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Apple's Rumored PowerPod
mobilemag writes "MobileMag has released a photo of the new Apple PowerPod. This sounds like an amazing device! With Wi-Fi and video messaging, the powerpod could very well be a hot seller."
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You know this is an April Fool's joke 'cause the product name doesn't begin with an "i".
My swiss army knife does that too.
Also includes:
Ear Floss.
Portable Angiogram.
X-ray laser.
They ARE out to get you simply because They are in it for themselves and they don't care about you.
Is this another attempt to make the cordless extention cord?
One bad monkey spoils the whole barrel.
iBut iApple iIs iToo iOverpriced iTo iHave iAnything iDecent iAt iThat iPrice.
iWho iKnows iThough, iRight?
I'm glad to see that Apple finally got on the ball and developed a portable media device with WiFi. The original iPod has sold very poorly because it had no wireless and less space than a Nomad.
However, I'm only buying it if it has Bluetooth and can support Linux. Otherwise, it's lame.
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Enjoy the $2k bandwidth bill!
At this point, you might as well call the company orange... these april fools jokes are funny when they are reasonably real... that's what had me going 3 years ago on slashdot... but this is just stupid... Who's with me?
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From the link: "Apple today announced the PowerPod, the world's smallest portable video and music player with integrated video and digital camera. The device can hold over 1,000 songs or 100 movies and will be available in the summer of 2004 for $699 from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S. The PowerPod is a half-inch thick, encased in an ultra-portable lightweight durable body and is available in 20, 40 and 60GB models. The PowerPod features a hi-resolution 5 x 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD and a 1.2 megapixel integrated digital camera, users can record and view movies while on the go or perform wireless video messaging while connected via a WiFi network. The dual external speakers can be used for audio playback for movies or for private listening with an external headphone jack. It also features an integrated microphone for video conferencing. With a 400Mhz RISC processor the USB 2.0 and FireWire handheld runs on the new Mac OS Portable OS. Basically, a stripped down version with PDA and Video functionality intended primarily for Video recording and playback, instant messaging, web browsing, email and address book." As we can see from apple.com, no such 'PowerPod' exists. I've been waiting for a Newton replacement for years, but it's all a cruel joke today.
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And best of it all - you can have a real PowerPod for just USD 24.99. Yeah, Griffin has already taken the name for their iPod car charger. This is one of the lamest April Fool Days I can remember, they don't even try.
The article starts out: "Apple announced today..."
But no link to Apple's press release... and Apple's site doesn't have anything on it.
Next year, I'm sleeping through 4/1.
Apple today announced the PowerPod, the world's smallest portable video and music player with integrated video and digital camera. The device can hold over 1,000 songs or 100 movies and will be available in the summer of 2004 for $699 from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S. The PowerPod is a half-inch thick, encased in an ultra-portable lightweight durable body and is available in 20, 40 and 60GB models.
The PowerPod features a hi-resolution 5 x 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD and a 1.2 megapixel integrated digital camera, users can record and view movies while on the go or perform wireless video messaging while connected via a WiFi network. The dual external speakers can be used for audio playback for movies or for private listening with an external headphone jack. It also features an integrated microphone for video conferencing.
With a 400Mhz RISC processor the USB 2.0 and FireWire handheld runs on the new Mac OS Portable OS. Basically, a stripped down version with PDA and Video functionality intended primarily for Video recording and playback, instant messaging, web browsing, email and address book.
What? That is wierd. People must be reading the article.
One bad monkey spoils the whole barrel.
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http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powerpod /
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That was quick, April Fools, enjoy your stupid bandwidth bill
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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"mobilemag writes 'MobileMag has released a photo...'"
Well, he tried.
For every karma whore there are four more people with mod points to kill.
Does it support Ogg Vorbis?
If so, then this is definitely an iPod Killer!
And if not, this is certainly the beginning of the end for Apple.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
If you realized it was April 1st after IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level then you are just a regular genius.
If you realised it was April 1st after Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap then you are smart, but mostly hate the media.
If you thought it was April 1st after 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop then I can refer you to a friend of mine, Akmar #!#! (prounounced She-bang-she-bang-bang for those not versed in l33t sp34k or recent polls) who has some pills you might be interested in.
If you didn't think it was April 1st and you got all the way to Omniscience Protocol then I'm surprised all those hours listening to your own subliminal music and drinking coffee hasn't killed you yet.
If you ... ah screw it. I can't even keep up with the editors. And there's still time left yet!
Anyone else notice the perfect shadows and glares in the image? This has gotta be CG. Real Pictures never have perfect shadows, ambient light and all. Not to mention that the static buttons change orintation of the text depending on if the device is upright or on its side. Im sorry the 'Menu' and 'Disp' button will not change, and I dont belve those are part of the display. This is a poorly excuted joke.
...so it is another April fools gag. Check the press relase website(http://www.apple.com/pr/) Please...enough of gags.
By the way, Gmail not a joke, says Google .
If they can do what they say, I'd definitely consider the service. I'd be more than willing to pay for a non-ad-infested if I could access it via IMAP as well as through a web interface. Especially if it had some really great anti-spam features and/or procmail filter access.
Does anyone know how to move downloaded e-mail back up to an IMAP server?
just a squeezed picture of a iMac desktop monitor, with a button from powerMac and a cam from some other device. the stupid point is that it shows an interface similar to Mac OS, for the size of the screen of this article, you cant read the menu!
Everybody else who feels the same simply stays away from Slashdot on April 1st.
Infuriate left and right
Domain Name: MOBILEMAG.COM
Name Server: NS2.IHOST.CA
Name Server: NS1.IHOST.CA
Even the company web site is only intermittently available.
If you can't get to it, part of it says:
All Accounts Include:
- ...
- 99.8% Uptime
- ...
So much for 99.8% uptime! I think they will be having some words with their customer soon. Maybe 'mobilemag' will post the graphical stats for us.Why would i possibly want to spend $699 on a PowerPod? Why, for that much, i could pay the licensing fee for a copy of linux!
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
This might be more funny if Mobilemag and its owners didn't have a less-than-stellar history that could be compared to Infinium Labs.
Don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products. Mobilemag's owner Fabrizio Pilato has a history of being a dishonest scam artist.
The most recent example of Mobilemag dishonesty is posting a story to Slashdot as an anonymous reader that points to (surprise, surprise!) Mobilemag. Of course the post is written as if some third party who has nothing to do with the site submitted it.
Check Mobilemag's Recently Accepted Submissions history for the proof. The Slashdot scam is the least egregious of Mobilemag's sins.
If you need some background on Mobilemag.com, here's the skinny:
Mobilemag is the latest incarnation of TwoMobile (a.k.a. TwoMobile Guys), a pair of high school drop-outs who participated in a de facto fraud with the Canadian dotcom incubator NRG Group. NRG billed itself as a youth marketing research firm that used teenaged "CEOs" as gimmicks to get media attention. (Based on NRG/Mobilemag/TwoMobile activities, the investment waters in Toronto -- Canada's financial capital -- have been poisoned for serious businesses that have an Internet strategy as a key business component. This comes from a lawyer who brokers investment for technology-related companies.) The TwoMobile.com domain is now being redirected to Mobilemag.com.
The two teens used the investment money to buy all sorts of top-dollar toys and electronic equipment such as digital video cameras, pricey suits, etc., burned the cash away with parties, personal trips around the world, vacations and booze. They moved back in with their parents in small-town Ontario when the free ride was over and they ran out of money, and therefore couldn't afford to live in Toronto.
"I created a business where we can play with toys and go on trips!" Mobilemag owner Fabrizio Pilato said that to a Toronto newspaper about an earlier version of the site when he was asked about funding. In other words, he's a scam artist.
"We were sick of reviews that were really more like advertisements" is what the owners of Mobilemag was quoted as saying. His statement would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that Mobilemag is all about advertisements -- the site sells its coverage to manufacturers -- and pandering to the product manufacturers just to get more electronic toys for free.
So don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products.
That $2000 bandwidth bill will be more than paid for by increasing their ad rates (for the larger audience) and by revenues from clickthroughs on existing ads.
I can't tell if it's for real (and I don't really care). But if a song is about 2.5 MB or so how the hell does one get a movie in 25 MB? I vote fake or written by an imbecile (or both).
Be happy. Nothing else matters.
Not as hilarious as the iPod port of DOOM (!!)
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
And it had better come with two mouse buttons too.