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Apple, Motorola Plan An iTunes-Friendly Phone

PabloJones writes "Apple and Motorola have come together to create a new mp3-enabled cell phone, according to this Reuters article. It says that the device will be capable of storing about 12 songs, and will be fully integrated with iTunes. Perhaps this is a beginning of a new relationship between the two companies, after the PowerPC problems between the two in recent years."

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  1. gnaa fp by I+have+this+account · · Score: -1, Troll

    you dirty cuntrags.

  2. Slashdot doesn't render well in Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or Mozilla. Come on, what the heck is going on here?

    I'm not talking about the nemesis of IE, the banality of Opera (who has the audacity to charge money, heaven forfend someone make a living) or Netscape.

    Obviously something's wrong with Slashcode not the browsers.

  3. They're not called mp3's... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you insensitive clod! It's called AAC.

  4. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Except that just about every major carrier already offers 'realtones' (or a similar name) for their newer phones, which are the actual songs, and usually similarly priced to their monophonic and polyphonic tones.

    But if people are like this friend I have, who, when I was assisting him in purchasing a ringtone, went for the polyphonic instead of the 'realtone' because of its distintive 'oh that's my cellphone ringing, it's not just someone's discman turned up too loud' sound... then this won't be the huge success it already hasn't been.

    In conclusion, you are stupid.

    And fucking disgusting. What are you, twelve?

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    lead to 'cleaner and Juli*et 40,,00 feel an obligation having lost 93%

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  7. Re:I'll Wait ... by GoofyBoy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes and then people will defend that design issue with arguments like;

    "my grandmother understands it"
    "its simplier elegent UI"
    "a refreshing change for the masses and advanced users alike"
    "How intutive is right-clicking anyways?"

    Whoops, scratch that last one.

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    The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
  8. Re:Uh, woo? by dj245 · · Score: 1, Troll
    this will get them hooked not only on the idea, but on Apple's intuitive interface.

    Please, there is no such "intuitive" and there is nothing intuitive about Apples products. If you are used to the products of Apple, then yes, the controls will seem familiar to you. But they will not be intuitive. You will not have the knowledge of button placement encoded into your DNA. It will merely be consistent with expected behavior.

    If you were used to and familiar with another companies products, Apple's products would seem very strange and alien to you. They would not even be recognizable as a pattern at all, and certainly not an expected one.

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