Friday, August 24, 2007
Why the iPhone hack doesn't really matter in the real world
I wrote this in reply to someone on an email list who told me I wasn't "thinking big" enough when I said that this week's hack which makes the iPhone theoretically usable on any cell phone carrier is simply not a big deal...
You guys aren't thinking about the fact that the other 99 percent of the world (the ones not on lists like this) aren't geeks, and aren't going to plop down hundreds of dollars on a hacked device with questionable continued functionality, even if it IS an iPhone. The geeks here in LA will go for it, the geeks in Europe will go for it, etc. But don't expect the general public to go anywhere near it.
- visit my iPod+iPhone publication iProng.
- friend me on Facebook.
- connect with me on LinkedIn.
- follow me on Twitter.
I wrote this in reply to someone on an email list who told me I wasn't "thinking big" enough when I said that this week's hack which makes the iPhone theoretically usable on any cell phone carrier is simply not a big deal...
You guys aren't thinking about the fact that the other 99 percent of the world (the ones not on lists like this) aren't geeks, and aren't going to plop down hundreds of dollars on a hacked device with questionable continued functionality, even if it IS an iPhone. The geeks here in LA will go for it, the geeks in Europe will go for it, etc. But don't expect the general public to go anywhere near it.
- visit my iPod+iPhone publication iProng.
- friend me on Facebook.
- connect with me on LinkedIn.
- follow me on Twitter.
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