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iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the must-go-faster-must-go-fastr dept.

ElvaWSJ writes with a link to a Wall Street Journal interview with Steve Jobs and AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson. As you can imagine, they're pretty enthusiastic. Just the same, they address the possibility that the iPhone will slow internet access on Ma Bell's cell network. "Mr. Jobs acknowledged that the company's new iPhone won't surf the Internet as fast as he would like on the network, called "Edge," but added that the device's ability to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots would give consumers a speedier alternative for Web browsing. For his part, Mr. Stephenson said the iPhone represents a broader push by AT&T into Wi-Fi services, including, potentially, mobile Internet calling. The two men also discussed the iPod's "halo effect" and reflected on the origins of their corporate partnership."

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  1. oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    iPhone Don't Surf!

    1. Re:oblig by el+cisne · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I love the smell of Wi-Fi in the morning. Smells like....bandwith."

  2. Not fast enough?!?! by gravos · · Score: 5, Funny

    But 640kbps ought to be enough for anyone?

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  3. I didn't get far... by niceone · · Score: 1, Funny

    OK I made it half way through Job's first sentence, which was:

    One of the things we feel is this is the biggest breakthrough in user interfaces in 23 years. Since the Mac in 1984 brought us the mouse and bit map displays and folders and icons

    hmmm...

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  4. Wow by svendsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was afraid we wouldn't see a single iPhone advertisement...I mean article today...my fears have been relived...

  5. Ignore what it is, think of what it could be! by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is up with Jobs selling nonexistent features?

    Ringtone business gets a tease:
    Mr. Jobs: One might imagine a lot of things down the road.
    Mr. Jobs: There's a lot of things you can imagine down the road.

    But you can forget 3G in revision one:
    Mr. Jobs: No, we just don't comment on future stuff.

    I also got a kick out of this:
    Mr. Jobs: There's often times a Wi-Fi network that you can join whether you're sitting in a coffee shop or even walking along the street piggybacking on somebody's home Wi-Fi network.

    Theft of service, it's the Apple way!

  6. Re:EDGE is a slow network. by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gotta love /. moderation. You get modded flamebait when you correct the spelling in your own post... : p

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  7. Re:EDGE is a slow network. by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better to grant 50 people email access than websurfing to 1.

    But what if one of those 50 people is a...TERRORIST!?!?!

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  8. Re:Reminds me of a European Country by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> Watch. When every other person you pass on the street has iPhone, you hillbillys with your half screen half keypad dumb phones will be the laughingstock. Ah! You mean Sheeple? Laughing at me? I dont mind that.

  9. must-go-faster-must-go-fastr by andrewd18 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone needs to tell Zonk that removing one vowel won't reload Slashdot on his iPhone any faster.

  10. This great new product! by packetmon · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will surf teh interweb, answer email, make calls, play MP3's, wash your car, clean your house, spank you off. FINELINE PRINT: Product may not work as advertised. In order to benefit from our huge technologically advanced vertically intergrated technologically advanced technology, users must first purchase an advanced proactive neurally intergrated vertically horizontal network card from our vertically implemented horizontally vectored service provider.

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  11. Re:EDGE is a slow network. by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gotta love /. moderation. You getting modded funny for pointing out that the parent got modded flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post... :p

  12. Re:I find the lock-in with a provider retarted. by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait just a minute here, you are saying that a for-profit company in a capitalist economy is trying to get my money?

    The most they can you say?

    Well this is an unsettling development.

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  13. Re:EDGE is a slow network. by lostguru · · Score: 2, Funny

    then you wiretap all 50

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  14. Re:ch-ch-ch-turn and face the strange choices by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and how many times can one ask and answer their own questions in one slashdot comment? Many, many times.

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  15. Re:I find the lock-in with a provider retarted. by TALlama · · Score: 4, Funny
    You've drunk the Kool-Aid.

    And it was tasty and refreshing, thank you very much.

    The reason I want an iPhone is because I've been extremely happy with every Apple product I've ever bought. They want to provide me with a service I desire for a price I find appropriate? Oh, that tricksy Jobs! He's got me again!

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  16. Re:ch-ch-ch-turn and face the strange choices by The-Ixian · · Score: 2, Funny

    does it speed up your telephone conversations as well then?

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