Comments on: iPhone not what we’re thinking? http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/ Apple news and analysis from everyone's favorite mythical Mac user Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The Macalope » Blog Archive » Phone phone phonie phone phone phone http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-3395 The Macalope » Blog Archive » Phone phone phonie phone phone phone Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:47:39 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-3395 [...] And 9 out of 10 drunk fauns agree with his analysis. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...] [...] And 9 out of 10 drunk fauns agree with his analysis. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]

]]> By: ben http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-881 ben Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:28:38 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-881 you're on MacBreak Weekly Episode 12: Smokin' very cool. I enjoy the opinions and possibilities. you’re on MacBreak Weekly Episode 12: Smokin’

very cool. I enjoy the opinions and possibilities.

]]> By: iPhone - Page 2 - macosx.com - Mac Support http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-831 iPhone - Page 2 - macosx.com - Mac Support Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:31:17 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-831 [...] There are some sites suggesting that the iPhone is not a phone at all, but a technology that will be introduced into new Macs -- ie. VoIP. I think that is more likely than an actual mobile phone for reasons MisterMe points out. It's a very messy market to get into and I don't know Apple is ready, or willing, to jump in. Even if they were to get things rolling in the USA, what about other countries? Every county has their own mobile carriers and systems in place. It would be very difficult and expensive to penetrate the US market, let alone other countries'. __________________ My Big Fat List version 2.0! MacBook Pro: 2Ghz CoreDuo, 80GB 7200rpm, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6, Boot Camp iMac G5 1.8Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6 Mac Classic 8Mhz, 1MB RAM, 40MB HDD, System 6 [...] [...] There are some sites suggesting that the iPhone is not a phone at all, but a technology that will be introduced into new Macs — ie. VoIP. I think that is more likely than an actual mobile phone for reasons MisterMe points out. It’s a very messy market to get into and I don’t know Apple is ready, or willing, to jump in. Even if they were to get things rolling in the USA, what about other countries? Every county has their own mobile carriers and systems in place. It would be very difficult and expensive to penetrate the US market, let alone other countries’. __________________ My Big Fat List version 2.0! MacBook Pro: 2Ghz CoreDuo, 80GB 7200rpm, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6, Boot Camp iMac G5 1.8Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6 Mac Classic 8Mhz, 1MB RAM, 40MB HDD, System 6 [...]

]]> By: JestuWhat http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-825 JestuWhat Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:31:29 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-825 iPhone mastered by 2008 now that the new ipod w/vid has that exact nifty search that acts like Quicksilver/Spotlight. iphone and ivhone Scott Breen is droooooooooling for 2007. iPhone mastered by 2008 now that the new ipod w/vid has that exact nifty search that acts like Quicksilver/Spotlight. iphone and ivhone Scott Breen is droooooooooling for 2007.

]]> By: ffakr http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-810 ffakr Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:57:53 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-810 I hate to 'me too' but I've made this observation to my colleagues a while back also. The Media Center is Passee. Apple has the opportunity to take over EVERYTHING. With an iSite equipped Mac and the proper software support Apple can provide one device that would allow them to become your local and long distance phone company, your music store, your Video rental service, your ISP (of sorts), your phone and video conferencing solution. Tie it to a nice high-def TV and support game developers and it could even pass as a game console (not bleeding edge but it come with the package). Apple can and should tie this into .Mac. Get a .Mac account and you get your email, web space, your telephone service.. it ties in with your music and your video. Bundle in TV show deals with .Mac service. They could and probably should Tier .Mac service too.. add features to a base account like you do with .Mac. They could even take a more serious stab at providing backups with TimeMachine. It'd be a single fee, single account for all of your digital and phone needs short of Apple getting into the Broadband market. That I don't ever see happening. :-) I hate to ‘me too’ but I’ve made this observation to my colleagues a while back also.
The Media Center is Passee. Apple has the opportunity to take over EVERYTHING. With an iSite equipped Mac and the proper software support Apple can provide one device that would allow them to become your local and long distance phone company, your music store, your Video rental service, your ISP (of sorts), your phone and video conferencing solution. Tie it to a nice high-def TV and support game developers and it could even pass as a game console (not bleeding edge but it come with the package).

Apple can and should tie this into .Mac. Get a .Mac account and you get your email, web space, your telephone service.. it ties in with your music and your video. Bundle in TV show deals with .Mac service. They could and probably should Tier .Mac service too.. add features to a base account like you do with .Mac.
They could even take a more serious stab at providing backups with TimeMachine.

It’d be a single fee, single account for all of your digital and phone needs short of Apple getting into the Broadband market. That I don’t ever see happening. :-)

]]> By: 43f Links for Tuesday, October 24th | 43 Folders http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-671 43f Links for Tuesday, October 24th | 43 Folders Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:20:46 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-671 [...] 43f Links for Tuesday, October 24th Badass on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Heh. “Dock Scrabble.” (tagged: macs osx dock scrabble heh) Tinfoil Hat Linux “Useful if…The Illuminati are watching your computer…” Love the paranoid penguin icon. [via:Anarchaia.org] (tagged: via:Anarchaia.org oss penguins heh tinfoilhats linux) The Macalope » Blog Archive » iPhone not what we’re thinking? “It’s a technology–like VOIP–and that what Apple is going to do is put this into all Macs so each Mac ships as a computer and a phone.” Just drunktalk? (tagged: drunktalk rumors iphone apple macintosh mbwideas) [No TWiT Today] Several people seem prepared to take their own lives if Leo even _considers_ not doing TWiT. All manner of blandishment, cajoling, and threat ensues. (tagged: thisweekintech commentbukkake leolaporte twit) 5ives - Five Halloween safety tips “4. If a close-fitting mask causes your child to fall down a well, use fishing line and a paper clip to retrieve her goodie bag. Nobody likes wet candy.” (tagged: 5ives halloween) This American Life Podcast [Fiasco!] MP3 The “Fiasco!” episode starts with “Opening Night,” the story of a small-town production of Peter Pan A favorite of mine. (NB: MP3 link. MP3s make noise.) (tagged: fiascoes thisamericanlife) [...] [...] 43f Links for Tuesday, October 24th Badass on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Heh. “Dock Scrabble.” (tagged: macs osx dock scrabble heh) Tinfoil Hat Linux “Useful if…The Illuminati are watching your computer…” Love the paranoid penguin icon. [via:Anarchaia.org] (tagged: via:Anarchaia.org oss penguins heh tinfoilhats linux) The Macalope » Blog Archive » iPhone not what we’re thinking? “It’s a technology–like VOIP–and that what Apple is going to do is put this into all Macs so each Mac ships as a computer and a phone.” Just drunktalk? (tagged: drunktalk rumors iphone apple macintosh mbwideas) [No TWiT Today] Several people seem prepared to take their own lives if Leo even _considers_ not doing TWiT. All manner of blandishment, cajoling, and threat ensues. (tagged: thisweekintech commentbukkake leolaporte twit) 5ives - Five Halloween safety tips “4. If a close-fitting mask causes your child to fall down a well, use fishing line and a paper clip to retrieve her goodie bag. Nobody likes wet candy.” (tagged: 5ives halloween) This American Life Podcast [Fiasco!] MP3 The “Fiasco!” episode starts with “Opening Night,” the story of a small-town production of Peter Pan A favorite of mine. (NB: MP3 link. MP3s make noise.) (tagged: fiascoes thisamericanlife) [...]

]]> By: LKM http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-661 LKM Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:02:41 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-661 >It’s a technology - like VOIP - and that what >Apple is going to do is put this into all Macs >so each Mac ships as a computer and a phone. So, the iPhone is... iChat? >It’s a technology - like VOIP - and that what
>Apple is going to do is put this into all Macs
>so each Mac ships as a computer and a phone.

So, the iPhone is… iChat?

]]> By: V M Respectable http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-641 V M Respectable Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-641 My burdensome task is to reply with this link: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/72A2033E-F9A5-4EDA-991D-E1F0178C6AF5.html Also, there's this series of articles: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/695B640C-410D-4E8D-B0A9-94ACA5C78BE1.html http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/8AE9425E-A5FE-4C84-8BE4-49F64270BC80.html http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/B95B4AB4-D8AB-4F3A-8B37-6CD497DDD32F.html If that's all sounding a bit too reasonable, he does have an article wherein he suggests an internet-appliance-XServe (linked in the intro to the telephony article, or here: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/3FE506E2-FD6D-4FC6-BC9C-055F27279DF4.html). That should balance things out as far as the crazy/fox-crazy scale is concerned. My burdensome task is to reply with this link: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/72A2033E-F9A5-4EDA-991D-E1F0178C6AF5.html

Also, there’s this series of articles:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/695B640C-410D-4E8D-B0A9-94ACA5C78BE1.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/8AE9425E-A5FE-4C84-8BE4-49F64270BC80.html
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/B95B4AB4-D8AB-4F3A-8B37-6CD497DDD32F.html

If that’s all sounding a bit too reasonable, he does have an article wherein he suggests an internet-appliance-XServe (linked in the intro to the telephony article, or here: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/3FE506E2-FD6D-4FC6-BC9C-055F27279DF4.html). That should balance things out as far as the crazy/fox-crazy scale is concerned.

]]> By: Jim Gleeson http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Jim Gleeson Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:56:17 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-632 Don't believe what the leprechauns tell you, they are always trying to distract people so you can't get a hold of your lucky charms. Incidentally, I talked with a banshee (they can be quite ornery in their own right) who related a story involving a dyrad, whose sister was dating the traveling gnome. Well the gnome was quite annoying from what I heard but recently met Kevin Bacon at a press junkit. Bacon was talking about how they might actually create a social networking application based on friendster that incorporated his game "the six degrees of kevin bacon" into it. Anyhow one thing led to another and one of the developers of this new system were the three fates who apparently also have a side job consulting with Steve Jobs. Well, as you can imagine, Bacon wanted to know what the next big product for Apple was going to be. Jobs made mention to these fates that he was thinking about something called the iToaster. It was the missing link in the digital hub, he stated. I just think that one of the fates put something on her waffles besides maple syrup. Don’t believe what the leprechauns tell you, they are always trying to distract people so you can’t get a hold of your lucky charms. Incidentally, I talked with a banshee (they can be quite ornery in their own right) who related a story involving a dyrad, whose sister was dating the traveling gnome. Well the gnome was quite annoying from what I heard but recently met Kevin Bacon at a press junkit. Bacon was talking about how they might actually create a social networking application based on friendster that incorporated his game “the six degrees of kevin bacon” into it. Anyhow one thing led to another and one of the developers of this new system were the three fates who apparently also have a side job consulting with Steve Jobs. Well, as you can imagine, Bacon wanted to know what the next big product for Apple was going to be. Jobs made mention to these fates that he was thinking about something called the iToaster. It was the missing link in the digital hub, he stated.

I just think that one of the fates put something on her waffles besides maple syrup.

]]> By: pauldwaite http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/23/iphone-not-what-were-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-622 pauldwaite Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:58:47 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=80#comment-622 Wait a minute. I said that too! Well, almost: http://www.macalope.com/?p=77#comment-582 Wait a minute. I said that too!

Well, almost: http://www.macalope.com/?p=77#comment-582

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