The talk all last week was about the new iPhone. Honestly, though, my reaction was: meh. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate that the iPhone has finally gone 3G. GPS is a natural addition. But on the hardware side of things, there's nothing that makes me think that I should run out and get a new iPhone. Pretty much everything that I want in the device is in v2 of the software, which I'll get for free on my existing launch-day iPhone. Hardware-wise, I think that the only way that Apple would convince me to upgrade is if it came in a 32-GB or larger configuration.
So, yes, I'm a bad Apple fangirl. Right now, I have every intent of keeping my launch-day iPhone. (And I'm secretly hoping that referring to it as my 'launch-day iPhone' will make it seem cooler than these new upstart iPhones.)
Of course, you just *know* people will start referring to it as "iPhone Classic". And then it's a short transition to GrannyPhone :-)
For myself, I think I'm more interested in the iPod Touch (in the Best PDA By A Company Whose Makers Won't Admit It Is One category)...it's just a shame it's been hobbled in a few places (e.g. no Bluetooth) to prevent it from competing with the iPhone.
I'm in some danger of buying one and some sort of Mac so I can subject myself to the horrors of developing for the iPhone/iPod Touch in Objective-C (the language whose existence poses the question "Dear God, why?")
You make it sound like there's only one language whose existence poses such a question. I'd posit that there are dozens of 'em out there. Browse the languages in the Hello World Collection and try to convince yourself that Obj-C is the worst offender:
http://helloworld.googletoad.com/
Nadyne, I'm with you in regard to not jumping up and down about the 3G iPhone. In most of the contexts where I am, I have a wireless connection. I agree that the GPS capabilities would be nice, but neither feature is enough in my opinion to justify rate hike that AT&T is going to impose to use this phone. I'll keep my first generation iPhone until it dies and I have to upgrade.
The iPhone 3G is for the rest of the world. The 1st gen was rather useless on non-EDGE networks.
Now that I've been living with my iPhone having support for pushing of Exchange items, how do I like it?