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Mark Pesce on the iPhone

It should come as no surprise to anyone who heard Mark Pesce speak at Web Directions that he’d be excited by the iPhone. The reality, people who have beendead for several years are excited by the iPhone. Anyway, Mark is one of the web’s deep thinkers, and excellent writers, and gnerally makes me ashamed of my puerile rantings when I read his erudite pieces.

Mark concludes

While the iPhone both excites and dazzles me with its ingenuity, design and inventiveness, I am not completely satisfied with it. It is still a phone, an iPod, and an “internet communicator” rolled into one. It is not, in any true sense, wholly integrated. There is no way for my friends in San Francisco, with their iPhones, to know what my favorite songs are, or what I’m listening to at the moment, or what I’m reading on the web, or who I’m texting. It is halfway to the social device which I see as the inevitable end point. But the rest is just software. The hardware platform is there, ready and waiting, and will be disrupted by a dozen innovations that no one can yet predict

Check out the whole piece, and listen to his related closing keynote at Web Directions South 2006, Youbiquity (along with slides, and related resources).

By contrast, my puerile piece can be found here.

John

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Posted by John on 11/01/07 at 10:21 am