Apple iPhone Rumors Resurface

donkeyDevil writes: "Following the rule of 'i before e except before P,' rumors of an iPhone resurface in the New York Times (registration required). The evidence: OS features, foiled acquisition attempts, PIXO relations, and the genius of Steven P. Jobs. Unmentioned, Apple's tried phones before. PIE produced a nifty desktop phone design, Apple Europe produced some nice telephone-computer integration software."

Comments

Re:iPod and Palm

[creep]

If I add a iPod to this mix, I run out of pocket space. And I don't want to clip three or four things to my belt.

Get a handbag.

Re:Interesting discussion on the register.

[scoove]

it makes little sense for Apple to design and build its own phone

And even less sense for them to dillute their focus. This annoying "I wanna be a Cowboy when I grow up... no, a Fireman... no, an Astronaut..." peter pan vision of Apple is greatly responsible for their marketshare decimation over years (and is directly responsible for why I ban their products in my company).

Purists might trace it back to how the Apple II line was killed (yes, I bought a IIgs and was foolish enough to buy Macs after that).

Then there was the Quicktake camera. "We're an imaging company" said Apple, playing line extension on its command of the graphic design world. Oh, except they killed that too. I've got one in my desk drawer downstairs.

Then there was the Newton, which I bought unit #2 in my state (second in line behind my friend who got #1). Personal computing to the nth degree. One man, one Newton. Nice ads. Nice vision. Then they killed it.

And yet I still wanted to believe. Yes, I bought NeXTStep Intel, honestly believing Jobs was brilliant and it was the Apple corporate bozos that were fools. And I also bought WebObjects, another overpriced and undersupported product (6 months and zero support... dropped it and shifted to a Microsoft platform and we shipped in 3 months).

After personally experiencing numerous cases of product infanticide, and getting tired of wasted funds on an structurally immature and disfunctional company, I booted my Macs and left Apple.

I'd expect an Apple IP Phone to last no longer than a Newton (before Jobs gets bored and decides to take another course). Another pile of Apple-branded junk for the computer salvege lot...

partnership with Sony and Ericson would be more reasonable

or Nokia. Actually, Sony's recent efforts (outside of their audio products like walkman) have been disappointing. Sony laptops, schlocked up in what is supposed to be 'applianceware' design, have none of the ruggedness and reliability one would expect from the makers of the Walkman. In fact, having assumed a few dozen of the laptops from a previous corporate buyer, not one of them lasted more than a year from normal year. Compaqs and HP laptops did just fine.

If Apple wants to play it right (they won't), try licensing the product from one of these folks and putting their pretty sticker on it for the 2% marketshare that buys Imacs, Icars (VW Beetle) and other items of its class.

*scoove*

I this , I that, I dont care

[bdigit]

IPod,IMac,IPhone,IToilet,INeedToComeUpWithANewWayT oNameMyProducts