What the iPhone should or shouldn't do

[unixronin]

There have for some time been rumors that Apple would sooner or later bring out a smart mobile phone of their own.  The arrival of said phone is now reportedly imminent.

This columnist has his own ideas of how Apple should make its phone stand out from the pack, principally by making your phone a portal to your Mac and giving your Mac the ability to stream music to your phone via iTunes.

Personally, I think he's out of his mind.  Not only would Apple's iPhone then be competing against its own iPod, but the cellular carriers would be laughing all the way to the bank.  Instead of selling service plans with a thousand minutes of airtime a month, they'd be looking at selling plans with a thousand minutes per day.  The lowest-airtime plans that you could buy would probably jump from 700 minutes a month to several thousand.  For those of us who rarely use a hundred minutes a month, that'd really suck.

Comments

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

Since I use way under the least hours available I just pay by the minute. It works out much better for me.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I may end up looking at that option myself, since it seems these days the minimal plan you can get is on the order of 700 minutes. I can't remember the last time we used 200 minutes in a month, between our two phones together, adding up both regular calls and direct-connect.