The iPhone Destined To Fail?

With all of the hype around Apple’s iPhone, can it possibly fail? The folks at Crunch Gear seem to think so. They have a slew of reasons why they believe this, with the first one being the fact that Apple has never released a product on a Friday, which the launch date of June 29 just so happens to be. That in itself is not odd, but they think that it’s evidence that Apple is rushing the phone out the door sooner than their engineers would have liked.

Because the entire front of the phone, or at least most of it, is a touch screen, they foresee mass reports of iPhones with cracked screens. This sounds viable, but how many people do you know that have broken their PDAs screen by carrying it around like that? One thing is for sure, third-party accessory manufacturers are going to make a killing.

Other gripes they have include the keyboard and of course, the forced contract which I can wholeheartedly agree with. It alone is the reason I am not pumped up for what should be the ultimate phone.

What kind of gray market will pop up for contract-less phones? Since AT&T is REQUIRING iPhone purchasers to sign up for 2-year contracts (any lawyers out there know if this is legal?), it isn’t difficult to imagine folks who have no real need for the phone aspect looking for a nice web-browsing widescreen iPod.

Source: Crunch Gear