Having just watched the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs, I am somewhat shaken by all the things that Apple has brought to us. It’s actually not that much – it’s just two things that were revamped. The new iPhone, dubbed3G iPhone. It is 3G and GPS-powered, it’s thinner and it’ll be available in black and white. Also pimped is .Mac, now rebranded as MobileMe. It’s basically the same thing as before, just with some new syncing features and stuff… I won’t go to much into talking about it as you can just read all about it on the Apple website.
Though there are three things that I want to touch on:
- The iPhone is all cool and looks better than ever. It’s available for just half the original price (200$). Totally rocking for new customers but those who’ve just bought the iPhone recently (like me) it’s a fucking kick in the ass. My iPhone basically has no more reselling value which is kind of sad. Though, I’ve known about the rumors so I guess I have to live with it…
- .Mac was never the coolest service that Apple has made … it basically sucked. With the new features that MobileMe offers, it does become quite interesting and offers things that are worth the money. Let’s see how it’ll go in the future.
- As MobileMe replaces .Mac, the question of the iDisk and the connection with iMap/iTweak remains in question. I think not much will change except for URLs but I’ll release an update for both when MobileMe becomes available.
Having bought an iPod touch shortly after it’s introduction in late 2007, I have a short while ago moved to an iPhone. There are not many differences, the only thing that’s different is that you get to telephone and have EDGE. Let my explain my story of how it went:
I was excited about the new touch interface stuff from Apple and I just had to have something. Wether the iPhone or the iPod – just something! My old phone wasn’t working anymore and so a iPhone seemed very lucrative. Though, the prices were just stunning high and I wasn’t ready to buy it with that price. That would have been over 1300$ a year and I could have invested that money in much better things.
So I went ahead and bought the iPod touch. Great thing! It was thin, had touch and with 8GB then, had more than space than what I needed. Of course I would have liked to have it at 80GB so I can get all my movies onto it – but that is just how Apple went with it.
Then, about a month ago, my old phone broke completely. The iPhone has become to the most hacked product ever made by Apple and with all the jailbreaks and what-their-called, made it extremely easy to just use the phone in any country with any SIM and provider.
I went ahead sold my iPod touch and bought an american iPhone over eBay. Dead easy and the thing was in my house within two days.
Now I am on the iPhone and I really regret buying an iPod touch first, because I wasted 300$ (not completely wasted, the fun was there) and then added 400$ for an iPhone. Now that I think about it, I could have bought the iPhone then, not phone with it (aka have just the iPod touch features) and later jailbreak it.
I would like to warn anyone who is interested in buying an iPod touch. If you have the slightest notion of wanting an iPhone at some point in the future, then spend the extra 100$ on the iPhone rather than buying both the iPod touch and iPhone together. I really recommend that! Don’t go through the dilemma that I had! 