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Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod
93,000 writes "CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out. From the article: 'As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run.' His prediction for a successor? Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course."
And butt plugs.
'Same speed C but faster'
You know like on the South Park episode where people pushed food up their shoots and the poo came out of their mouths. Kinda like this pronouncment.
And nobody will need more than 640K of memory...
Sure he's rich, but I think he's an idiot anyway. Is that the reason why I have more money than you do?
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
I would have loved seen him say "Oh please Steve, stick a iPod up my hairy anus when I roll over to your world domination. Please let me swallow your load as you sell your 1,000,000,000th iPod!"
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Very odd that despite your self declared dislike for communicating, you managed to squeeze a few minutes in there to gives us a much needed and long winded insight into your life. Jake
Hell yeah.
Only thing I can't figure. Only guy I know with an iPod has a SMOKIN hot wife. Maybe it's a cover.
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two points: check apple's website, regular warranty for this stuff is only 12 months, I quote: "If your iPod is more than a year old and you're not covered by the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod, you can send in your iPod for battery service for $99." and people should just read what is on apple's website, they say you shoudl only expect 300-500 recharges, someone who uses their iPod every day will only get a little over a year, maybe a year and a half if you are lucky(a lot as in recharge it every day). You shouldn't expect more than this if you are smart but knowing how uninformed most people are, they don't realize that apple only has a 1 year warranty becasue that is all you can honestly expect out of the iPod under heavy use.
Actually...
Phones do have many flavo(u)rs. My phone was $25 with my carrier. If I want to plug on my computer, I need a $60 cable and even then, it's about as compatible as any proprietary system goes.
The exact same phone is made but Bluetooth enabled (tm). That exact same phone is $300 with my carrier.
So I guess they don't exactly mind us having phones that can connect to our computer... They just want their part of the pie and some lost revenues royalties on all these MID, screen backgrounds and whatnot I would never get from them.
Mike