{"id":1430,"date":"2007-01-12T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2007-01-22T05:16:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T10:16:28","slug":"iphone-is-it-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"iPhone: Is it magic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Elgan has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitmag.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?NewsID=6942\">iPhone: 20 things we don&#8217;t know<\/a> (Jan. 12, 2007) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitmag.co.uk\/about\/index.cfm\">Digit<\/a> a magazine about &#8220;the future of digital design&#8221;. In particular I agree with his questions about the touch screen interface and virtual keyboard &#8211; will it be responsive enough for Blackberry users who do push e-mail? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Newton-IMG_0320.JPG\" title=\"Image of Apple Newton\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/newtonImage.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Apple Newton\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>One way of asking about the iPhone is to think about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Newton\">Newton<\/a> PDA which was also supposed to be a magical reinvention of personal computing. Like the iPhone, and unlike the iPod, it tried to do lots of things and as a result didn&#8217;t do anything well. The Palm Pilot got the PDA market right by doing fewer things very well and in a small enough package to fit in your pocket. As pretty and desirable as the iPhone is, I worry that it will be a <strong>delicate<\/strong> and <strong>fat<\/strong> phone; a <strong>slow<\/strong> and <strong>poor<\/strong> Internet device; and an <strong>expensive<\/strong> iPod with <strong>little memory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it will shakeup the cell phone business. If it doesn&#8217;t take off, someone else will get the need for new designs and digital integration right. <\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Shawn pointed me to an article <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/01\/18\/apple-fluid-ui\/\">Apple Ushers in Era of the Fluid UI<\/a> by Om Malik. Malik correctly, I think, identifies the fluid interface as the important innovation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Elgan has an article on iPhone: 20 things we don&#8217;t know (Jan. 12, 2007) in Digit a magazine about &#8220;the future of digital design&#8221;. In particular I agree with his questions about the touch screen interface and virtual keyboard &#8211; will it be responsive enough for Blackberry users who do push e-mail? One way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iPhone: Is it magic?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}