I wish I'd taken out the bet. You lost. Sorry

- The price? Nevermind, people will buy;

- The keyboard? Welcome to a totally new area of surface control… Devices such as Palm and Blackberry will follow…

-If this device is bulky, what about those Palms and Blackberrys?

-For the rest, you have to understand that Apple is not only creating a product but also the market that comes with it!

iPhone will lead this new market, the consumers and developers will define it.

Ho! And also you can make phone calls!

“And have ten million of them at those prices sold in eighteen months?”

Apple sold 71 million in the last 18 months. About 28% were the regular iPods (Video). That’s 20 million. More people own cell phones than portable music players.

“It’s big and bulky”
Is it?
The iPhone is one centimetre taller than the iPod (30GB)
The iPhone is smaller than most Blackberries …. and weighs about the same.
The iPhone is slimmer than ALL Blackberries

“Nope. It’s $499 and $599 with a two year contract”
As others have already posted ……. do you expect to your calls and data to be free? I am from the UK, so maybe it’s different over there in the US, but over here we have to pay (one way or another) for using the phone.

The iPhone IS expensive and I really have no idea whether it will succeed or not, but your arguments against it’s success appear to be particularly weak.

I suspect that YOU just don’t like it…. or you just want it to fail.

iPods are popular as Christmas gifts, but what about iPhones?……

http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/34501?source=feed

“It’s not often that we say “it rocks” when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is having on the cellular industry.

Our survey of 3,489 Alliance members – conducted April 4-10 – reveals exceptionally high levels of excitement surround the iPhone’s upcoming release. Nearly one-in-10 respondents (9%) say they are likely to buy the new iPhone once it becomes available in June.

Another 7% say they are likely to buy the iPhone as a gift for someone else.

These are big numbers, especially when you consider the worldwide market for cell phones is around 1 billion and Apple’s goal is to get to 1% of that market in year one – which would mean selling about 10 million phones.”

Also carrying one less device around is easily worth $250 to me.