apple | Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Today I’m answering to a post which was originally written at desktopvibes.com-The Not So Immortal iPod?:
First I think the iPod will be around for years and will not stop selling that fast.
iPhone Selling?
Ok the iPhone is selling really well (especially if you compare it to the first selling of the iPod’s) but you must consider that back than apple was not as popular as it’s now (especially in the not professional working scene)!
What will happen to the iPod?
I think the iPod selling will slower or if it comes hard and fast decrees. But also I think that if they are going to hold the iPod up to date (especially the touchy thing:D) than the iPod would be going to sell great, cause the iPhone contracts are for many people really not affordable (and many people just don’t need internet everywhere!).
More likely an iPod touch than the iPhone? (My Way)
For me I’m looking forward to a iPod touch update and than going to buy that (if it offers new great things like the new 3G iPhone, especially GPS would be really nice) cause I think that everywhere internet wouldn’t be that nice and the monthly fee is just to expensive!
One thing I think they should change is the mayor updating of the iPod touch for money! They just should give it out for free!!! Or much less (something around the 5-10$US)!
The first post at this blog was about this blog and the iPhone release in Germany. Now it’s much the same.
I’m now going to publish the blog again with the hope that I thought enough about what I’m going to do in the future with it, and that I have enough to say:D
The iPhone
For now I decided not to purchase the iPhone.
Maybe you think that this decision is ugly and bad, cause I could purchase it, and the costs are not the problem, but I have thought about the iPhone quiet some time and came to the end that if I buy the iPhone, than I can go online nearly everywhere I want, and that’s the problem!
I’m on the Internet if I’m at home, and the time outside, at the train to school and so on I’m offline and not connected to the internet what means, that I do other things like reading books, thinking about new ideas and sometimes designing on white paper.
Now if I purchase an iPhone I consider my self not to read books, write down new ideas, or designing new web-designs, rather than surfing the web via the iPhone. Thats why I’m not going to buy the iPhone.
Oh, by the way: if I’m not going to buy the iPhone, I think I’m going to buy something else (not as expensive as a new iPhone but something technically)
What do you think about that desicion? I’m really interessted.
So now finally I made it, I will publish my own private / professional blog. About what I’m going to blog is not clear so. I think at the moment I can say that I’ll blog about what is coming around. So stay tuned and I hope you’ll like the posts. This first post is about a technical thing I’m heading to at the moment and completely hooked up by.
I already have been hooked by the first iPhone, but the contracts which were offered by T-Mobile have been so expensive that a poor student like I’m couldn’t afford it (and the phone it self costs a lot to).
Now the new iPhone 3G is much more affordable (like Steve Jobs told at the WWDC08 Keynote) and the contracts are much more affordable too.
In Germany we have this:
One of the only things I’m thinking about is the data transfare limit, in the contract Complete S - which I’m going to use if I take one iPhone.
