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iPod touch nay-sayers: shackled by “gadget thinking”
There are many business, design and technology reasons why Apple may not be ready to open up the iPhone/iPod touch. I examined a list of them here: iPod touch nay-sayers: shackled by “gadget thinking” http://counternotions.com/2007/10/01/ipod-touch-nay-sayers-shackled-by-gadget-thinking/
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Kontra
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October 8, 2007
Treo already does mostly everything iPhone is supposed to do
My Treo 650p (sprint) does decent phone calls, is a PDA, can be used as a ''modem'' for my lapstation, has a fairly full-featured web browser (which I use quite a bit actually because I don't take my lapstation everywhere with me), runs Java, has thousands of 3d party apps available (which can use the network connectivity, e.g. for instant ...
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foobar
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July 9, 2007
Re: IPhone 1.0 a power grab, 2.0 the real thing
Those comments sound like someone who hasn't yet used one. Admittedly I'm a convert, I did some research, read a bunch of reviews, and got one (not a little bit because it relates to my job as a consultant). The WiFi does drain the battery faster. If I have the WiFi on, with normal use of the device, I need to charge it once per day or I will ...
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Rickb
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July 8, 2007
iPHONE Revolutionary? Yep!
Face it, folks. It IS revolutionary in so many ways. Although it pains me to say it, Apple has broken a long-established mold and taken the first dramatic and courageous step in changing the face of three different technologies and inventing a fourth. It seems, however, that pundits are pre-disposed to saying, ''NO'' and the perennial ...
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Bob Porter
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July 2, 2007
Steve Jobs is even smarter than George Bush
Forget about book smarts. The fact is this: there have few people in recent memory who publicly distorted reality as much as George Bush did, and got away with it for so long with so many people. But he's the President - he has some built-in credibility. How Steve Jobs does it is beyond me. All I can do is assume that it's a result of sheer ...
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pryoslice
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June 29, 2007