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?
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Hey Marcos:
As you're probably aware, one of ther biggest issues with the iPhone when it was finally introduced in Canada (after a LONG wait) was that Rogers was the sole service provider, which gave them the ability to overcharge dramatically for service packages.
Within hours of the announcement of the release, there was a huge outcry from potential iPhone consumers against Rogers' pricing policy - I'd be interested in hearing how all of that played out - do some poking around and see if you can find any information on the outcry against Rogers by iphone consumers....what happened? What does that tell us about the power of the consumer in a networked society?
I think the iphones is a necessity and a luxury good. I pay $30 for 6g(whatever that means, I think it means a lot of surfing) extra on top of my regular phone bill to have access to the internet whenever I want. At first, I thought I wouldn't need to use the internet as much and why would I need it if I have a laptop at home. But surprizingly I use it all the time! like literally everywhere I go! probably because I'm paying for the service and want to take advantage of all the features. I also even use it in Ted's class to follow the slides because I sit all the way at the back.
So the answer to your question is I think the iphone is a practical, reliable and a luxury good. Perhaps society needs the iphone now so we can be uptodate with technology... as in Ted's class "society is getting dumber." I believe if society is not able to get on board with the iphone now, what will happened when a crazier phone with crazier features comes outs? will we become old fashion and stick with a simple phone because we are too slow and afraid of change?
If you can make your life somewhat simplier and have the conveniency to entertain yourself when bored would you consider an iphone?
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