Iambic and iPhone

[rsgmoose]

Adriano,

If the hype and all that goes along with it is any indication - I think you probably need to start considering programming for the iPhone (http://www.apple.com/iphone/).

It's being touted as the Treo killer over at TreoCentral.

My youngest daughter is already saving up for it.........

[adriano]

Hi Richard,

yep saw it today as well. On one hand I see a great opportunity, on the other I see more fragmentation of our already thin development resources. And market fragmentation as well.

We'll see when they start making available some sdk...

- Adriano

[michael]

I seriously doubt it will be a treo killer. Everything I've seen on various forums indicates that its gonna be most popular among the over-indulged teen community, and not for the business user.

A virtual keyboard? Come on! It's a hi-end iPod that happens to have a cellular radio. I could be wrong on this, so we'll see. I may eat my words ;)

[gbuergisser]

Not sure about the iPhone being an "monster" iPod. I read about it's OS being Mac OS X. So basically it's a Linux/Unix based device which makes it very flexible and interesting for the open source community. And it also has a WiFi radio. Looks more like a PDA (3.5'' screen) with add-on phone to me. Also the pricing is quite high level, I think.

[adriano]

size-wise is actually pretty small -- the pictures on apple.com make it look like a behemoth but really is same size of the 680 and half the thickness.

http://blog.treonauts.com/2007/01/palm_treo_680_v.html

- Adriano

[rsgmoose]

I seriously doubt it will be a treo killer. Everything I've seen on various forums indicates that its gonna be most popular among the over-indulged teen community, and not for the business user.

A virtual keyboard? Come on! It's a hi-end iPod that happens to have a cellular radio. I could be wrong on this, so we'll see. I may eat my words ;)

I stated over at TC that the iPhone (if Cisco allows Apple to continue to use that name) is not an enterprise solution so there is some margin for Palm to continue in that vain.

However two additional comments:

1. We haven't seen Jeff Hawkins next device - which is due sometime before the iPhone ships...so it could be a "killer enterprise" device.

2. If Apple bundles somesort of Blackberry Connect software so that the enterprise people can connect to their Exchange servers then look out - cuz their will be a keyboard accessory to go along with that feature.

I'm just saying that this could be a "rainmaker" if Iambic were to jump on a developmental aspect of it early and Apple does bundle some Enterprise software with it......

But as it looks it will appeal to the teens and adolescent crowd initially rather than the corporate types.

[gbuergisser]

I just read this (http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12729) over at Brighthand. It seems that iambic won't need to plan anything for the iPhone.

[adriano]

Gregor,

interesting -- telling the truth if this is really what is going to happen (i.e. no 3rd party software allowed on the iPhone) I wouldn't be much surprised.

Apple never made it much of a mystery that they want complete control (read: own) on hardware, software and distribution channels. On the desktop it gets a bit more complicated, but on a phone with the experience of the ipod they already have, it won't be a problem at all.

Plus I'm sure Cingular is totally with them on this. To carriers devs are just source of troubles and instabilities (and to hardware manufacturers too to tell the truth ;))

- Adriano

[gbuergisser]

Gregor,

interesting -- telling the truth if this is really what is going to happen (i.e. no 3rd party software allowed on the iPhone) I wouldn't be much surprised.

Apple never made it much of a mystery that they want complete control (read: own) on hardware, software and distribution channels. On the desktop it gets a bit more complicated, but on a phone with the experience of the ipod they already have, it won't be a problem at all.

Plus I'm sure Cingular is totally with them on this. To carriers devs are just source of troubles and instabilities (and to hardware manufacturers too to tell the truth ;))

- Adriano

Too bad... The hardware specs are quite amazing but if 3rd party software is not allowed it's real deal breaker. Espacially for 500$.

[adriano]

nah it's just perfect for the casual user. The casual user has no interest in looking for add-on software, whatever already comes with the device is more than enough for him/her.

Throw in a few Apple-made gadgets, ringtones, itunes, and you have the casual user pretty much covered, and happy.

- Adriano

[Handhell]

Personally, it didn't amazed me that much :rolleyes:
BTW, I'd accept one as a gift for this Valentine's day. Despite of that I wouldn't ever buy such thing :p

[6characters]

Gregor,

interesting -- telling the truth if this is really what is going to happen (i.e. no 3rd party software allowed on the iPhone) I wouldn't be much surprised.

Apple never made it much of a mystery that they want complete control (read: own) on hardware, software and distribution channels. On the desktop it gets a bit more complicated, but on a phone with the experience of the ipod they already have, it won't be a problem at all.

Plus I'm sure Cingular is totally with them on this. To carriers devs are just source of troubles and instabilities (and to hardware manufacturers too to tell the truth ;))

- Adriano


It seems that Apple has had a change of direction. I think we should reconsider this given the new developments. Users (well one so far), have begun asking for this again: http://support.iambic.com/forum/showthread.php?p=119186#post119186

[adriano]

quick follow-up on this in case you missed a recent post:

http://www.iampowered.com/archives/2008/03/11/iambic_titles_and_the_iphone_a.php

and here:

http://www.iambic.com/products/iphone/

to be kept in the loop :)

- Adriano