Robertson on the iPhone

Michael Robertson is always an entertaining read but his take on the iPhone is very interesting.

The concept with the iPhone is to combine a media player and phone which is a good idea, but Cingular and Apple crippled the functionality to fit their current businesses. In spite of having a data connection via the cellular network and WiFi, the iPhone cannot use either method to load music or movies onto the device. To change tunes or videos requires a PC a USB cable and iTunes software. (Yes, you read this right. Surprised you didn’t see this in any of the press accounts?) This misses the entire benefit of a wireless device. You might as well tape an iPod to your existing phone because that’s all the iPhone is.

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