5% maddened. Most interesting to me, his frustration with text editing in the e-mail app, and the keyboard layout putting the backspace key in a weird place.
That’s it for now. I need to run and it’s going to take more time to dig up some less mainstream takes.
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