{"id":3427,"date":"2010-06-08T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:45:58","slug":"uneducated-thoughts-on-the-2010-wwdc-jobsnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Uneducated Thoughts on the 2010 WWDC Jobsnote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new phone feels more like an evolution than a revolution.<\/strong> This did not stop Jobs from continually positioning it as a “revolutionary” device. I’m starting to understand where this “reality distortion field” comes from.<\/p>\n

I think the positioning of the phone was impacted by the Gizmodo leak.<\/strong> Without that leak, Jobs gets a big gasp and applause from the mere visual introduction of the new form factor and look. Since that was already widely seen and known beforehand, he had to lean harder on the feature set to get the kind of reaction he wants from a Jobsnote–excitement, making way for keen interest, bursting into unadulterated awe, all from the Apple acolytes.<\/p>\n

This phone will probably be successful, but I don’t know if it’s exciting enough to impact general consumers in a significant way.<\/strong> If you’re going to buy an iPhone anyway, or thinking about it, it’s a no-brainer. It will impact a lot of fence-sitters. It will probably push those holding out for some kind of Verizon iPhone to just grit their teeth and suck up AT&T’s crappy service. But it’s not the kind of device that makes Joe Wifi drop his Droid in the trash and run out to the nearest Apple store.<\/p>\n

Part of that is because I think the reality of the front-facing camera right now and the Facetime app is nowhere near the fantasy that Apple depicts in its new commercial. Unless you and all your loved ones near and far will be there on June 24 to buy the new device, you won’t have anyone with which to schedule time to view your face. The API is open so it’s a safe bet that before the end of this year, there will be a third-party app that brings the front camera to older iPhones, or the web. Until then, your face will be lonely.<\/p>\n

That being said, I kinda want one. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m starting to wonder about whether Apple should tweak its product refresh cycle.<\/strong> I had no expectations of any big iPad news yesterday, but you know there’s gonna be a new one, and with the tablet market heating up, I’m betting it’ll be out within a year.<\/p>\n

But when? If you release it a year from the iPad announcement, you get late January. To me that’s not an appealing time for any kind of product refresh. There’s nothing to hook it onto. Then again, I don’t think there’s anything in particular to hook the iPhone’s traditional June refresh onto.<\/p>\n

It might make sense to refresh the iPods and iPads at the same fall event, or to push the iPad refresh to like August, to maybe grab some back-to-school business…which could push the iPhone refresh up to like March, maybe in conjunction with an iOS refresh.<\/p>\n

That begs the question of whether there will be another new iPad before the end of this year, maybe incorporating some of the tech we saw in iPhone 4–the retina display, cameras, possibly even a new form factor. That would goose the iPad for the holidays, and maybe lower the low-end price point on the older version, making it a more appealing gift. Unlikely, but the slim possibility is fascinating.<\/p>\n

As you may already know, I want an iPad too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Consumerism as an interactive spectator sport is fun.<\/strong> In a blowhard kinda way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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