Why I love the iphone
This post on phonearena is asking its readers if they should buy the iphone. The body of the post seems to clearly suggest that iphone is not that great a buy. While I think the iphone may be a bit expensive in India, I have no doubt that the iphone is an awesome product to own.
It will be unfair to compare the iphone to other handsets along familiar features. Because the strength of iphone is not its features but the ease with which you can use the features provided and the enhanced usability.
Look at a simple feature like sms. Iphone allows you to store the sms messages with any person as a conversation. Something like your google chat history. To say that iphone has sms and so does an entry level phone will be unfair.
Iphone has all the features of an ipod built in itself. Considering that I had happily paid 16k for a 80gb ipod only 8 months back, this deal looks like a real bargain to me.
Another great and under appreciated strength of the iphone is the apps store. I think steve jobs is using his experience with the failure of mac to score over his rivals. By opening up the apps stores to independent thrid party developers, he is making sure that you do not have to depend on apple to fulfill any need of yours. Trust me all of us are going to be surprised by the ability of the apps developers to come up with really cool and useful apps.
So go ahead and buy an iphone if you can. You will not be sorry that you did.