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What If Apple Made A Cell Phone And No One Cared?
PreacherTom writes "Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora penned a note saying that Apple is readying a music phone — and a separate, combination video and music phone. He expects Apple to introduce the devices in January at Macworld, a conference for Mac enthusiasts where the company typically debuts new products. At least one of the phones will offer Wi-Fi connectivity and both will become available in the March quarter of 2007 ... but will anyone care?"
The fact of the matter is that the analysts were expecting the usual drop in the price of Apple stock following the financial disclosure. It happens every quarter. Well it didn't happen this time. With Macworld coming up the anaylists were hoping for a price drop in order to buy up and sell off when Macworld arrived. I expect we'll see several attempts to deflate the Apple ballon before Macworld since it didn't happen of it's own accord this time. Greedy bastards, always playing games and coming up with crap just to move the stock price.
iRokr is better that Motorola Rokr, because of the 'i'. Whee.
"But can it play music from the iTunes Music Store?"
No, it's perfect!
"But does it include an easy way to find the song you want to play?"
yeah, the play button... I only put music on it that I want to play... makes finding it 100% success.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Same UNIX foundation as OX X
Nuh-uh... OS X uses a wierd hybrid of BSD and CMU Mach, in many ways it's worse than Linux, but it does at least have a stable ABI for hardware manufaturers to code to. Hence you get real vendor supported hardware on Mac, and unsupported sellotape-and-string drivers made by amateur coders who are usually making educated guesses at how the hardware actually works, and doing it in their spare time on Linux.
but a more modern and more efficient window system
Fuck off you idiot. X11 is over 20 years old now, and is only just beginning to support compositing and buffered drawing. X11 is not more modern, and with the addition of kludges to allow compositing gets even more layers between the software and the hardware below it. GLX requires TWO X servers to be running. That's not efficient, and it's certainly not modern.
better user interface
Don't you mean better user interfaces? Which one of the various completely different interfaces are you talking about?
thousands of built-in applications
Which are split between KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Gnustep and mesh together horribly and draw 100MB of base libraries into ram when you run them. Mmm...
Those would be the applications which are only built-in until someone mentions how many security and bug patches there are, or wants support, and then they all become third-party.
and a better software development environment.
Oh yeah, gotta love VI.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, it synchronizes with iPod, too.
Providing you have the right version of libipod installed and have automount set up correctly, and that you have the USB subsystem working and your iPod formatted for windows and... and.. and...