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Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the steve-jobs-hard-to-shop-for dept.

anaesthetica writes "According to AppleInsider, Apple is not only working on a cellphone + mp3 player iPhone, but is working on a second model designed to be a smart phone, highly integrated with Mac OS and .Mac. The smart phone has gone through several iterations, as the notoriously demanding Mr. Jobs ordered the elite team working on the phone to redesign and re-engineer their prototypes. Capabilities are reported to include Front Row interface, syncing contacts and iCal with .Mac, "call ahead", iChat video conferencing integration, WiFi, and a slide-out keyboard. Too good to be true?"

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  1. Re:I see that Mr. Jobs..... by richdun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    appears to be taking a page out of the M$ playbook and tying the device tightly to the OS to drive OS X sales

    Um, have you ever heard of Apple Macintosh computers?

  2. Re:No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. by Pulse_Instance · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Judging from the iPod I'm going to say they will never make it just work with Outlooks calendar, contacts and email. They will make it just work with there own software and force people to use that instead, just as they have done with the iPod and iTunes.

  3. Re:I see that Mr. Jobs..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What an irritating fuck you are. Here's why:

    1. Posting half of the first message in the subject. Why do people do this? Is it supposed to be clever?
    2. Using M$. Come on.
    3. After you used M$, you didn't use Windoze or Winblow$. Can you please be consistent?
    4. *INX. What the hell? I supposed you meant *nix. Equally lame.

    Please just stop.