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What If Apple Made A Cell Phone And No One Cared?

Posted by Zonk on from the ilike-the-idea dept.

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?"

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  1. Coward 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woot!

  2. What if noone read his column? by juicy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, but what has happened to Slashdot? I've been here since nearly the beginning, and I've noticed a sharp decline in the quality of the submissions, but quite the opposite trend in VOLUME of them. I used to regularly read stimulating, interesting stories from all over geekdom, and now sometimes I feel like any story that sounds remotely tabloid-worthy -- as long as it has the word 'Game,' 'Microsoft,' or 'Apple,' in the title -- makes it right up front.

    Obviously this is not worth reading.

    Juicy

    --
    -- Eli Juicy Jones
  3. Re:Once again... by DragonWriter · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This is all off-topic, but...

    If we went to war for oil, where is it?

    In the ground.

    Why did prices go up this year if we had all that Iraqi oil in our control?


    Because, contrary to the expectations of Bush Administration officials (like Paul Wolfowitz, who claimed that Iraq's oil would pay for the costs of reconstruction and more besides; the same official who explained the difference in Bush Administration policy toward Iraq [which there was only the vaguest indication might be producing WMDs] and North Korea [for which there was a near certainty, now confirmed dramatically, that they were] with the explanation that North Korea, unlike Iraq, did not swim in a sea of oil) prior to the war, we have not, in fact, secured control of the oil, or even secured Iraq at all, and in fact we've made the entire Middle East more volatile through the invasion.

    Your argument against GP's sig seems based on the premise that the war was competently executed, and therefore if it was for oil, we must now have that oil. But the war has not been, rather manifestly, competently executed.
  4. Memorable Quotes from The Kentucky Fried Movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Loo: And who are they?
    Dr. Klahn: Refuse, found in waterfront bars.
    Loo: Shanghaied?
    Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don't know where they are and no longer care.
    Prisoner #1: Where are we?
    Prisoner #2: I don't care!
    Loo: And these?
    Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don't know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don't drink.
    Prisoner #3: I don't know who I am?
    Prisoner #4: And I don't drink!
    Dr. Klahn: Guards! (move prisoners) Do you care?
    Prisoner #5: No.
    Dr. Klahn: Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink.
    Guard: What do you drink?
    Prisoner #5: I don't care.