Cringely Analysis of iPhone

That which we call an iPhone by any other name would sound as sweet.

"The iPhone is this amazing connectivity quad-mode device that can probably make use of as much bandwidth as it can get, so making it suck through the little straw that is EDGE makes no sense from a user perspective. But remember that the parties involved here are Apple and Cingular, neither of which is 100 percent allied with user interests. Cingular has a 3G network called BroadbandConnect or "MediaNet" if you buy Cingular's associated Cingular Video service.

And there's the problem -- Cingular Video, which is based on RealVideo, NOT QuickTime or H.264.

The media and the market's ecstatic response to the iPhone will put strong pressure on Cingular, which has what is apparently a multiyear exclusive with Apple. If Cingular gives in, as I'm sure it will, the iPhones will suddenly become faster and have more features. And if Apple is correct, Cingular will then have the mojo to take them to the top of the U.S. mobile market." This is how Apple is planning to dominate digital content landscape. Well, at least Jobs is a benevolent dictator, unlike Sony.

You can download SD version of iPhone keynote video from iTunes and marble at it again, again, and again. It's truly the benchmark keynote presentation of how to introduce a new gadget.