So, Apple launched the iPhone, everybody writes about it, and so do I, but with a different point of view. Yeah, I have seen the Steve Jobs keynote, I have seen the pictures of the iPhone. It looks very nice, better, it has a very cool design, and some very nifty features. It is useful, but also desirable and it looks like it has a great user experience. But then? Would I buy one?

Here are some disadvantages:

1. It is not extensible by third parties, only Apple, so no third-party developed applications
2. No support for Microsoft Office attachments
3. Not enough integration with Microsoft desktop/server applications (no sync with exchange, bye bye business users)
4. No 3G support
5. No high speed internet access
6. It has a carrier lock
7. The only provider know so far is Cingular
8. It supports visual voicemail, great! I always wanted visual voicemail, control de voicemail myself and visual, but… for this feature it is necessary that the carrier and the device have a close relationship… How can you manage a device with multiple carriers?
9. ok, it has OS-X running, but how long will it take for Microsoft to put Windows Vista on a phone. I know, Windows Mobile is now the OS Microsoft uses, but hey, do you think that will last forever? In my opinion Windows Mobile sucks, it has a bad user-experience, and it looks in now way like Windows XP or Windows Vista.
10. It takes another six months before the iPhone is Ready to Market. What is Microsoft going to do, and what is Apple going to do in those six months
11. Too bad it has a maximum of 8 GB storage on board, the more the better
12. So much horsepower, and so much, untested, applications on one tiny device, will with the first release lead to some annoying bugs and other things
13. The camera is a 2megapixel device without flash, without zoom. Nokia’s newest cameras do it with much better
14. Battery is up to 5 hours, but if you want to watch a video, after 2 hours it’s empty

The good thing is that the quality level will be left higher, visual voicemail is from now on the new standard. The touch User Interface is also intended to be the new standard 

So, in the end, the iPod has a great user-experience, it looks lovely end has some very nice and handy features. On the other hand it is like a little closed box, and that’s not what a user want in the end, it wants seemless integration, seemless connections, and an open box which can be customized by themselves and third-parties (or Apple has to do some work and open up the iPhone)