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Tallgeese wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

iboy wrote:

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Take a cell phone away from a teenager for even 1 day and it's torture.  A cell phone is a social necessity for the younger generations.

Yeah, that's the start of the many things wrong with you teens.

Damn right.
This is all the phone I need!

Those were good phones but just a little less connected 24/7 like a borg wouldn't kill them.

Aaron_R wrote:

I was making a statement about how this phone is becoming the focus at apple, and that they need to get back to business. meaning spread the love and focus back on their great software and hardware, both professional and consumer based.

Apple likes staying ahead of the curve, and obviously the iPhone is way more than a phone, it is the start of a new mobile computing platform.  Just look at what it can do with graphics and documents at this point already.  I know plenty of people who have to carry a laptop everywhere they go because of their job.  Usually just so they can get email, or because someone might send them a spreadsheet they need to fill in data or make a correction in.  Small tasks that surely don't warrant carrying around a full laptop.  Some would say that's why there is a growing market of subnotebooks like the Eee.  I say Apple's answer to that market is Mobile OS X and that they are right to put so much effort into it.

Besides that, the Mac is in a very good place right now and I think the plan of attack with Snow Leopard, refining and stabilizing the core of the OS is the right thing to do.  They're keeping up with the hardware advances and the needs of most users.

RBP2005 wrote:

Yeah it is starting to look like some of the rumor mongers are more innovative than apple these days.

Seriously? The rumor mongers are more innovative??? What did they actually create besides and idea for something?

Let me see how this works. I want a computer with the dimensions of the iPhone that I can use to check my mail, etc. while on the go. However, when I press a button I want it to transform into a 17" MBP. Man, I am sooooooooo much more innovative than Apple. They suck!!! </sarcasm>

Frank

Tallgeese wrote:

I was actually serious. I don't have a cell phone and I got one of those off eBay for my land line.

I can understand the impulse, I've got one of those as wall model hanging in my kitchen, but nowadays you keep running into the brick wall of needing touch-tone input (like reporting a power outage). I finally hung a Sony touch-tone phone on the wall next to it.

user wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:

I was actually serious. I don't have a cell phone and I got one of those off eBay for my land line.

I can understand the impulse, I've got one of those as wall model hanging in my kitchen, but nowadays you keep running into the brick wall of needing touch-tone input (like reporting a power outage). I finally hung a Sony touch-tone phone on the wall next to it.

And let's not forget how annoying it can be dialing a long distance number on one of those things!!!

I agree with the sentiment though about those phones being well built. I would say that you can get the same type of phone in a touch-tone model and have the best of both worlds.


Of course  you would want one a little bit newer than the one shown above so that you could have the * and # keys as well

frankly wrote:

ukimalefu wrote:

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1334

I think this tops it: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/

You think?

sevoneone wrote:

Aaron_R wrote:

I was making a statement about how this phone is becoming the focus at apple, and that they need to get back to business. meaning spread the love and focus back on their great software and hardware, both professional and consumer based.

I know plenty of people who have to carry a laptop everywhere they go because of their job.  Usually just so they can get email, or because someone might send them a spreadsheet they need to fill in data or make a correction in.  Small tasks that surely don't warrant carrying around a full laptop.

Yeah and we all know how hard it is to carry around a MacBook Air.

MBA's a bit on the pricey side, too.