I downgraded from my SonyEricsson P900 to a Nokia 63mumble because I didn't want to have to know the numbers on the end of the mumble to be able to make a phone call, and didn't think I really needed an mp3 player in my phone (or indeed at all, at the time).
I have since been won over to the iPod (though not to the modern fashion of wearing the damn thing ALL THE TIME so you can't hear anything anybody says to you or complete basic shopping transactions without shouting and so that the whole of the bus has to listen to your choice of Queen's Greatest Hits) but the bit that really made me excited was when Jobs said (and I now can't find the quote, but I read it in one of those "live from MacWorld" stream-of-consciousness things) that the killer app was that it was a phone. That you could make calls on it easily. My inner grumpy old woman still thinks that you should be able to make phone calls with a phone, and that that shouldn't actually be harder to do than streaming a video podcast to your toaster.
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Date: 2007-01-10 11:05 am (UTC)I downgraded from my SonyEricsson P900 to a Nokia 63mumble because I didn't want to have to know the numbers on the end of the mumble to be able to make a phone call, and didn't think I really needed an mp3 player in my phone (or indeed at all, at the time).
I have since been won over to the iPod (though not to the modern fashion of wearing the damn thing ALL THE TIME so you can't hear anything anybody says to you or complete basic shopping transactions without shouting and so that the whole of the bus has to listen to your choice of Queen's Greatest Hits) but the bit that really made me excited was when Jobs said (and I now can't find the quote, but I read it in one of those "live from MacWorld" stream-of-consciousness things) that the killer app was that it was a phone. That you could make calls on it easily. My inner grumpy old woman still thinks that you should be able to make phone calls with a phone, and that that shouldn't actually be harder to do than streaming a video podcast to your toaster.
But, yeah. :)