DBX00

Umm...If they didn't make advertisements with actresses then they would suck. They do 100 takes to make it perfect, so of course it isn't going to seem real. That's the difference between good and bad acting and why only a few actors dominate hollywood.

1) Feature phone data plans are cheaper that smartphone or blackberry data plans.

2) the market still sells a ton of feature phones because not everyone (especially parents with 2 or more teenagers) to have a $100/month plan for each iphone.

3) When did it become a negative for a company to offer several products for different types of consumers rather than trying to fit us all in one bucket?

He said..."we are only three public steps to unveiling the strategy..." Sounds like there is more to come...oh boy...I see a Courier in my future

@Leroysboy They have them at some AT&T stores and they seem to work just fine.

I like that Microsoft is giving us some insight into their R&D. I can't say this enough...bring that Courier to market, so I can say goodbye to all these notebooks for work and personal life...

Nilay - Seriously, here yourself talk about a pretty minor apple update and then listen to yourself talk about any other product. You're full of sarcasm with everything else, but that sarcasm disappears when discussing apple products. You do the math...

They heard the consumer and made the change...I think that's the important part of the whole thing. I don't see how people are still complaining when they listened to us for once...at least give them 5 mins of praise for the name change.

This is the reason they don't invite consumers to conferences...The point is to mix in this type of stuff so people don't get completely bored in back to back presentations.

This isn't meant as news worthy articles, but blogs have to post something to keep you coming.

@Mack Stone

Exactly. This is clearly targeted at the casual user and the last few years have shown that is the real growth market. The majority of us geeks will look at the feature set and say 'yea or na' but our parents and grandparents will see this as the next generation iphone that has big buttons and a intuitive UI. The remote license is probably their way to remove unwanted applications from the system, but who knows how they implement it or whether they'll actually use it.

I can't say I care too much about multi-tasking because my phone isn't a computer and it shouldn't be treated as such. The copy and paste thing is somewhat a bummer because I'd like to be able to pull info from links or websites into an email.

Overall, I think the OS and UI is a good step is putting together a platform. If you're looking for an open platform that will allow you to do whatever you want, go see Android because this is using the Apple methodology which may or may not really cater to the geek audience. In terms of apps, I think that if they figure out an effective way for ads within apps that it won't take long to catch up because we could be heading toward a whole lot of free apps with ad-support instead of paying for single apps.

@jstrickb My Zune seems to have pretty good battery life and same with the Nexus One with its animated backgrounds...the real juice drain on these phones are the display, so if they go with OLED for everything it will be just fine.