— unpredictable thoughts

By: ste!!a
02-08-2007
news, objects of desire, technology
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Apple iPhone signals beginning of the end, Duh.

“On June 29, 2007, Apple released the highly antic­i­pated iPhone to the pub­lic. For­rester eval­u­ated the iPhone’s capa­bil­i­ties, and we believe that the iPhone sig­nals the begin­ning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today: Stripped-down sites crammed onto the small screens of devices meant for phon­ing, not brows­ing, will become a thing of the past. Com­pa­nies look­ing to stay on top of this trend should get iPhones and expe­ri­ence their capa­bil­i­ties for them­selves. Going for­ward, firms should con­tinue to exper­i­ment with the mobile Web sites they own today in order to learn how to cre­ate con­tent that is timely, location-aware, and action­able for users on the go,” Vidya Lak­sh­mi­pa­thy reports for For­rester Research.


Voice Bank has devel­oped a con­verter that shrinks manga pages cre­ated for view­ing on PC screens to iPhone size, claim­ing it made the move because the phone’s touch-sensitive screen is per­fect for the panel-based graphic medium. It is now look­ing for a dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner in the US.

Sounds like these guys have already got­ten the mes­sage.
This is what I want to be able to check out on my iphone.

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  • http://www.folioonelimited.com Lissa Rei­del

    Yes the iPhone is seduc­tive: I want one, too… in the same way I want a sin­ful dessert. If only the IPhone and all other phones were edi­ble or even biode­grad­ble. But today’s infat­u­a­tion is tomorrow’s obso­lete trash. Until each prod­uct comes with its own built-in dis­ap­pear­ing act, paid for by the man­u­fac­turer, it is, sadly, so much more than an object of desire.
    Lissa Rei­del
    Folio One, Limited

  • http://mikalinphilly.blogspot.com Michael Nolan

    I agree with Lissa. It’s a kind of hyped-up thing, a designed desire if you will. For­tu­nately, only one ser­vice (Ver­i­zon) works where I live out in the coun­try, so I couldn’t get an iPhone if I wanted to.

    I do believe it’s a new par­a­digm, how­ever, and it will be like the first Macs in the way it changes how and what we can do with a piece of tech­nol­ogy. There will be sim­i­lar choices from other com­pa­nies soon. Sam­sung and Nokia and other phone man­u­fac­tur­ers are more sophis­ti­cated com­pe­ti­tion for Apple than the com­puter com­pa­nies they usu­ally com­pete against.

  • http://www.stellagassaway.com ste!!a

    I agree with both of you.

    first.
    The iphone is a hyped up thing — a designed desire. Its a designed expe­ri­ence from indus­trial design to soft­ware phone call; like only Steve Jobs can man­u­fac­ture. But it didn’t take a shiney sexy device to inter­est me. I’ve seen most of this tech­nol­ogy before, although some in the pro­to­type stage not in an actual man­u­fac­tured device.

    The thing that won me over was a sin­gle fun­da­men­tal soft­ware change. Voice­mail. The most frus­trat­ing, stu­pid expe­ri­ence on any phone sys­tem. Being able to view my voice­mail like my email and select who’s mes­sage I want hear or delete. Oh, and not only that, I can stop the mes­sage at any point and play it for­ward and rewind. The cell phone as we knew it sucks.

    sec­ond.
    Sus­tain­abil­ity. Any prod­uct that isn’t sus­tain­able is everyone’s prob­lem. The man­u­fac­tur­ers that get with sus­tain­abil­ity will have an advan­tage over their com­petion in the long run. It would be great for an orga­ni­za­tion like the Envi­ron­men­tal Defense Fund to do a study and help busi­ness see the rewards of putting the the­ory to work in the mar­ket­place. I don’t see a project in the works now. Until then what?

  • http://www.folioonelimited.com Lissa Rei­del

    A close friend told me her young child had night­mares about moun­tains of trash in the land­scape. He is now an organic farmer. Per­haps he saw the future more clearly than we do.
    Soon America’s new best thing will be desired in China and India… When they have what we have — pol­lu­tion spit­ting cars and dis­pos­able tech­nol­ogy — what will our world be?

  • http://www.stellagassaway.com ste!!a

    Why don’t adults have these night­mares too?

    I think China is doing very well with­out any help from us. Do we actu­ally make any­thing they could buy? They make most of what becomes our trash.

    In our office build­ing down­town I think we are the only peo­ple that put our news­pa­pers and bot­tles in the avail­able recy­cling bin. We hear that the city of philadel­phia pre­tends to recy­cle but it actu­ally goes to landfills.

    I have tried to get where we lived involved in recy­cle­bank but the city hasn’t allowed them to expand the pro­gram. Check it out here: http://www.recyclebank.com
    What small things can we do to encour­age sustainability?

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