Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Steve Jobs is still talking

but first picture of the Iphone are online

and man, i hate Apple, but this thing looks like a killer.
full touch screen.

http://flickr.com/photos/beausf/351847182/in/photostream/

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/351847613_a9704e11cc.jpg?v=0)

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/?


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the iPhone does look fantastic
shame due to my contract timings i wont be able to get one for a couple years prob  :(

damn that looks sweet! gonna have to me one of those!

500-600 for a phone?  sheesh, I don't know!  Thats a lot.

But this benefits us, the consumer in two ways:

1).  Great new technology - for those who want to pay and can afford it, this looks to be AMAZING

2).  Competition, if the other guys can't offer iPhones they are going to have to slash their rates and phone prices.  Why pay 400 for a trio if i can spend $100 more for an iphone?!?!?!

looks kick ass!!!!!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

hurts my brain !
im glad i never bought an ipod!

As a die hard mac user, it goes without saying that I want one.   Unfortuantely, there's no Cingular service where I live, and they are the exclusive plan providers for these phones....sigh.

man you gotta move ! :)


as a mac-hater,  i will buy one :)

No kidding.  What a cool little gadget.  It kills me that I can't get service around here.  Who knows?  Maybe by summer things coverage will have changed...

It's not really a phone...

Remember how mobile phones used to be? In the mid-90s when "normal" people started using them.

You used them to call and send text messages.


Today the phones are so much more. They're cameras, Internet browsers, music players, video recorders, personal planners, GPS etc...


Seeing that the mobile market is where the money is, it's no surprise Apple wants their piece of that huge cake.




/jarmo

Jesus crist.

I gotta get me one of those-----one day.  :peace:

Yeah it's almost like a palm PC.

I would want one of those suckers. Maybe... maybe..

It does look killer, but don't know if I'd drop the money for that. It's cool and everything ,but I always look at stuff like that and think "Does it really serve a purpose to me? Do I really need it?" The answer is always "no". As I'm a decade behind on everything.

Which is why Jobs changed the company from Apple Computers to Apple Inc. - they've moved into the full-blown entertainment industry now. ?Since they've been setting the pace for the past 4-5 years, that should surprise very few...

I used to watch ITV all the time. They carried Oilers games......I think ITV became something, then became Global, oh, I think it went from ITV to Prime to Global.....I could be incorrect, though...ITV used to exist.

I wonder what the company who owns the iPhone name feel about this.

(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/18/300_iphone0,0.jpg)

Did apple buy the name?

(It's an internet phone)

This phone is pretty sweet and another reason i am making the switch to a mac. Bye Bye PC and good buy blackberry and hello iPHONE see you in June.

Screw Apple and their corporate whorishness squeezing every last drop of liquid money from our souls. FUCK em!

FUCK the iPod, FUCK the iPhone, FUCK Macs (I hate them!), FUCK Apple in general! I'm not buying one! I'll buy a new phone, cuz I need one, but it most CERTAINLY will NOT be this piece of corporate SHIT!!

Uuuuuuuuuugh!! *storms off to go throw darts at a picture of an iPod*

Well said what is the big deal with ipod how are they better than MP3 players i would love to know i have never seen the big appeal with them

Personally I think CDs are the way forward...

I don't understand this post......are you saying you are pro Apple or anti??

Perhaps on the balance a little more anti. Who knows.

In all seriousness though. They screwed with me too. I sent an ipod off for repair and they sent it back (after messing me around with delivery and 'accidentally' giving it to a random on my street) only for it to be completely untouched with a note saying It is your fault.

Over-rated they are iPods

-Greg

They feel like this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_hi_te/cisco_apple

Beat me to it. ^

I don't get it, they're a company that makes products that some people like and think are cool, what are they supposed to do, they're a business....no one's forcing you to buy any of their products, you can just go right on supporting Bill G/Microsoft and their total lack of  corporate whorishness to make you feel better.

The music industry disagrees... http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2007-01-04/news/feature.html

CDs are soon to be a thing of the past.. sadly in my opinion, but whatever.


Agreed.

I'm so sick of Apple having to put "i" in front of all their products now. It's fucking annoying.

To me, what's annoying is how *other* companies have put an "i" in front of their products in order to mimic Apple's success and product lines.  Take Cisco, for example, now suing Apple over rights to the iphone name...

cisco has released its phone way before apple new thing.
cisco is a WAY bigger company than apple, and i dont think they did that to mimic apple's success
cisco iPhone was named that way because it's an IP phone ... IPPHONE ... IPhone ....

apple is going to pay for the name / or change it.

i'm sorry. the object looks sleek.
 but apple is the MTV of electronic products.

Did I say they were any different?

I don't think so.

the I phone was first released in the mid 90's by some compay that Cisco later purchased... around 2000 or something... the patent o the name goes back to March 20 1996. Cisco was happy to discuss the chance of selling the name to apple but apple went on and announced it as the Iphone before anything was resolved with the name. hence why cisco is sueing.

I do agree tough other companies putting i in the font of th name makes consumers that are not tech savy think they are buying something that is apple related

Are you posting from an atari then?

could be using linux

should be using linux

fucking linux

I didn't know that name patent goes back to 1996.   After the imacs hit in '98 (available for consumer purchase), a few "i" named products came out, but it really seemed to become magnified once the ipod hit...thanks for the info.    :beer:

 :hihi:. So fucking funny

Anyways..

I don't feel like Apple is the MTV of electronics at all. Just because alot of people like them doesn't mean they lack quality. You may not like them, but Apple's computers and iPods consistently get great technology reviews and are usually considered industry standards in terms of design and longevity. OSX, while some people may not like it's "simpleness" is also a great product and is being emulated almost exactly by Microsoft and it's Windows Vista... if the product is so bad then why would the competition want to copy it?

Apple isn't perfect.. but hating it because they are "corporate whores" and are popular is incredibly stupid.

Apple makes "cool" products for a niche market, they'll always be a minor player in the PC market - appealing on one hand to artists/designers/film editors as well as people who want something different for the "cool". It just happens that the niche they found with iPods/iTunes turned out to be a really big niche, but I don't see how that makes them corporate whores....the company is built on innovative, more expensive than average products appealing to smaller consumer bases, not mass marketing low priced crap to everyone. The iPhone won't dominate the cell phone market by any means, but probably those people who own them will love them.

We have a PC and a Mac at home, I mainly use the PC more these days out of necessity but it still feels unnatural to me (kind of like playing a guitar or tennis or something with the wrong hand), I can work out how to do most things but it isn't elegantly simple like OSX. And I barely use any microsoft software beyond XP and Excel, don't have an iPod but use iTunes because WMP is awful for organizing music, email with Thunderbird, browse with Firefox.

So there, bottom line is Apple = cool and not corporate whores  :P

Why?

a fount of useless knowledge I is me son.... should see me play jeopardy ;)