Assignment1-3

Abdirizak
Abdirizak Isse
Humn 341
Assignment1-3
April9, 2009




There is no doubt that that there are many interesting popular culture articles, but one popular culture article that I came across recently is IPhone and IPod. Ipod is one of the amazing products in recently which shaped much of the entertainment and communication tools. When ipod came to market it was like cultural clashes, because it overwhelmed the market, and it became a popular culture. However, when iphone came it overwhelmed the market, and putting together these two products became a new popular culture. Although, these items deal different market and different purposes, they are popular cultures. It is clear that these items are popular culture and have shaped the lives of many people. People use IPhone and IPod for many different reasons, and each of these items has pros and cons. There is no doubt that both these items are great items, and they would have being better if the manufactures market them in a better way. Example IPhone, since its release, the iPhone has succeeded in attracting a big share of the cell phone market. In fact, many cell phone manufactures failed to offer a competing product with similar features to that offered by the iPhone. The iPhone has lots of great futures such as text messaging, or SMS, and easy use a touch sensitive keyboard that uses predictive technology to anticipate the word you are tying as well as correcting mistakes. Certainly, everything in the new iPhone can be manipulated with the touch of a finger or two. According to Kinsman technology analyst. said “ the iphone has probably been a bigger success than Apple would ever admit” It is seems to me that what makes the iPhone screen something special is the fact that it has a 3.5 inch multi-touch screen with 160 pixels per inch resolution. It has a multi-touch navigation. Instead of punching numbers on the phone, you dial by pointing to a name in the address book. There is a neat looking function called visual voice mail that lets you see the list of all your messages and choose which ones you want to listen to. The iPhone also has a built in 2-megapixel camera for taking photos and sending them family or friends. The iPhone is the tight integration with the web. So far some of the iphone’s greatest hits are very popular both business and personal entertainments. Also, iPhone has some outstanding paid applications such as PDF reader, Speadsheet, password and data security, folders recorder and dictation.
Regardless of the technological advances that the iPhone offers, Apple received lots of criticism and angry reaction towards the release of the iPhone, because the way Apple uses its marketing when it released iPhone. There were a lot of reaction that most related to the marketing of the iPhone. For instance, when Apple signed an agreement with AT&T to offer the iPhone exclusively for their customers. Some people see that as red flag by believing that was unfair companies since it gave AT&T a huge advantage over its competitors in the free telecommunication market. In my opinion iPhone is great product, but it could have been better if the management market it differently. However, it is still an outstanding product, and no one can deny its benefits.
Finally, both Ipod and Iphone are wonderful products, so if you have not had a chance to own one or both these products, it is the time to take a look, and try to have one of them or both.



References.
Leone, E. (2007). The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness. Journal of Popular Culture, 40(6), 1084-1086.Retrieved april9, 2009, from
Reaction to the iPhone reveals how the electronics industry failed to beat the iPod. (2007). Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2007/01/17/reaction-to-the-iphone-reveals-how-the-electronics-industry-failed-to-beat-the-ipod/
Schleicher, S. (2007). Apple iPhone Reaction Have they really done it again? Retrieved april9, 2009 from http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=95543.