It's almost iPhone time!

Yes, it's true. It's almost time. Time for...well if you've been watching television over the past few weeks on any number of channels, it's time for...something good to happen..."On your phone".

We've waited for it since long before cellphones were available. Those of us who have lived and breathed Apple Computers since they first hit the market a long time ago...in a galaxy far, far, away (that is the property of LucasFilm).

The iPhone(tm) will be released on Friday. My thoughts about this are many and I'd like to share them with you tonight as I launch what will be a popular little blog called simple AppleWI.

The WI is wireless information. It's sort of a calling out to Steve to not stay locked into AT&T for long. I think that may be the downfall of the iPhone. Placing it into the hands of people who rarely use the backup software so easily provided to them to back up their systems and keep them up and running. I say this from being there and seeing the services fail due to this wanton incompetence.

What Apple really should look into is creating a network that allows people to not only make calls on the phones, but also to enjoy the kind of bandwidth that we in the US should have above and beyond the rest of the globe.

Sorry Japan, Canada, Asia...Norway, Sweden...places like that where our lousy 12mb/sec cable line is considered dialup speed for that which they use on a daily basis. I want to be able to get information on my iPhone in an instant and not have to wait for AT&T to figure out how to manipulate the databits.

I'm not angry, don't get me wrong. I am feeling a level of concern for all of those people who are even now beginning to get into the lines at the Apple Stores, who are refreshing their pages on browsers to get a glimpse of the order pages which will flow into existence at 6PM Friday evening when the product launch gets underway.

AT&T has a lot to learn and I'd hate to see them be the roadblock to success of a truly INSANELY GREAT product from Apple. I am personally proud to know Steve, and proud of the team that developed this product and is bringing it to market. It shows a spirit, a drive, and a dream of providing the best product in a class of products that drives us batty on a daily basis.

What kind of phone do I use? A Blackberry Pearl. The gem of TMobile. Am I happy with it? I was until the first time I received an email with html in it and all I saw was code. Because someone at blackberry decided that we all still needed to receive emails in TEXT FORM and they did not have the smarts to implement HTML into the email program. Someone recently took a shot at doing that, but it's in beta and has a long way to go.

I want my iPhone to be useful, to be the best, and give me every reason in the world to foot the pricetag as well as the disconnect fees from TMOBILE because I want to only use an Apple product for my calls.

AT&T is in my opinion the worst place for the iPhone to be hosted. But I am sure there's some logic to this and perhaps it goes back to the place of the T in the marketplace. The main company has been around for a number of years and actually used to provide decent services. Maybe having iPhone as their flagship product will allow them to extract their heads from their backsides and provide some real "CUSTOMER SERVICE". If they don't and the iPhone feels the heat from that, I hope that my friends at Apple have a backup in place to take over, and that they pull the plug on the T quickly.

That's my .02 on this matter for the moment. Leave your comments, and be nice, or be deleted.

Michael Murdock - AppleWI...it's a great thought for the NeXT big Apple Service Offering. How about it Steve!