Glad to know someone else who monitors this hoo-ha.

What they’ve come up with here is a handheld Mac. Sure it can make and receive phonecalls, but just think of it as the latest Macintosh computer, with a phone thrown in. It’s the MacPod. There’s the MacBook and now the MacPod. In my opinion, that’s what they should’ve called it — capitalize on the success of both the Mac and the iPod — and I predict that eventually they will. For now, however, calling it the iPhone may be effective in driving home the idea that they’ve reinvented the phone. I’m not crazy about the name, but I suppose it’ll do.

Of the other major drawbacks to the iPhone, there is the lack of storage space. For running applications, storing email, videos, photos, music, etc., 4 and 8GB seems very small. They should begin at 30GB like the iPod video. Of course, they’re probably using flash memory in this model, and using a hard-drive as in the iPod video would likely make it a lot bulkier. My guess is they will come up with a solution to this by June. Battery life is another potential problem. People are going to want to use the iPhone freely and all throughout the day without fear of it dying on them.

And then the only other major drawback, but perhaps the most significant, is the required Cingular contract. This doesn’t seem right. Or maybe I’ve misunderstood things. Can’t I just buy this thing and use it for web, email, music, and video, etc., or no? If not, that’s, well… fucked.

So, in a nutshell, Apple, I’m pretty excited, but here are a few things I like you to work on:

Change name to MacPod.
Increase storage capacity.
Increase battery life.
Make cellular plans optional.
Oh! Add a camera lens. A decent one. Collaborate with Canon.

P.S. I’m a little pissed at you, Apple, for not giving us any news on MacBooks, Intel-Native Apps, and Leopard. Why call it Macworld? It should have been called Phone-and-TV-world. Doesn’t sound very good, does it?

:P