Apple iPhone news

[bucknut11]

merger?

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34272

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

merger?

huh? what? jenn sterger? oh...

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Now who in the fuck would want to watch an entire movie on a 2" (or whatever) phone screen?

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

looks cool but $499 for the 4G and $599 for the 8G is too much for me... I love gadgets and electronics but the cell phone is one thing I hate.

I agree, cell phones are vastly overrated. It's a damn phone, if I want to play games, watch movies, or download shit I've got a wii/360, dvd player, and a computer.

 

[Deety]

Now who in the fuck would want to watch an entire movie on a 2" (or whatever) phone screen?

 

[Dryden]

If Apple brings out a sick bag, will they call it iPuke?

Probably. It's the Apple trend; to name everything with the prefix "i" regardless what it does.

They've already done the iDildo and the iToilet, so an iPuke would be the next logical thing for their epileptic seizure inducing look-at-all-the-blinking-colors commercials.

 

[Dryden]

Glad I won't have to use my toes any more to use my cell phone.

It means the screen itself is touch sensitive with an OSD keyboard, so you won't need the stylus or touch pen common with regular PDAs.

 

[craigblitz]

Now who in the fuck would want to watch an entire movie on a 2" (or whatever) phone screen?

People who travel all the time and don't feel like taking a laptop, cell phone, mp3 player, and a personal video recorder.....

 

[Hodge]

Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone name

By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Business Writer Wed Jan 10, 6:40 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems sued Apple Inc. in federal court Wednesday, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, came just a day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone in dramatic fashion at a trade show in San Francisco.

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

"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," Apple spokesman Alan Hely said. "There are already several companies using the name iPhone for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products."

"We are the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cell phone, and if Cisco wants to challenge us on it we are very confident we will prevail."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm

Wow, talk about a first class moron. Being sued for using a trademarked name is silly? Only if you're name is Apple or Micro$oft...

 

[PrincetonBuckeye]

I just bought the wife and I 2 new BlackJack phones from Cingular today. As we were there getting the phones turned on a guy walked in and asked for the iPhone. I asked the guy that was helping us, "Are they really going to charge $600 for that phone?" He said it would be $600 for new subscribers and would be between $1000-1200 retail price!!!

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...SS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-18-19-25-14

Analysts: iPhone prices may go down

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Apple Inc. will have plenty of room to eventually reduce the retail price of its upcoming iPhone, according to preliminary gross margin estimates by a market research company.
The iPhone, the combination cell phone-iPod media player that Apple unveiled last week, will yield gross margins of more than 50 percent at the current set of retail prices, iSuppli Corp. said in an analysis of presumed component and manufacturing costs.

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[SanAntonioBuck]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ITE=TXSAE&SECTION=TECHNOLOGY&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Apple's iPhone stirs up would-be rivals

By MAY WONG
AP Technology Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing cell phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 touch-screen cell phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June.

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[iambrutus]

apple pitched the Iphone to Verizon first, but they (verizon) turned it down...

LINK

NEW YORK ? Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands.
Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone fees, say over how and where iPhones could be sold and control of the relationship with iPhone customers, said Jim Gerace, a Verizon Wireless vice president. "We said no. We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn't reach a deal that was mutually beneficial."

 

[rocketman]

Probably cause verizon couldn't have complete control of the phones operating systems. Yeah, on paper having all verizon phones function identically seems ok, but man, that OS on their phones sucks balls.

 

[iambrutus]

Probably cause verizon couldn't have complete control of the phones operating systems. Yeah, on paper having all verizon phones function identically seems ok, but man, that OS on their phones sucks balls.

no according to the article verizon said no because apple wanted to limit the places it could be sold to only have Apple Stores and verizon retail stores - no more walmart/radioshack.