[milwguy]

Iphone will be announced within two months and it will rock the cellphone world. Say bye to your Blackberry, RIM and PALM will be history when Apple announces their phone.

[Red Badger]

What will make the iPhone any better than the current crop of phones, Blackberries, etc?..........

[js1138]

If John Dvorak says it will fail, it's time to buy stock.

[billybudd]

This guy's industry analysis is just embarrassing. I would expect better from a 5th grader.

[Ieatfrijoles]

"Telephones are for emergency purposes only."bukowski

[detch]

It's obvious Dvorak is not familiar with this phone and how computer friendly it is, rather than Cingular, Verizon, Sprint friendly -- as they are NOT!!!!

The great thing about this phone is that Cingular agreed to sit on the sidelines and let Apple dictate EVERYTHING about this phone.

iPhone will blow the top off the others, with no way to catch up in the near term.

[HEY4QDEMS]

These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.

Yeah but are the other phone y3k compatible like the iPhone??? ;^)

[blues_guitarist]

"Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone"

--- John Dvorak

Well, he ought to know when to "pull the plug on something!"

QWERTY!!

LOL!

[SlowBoat407]

What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.

And that, sir, is why you are a market writer and Apple is a thriving, growing company. They are willing to take risks that seem to frighten you, even from afar.

[LexBaird]

Dvorak is the Dick Morris of computer pundits.

[dalight]

Must be a liberal. Wants Apple to just Surrender. Why compete?

[kawaii]

David Pogue has used one from what I understand. Maybe Dvorak, who's been wrong about Apple with astonishing consistency for decades, should consider he probably just didn't get one because he's not a very good or influential columnist.

[guinness4strength]

Can someone please just put wi-fi in a mobile phone, that works as as seemless as the wi-fi as the local cafe? if iPhone does it I'm signing up

[SengirV]

Apple doesn't sell anything that doesn't have a very high margain compared to the rest of the industry. They don't risk their reputation because it took a while for the iPod to really take off as well. It will be given a grace period to start where the 1st adopters will pay a premium to be, well..... the 1st to have one. Rev 2 of the iPhone will be much more attainable and more feature rich. Those who wait will enjoy thier 2nd generation iPhones, and the industry will bow to the Apple steamrolling of the industry.

This will also be acheived when Apple creates an iTunes like setup where people go to apple to buy apps to enhance their iPhones, since it's running a version of OS X.

[Lx]

One question, besides the fact that Dvorak is never right.

Is Apple going to release a server app that forwards Exchange messages to their Iphones like Blackberry has done so you can basically respond back and forth like you were at your desk?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Ease of use looks like a big plus for the iPhone. Actually, there are so many features on the iPhone, or recent "smart phones" that it's almost a misnomer to call them a "phone".

Security might be another big plus for the iPhone. Windows-based smart phones have the advantage of being open systems, with hundreds of third-party programs, etc. The downside is that these phones are more vulnerable to malware than the locked-down iPhone will be.

[steve-b]

Dvorak is an underappreciated national treasure. Simply by taking the opposite of whatever he says, you can be right more often than the wisest sage.

[50sDad]

I finally bought into the cellphone thing last week, catching up with my wife and daughter. However, I discovered that while her less expensive KRAZR phone can play music like crazy using Moterola's simple Digital Audio Player, my phone is cursed with Itunes.

I bought a one-gig memchip for my new RAZR phone, and all I wanted to do was load a sizable chunck of my own MP3 collection in there. Not only did I find I had to buy additional software just to use the phone's USB to talk to my computer, the dammnable ITunes player won't let me load more than 100 songs, even though my memory is only 1/3 full. No way, no how. The Itunes people crippled my phone so that when their Iphone comes out, it won't be competition in any way, and I can't find a patch that works on my V3i RAZR that will get around it.

So, the heck with you, you arrogant, pompous, elitists at Apple. Let the bottled water crowd have your stinking name-brand phones. Do NOT buy a phone with Itunes, no matter what you do!

[HereInTheHeartland]

"It's the loyalists who keep promoting this device as if it is going to be anything other than another phone in a crowded market. And it's exactly the crowded-market aspect of this that analysts seem to be ignoring."

It's 1978 again and I think personal computers are just a fad. They will never take off....

[A. Patriot]

A little levity:

Apple Computer announced today that it has developed a computer chip that
can store and play music in women's breast implants.

The iBreast will cost $499 to $599.

This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always
complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.