Apple italk phone...

[bloodline]

Apple now have the holy grail of Operating Systems... one single system that is scalable from a handheld up to a server.

That, I think, is the true importance of this device...

[koaftder]

LOL

I think it's funny that the same crowd that constantly blasts modern operating systems like Windows is singing praise for a 500 dollar telephone that perhaps has the most feature creep and software bloat the world has ever seen.

I just can't wait for my new iPhone. Girls will be impressed when I show them the smooth polished surface implanted with my face grease.

Hey, who is gonna be the first to suggest that people should write their apps in assembler on the iPhone?

[redrumloa]

koaftder wrote:
I think it's funny that the same crowd that constantly blasts modern operating systems like Windows is singing praise for a 500 dollar telephone that perhaps has the most feature creep and software bloat the world has ever seen.

How do you know it will feel bloated? Features do not equal bloat. Every seen a Blackberry? This should stomp the Blackberry. IMO this is much more than a phone.

[koaftder]

redrumloa wrote:

koaftder wrote:
I think it's funny that the same crowd that constantly blasts modern operating systems like Windows is singing praise for a 500 dollar telephone that perhaps has the most feature creep and software bloat the world has ever seen.

How do you know it will feel bloated? Features do not equal bloat. Every seen a Blackberry? This should stomp the Blackberry. IMO this is much more than a phone.

In my oppinion WinXP doesn't feel bloated but people complain about it constantly. I'm sure the iPhone will be very responsive, if it wasn't it wouldn't sell. And it's going to be a lot more fun to develop applications for iPhone than say a trio. PalmOS is a pain in the butt to dev on.

[TheMagicM]

someone will make a iphone knockoff... I'll wait to see that.. I like the iphone though.  Apple is doing pretty good..coming up from the ashes.  Even though its apple, its good to see a company other them microsoft doing well.

[persia]

It a Quad Band GSM phone, it'll work in about 220 countries and on Cingular and Tmobile in the US.  

[adolescent]

bloodline wrote:
Apple now have the holy grail of Operating Systems... one single system that is scalable from a handheld up to a server.

Never heard of Windows, Linux, etc.?  :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[The_Editor]

It's worth it just for the keys !!

Your eyes get real crappy as you get older !!

I'm not interested in the ipod style music player.

I think I read that Uk release is 4th quarter.  

I've got time to start saving my pennies then.


oh.. And the fact it's NOT Microsoft Anything is naturally a major bonus (to me)

[weirdami]

@TheMagicM

someone will make a iphone knockoff..

He did say all that gizmo technicality stuffies is patented 220 times and made sure to say that they will defend the patents. But, a cheap knockoff could be a squishy push button screen (like those universal remotes) that doesn't do video. Not really a knockoff, but if someone saw them side by side and one was 350 dollars less, the uninformed grandparent would buy it for their hip teenage grandkids. :-)

"Thanks, gran, I love my new EyeFon. :-( "

[weirdami]

@The_Editor

The Reluctant Pom

This POM is not reluctant.  :lol:

[Homer]

Does it have more than 2MB chip RAM ?   :lol:

[weirdami]

I regularly operate my phone in my pocket

You, and that guy in The Departed.

Woohoo! Two setups for the same joke in one thread.  :banana:

[stopthegop]

/me would rather have herpes than waste 600 perfectly good dollars on an Apple iPhone.  My free Samsung works just fine, tyvm.

[weirdami]

@stopthegop

you can spend 399 instead and avoid the herpes at the same time, or, what's likely going to happen anyway, you can get a free one with a service plan, just like you did with your samsung.

who's going to give you herpes anyway?

[adolescent]

weirdami wrote:

What I want to know is how much Apple paid Cisco for the iphone name.

Umm, apparantly nothing.
 
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone Trademark

[adolescent]

@weirdami

All the prices listed were with service plan.  I'd guess they'll drop, but they won't be free for some time.