iPhonomics and the post-PC era by ZDNet‘s Dan Farber — My friend Steve Gillmor is known for his very occasional cryptic and sometimes prescient posts that attempt to connect the dots and unpack the logic between seemingly unrelated events. This week he focused his attention on the iPhone, which he suggests is new center of computing gravity, and iPhonomics, which has something to do with the [...]

Steve Gillmor, Steve Jobs, Dan Farber, and many others have been talking lately about the impact that the iPhone is going to have on personal computing. Not just the cellphone market, but personal computing.

Is this just blind Apple zealotry or is there something to it? There have been calls for a long time for a device that has all the functionality a person could want in one convenient package. Companies have tried and failed to make that happen ad nauseum. What we usually get is a large, clunky, jack-of-all-trades-but-master-of-none device that leaves you frustrated and empty walleted.

Now along comes Apple with the bold claim of “Eureka, we’ve done it! We have created the perfect device…the iPhone!”

To be sure, it seems very cool, but for me there are some glaring drawbacks. First and foremost is the price. There are two versions. One is $500 for the 4GB version and the other is $600 for the 8GB. That is CRAZY expensive! It’s are you kidding expensive! The second problem with device is the storage. The biggest version is 8GB. I can’t even begin to put my MP3 collection on that, and that’s before we get to TV shows and Movies. MORE SPACE!!!!!!!!

Interface…sexy. Design…sexy. Brand…sexy. I still can’t see myself buying one.

It will be a while before iPhonomics happens if no one can afford the product that is supposed to drive the change.