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iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote
Steve Jobs kept his audience rapt at the MacWorld keynote today. He rehashed the announcement of the iTV, now called Apple TV, and announced the iPhone, a revolutionary phone/ipod/wrist-computer that had MacWorld attendees sitting on the edge of their seats. Retailing for $499 (4 gig)/$599 (8 gig), it has to be seen to be believed. It uses a touch screen with a new form of input control, runs OSX and many standard applications, and connects to the internet via WiFi. It has a camera, functions as a movie player, a music player, and can send emails and photos in the middle of a phone call. From the Engadget coverage: "'[OSX] let us create desktop class applications and networking, not the crippled stuff you find on most phones, these are real desktop applications.' He's quoting Alan Kay - 'People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.' 'So we're bringing breakthrough software to a mobile device for the first time.'" Seriously, go check this out. They're going to print money with this thing.
Thank god I don't own stock in phone companies right now.
Be better in bed. Wikiafterdark!
Probably as soon as more than five people there can afford it. Though, you could get it earlier by buying from a street vendor, i.e., where you buy everything else. So no harm, no foul.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Well, that's Slashdot for you. The slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging mob here will whine endlessly about a $600 Sony console (which regardless of your opinion of the company is the most powerful of its kind ever seen) yet will gobble Steve Jobs' dick for the privilege of paying $600 plus $2400 in service over the next 2 years to use a goddamn telephone.
They know the Emperor has no clothes on; they just don't care.
3) And speaking of Wii, The apple phone has built in blue tooth and accelerometers, plus all sorts of gripping hand input modes. I wonder if it can do absolute positioning in space--maybe with that camera on the back. if so then this woul dbe an awesome game controller. rig this the the iTV (not the wii) and apple is set. Now the price looks even cheaper since you already have the home computer--if it can do the wiii thing too well bite me. Of course you'll need a couple input devices..
I'm surprised you'd say something so stupid after a nice, coherent post. Come on dude...what were you thinking?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck