I made the trek to the Apple Store in Braintree Friday night to buy an iPhone on it's first day. I've been playing with it a few days now. My impressions: I love it, with the caveat that so many other people have about the limits of the AT&T service. As expected from an Apple product, the design is extraordinary. Smooth and sleek, it has a solid feel that makes me happy, the way I feel when I hold a polished stone.
Above all, the interface is pleasing. It is fun to scroll a web page or flip through photos or album covers by dragging the screen and letting it continue with it's own momentum. (This is a lesson for museum applications, which will either succeed or not based on how "enjoyable" it is for visitors to work through the interface, something we focused a lot on in Design a Panda Habitat.)
On the downside: it takes a loooong time to open a Web page using AT&T's data service. (At the Apple Store, they wisely chose to have the iPhones access the Web through a wifi connection, which is a better option but not always available).
Some interesting potential applications for Museums using the tightknit connection to YouTube. More on this later...
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