Project OrielEmbracing Change

My stream of thoughts on the announcements from Apple’s keynote today:

• I like the complete upgrade to their laptop line. The specs on the screens sound impressive.
• Glad that the new OS is only a $29 upgrade, though no single feature is that compelling.
• Safari 4 is awsome. I’ve been using the beta for a while now.
• Looking forward to the iPhone 3.0 free upgrade.
• Absolutely appalled at AT&T for not allowing tethering.
• I could care less about the copy & paste thing, and have yet to understand why people consider this such a “must have” feature.
• Like the idea of a video camera on the go. Impressed that you can do video editing on the new iPhone, and upload straight to youtube. (This will have very interesting side affects that I don’t think we fully appreciate yet.)
• I would quite like the 2-3x performance of the new iPhone too – little things like going to the home screen and popping up the keyboard seem to have a slight lag on my older iphone.
• The digital compass nicely rounds out the GPS capabilities of last year, but I wish the turn-by-turn navigation had been built in.
• The voice control looks nice – especially the “play more songs like this one” bit.
• The lower $99 price is also a good thing for last years model, though I wonder who will be buying that considering the voice+data plan will set you back at least $60 a month anyway (I tend to ignore most of the upfront costs and focus more on the monthly part). Seems like if you are spending $60/month already, a $100 is relatively unimportant – if you can’t afford the new one, you can’t really afford the old one either.

Will I upgrade?

All told, I’ll probably pay for the new OS when it comes out in September, but will hold off on the new iPhone till the one I have becomes unusable.

I’m still on the 1st generation 2g dataplan, and when I upgrade, the 3g dataplan will bump my bill up an extra $10/month. Had the tethering not been blocked by AT&T, it might have been worth it. I love the idea of internet anywhere on my laptop. But for now, I’m looking for ways to reduce, not increase, my internet & phone bills.

Tags: apple, emerging tech, innovation, iphone

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