Inside Apple's iPhone

DECS writes "Despite CNET's wild claims, Roughly Drafted is reporting that Apple's market position and recent performance show the company has the ability, capacity, and interest in shaking up the mobile phone industry. Something that service providers, manufacturers, and consumers desperately need."

Comments

Except....

[kjart]

It wont be called iPhone because Cisco/Linksys has already released one and owns the trademark for iPhone. The Canadian trademark is controlled by Comwave, I believe (someone linked to them defending the trademark against Apple in another article but I can't find it now).

MacPhone perhaps? That seems to be more in line with some of their recent naming conventions as well.

Re:Cell providers are the problem, not the phone

[vhogemann]

It must be a US only problem then...

Around here at Brazil I'm able to upload and download photos/ringtones to my mobile using the provided data-cable, no fees attached. Also there are tons of phones with IR or Bluetooth conectivity, you can use both to transfer data to these phones. Not to mention the new phones that have expandable memory using SDCards and MemorySticks...

So, the only people that pays for things like picture downloading and ringtones here are the ones that don't know better, that is, most of them :-) But no carrier is forcing them to pay for anything, they're paying because they just don't know that there are ways to get the same things for free.