If you aren’t living in a cave scribbling on a stone tablet, I’m sure you have heard that Apple announced a new addition to their product line today – the iPad. While the hype speculated many amazing advancements in computing and led many to believe there would be portrait and landscape docks as well as a front and user facing (flash) camera, the reality is that the product is underwhelming with its bare essentials.
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I’ve read a multitude of blogs out there in the last day about how people were incredibly disappointed in what was actually shown at the 2008 WWDC yesterday. Whereas I can understand the disappointment for things like dual cameras for conferencing on the phone, I also understand that most wireless networks do not yet have the infrastructure to handle this sort of bandwidth. Let’s say you start selling 5-10MM more iPhones around the world and these people start to take advantage of this feature on a daily basis, whereas in the US we might be able to ramp up the necessary bandwidth, I hardly believe Denmark, Malta, Peru or Madagascar could handle this out of the box. Out of the box, everything works is Apple’s bread and butter. They understand that people will suffer with a few less features for a user experience not plagued with slow of buggy features (the Windows Mobile Task Manager is a perfect example of the sort of hack Apple has a knack for avoiding).
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I know I usually write about entrepreneurial stuff and in this case, the fact the new iPhone 2.0 software will support enterprise mail will be something very useful for startups and corporate users – Not to mention the iPhone in itself is pretty innovative which is why I’m a fan. However, somethings felt like they were missing from yesterday’s WWDC announcements… somethings that left me leaving unimpressed. Here are the top 4 things that should have been included.
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Ever since the iPhone, I’ve been on a mission to use more Mac products. I wouldn’t say I’ve turned into a fan boy but the electronics just work THAT well together.
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KISS it. Keep It Simple Stupid. We’ve all heard this before. The phrase can apply to many things including website development, business ideas, and so on. When an entrepreneur has too many ideas, they become an inventor with no real path. When a website or a program launches with too many options, users who don’t like bloatware scatter.
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