In July, Walt spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the rise of the iPhone and similar devices and what it means for the future of the PC. Below are two videos of Walt’s presentation. The video on top is the complete session; the YouTube video below it is a shorter version.
Also, see Walt’s reviews of the device–both the iPhone 3G and the original version, when he first wrote about its meaning and impact; and Boomtown’s post yesterday about the explosive growth of the App Store.
The first reviews of the 3G iPhone went live yesterday, and the blogosphere has been abuzz ever since (here’s Walt’s full review). Yesterday, Walt spoke with Aaron Task of Yahoo’s Tech Ticker about the 3G iPhone, its pros and cons and “Apple sensitivity.” Here’s their conversation:
Flashback to the end of last week and the furore of Walt Mossberg’s apparent “60 days to a 3G iPhone” statement; back then, we assumed Walt either had a badly-observed NDA or a particularly prescient moment, but now the godfather of consumer tech reviews is claiming he meant nothing by his comment. Silicon Alley Insider spoke with the bearded lovely, who is supposed to be “bemused” by the excitement he’s inadvertently caused:
“Walt notes that in the clip, he’s making an aside during a larger point about data networks, and says that in any event, he doesn’t know if it’s correct. So where’d it come from? It’s a ballpark estimate, he says, based on the same speculation the rest of us are seeing” Silicon Valley Insider
Strangely, the veteran reporter claims not to be interested in when the 3G version comes out, because it won’t affect his review of the device. I’m not sure if I follow the logic.
“If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?” Walt Mossberg
Perhaps, Walt, but if this was as the conspiracists among us suspect and an accidentally-broken NDA, that would be a pretty good reason not to announce it via your official mouthpiece - the favours of Jobs & co would be unlikely to flow so freely in future.
End of the day, the 3G iPhone is coming sooner rather than later; perhaps not in two months exactly, but it’ll undoubtedly be the big handset this year.
We all knew the 3G iPhone would arrive sooner or later, but everything I’ve read have come from analysts – and we all know how reliable those folks are. However, there’s one person in the world that I’d bet the farm on; that guy is Walt Mossberg. Walt (confidently) mentioned in passing in the video below that the “iPhone will be 3G in 60-days.†Now that’s something you can take to the bank folks. Why? Because everything and anything new that Apple release to market will land on Walt’s lap before anyone else outside of Apple.
I recently spoke at a conference on Web video held at the Finnish embassy in Washington, and sponsored by Beet.TV. In this excerpt, I spoke about several obstacles to the web’s emergence as a replacement for standard TV, including the very slow bandwidth that is marketed as “broadband” in the United States.
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Flashback to the end of last week and the furore of Walt Mossberg’s apparent “
