I saw this first on Slashdot. Mike Elgan lists 6 reasons of why Steve Jobs blew it when announcing the iPhone during his keynote.
- Jobs raised buyer expectations too high.
- Jobs raised Wall Street expectations too high.
- Jobs gave competitors a head start.
- Jobs undermined Apple TV hype.
- Jobs put iPod sales at risk.
- Jobs wrecked Cisco talks.
Mike has plenty of arguments to back up his line of reasoning, and since it is a good read you should definitely check it out. I've already mentioned in a previous post of how Jobs didn't have much of a choice and needed to announce the iPhone now before people found out through the FCC. I think it looks cool, I really like the huge screen, but I'd never shell out $600 for one of those. Especially since and according to Elgan, the iPhone "will do far less than most existing smart phones."