1. Who exactly is the target market for it. Smartphone users, hi-end users, business users? These are people are pc/ outlook users and the iphone as is doesn’t have the features and apps to suit their needs and it’s too expensive for the average consumer.

2. History is repeating itself. This is like the orginal macintosh in 1984, Jobs reinvents the pc develops a revolutionary new gui which is better than everything else out there, however their is a high price tag on and a lack third party software, people like it but sales are poor due to lack of a killer app until desktop publishing comes along.

3. What is the killer app? visual voicemail? video? what is the iphone going to do that makes your daily life easier? i like the idea of coverflow but i never turn it on in itunes. i’ve had a touch screen pda, i prefer buttons. inbuilt ipod – maybe? widgets – maybe? if they implement wireless sync – maybe? the camera – maybe if they really implement it well. i think it should be atleast 3.2 megapixels myself with photo editing software inbuilt, excellent picture and video quality and full camcorder functionailty.

4. The average consumer will be turned off the iphone’s large size (pocket comfort), low battery life, lack of tactile feedback, the fact you have choose press menu buttons to access sms and phone features, the fact that’s it’s harder to use the iphone one-handed without looking at the screen to see what your doing. constantly swiping your finger up and down to scroll through long lists is going become annoying. If you sit on it you might end up damaging the touchscreen.

5. remember the best selling ipod is the nano not the larger ipod. the iphone won’t be a massive seller until they make a nano version or something that rivals the motorola razr in size.

Is registration of my mark required?
No. You can establish rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark

US Patent and Trademark Office FAQ

a million blogs on the internet for the last 5 years
prove that apples use of iphone would be legitimate

http://www.comwave.net/US/iPhone/whatisiphone.htm

also a voip carrier is called iphone:
https://iphone.nuvio.com/html/index.php?page=voice_plans

They owned the trademark for 10 years. Just the ‘e’ was ever so popular in the 90′s for everything electronic, the ‘i’ was thought back then to be the future ‘e’.

Needless to say i laugh at the authors disapointment of the announcement. It proves how well marketed apple have been in that if its not apple we all just dont care and are outraged =p.

Already sold to an idea before its even finished.

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the iTelegraph brought to us by Western Union, just as the FCC drops fluency in morse code as a requisite for your very own ham radio license.

At the very least, we already have ‘AppleTalk’.

Apple hasn’t even hinted at the possibility that they are even WORKING on any phone of any kind at all. Not only is the NAME an invention of the blogosphere, the entire product is.

It was bourn out of all the stock market analysis types claiming that Apple “must do a phone or they will die!” .

The rumor mill kicked up into high gear. First, rumors of it’s existence.

The press ate it up and wrote it as fact: “The iPhone is coming!!”

Would-be competitors shot out accusations, claiming that they KNOW that Apple is working on it. ( cough Motorolla cough) – which became “proof” for the rumor mill to keep adding details to the rumor.

“It exists, and everyone knows it!” became the official rumor.

Now everyone is bickering over the details. What are the specs? What will it be called? When will it be released? … based on NOTHING.

Last year it was an “Apple Plasma TV”.