What is Apple going to announce on Sept. 9th?

Not going to change on 9/9 and unlikely to in the near future.

15 out of close to 100 million? And some of those were sat on or dropped. Not a bad track record, if you ask me.

Have you used an iPhone for an extended period of time? I can type faster on an iPhone than I can on a tiny keyboard.

I'm not saying that the iPhone can't be improved, but you're rehashing old arguments that don't have any real merit to them.

 

And if someone as incompetent as Tony can do it, anyone can!

(Sorry Tony, but the linked story fell to something like page 5... we can't let that happen!)

 

I am sure it will be another overhyped object that does the exact same thing as other products, but locks you into their proprietary overpriced money making scheme for content and accessories.

 

Well, I guess we'll count Professor Chaos as a Microsoft fan.

 

I looked at a Touch in a store. I tried to type on it. I could not do it without multiple errors. I think roughly half the letters came out wrong. My Asus with the 9-inch screen and real keyboard lets me type almost normally.

 

My iPhone took some getting used to, but like cpatch, I'm pretty fast typing on it now.

 

I wouldn't consider myself a fan. In fact between myself and my wife I have purchased 4 iPods, and I bought her an iPhone back when it was just edge and wi-fi before it went 3G. I do prefer windows boxes, but it has everything to do with money. For $1600 + for a Macbook Pro I can buy a Windows Gaming laptop with nearly double the specs.

I am not saying that Apple doesn't make great or innovative products, but there is a difference in paying a $20 - $50 premium for an iPod or PDA vs a $500 premium for a comparable computer.

 

LOL I am an early adopter so it is a little hard to be envious of a product that you have supported since 2002 or 2003. I was on the iPod band wagon back before hardly anyone knew what they were. Back then the display wasn't in color it only had 5GB, and it didn't have click wheel, it was also fat by todays standards it was more of an iBrick, oh and back in those days they also only worked with my Mac with the firewire.

 

Someone asked about a link to the exploding iphones, here it is:
Exploding iPhone injures French teen ? The Register
In the article there are also a couple other links, one to a Seattle TV station that did a piece on them. I agree with what someone else posted "15 out of..." is so far an almost immeasurable percentage, but remembering the Macbook/Dell/Sony battery issue of a few years ago, I suspect any reputable company would want to be on top of it.

I'm with Daniel on the typability on the iphone keyboard, trying one out in a store, it took an effort for me to get even 50% accuracy. For the record, I use a Palm Centro/Sprint (YUCK, the service not the phone) for work and a Treo 650/GSM when we travel. With the unlocked GSM, you can pick up a local prepaid SIM in whatever country you're in for a fraction of AT&T's international roaming rates.

 

iPods with cameras.

iTunes upgrade with social networking.

Beatles on iTunes.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Apple TV updates, but sadly my confidence is low on that one.

 

Whatever it is you have to tell yourself to justify it so you can sleep at night, because apple even has an app for that.

 

Just a question... can you please link to the two computers (the $1600 Macbook Pro and the Windows gaming laptop that has nearly double the specs) so we can check out the spec's ourselves? I haven't seen a difference like that between computers in a very long time.

 

Thanks for the link, it's much appreciated.

One thing the article doesn't make clear, however... it talks about two incidents - one an iPhone, the other an iPod Touch - in which the device blew up. It then goes on to mention the other story in which 15 iPods were found to have suffered similar fates.

15 iPods. not 15 iPhones or iPod Touches. Most of the reports are from before the iPhone was even released.

And according to Wikipedia, over 206 million iPods have been sold, as of April 2008. That's a 0.000009% chance of happening. I work in the medical device industry, and i can tell you that an acceptable failure rate for pacemakers, leads, and other implantable medical devices is higher than that.

So yes, i'll agree with you and the previous poster - it is a rediculously small number

 

What hasn't been linked here is Apples investigation of those "exploding iphone" cases. They determined that the "exploding" screen breakage was due to an external force, not from an overheated battery. That is, the people dropped their $600 phone and wanted a free new one, so they claim their phone blew up and tried to get one with Apple footing the bill.

 

Here's a link to that one for you:
Apple Claims 'Exploding' iPhones Due to Screen Pressure, Not Battery Issues - Mac Rumors