David Asman kinda reminds me of Colbert

Well I am sure they will soon switch to have iphones, btw why don’t you buy them one for B-day:) you got money lol………..

PS: did you saw my leak of upgrade for ipod touch 2 and iphone 2.0 ?

http://tinyurl.com/ipodtouchupgrade

Is TechCrunch ever going to go back to, y’know… NEWS? TechCrunch has simply turned into a mouthpiece for the latest iPhone products.

After a year of RSS-subscribing, I’m ready to unsubscribe. I don’t need 5 iPhone articles a day. It’s not the 2nd coming of Christ. It’s barely even interesting.

This is just like a 24-hour network dedicated to apple advertisements now.

$29 a month, I can play tetris, get text messages, call, play super breakout.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8.....0/sizes/l/

It’s a phone. Who cares Arrington. People aren’t like you. They don’t want to use their phone as a dumb virtual light saber.

The ONLY way I would switch to a rich client phone is if it was Android and if it didn’t change my $29 monthly AT&T plan. And just like this one, they gotta give it to me for $20 minus coupon code.

iPhone literally makes you make a new car payment each month to AT&T, except there’s no new car.

I will get an iPhone 3G soon. I want to make a change from my current Nokia N95

car reviewers dont own laborghinis and ferraris, but they still review.

This is a great video. Come on Erick get an iPhone!! Blackberry is so last season!

Apple utilizes a non-conformist psychological approach to its marketing campaigns, particularly as seen in the mac/windows commercials on TV. People are trying to escape the grip of a microsoft. Unfortunately, I wish there was more competition in the OS space. Now that everything is going web-based, the entire internet will become the operating system. The question becomes, at what point in personal computing will people be able to boot up straight to the internet, so that they can take advantage of the “cloud OS.” Windows, as well as any other operating system will be killed once the capability is available. Check out a story I wrote about this on my blog.. http://gothamtechminute.blogsp.....ating.html

Techcrunch is turning into a iPhone propaganda website…
IPhone news are all over the web. I am not going on Techcrunch to read/listen/watch yet another Apple fan post. Let’s move on.

Sure, we can talk about great webapp for iPhone, or new startup focusing on iPhone apps, or the economics of the AppStore, but please, no more on the iPhone launch itself

@9 The iPhone is the single greatest advance in technology that is available to the average consumer at a very extremely reasonable price. Anyone that thinks it’s not worthy of huge amounts of tech news coverage obviously doesn’t have one or understand the impact it will have on the world.

Poor Erick, the fox newscasters were just in their own world, especially the woman who kept interjecting. Just let him talk. Sure, buying the new phone isn’t necessarily the most economic decision for users who got it last year (see: “BUT SHOULD THEY!?!?”) , but it opens the floodgates to the masses who have never considered a next-generation phone over the $300 range. Not to mention the best part about this release was the app store which IS available to existing iphone customers.

The instand the word “bricked” came out of his mouth I could see him regreting the phrase.

Whats a brick, what is that? is that a verb?

Be sure to remember… iPhone knows who you are and where you are… It’a a big deal, a really big deal… It’s the next platform…

Yeah, the hype and stores selling out thing sucks… But TC is quite right to give it FULL coverage…

@12: I am sooooo bored of iPhone coverage on TC. I’m seriously considering working on a kill file for my RSS feed. Every frikkin’ 3rd story is about the iPhone! And but the way, if you think the iPhone is the “next platform,” then’d you’ve obviously not read Jonathan Zittrain.

this site really has 886k readers in rss (866.000) … maybe is a bug or smtgn.

safari browser sucks in both counts of speed and ram usage.

in comparison, opera mobile browser is used by 46 millions users worldwide. apple should’ve partnered with Opera and forget safari for good.
No surprise Opera has been chosen for the HTC Diamond and Sony is working on it.

Agree so much with #10.

In 18 months the iphone will be the most popular mobile handheld in the G8/G12 whatever countries. You can’t ignore this.

Basically everyone will finally be an Apple user, sidestepping Microsoft.

Or, only $40 more, do your math friend.

[quote] : “iPhone is the first device that brings the full experience of the web to your phone”

man, where’s your bong???? what were you thinking?…
there’s already 46 million users of Opera in the world with or without 3G which, by the way, is available in Europe for a long time already.

dude, get your information straight before saying such bullshits.

I think this is one of the poorest reviews I have heard in the past year. Even though I agree with Erick that Apple has an excellent marketing campaign that “brainwashes” users to buy their products when some of them are not the best one in the markets, his comments regarding the $240-$360 that you are going to pay extra are not true.

The initial cost of the old phone was $400 for the 8GB phone + $20 extra each month a total over the 2 year contract of $880. The exact 8GB 3G phone is $199 + $30 for data service, total = $919 after the 2 year contract. The difference is only $40. In this analysis I am not including the 200 SMS that AT&T has remove from the old plan. If you add the unlimited SMS for $5 over the 2 year contract is going to be $120 extra, but it would be fair to compare 200 SMS against unlimited.

You guys make your decision, but if you are willing to appear in National TV as a Tech Expert at least get your facts right otherwise you can mislead Americans who “don’t calculate”.

Just my thoughts…

I love the last comment. “Bricked your phone [after being confused about what bricked means], only from someone from… [where ever the hell you are from again, what was the website again? Someone give me my meds.]“

one answer: opera mini >> http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGu80OFfi0

Ok I am no Apple fanboy! But this whole thing that Apple is increasing contract prices for the iPhone is crazy. Tell me a blackberry, or any other 3g phone that you can get unlimited DATA for less than $30 a month. It is newer technology which costs more! So quit talking about the stupid increase in prices

@10 - Not even close, other items that deserve the title of “single greatest advance in technology that is available to the average consumer at a very extremely reasonable price”:

- Access to the Internet
- The personal computer
- The automobile
- Home telephone service
- Electricity
- Running water

The iphone is a blip in history compared to true advances in technology available to the masses in recent times. I’ll be telling my kids that I lived thru the personal computer revolution, not that I experienced the iPhone.

Wow, get off opera’s nuts. Their browser isn’t even close. I use it on my at&t tilt along with skyfire and neither of those come anywhere close to safari on an iphone. I’m looking forward to getting an iphone in a major way because of this. And opera mini is far worse than opera mobile and skyfire.

Also, it’s good to see that Erick’s taste in clothes is as poor as his taste in articles.

And for everyone complaining about all the iphone attention, get over it. There’s a reason it’s getting so much attention, it’s because the iphone is very, very popular and those of you who don’t like the iphone are far outnumbered by those who do.

@22 Totally agree…I currently pay $30 / month on Tmo for unlimited data on my blackberry and last I checked, that was cheaper than some of the other carriers. And that’s EDGE, not 3G.

And to Chris (#4), what the hell kind of new car are you buying that only costs $30 / month? Because that seems to be the only extra payment you’re making to AT&T as a result of having an iPhone.

I don’t really get the fuss. People will use a lot more data over a 3G network than over the EDGE network. Couldn’t that be the reason for an extra $10/month charge?

Let’s have a competition.

I’ll throw your iPhone at a wall.
Then I’ll throw my Crackberry at a wall.
Then I’ll throw your iPhone at my Crackberry.
Then I’ll throw my Crackberry at your iPhone.

Thankfully at the end of that battle I’ll still have my rugged existence intact while your fragile glass world of perfection will be shattered and crying for Apple Care.

sigh… sorry but im also unsubscribing to techcrunc’s rss. this is beyond stupid! hey arrington how much is apple paying you, you damn tool!

mike a-ring-tone haha

thanks Banach ! enjoyed that one..

You guys need media training - asap.

@23 - I think what the commenter in #10 was trying to point out is that the iPhone is the beginning of a new era in mobile computing that will fundamentally alter the way that many people interact with each other. Right now, most people think of a computer as that thing on their desk and the Internet as where they go when they need to check their email or book a flight. But the iPhone is just one step in the direction of ubiquitous connection and interaction with the Internet, where everything in our lives is woven into the fabric of the web and we’re more or less always connected.

That day is coming, and the iPhone is one of the first devices that has actually got regular people surfing the web as they walk down the street. Android and other advances in mobile tech will push us farther along that road. And location-aware devices open a whole new level of interactivity.

If you don’t think that a single device can dramatically advance the introduction of a new era in technology, consider what the Model T did for automobiles, what the first mac did for personal computing, and what the iPod did for digital music. The iPhone is the catalyst for the next age of mobile computing, and for that reason, it’s significant.

Wow… I’m now discounting EVERYTHING Erick has said so far! How can you trust someone who never used a product write about it?!?

Come on TC, you can do better than that!

At least MA is still true to his initial goals and discloses stuff when he either has a conflict of interest or has not used a product.

Techcrunch should hire some females so the guys dont have to appear on shows. They have the face to be on radio not tv.

The computer wars has moved between .ca and .us apple is still in eroning our cheque-books every few months. Microsoft is so last century.

Someone from TechCrunch talking out their ass? NEVER.

That’s the Fox way!

hey guy and Geek

see here

Iphone it’s OLD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lek6IOjHK_c

samsung Omnia

Well this just solidifies that the Apple craze is a fad in its end days. Once your mom and their old friends are latching on to the products which seem cool, it spells the end.

@32
internet surfing on any phone (including iphone) is a pain and pointless. in the long run, i don’t think people will really use it except for googlemaps type of services. reading the news, no way.

@9, Loic doesn’t like the iPhone because he forgot to make a Seesmic audio/video app.

Why didn’t Loic?

A. He doesn’t have programming skills

B. He forgot.

C. Now he’s frustrated and bitter.

I don’t give a crap either way. I have the iPhone SDK and I can develop using the emulator. I also have Adobe Device Central CS3.

Loic, If you pay. I will make a Seesmic iPhone app?
How’s that? It would probably run between 30-60k total with unit testing and you would have to pay for materials too.

iPhone Extravanganza!!!!!!!!!! …. http://www.gothamtechminute.blogspot.com

OK, I’ve had about as much as I can handle with the iPhone.

i like apples

pears are pretty good, too.

OMG, another day and yet MORE friggin articles on the goddam iPhone.

ENOUGH…..TechCruch!!!!!

@23 Mate you must live in a pretty isloated vacuum because in countries like Japan, India, Australia and many parts of Europe 3G has been arond 2 years plus and having a mobile phone accessing the Internet at HPDSA or 3.5G has been around for more than 1 year.

Mobile phones with rich interfaces and mobile web browsing have been around reagardless of the iPhone. And it is hardly the iPhone which is revolutionising the market. This is the myth Apple and Mac fanbois like to believe and keep perpetuating.

I and many others would argue the HTC Diamond is a better and more secure phone than the iPhone and it’s user interface is just as good except people aren’t being locked in to te Apple App’s store. My HTC Touch Dual which I have had for the past 12 months is better than iPhone 1.0 and now I have a Diamond after looking at the iPhone 2.0.

So, just because the US mobile market is years behind countries like Australia does’t mean the rest of the world is falling over and fainting at the sight of an iPhone and PLEASE stop trying to bullshit people with stories of Apple revolutionising the market or world because it simply aint true. Get out and read more or visit more countries for a real world view.

@32, the day is coming where we’ll all be connected-literally, via receivers embedded within our skull.

Why is TC pimping the iphone all the time? TC is has become one big advert for iphone.

You do not have to “have” an iphone to be valuable critic of it. For all we know these three people might have graduated from an iPhone academy that tought everything there is to know about an iPhone