Video: The new iPhone ad
posted at 7:15 pm on June 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
I’m wracking my brain to think of a reason why (a) I need this thing and (b) the boss should pay for it. In case there’s a citywide blackout, maybe? What if I’m trapped under something heavy and can’t get to the computer?
How about because it’ll add to the prestige of the site if we’re seen wielding it at blog conferences and other professional functions? The problem there is that then I’d actually be forced to attend blog conferences and professional functions. Unless I pitch it as Bryan needing an iPhone for his appearances at blog conferences and professional functions — and in that case, since he’s getting one, it’s only fair that the big A gets one too.
That’s the plan of attack, I think. Go through Bryan. Bryan’s the key.
Blowback
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More power to ya’, if you can get “the Boss” to to buy ya’ one. But it would never work for me. Greasy finger-prints and leftover pieces of my last pizza would be ALL OVER all of my important stuff.
CyberCipher on June 4, 2007 at 7:21 PM
Umm..
Yea, I want one of the phones, too.
JackStraw on June 4, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Hey get Michelle to buy me one too!!
vcferlita on June 4, 2007 at 7:36 PM
I want one sooooooooo bad! My birthday is coming up…I will be hitting the big 3-0 and I am pretty depressed about that….This would definitely cheer me up! Plus, my husband has a lot of making up to do for forgeting our Anniversary last year..I love blackmail!
heatherrc77 on June 4, 2007 at 7:40 PM
I have this strong association with iAnything and liberals.
Maybe it’s the Mac vs. PC commercials, or the music. No. Can’t be just that. Oh, I got it, it’s the arrogance and contempt for non-macs!
But damn Apple makes some good products. I hate their commercials but love their technology.
unamused on June 4, 2007 at 7:41 PM
I think we’re just catching up with the Japanese technology these days.
Kini on June 4, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Tell Apple you’ll ‘review’ it for the site. You never know.
Number 2 on June 4, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Ugh, if you didn’t have to buy the stupid phone services that go with it, I’d think about it. As it is, I’m still not using my new Blackberry to it’s potential. :)
tickleddragon on June 4, 2007 at 7:52 PM
If Steve Jobs wasn’t such an arrogant condescending prick he’d be bailing out Bill Gates instead of vice versa.
Macs have some great products, but they’re way over priced for what they do.
Now if Jobs had been smart, and our cellphone industry not so screwed up, Apple would have released the I-Phone as an open product, usable by any network. Instead of getting for a hundred and a cell contract promising your first born, you’d pay 300 and it’d be yours.
Iblis on June 4, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Can you get it with Window’s Mobile 6?
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 4, 2007 at 7:54 PM
If she’s going to keep you locked up in her basement to blog all day and night, at least you can get an iPhone.
amerpundit on June 4, 2007 at 7:55 PM
I have a rotary phone I’ll lend ya.
Limerick on June 4, 2007 at 7:56 PM
–Derb
see-dubya on June 4, 2007 at 7:59 PM
I dunno. If I were worth $7 BILLION dollars, and had more creativity and genius in my pinky than the entire Microsoft empire, I think I’d be a little arrogant, condescending, and prickly too. But, that might just be me.
And as to Apple products being overpriced–you’re living in the 90′s. Every study (not funded by Dell or Microsoft!) that’s come out in the last 5+ years has identified Mac computers as being waaaaaay more cost-effective than any PC. You need to catch up with the times.
nukemhill on June 4, 2007 at 8:06 PM
And I’m sure that Allah wasn’t intending to start yet another religious war, so don’t take the above as an attack. Just my good-natured attempt to bring a different perspective!
nukemhill on June 4, 2007 at 8:08 PM
I’ve used macs since 1987, and I break wind whenever I damn well feel like it.
Mr. Bingley on June 4, 2007 at 8:09 PM
I hear that Gates wants to sabotage it so he’s adding Vista Mobile to each.
drjohn on June 4, 2007 at 8:10 PM
Yup nothing like not being able to buy the hot new software you want in a Mac Compatible version to keep the price down.
Mac is great as long as all you need is in iLife.
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 4, 2007 at 8:11 PM
$499…..for a phone….iThingy.
ronsfi on June 4, 2007 at 8:19 PM
AP,
Here are the three ads and they are all HQ, not youTube low quality.
HQ Video #1
HQ Video #2
HQ Video #3
Tim Burton on June 4, 2007 at 8:22 PM
Really? Have you seen Milan?
They might not be the most creative guys, but sometimes they do get it right.
I would love 2 tables like that for my coffee shop.
Tim Burton on June 4, 2007 at 8:27 PM
Thanks for the links. I think I just ruined my keyboard with drool.
Slublog on June 4, 2007 at 8:32 PM
…and this is your 20 minutes of battery life…
greggish on June 4, 2007 at 8:33 PM
Slublog,
You’re welcome. Now only if AP would put them at the top and give me a h/t…
/hint
Tim Burton on June 4, 2007 at 8:33 PM
Just got my new white “Chocolate” today. It’s pretty cool, I guess. But I REALLY, REALLY want an iPhone…
IrishEi on June 4, 2007 at 9:15 PM
This is your iphone the first time you drop it – ijunk
TheBigOldDog on June 4, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Must. Have. iPhone!
Note: Watch all three commercials on YouTube over here.
Exit question: I didn’t know you could shave with it?
Darnell Clayton on June 4, 2007 at 9:36 PM
I just have to make a prediction: This will crash and burn. Too expensive, too many people already have devices that can do most of the same stuff, and aren’t restricted to Mac… and I believe this is only coming out on AT&T… if they wanted it to succeed they’d have needed either Sprint or Verizon (IMO). I used to be in to having the latest phone… only I’d always be pissed after dropping a few hundred dollars, that the phone would be out of date in 6 months and Verizon would be giving it away as the free phone. It’s just never worth the money when you can see the phone being half the price (or cheaper) in a matter of months… not to mention the idea of dropping $500-600 on something that could break so easily. I take really good care of my stuff, but I would say that the vast majority of people tend to break or at least beat up expensive phones within the first year they own them.
Anyway, I guess I just wanted to bash this thing and make a prediction that it will be a failure.
RightWinged on June 4, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Ouch, a women co-worker once said when her husband “messed up”.
“That is major jewelry retribution.”
F15Mech on June 4, 2007 at 9:43 PM
I have never owned a cell phone (had a few from jobs) and this is the one that would make me jump into the game. Not only does it appear to have a browsing experience that doesn’t want to make me shove a stylus in my eye socket, it is a widescreen iPod and has a revolutionary interface. If it can do the three things well (phone, iPod, internet device) and eventually includes corporate controls ala RIM you can count me in. Way in.
mufsidoon on June 4, 2007 at 9:50 PM
I hesitate about getting anything with the internet via the cell phone company. I think it is too expensive. If a device can work wifi, and get net access from free places like libraries, and some restaurants, then cool, I might be game.
StuLongIsland on June 4, 2007 at 10:26 PM
two words: digital keyboard.
one more word: blows.
:o)
Seriously a digital only keyboard? I thought apple was “progressive”.
Right Tracker on June 4, 2007 at 10:41 PM
Don’t get the iPhone when you can get a Sony PSP for $169. You get internet access where there is wifi and connect to T-Mobile hotspots for free for the first six months (and then only $5 or $10 year after that, I think). Oh, and soon they will be adding VoIP!
Ian on June 4, 2007 at 11:38 PM
RightWinged. Right Tracker, etc.,
I have more than 7 years experience in the smart phone and cellular industry. And 20 years in the computer industry w/ a Computer Eng. degree. There’s nothing out there with the OS or processing power under the hood that the iPhone has. A multithreaded, multitasking OS opens up all kinds of doors, not to mention the big screen. Don’t knock the keyboard until you’ve tried it.
You’re going to be eating crow on this one. The iPhone will be a big success.
JeffB. on June 5, 2007 at 1:59 AM
We shall see, but I’m sticking with my prediction. Although, I can see it selling quite a bit (at first, as I said), especially when considering how many college kids’ daddies will buy one for them. I can actually see a few million going out like that, but they are going to have to expand beyond AT&T. Not to mention, I can imagine you’d pay a chunk each month to get internet access on a dinky screen and I just don’t see that catching on, especially considering the small customer base (again AT&T). Making something exclusive to AT&T just sounds like a really stupid business move (for Apple, not for AT&T).
RightWinged on June 5, 2007 at 3:53 AM
JeffB…..
but isn’t Apple going to cap the max number of audio tracks on it like their previous phone ventures to keep it from outselling the ipod? And won’t it have to interface with iTunes, the shittiest software ever coded(well at least sense they did quicktime)?
And you know the OQO mk1 had a shit-tone of processing power for being only a smidgen bigger then and iPhone; all that power also made the thing hot enough to cook with.
I call Shenanigans. Windows Mobile devices can do everything and more that the iPhone can do. The real difference is not in what these devices can do, but how they do it, and weather or not you buy into the personality cult that Apples’ Ad department sell……
liquidflorian on June 5, 2007 at 4:19 AM
IIRC, the Motorola RAZR was initially exclusive to AT&T (Cingular at the time) and is now available for all carriers.
It makes sense to introduce a new phone first in GSM because those networks are used world-wide, then roll out the CDMA version.
I’d expect the iPhone to be available for all carriers within 6 months to a year.
flipflop on June 5, 2007 at 5:45 AM
I’d recommend the Nintendo DS instead of the iPhone. It’s only $129, has killer games, wifi, and soon will run the Opera browser. And best of all, it’s not a phone. I hate the phone.
saint kansas on June 5, 2007 at 5:54 AM
Since my current cell phone is about 5 years out of date, I’ld be willing to accept donations of whatever cell yer dumping for the iphone…. =)
mrfixit on June 5, 2007 at 6:57 AM
So what, is this a phone that won’t talk with 90% of the other phones out there, but lets other people who bought the same phone feel all smug about themselves in their ‘tight-knit’ group?
James on June 5, 2007 at 7:34 AM
I’ve got no problem with the phone itself, I’m sure it’s very good. But the keyboard is a killer. As someone who has owned or tested virtually every smart phone since inception, I would bet almost anything that it’s going to be a major sticking point, b/c they always suck.
Everything else could be great, but data entry is king and digital keyboards are horrid at it.
Right Tracker on June 5, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Love my Macs. But most fanatics know that you wait until the 2nd release of their products nowadays. However, I am happy to see that there are lots of eager beta-testers!
flipflopper on June 5, 2007 at 9:34 AM
This is not new technology, other non-proprietary phones already have these functions.
paulsur on June 5, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Well, if he doesn’t get me the ring I have been wanting, for my b-day, then it better be the phone. It is quite a bit cheaper than the ring….. :) Either one and I would be a happy, happy girl.
heatherrc77 on June 5, 2007 at 11:31 AM
It’s not the “what” that is important. Yes, almost every feature in the iPhone is available on other ‘smartphone’. It’s the how. Look at the commercials. Look at how easy it is to get from point A to point B. This is Apple’s strength. This is what will sell the iPhone. Ease-of-use.
This is one of the reasons I’m incredibly long on AAPL right now. Apple does it right, time and time again. They get interface better than anyone else. The only (and it’s a big only) thing that will keep Apple from selling a gazillion of these is if the economy tanks. Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. It’ll be like printing your own money.
nukemhill on June 5, 2007 at 11:55 AM
I waited 5 years to get an iPod… (partly cos I was a starving college student for four of those years *hehe*), I don’t know if I’d get one… Mind you, I like macs… but to drop a $500+ device because your clumsy fingers decided to be creative? I’d rather get something a tad easier to replace…
On the other hand, you know what would be awesome? If you could install Linux on the phone *hehe* (sorry, had to throw that in…)
rightg33k on June 5, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Absolutely false. I watched the keynote address that gave a full demonstration of this product. There is nothing on the market even close.
calirighty on June 5, 2007 at 3:04 PM
calirighty on June 5, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Sorry I can’t get the links to work.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf07/
calirighty on June 5, 2007 at 3:07 PM