e-Clippings (Learning As Art)

Ohhh...the new iPhone is a wee sexy lass isn't she?

I'm not even about to begin linking to all the stories on the new iPhone (this is a fairly thick link farm for you). I just want to point to a couple of things from the keynote speech yesterday...

• I think I heard that the U.S. Army was one of the organizations involved in the beta program
• 35% of Fortune 500 companies were involved in the beta (notes from Engadget coverage of keynote "35% of the Fortune 500 has participated in that beta program. The top 5 banks, top 5 securities firms, 6 or 7 top airlines, 8 of 10 top pharma, and 8 of 10 top entertainment companies."
• I think they nailed the pricing this time
• I was stunned when they were showing all the apps and talking about how short the dev times were - like two weeks - so who will build the first successful learning app?
• I was knocked out by their solution to background process management (OK..that's not really sexy but damn important)
• I am soooo signing up for MobileMe
• Full support for Exchange
• **This is one of my favs (again from Engadget): "We got some other feedback that enterprises want another way to distribute apps -- they want to distro them for themselves, so we're adding enterprise app distribution." Enterprises authorize iPhones, and then create and distribute apps on their intranet that can only run on those phones. Users sync their custom apps through iTunes. Yes, iTunes is apparently the new enterprise tool. As Paris Hilton would say, "That is hot."

Enterprise support, better pricing, faster, smaller, 3rd party apps - how about just plain old innovation? Here is the thing - a lot of organizations talk about innovation but Apple actually delivers - they have actually turned it into a part of their brand  - OK..more later, lots of catch up to do and still digesting 3G iPhone implications.

The New iPhone May Feel You Back

PC World picked up on a rumor that the new iPhone will have haptic feedback.....

Check out Spore on the iPhone!

Encyclopedia Britannica for the iPhone

Its no Wikipedia but turns out the Encyclopedia Britannica has an iPhone optimized version....

"The iPhone dominates the smartphone market in mobile media consumption" (ZDNet)

(ZDNet Story, Media Metrics Press Release w/ more readable numbers)

Check out those numbers. Those are big jumps over smartphones and quantum jumps over the general market. The piece that needs to be overlaid though, is market penetration and number of units sold...I think then that the chart reverses itself. So for content development's sake, looking down the numbers, I'd say there is an argument here for focusing on audio as a main component of phone-based content (I'm going to quit saying 'mobile' as a general term because who knows what that means anymore - PSP, iPod, cell phone, smartphone, iPhone, UMPC, or whatever).

"Web code locks up iPhones and iPod Touch" (Crave)

(link to Crave story)
"A new exploit will either lock up your iPhone or iPod Touch or crash your Safari browser on your PC or Mac OS desktop if you simply visit a maliciously coded Web site. Unlike an earlier exploit that required users to click to become infected, the new code published by iPhoneWorld requires no user interaction. 

So far, Apple has had no comment."

100,000 iPhone SDK Downloads in First Four Days

This picture from the iPhone Blog is just priceless.
Seriously though, who doesn't think that this is a huge deal? Hank Williams does a nice job dissecting the current limitations afforded by the SDK. I do think that Hank is also right in that Apple will respond to constructive criticism (unlike some software companies that will go nameless) by making changes in the SDK. We do need to though, as Hank suggests, take off the rose-colored glasses and let Apple know why and how the limitations in the current iteration need to be dealt with.