A Million 3G iPhones
Since the iPhone 3G went on sale this past Friday, a million phones have been purchased around the world. That’s three days, folks. Crazy. 10 million applications have also been downloaded.
The addition of the AppStore has completely and totally transformed the iPhone from a great internet device to an amazing one overnight. I spent the weekend playing with all sorts of apps. I’ll be blogging about a few this week, but I can say with certainly my kids’ favorite was the PhoneSaber app. It was enough enticement to get my 2-year-old to run around the house yelling “iPhone! iPhone! Blue!” as a sign it was his turn to play with it.
I continue to think about what the effects the influx of iPhone users will have on our campuses this fall. I wrote about it a few weeks ago, but all the applications have got my brain going in a million different directions. There’s the mobile social networking, location-based services and so much more.
I also had a nice conversation with Ben Reisling at Duke about issues and gotchas we as web developers need to think about when developing new sites for mobile devices, including the iPhone.
Is the iPhone’s price, availability and ease-of-use the tipping point for finally ushering the mobile revolution on our campuses? Cell phones have been ubiquitous for a few years now, but will the mobile data and browsing finally see its day in the sun?
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Location based social networking is going to be HUGE. Every social media app I play with has a GPS feature built in it seems.