Why the Rokr Phone Is An Important Failure

An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian has some interesting commentary on the new iPod cellphone." From the article: "The music-player module works like an iPod - though it lacks the clickwheel that makes its big brothers function so slickly. But overall, the impression is distinctly underwhelming. The word on the streets is that far from being the revolutionary device that will bring about media 'convergence', the Rokr is, well, just the sum of its parts. And that, it seems to me, is the most interesting thing about it."

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"OH WAIT! Apple also "introduced" USB! How could we forget!?" Actually, Apple didn't introduce USB. The closest you can say they "introduced" usb is that they moved their keyboard to USB before most other manufacturers. But they certaintly didn't introduct USB, and they DEFINATELY weren't the first with USB in their consumer systems. "then removing the drive once it got too small for everyday usage, was that not risky financially?" There were PLENTY of manufacturers who removed the floppy on their systems before apple. Namely, the huge market for laptops which was at the time already significantly more machines than apple was currently shipping through their entire product line. NOTE USAGE OF QUOTATION MARKS. MOST PEOPLE WOULD REALISE (NOT REALIZE) THAT AS A CLAIM. TELL ME WHAT THE ORIGINAL iMAC IS MOST FAMOUS FOR.(THAT WOULD BE "INTRODUCING" USB AND REMOVING THE FLOPPY DRIVE. MOST PEOPLE USE DESKTOP SYSTEMS, NOT NOTEBOOKS (I MYSELF BEING AN EXCEPTION). PLEASE UNDERSTAND, I DONT READ /. TO COMPLAIN, I READ /. TO KEEP "UP TO DATE" " But Im glad that someone had the COURAGE to remove that old drive, it prompted us onto USB flash drives.." You couldn't be farther from the truth. Apple may have had something to do with usb flash drive popularity. But apple CERTAINTLY didn't prompt them into existance. YOU MISREAD MY STATEMENT: "it prompted us onto USB flash drives" MEANT THAT IF THEY WERE NOT REMOVED, PERHAPS IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE CONSUMER QUITE A CONSIDERABLE AMMOUNT OF TIME LONGER TO START COMMON USAGE. Wow, being an apple fanboy must really suck. IMO it sux to be so wrong so often. But I guess that is just a way of life for people like you. HEH, WOULD OBVIOUSLY RATHER BE A PERSON LIKE MYSELF THAT ONE LIKE YOURSELF.