WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4
I was really surprised that Steve Jobs did not announce more cloud capabilities for Apple during his WWDC keynote. It had been rumored that MobileMe might become free and Apple has been investing heavily in data centers. I believe that this is critical for Apple if they want to maintain their currently super impressive position. The iPhone 4 is cool and has some neat innovations but none of them are either absolutely critical for new users or way ahead of other phones. For instance, a front facing camera is nice to have if you want to do video chat, but plenty of other phones have it already. The new display technology looks gorgeous, but then again, so does the display on the HTC EVO. The only really neat addition is the gyroscope, which will enable some even more amazing game play. All in all though I am far from blown away. Will be interesting to see what happens with Android devices over the rest of this year and especially into the holiday season. It is an exciting race that is a huge boon for all of us!
100% agree. It’s pretty crazy to me that the iPhone is finally getting the front facing camera and 5MP rear camera with flash I had on my Nokia N95 3 years ago. Also, I thought it was strange that the iPad launched with a significantly lower pixel density than the iPhone 3GS but now, just a couple months later, it seems laughable when 78% of the total pixels are on an iPhone 4 as an iPad. The biggest shock, though, is that Lala.com was shut down what could now be pretty far in advance of a cloud-based iTunes. And how about the fact that Cisco owns the iOS name and also owned the iPhone name when the original launched?
