I wonder Iphone can "hot" how many years since it's launched...Other country has launched Iphone early one year (I assumed) than Malaysia....our country has leave far more away than other country, during the launching of Iphone in Malaysia, will other product replace Iphone?

not more than 1 year.... sure there are replacement in the near future...

Iphone is juz a new trend..... like fashion, it just comes and go away real fast

it will last for a long time, if provided that it follows iPod footstep. Just look the example of iPod, still considered as the most popular media player ever. Eventhough at the introduction of iPod, Apple has never venture into portable player or music market, but still they manage their way and leads the market now. Maybe it's now the same case for iPhone as they never venture nor have experience in mobile market. Yeah they will be hot for long if it follows the footstep of iPod.

Mmm...btw if it is because of trend or fashion, iPhone will soon change its design and form factor for another reincarnation. Just look at iPod, it already comes through changes as it's in market.

People find it difficult to define iPhone. Its not actually a smartphone or even a pda. Its more of an entertainment gadget. So pretty much iPhone just created a new genre on its own. That shows how revolutionary Apple is.

Apple might keep refreshing their iPhone line in the future and maybe the trend will last like iPods.

it depends on the software development team. the more ppl dev the software, the demand will get bigger. Apple will continue dev and push for the record breaking sales target. if not the shares will drop.

This post has been edited by sonnettech-asia: Feb 18 2008, 01:59 PM

So far the "official" iPhone is still with a closed platform. Apple is gonna release software development pack end of this month to developers. Let's hope future applications are free.

iphone has very bright future for sure. OSX is probably the most powerful mobile OS up to date, and going to last for long while.

While iphone 1st generation might not last very long and will get replaced by newer model, but I'm sure iphone line ups will be as long lasting as ipod.

yea 1000% agreed with you,
like me keep buying ipod,
until ipod touch also i buy lo,
now iphone, now I'm dream about 16Gb.
Later iphone 3G, after that 3.5G after that 4G,
they will keep refresh it. Dont worry. keep saving la...

iPhone has brought the new revolution to nowadays Technologies.
MultiTouch great features now already can be found on MacAir...
In near future, it will change the future trends for sure...

even now... so many imitation products, especially those "iPhone" alike gadgets, also use Touch Screen.... but it may not be the MultiTouch one !

So... iPhone / iPod Touch definitely changes current trends and technology....
Great works from Apple !

That's what Apple wants^^..

To make their customer buy every new ipods they launched.. Every year. But I'll stick to Sony players for the sound quality.

This post has been edited by Moonflown: Feb 18 2008, 05:46 PM

the mobile phone industry is like that already. even nokia and sony ericsson came up with new revisions of phones with distinct sets of features every year compared with their predecessors.
sony also done that in music player industry. they also came up with more models with more features as time goes. yeah and it plays music really good, plus it becomes more open to the standard music formats, not just using the ATRAC format, in the new revisions of its players. this is great for the industry.
so about upgrading to the next model every year, it is about the technology. it advances as time goes on. that is the only issue. and it is good if the enhancement of technology brings more goodness to us.

This post has been edited by LaskarCinta: Feb 18 2008, 06:12 PM

For mobile phone it is very true.

But in music players Apple has made the trend similar to mobile phones and even conquered online music stores. That's how brilliant their marketing is.

There's rumors said that people might able to use iPhone to place order in Starbucks in the future since there's a strong partnership between Apple and Starbucks.



This post has been edited by Moonflown: Feb 18 2008, 06:43 PM

wow.. nice order system...

now that is quite an interesting order system..

That's just a mock up. Not really practical yet.

the starbucks only apply at US if im not mistaken~

where i see iPhone can Hot for 3 yrs then it started to have 2nd/ 3rd/ 4th Gen iPhone~ with Triple WiMax functions + mobile TV

never regrets to have an iPhone where my collougues drooling onto it ~

Second gen is coming real soon, less than 2 years.

yup, given that iPhone itself is a kind of smartphone that stands on its own league and built using a proprietary platform, extensive 3rd party software support is a must in order to keep this unit in market. as for media player market, there's nothing much to do on iPod as previous models from other manufacturer only developed with basic functionalities. but for iPhone it's a different story. other smartphones in the market already got a huge library of softwares available for their devices. iPhone is built around the powerful OSX platform with great hardware potential that yet to be unlocked, but if it doesn't meant to be tasked with great 3rd party apps it is such a waste then. hope something great will come shortly after the SDK release.