Mobile Internet

Probably one of the iPhone’s greatest achievements is that people can easily browse the internet through safari. Not only that the 3g network allows the iPhone to be connected at all times and at all places. iPhone user’s today can check their email, the stock market, get into a chat conversation with people who aren’t even in the same country as they are. What has this brought to the world? It has completely broken down the notions of time and space. Inside the internet, with its marvellous capabilities people can be connected no matter how far they are and get their message across instantly in the matter of seconds. This new technology has for sure helped a lot of people however it is starting to create several new problems as well. Just as Postman used to say technology is neither good or bad, it just simply changes the way we live. Some problems being brought up by these new gadgets such as the iPhone, is that people today are more connected to their technology devices in order to engage in conversation then actually through real world, face to face. Therefore the iPhone is with no doubt a marvelous equipment for people to get connected but I believe people have to be aware of how much time and when are they pulling their iPhone’s out to get connected. If someone uses the iPhone productively it is a great gadget, as it‘s useful and also very practical. However the iPhone can also have its bad side if not used wisely some. People are bound to loose concentration in things they should be concentrated in and also lose interaction within the real world. Off course these are just a few of the pros and cons of having such an easily navigatable internet on a mobile device but I believe in the end what it comes down to is us, and how we decide to use this technology in our advantage.

The Expensive World of iPhone

As it isn’t really hard to notice, many have seen that today in Canada you can only get the iPhone if you are a costumer of Rogers/Fido, in the US you need to be a client of AT&T and this goes on all over the world with only a few privileged companies having the right to carry one of the most advanced if not the most advanced internet connected multimedia phone available today. In Canada consumers were especially angry due to Rogers/Fido overcharging on its data plans which they had to get in order to have the iPhone. This data plan would add an extra 30$ of expenditures in their monthly bill and give them the right to use up to 6 GB of data which can be translated into almost unlimited data. But believe me Canada doesn’t have it that bad at all in Brazil the iPhone has just been released at a price of almost 800US$ for the 8 GB model and 950US$ for the 16 GB model. Brazilian monthly plans for the iPhone are around 350US$ and yet it seems as though this new technology is being wiped out of the stores as soon as they arrive. This leads to a very thoughtful question of how strong is our power as consumers in setting prices, and if we even have the option of power or not, in the networked society we live in? I believe with every new technology at first comes insanely high prices and for those who want to be up to date instantly, well they unfortunately have to pay the price. However consumer will always be those in power when it comes to setting prices, since they are the ones holding on to their money. Therefore it is our final word and demands which will lead the market to set a high or a low price.

Why are we then so often faced with these gadgets with such high prices, if we are the ones who set the price and we don’t want to pay a lot? The corporations and their agreements aren’t they unfair, being able to have exclusiveness and charge absurd rates?

Well the answer to both these questions above can be discussed very thoroughly but to make it very simple and answering the second question first, corporations make these agreements because they expect the public to pay for them and generate the corporations more profit in the near future. About the first question the reason why today we are only faced with high priced gadgets is because today technology is evolving faster than it ever has before. In probably a year from now the iPhone 3G will probably just be that old phone that doesn’t do this or that, that is the problem of our consumer oriented society and of capitalism today. It always leads people to always want the new overpriced gadgets.

iPhonization

Having sold more than 8 million copies of its old generation of iPhone, Apple now moves towards a new era. This era is the one of mass domination in the mobile telephone industry. The company has already sold 1 million iPhone 3G’s in its first 3 days, of sales. It seems as though apples new strategy is iPhone to the people. With a relatively cheap price and superb and outstanding features, this blog will cover recent news about the iPhone and will analyze whether the product is excellent and revolutionary or if the iPhone is just an incredible well structured marketing campaign. This blog will reflect deep and thoughtful questions of whether we really need all the features the new iPhone offers, and whether the iPhone is something pratical, needed and reliable, or if it's just a luxury good?