iPhone: The REAL Impact
Location: Toronto
I recently had a great discussion with Om Malik of GigaOM blog fame. Our dialog was on a broader discussion around Mark Cuban’s recent statements that the Internet is Dead, but in the course of the dialog we had a brief detour to talk about what is innovative and exciting in the communications industry. During that dialog the subject of the iPhone came up.
I was quoted early on (just before the launch) as saying that the iPhone, while exciting, was not that interesting in terms of its networking and infrastructure capability. Clearly, a GSM/GPRS phone is nothing new and even one with Wi-Fi isn’t that interesting from a transport discussion. Now, if ...
