6/08/2009

0608 Podcast: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

This podcast discussed the Apple worldwide developers conference, WWDC in short, which is going to be held in San Francisco. In this conference, Apple will show new generation iPhone, which is going to compete with a new smartphone, Palm Pre. Many people talked about which one is better. Brad, a NYTimes reporter, said both phones have pieces of hard wares, but iPhone can download thousands of softwares to use. Those softwares can help iPhone users to play games, play chess with friends, or read email easily. However, Palm Pre just starts this process, but it will be a threat of Apple Company. The users of iPhone did not feel satisfied with Apple Company, and they hope Apple can keep maintaining iPhone’s hardware, so there is why Apple will launch new iPhone. New iPhone has many new functions. For example, it can record video and connect another handset through Bluetooth. Those functions will attract more people to use iPhone.

In the Palm Pre, it has multi-touch technique which Apple Company owns. However, Palm does not worry about it because iPhone has some hardware which Palm Company owns. No matter what patent problems they have, consumers will be the last winners because we can use high-tech, convenient, and humanized smartphones the two companies created.

In my opinion, Apple still have a lot of problems to solve on iPhone. First of all, the battery replacement should be implemented, even though some companies created portable battery for iPhone, but it still inconvenient. Second, the iTunes, which is the interface of iPhone or iPod touch, is hard to use and makes computer work slowly, so Apple should fix those two problems

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