She Bought Me My Watch

May 9, 2007

So the
iPhone
is getting ready to come out in June and I’m hearing a lot of press about
how this phone or that phone is better than it already, and that it’s too
late for it to make a splash. I disagree. People keep talking about
features, and I think they are missing the point. Sure, there will be many
people who don’t get an iPhone because it doesn’t have a certain feature (or
5 certain features), but again — I think there’s something else to this.

I think the iPhone is simply going to be superior (demand-wise) to these
other offerings despite lacking features such as 3G, a real keyboard, etc.
Look at the music player market; there are a number of other players that
are “better” than the iPod, but they don’t have the same feel, the same
interface, the same…”I don’t know what” that the iPod has.

So while people are saying, “I need x, y, and z and iPhone doesn’t have
it.”, when they get a hold of one for two minutes they’re going to be like,
“Holy crap. I’m getting one of these.” The phrase, “More than the sum of its
parts” comes to mind.

Of course, it could suck horribly and die a painful, humiliating death. I
accept that as a very real possibility, and will be getting a Blackberry
Curve or
Helio Ocean
shortly afterwards if that happens. But I don’t think so. I think it’s going
to become the next “must-have” device — not because of what all it can do —
but because of how it feels when you do it.