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Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones
Waqas writes "Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia. The Chinese-language Commercial Times on Wednesday cited Taiwan-based sources within Apple's iPod component supply chain as saying the phone is due to arrive during the first half of next year."
Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia.
Let's just be thankful that they aren't being designed by Microsoft. If they were, you could only talk to other Microsoft phone owners, and every number you called would get blocked after three calls or three days unless you paid extra to get it unlocked...
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
I remember when phones were used to talk to people.
(Git off my lawn!)
I remember when apple was a fruit
Apple may not be a fruit, but its customers are.
(ducks)
or a Music Label...
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Thats right. Brown.
You were lucky!
When I were a lad I'd have to walk two hundred miles to the nearest village with my legs tied together with barbed wire, find a rotten apple on the floor near Farmer Bob's apple cart, then take it one thousand miles over broken glass and rusty nails to grandma for her dinner.
I thought it was loose lips, pink slips.
I thought it was pink lips.....oh nevermind.
I take it upon myself to answer on behalf of the slashdot collective:
It depends if it has more space than Nomad or not.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I wouldn't be so harsh about the brand.
I've also heard that...
Microsoft is working on a Zune phone that will allow you to record something and send it to someone else with a Zune phone. But they'll only be able to listen to this "message" for three days unless you pay Cingular and Universal Music Group each a dollar.
This new product will be called the "Zone". Microsoft's marketing message will be "Welcome to the Zone".
This "record and recall" feature should be added to the Zune within a year, but look for C|Net News.com to buck the trend and to annoint the "Zone" an "iPhone killer" for the next six months, followed by swooning reviews of the Zone, claiming it's "great for phone beginners".
Also, the Zone is slated to be compatible with Windows XP SR2 and Windows Vista only.
Besides getting scratched easily, your nice white apple cell phone will be dirty with all that oil your face produces. How good is that going to be?
Everyone knows that Apple always does one stupid thing with every piece of hardware they sell. Something that isn't a deal breaker, but is annoying, and makes no real sense. With the Macs, it's their refusal to ship the things with 2-button mice. Withe the iPod, it's their refusal to include an FM tuner.
My guess is the iPhone will have no "7" button.
Steve hates the number 7.
Sounds like you need to look at something like a Treo or a Motorola Q. I love my Treo 700p.
:-)
In fact, I'm using it to send this reply while waiting in line at Autozone.
I believed you up until you said wife.
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The click wheel was such a nice addition to the iPod, they MUST incorporate that into the phone. I've got it! You could like spin the wheel around to select each number instead of typing them in. It will be so innovative...oh wait...
Please, this is a much better business model. Now, mobile phones are much more appealing to the most lucrative market. By loading phones with dozens of complicated games and applications, they are objects of desire for rich nerds who love twiddling with little gadgets but would never want to own a regular telephone because they don't have any friends to call.
That's progress!
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Tell the kids o' today that, an they won't believe yer.
Reporter: "There's a lot of excitement about the iPhone..."
Jobs: "Wait. The what phone?"
Reporter: "Er... the iPhone; the brand new device that's meant to do to the cellphone what iPod did to the walkman. Flash based MP3 player, revolutionary new interface... I thought you may have heard of it?"
Jobs: "Hmm, sounds good. Put be down for 12 million of those babies."
Reporter: "Er, I don't work for you, Mr. Jobs."
Jobs: "You're fired."