[Macworld]

Post your comments for WWDC: iPhone 2.0 release slated for early July here

[venividivici]

I'm feeling like a waste of almost two hours.
I want my money back.
Oh wait, I didn't pay for anything... darn!

[macFanDave]

What?!
I feel entitled to 3G and GPS (and then paying half-price for the pleasure).
But, I was EXPECTING the new iPhone to give foot massages! Apple is Doomed, I tell you, Doomed! ;)

[fithian]

Stock was down $9 before the announcement. It went to only down $1, and what with the month wait it went back down to a loss of $8. Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

[barkomatic]

Since the 8gb Iphone is going down in price to $199 and the 16gb to $299 I'm surprised they didn't also immediately adjust the price on the corresponding ipods to those price points. Whose gonna buy an ipod priced more than the iphone?

[panny]

BLACK OR WHITE?
This is weird... both with the ipod and macbook, the premier product is black. Now with iphone, the premier product is white!!!

[melgross]

One thing not mentioned after the pricing was announced was how this would affect the pricing of the iTouch, and the rest of the iPod line.
They can't charge more for the iTouch than for the iPhone, and they didn't before (for the same amount of memory they charged less).
The 8 GB iPhone costs $199, and the 8 GB Nano costs $199.
Those prices are still current in the Apple store.
Are they trying to move people from those products?

[snapjack2]

OK, I'll be the first, NO copy & paste?! Not that I care, just thought I'd bring it up.

[manodud]

What other features are gonna be included in the 2.0 software update?

[montgomery_burns]

Any word on accessing notes and tasks in Exchange?

[Philbert]

montgomery_burns said:

Any word on accessing notes and tasks in Exchange?

That's my question - will an iPhone 1.0 updated with 2.0 software get me Exchange support? Don't think that was ever mentioned.

[barkomatic]

I wondered that myself(see above). If Apple wanted to move people from a product they'd just stop selling it. Either they're gonna drop the Itouch price when the iphone actually is released or keep it at the current price. I wonder if AT&T isn't subsidizing the iphone a little. However, Apple has effectively undermined Itouch sales at this point.
No matter, even with the price drop the iphone plans are still way overpriced and that is the real cost. Business users are different since their company pays the bill so I guess its good for them.

[DJRizzo]

Everything is now on http://www.apple.com/iphone/

I hate to say it, but there are several improvements I had hoped for in 2.0 that were not delivered.

? No copy & paste. Unbelievable.
? No to-do list, so of course no syncing of tasks with iCal or any other task software.
? I do not see a home page icon for direct access to contacts as was rumored on some sites.
? Doesn't look like you can rotate email horizontally - something I REALLY hoped for.
? Looks like SMS still does not support sending or receiving multi-media messaging.
? iTunes store is still only available for Wi-Fi connections, can't use the 3G network.
? No syncing of notes to the computer.
? No recording of video with the camera.
? It looks like iTunes track information still does not scroll (like it does on a regular iPod) so you can't read long titles - especially bad for podcasts.

Some of these things may be solved by third parties, but it's ridiculous these features are not there out of the box.

The only new things I've seen that I really wanted that they put in 2.0 are:

? Calendar now supports different calendars and calendar colors. When you look at a calendar item detail it has a field "Calendar."
? Save photo attachments in emails.
? Save photos from websites.
? Contacts has a search feature.
? I like the Exchange/MobileMe concept, too.

[melgross]

It's very strange. I would have dropped the price now. Otherwise, people will just stop buying it anyway.

Why should someone buy one at $299 for 8 GB, or $399 for 16? Only playback times are better, and they're not worth the $100 price differential.