Comments on: Taking the bait.

The iPhone is a product, not a technology.

[ripragged]

Well, he missed me.

My blog is quite well maintained and ignored by all but a few supremely intelligent readers.

So there, Jim. Neener. Neener. Neener.

[Macalope]

But some days you don't post. FAIL. ;-)

[ripragged]

Okay, but I'm getting better about that. It's hard to think of nothing to say every day.

Thanks for noticing.

[bfohwrd]

Just looked at the "article" you linked to and my first thought was:

"There are five differences between panel #1 and panel #2. Can you spot them?"

I didn't know Technology Highlights For Children had a website.

[Obvioustroll]

iPhone (not a tech as you said, smart phone is a tech, though not really)
Social networks (utilizing web interface to network. It's like a phone chain, not tech)
Grid computing (WOAH! An ACTUAL TECHNOLOGY)
Outsourcing (How is sending jobs overseas a technology? It isn't new either)
RFID (Ding, our 2nd technology related item.)
Virtualization (3rd. Not really overhyped, the people that were excited about it still are)
Blogs (Not a technology. Just a web interface on a diary, really)
Green technology (Who overhyped it? Anyone that cared still does and pushes it)
VOIP (4th. And actually pretty accurate)
Video on the Web (5th. Hey, he's getting some right)

So he couldn't even manage 10 real technologies. 5 of them were products or just ways of doing something that already existed and were available last century, if not more popular then.

I want to make a page where I don't bother being accurate 50% of the time and get paid.

[jimrap]

Hi, just a couple of clarifications. If you read the post from which the slideshow launches, you'll see that I say that it is a list of products, technologies and technology trends.
I accept the point that the iPhone is the only product in the list. However, I do think that it can also be described as a technology and a trend, given the changes it has brought to the next generation of smart phones.
And for the record I'm a big fan of the iPhone, it even made my list of the most important emerging technologies of 2007 (there I go again calling it a technology, oops).
So yes, I think the iPhone is an important product/technology that has changed the face of smartphones as we know them.
I also think it's one of the most overhyped products/technologies of the last several years. Something can be good and still be overhyped.