To say that Apple Keynote was a bit of a flop, at least in my eyes, is an understatement. It lacked Apples usual flair. Well at least the last third of it. The Mac Book Pro announcement was great, Snow leopard will be a great upgrade especially at the price, but once they hit the iPhone announcement everything went downhill.
The whole keynote lacked the cohesiveness and polish Apple flawlessly pulls off every year. Seriously, it really was embarrassing. I would have loved to have been in Steve Jobs head while it was going on. Devs couldn’t get their demos to work and AT&T made Apple a laughing stock…TWICE. See the Keynote video at 56:43 and 1:00:53. Admittedly Scott Forstall did a stellar job despite the crowds laughs and boos.
It wasn’t even the iPhones flagship, AT&T’s, complete incompetence to pull of something as basic as MMS in a timely manner. (Side Rant: Seriously AT&T? You’ve had two years, even if just one year. There are carriers that have been with Apple only half as long with MMS ready. I’ve supported you for years, but that was just embarrassing)
My hesitation to buy the came in the very beginning. When trying to justify the cost. Initially I was like, “NO WAY, Video is cool, but I don’t know if I need it right away.” If you go over Apples consumer comparison page there is no major reason to upgrade outside of video. 
Even though Apple was being coy about the actual hardware in the phone we know a couple of things:
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The point is this. if you come from a Windows Mobile Background, which a lot of us do. This upgrade would have been a no-brainer with Windows Mobile. But Apple failed at marketing this for both consumer and the mobile geek. With keeping the beautiful and comfortable 3G case it really understated how big of an upgrade this is.
The iPhone 3GS may be a mild upgrade from a consumer perspective, but what it’s going to enable is far from it; watch out Nintendo,” Lal Shimpi reports. “Remember the performance gains we saw in the early days of 3D graphics on the PC? We’re about to go through all of that once more in the mobile space. Awesome.” Via MacDailyNews
After looking at the true specs of the 3Gs, it was an obvious choice to upgrade. Looks like it might be time for some of us to give Ebay a visit.
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Wed, Jun 10, 2009
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