Your comparison of MacBook Pro v 233Mhz Mac. Thats a personal thing for you - did you get value for money? No one can argue this point. Another person in your situation may not think that the money spent on the macBook Pro would be good value for money over the 233Mhz Mac for a variety of reasons. Its personal for each individual.
Agreed, here. But I'm on the side who wants the MacBook Pro. The other one would technically work, but it would work nowhere near as well for me.
I'm hoping the iPhone will be much better, not necessarily in
feature set than the other phones, but in how well the features are implemented. This is more important to me than 3g, which is to me the only significant feature it lacks (though removable battery
could be nice). 3g is spotty where I live - it is reliable in my house, but I would use WIFI there anyway, so 3g isn't that important. That being said, if I feel that 3g will come relatively quickly, I might wait before buying the phone (assuming, of course, the phone seems acceptable to me after trying it out).
Have you ever even used a Windows Mobile device? How about the Windows Mobile Treo? I would guess you haven't, because if you had, you'd realize it does pretty much everything the iPhone does feature-wise, at least according to the features that have been disclosed until this point, and more in some cases. And the usability is good (At least Palm's heavily customized version, default WinMo a little less so)
Most importantly, the iPhone isn't even out yet, so how can you say it's easier to use than anything? No one has really used it yet, except for Mossberg and Pogue playing around with it in a supervised environment for a couple minutes. I'll reserve judgement until I use one for myself, and read in-depth usage reviews.
I have used a Windows Mobile device a couple of times, but I've used a Blackberry more. I'm going off of what I have
seen in the Apple demos. You are perfectly right that the iPhone may not be easy to use. It looks easy and well designed.
Most importantly, in a phone I want something that works seamlessly, and that is something Apple is good at.
Now, this wanting of things to work seamlessly over what possible feature set it has does not apply to everything for me: for example, I would prefer a Mac Mini to an AppleTV, even though I think the AppleTV is very nice, and would work much more smoothly.
Anything's possible. The future is a scary unknown. Meanwhile, we'll just have to discuss what we've seen so far I guess. What we've seen so far is light years beyond how other phones work. With scrolling and Web zooming being just two ways that this is more than fun eye candy.
