Stowe Boyd

David Hornik on iPhone Leads To New Laptops

I haven’t sat still long enough to queue up for an iPhone (maybe next week), but David Hornik (the wisest of VCs), has been fooling with one for a bit. His prediction:

[from I Want Everything to be Like the iPhone]

[…] if I were a betting man, I would bet that the next two significant product releases that Apple comes out with are 1) a touch screen iPod with the same gesture controls as the iPhone, and 2) a touch screen laptop that allows the same sort of browsing, etc. And I will be one of the first to buy the laptop. The iPhone experience is so good. And will absolutely translate to a bigger screen.

I am so spoiled with the Nokia n95 camera that I think I will have to drag the n95 around with me once I have an iPhone, because the feedback on the iPhone camera is bad. But I crave the rest of the experience, particularly a better integrated experience with music on the phone. I have tried the n95’s music capabilities — which are impressive, especially the stereo speakers — but the problems with copy-protection on iTunes music are so pervasive that iPhone (or iPod) looks like the only solution.