Who Is Worried About The Apple iPhone? Is it Apple?
Regular readers of my site will have noticed that the polls running in my sidebar, which are served by Vizu, have been dominated by questions about the new Apple iPhone. Somebody somewhere is clearly worried about how the iPhone is going to fare once it is launched. My first thought was that one of Apple’s MP3 competitors were running the campaigns. But, given the mixed reception the Apple iPhone has received since launch, I wonder, are Apple running the campaigns?
Judging by the results of the surveys, it looks like Apple do have a problem on their hands, as the specification of the iPhone doesn’t seem to have quite hit the spot.
Current Survey: Do You Think The Storage Capacity Of Apple’s New iPhone Is Large Enough?
The third survey is still running at the time of posting. Just in case you are reading this after the survey has finished the current results are in the screenshot.
I’m surprised that 50% of people think that 8GB is not enough storage, but this is probably because most users want the iPhone to be their primary mp3 player rather than a secondary device.
This kind of ties in with the first survey that was run on my site that asked if users were planning on replacing their iPod with an iPhone within the next 12 months (sorry, I didn’t get a screenshot as I wasn’t expecting more to appear!). From memory I think 40% or so of readers said no. The problem with the iPhone is that, yes, it can play music and also make calls, but it’s nowhere near as good as having a dedicated phone and a dedicated mp3 player, like my current Nokia N80 & 5G iPod setup (I also have a Dell Axim X51V). The iPhone just isn’t good enough in my view to replace two dedicated devices, and my readers appear to agree.
Second Survey: Which Apple iPhone Features Are You Most Excited About?
The touchscreen was the clear winner here, followed by the full Safari browser. I’m not sure how useful a full browser will be on a GPRS connection though, although there are rumours that the iPhone will support 3G in Europe.
Personally, the three main reasons why I won’t be buying an iPhone anytime soon are the battery life (only 5 hours of talktime or music playing - not good enough, means the iPhone won’t last even a full day on one charge), lack of 3G support and a keyboard that will not be suited to predictive SMS texting. The last one is probably the biggest drawback for me personally as I’m a big texter, and I think Apple have made a big mistake producing a phone that doesn’t provide good support of what is still the biggest mobile data service.
It’ll be interesting to see what the next survey covers.
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Comment by karl on 13 March 2007:
Cool UIs dont really bring productivity unless you can connect easily to DATA. Past and Present points to Apple unwilling to roll with Corporate environments.
http://www.iphone-converter.org/
Comment by Jan on 13 March 2007:
Nice to see other people have the same option belonging the iPhone problems
Comment by wayne thompson on 13 March 2007:
How do you know this model is amaid to the working world (business). This is their first model and the future ones may have a different application, Not all cell phone are amid at business and the use of the word smart phone may not be directed to business use some people just want a phone that has more than one use. I have a treo 650 and that will do almost anything but can not do many thing good very poor operating system with a lot of resets.
Comment by parveen on 19 May 2007:
I feel that i-phone is in trouble because a lot of i phones are facing problems with their battery back up. I think even the production has been stopped