The Cell Phone Will Always Be the iPhone's Brightest Part

Light On Light Through · Sep 10, 2007

Is Steve Jobs Sick Of The Cell Phone Industry Already? Crunchgear's Seth Porges asked and and answered that yesterday: Yes. The new iPod Touch steals some of the iPhone's thunder. That's proof enough. And then there's Beck's "Cellphone's Dead,? the Touch's demo song. Observes Sascha Segan of PC Magazine, "The phone is the weakest part of the iPhone anyway.?

I think not. First, Porges and Segan make the mistake that industry analysts - in contrast to media historians - often do. They're equating the industry, or social and economic structures surrounding a medium, with what the medium does or…