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snipesnipe
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Pure spec but enticing.



http://www.forbes.com/home/technolog...0708apple.html



Could all the delay on the Motorola/Apple cellphone announcement have something to do with this? The idea of Apple making all the design decisions on a phone is appealing.

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    rongoldrongold Posts: 302member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by snipe

    Pure spec but enticing.



    http://www.forbes.com/home/technolog...0708apple.html



    Could all the delay on the Motorola/Apple cellphone announcement have something to do with this? The idea of Apple making all the design decisions on a phone is appealing.



    I personally have to believe the only reason they printed this is because they have been reading my posts on this very thing over at TreoCentral.com under the Mac threads. The difference ? I picked up on it about 4 months before they did & I didn't have any article to read to just easily hand over the information. I had to do research.
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    murkmurk Posts: 935member
    Yep, rack up another correct prediction for MOSR. 4/29/05 MOSR predicts what Forbes is saying How does Ryan do it?
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    garypgaryp Posts: 150member
    I have been hoping that Apple would do just this. Actually, not just hoping. I have been sure in my gut that Apple will do this I have been holding off buying a cell phone to see what Apple will offer.



    Problem is, I don't care about an iTunes phone. I already have an iPod, and a music phone seems like nothing but a trinket to me. I want real innovation. I want a VOIP World Phone that "just works." As I said in another post, If Apple could pull this off, they could rule the world.
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    slotracer152slotracer152 Posts: 207member
    hmmm: http://www.mobiletracker.net/archive...e-usa-for-sale
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    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
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    Originally posted by Slotracer152

    hmmm: http://www.mobiletracker.net/archive...e-usa-for-sale



    Too big a pill to swallow. T-mobile is the same size company as apple, so they would have to double the number of apple shares outstanding to buy it (Apple does not have enough money to pay cash).



    Also, it sounds like T-mobile would require a big cash infusion to get to 3G.
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    kolchakkolchak Posts: 1,398member
    I'd like to see Apple do a cell phone as only they can. Everybody's trying to make the thinnest handset, like the Razr, or some variation of a swivel phone instead of a flip phone. What I'd like to see is a wrist phone with a Bluetooth 2.0 earphone/microphone. No bulky keypad, just an iPod-style click wheel, looking sort of like the face of a wristwatch. Maybe a gig or two of storage for mp3s and perhaps a 1.3mp camera. To answer, just pull the earpiece from your wrist, press the send button. To call someone, either voice dialing or better yet, using the click wheel to scroll through your phone book.



    The only disadvantage would be that without a keypad, it'd be almost impossible to text message, which might be a deal-breaker for younger consumers. Maybe Apple can come up with some kind of transferable texting lexicon that users could create on a Mac then sync via Bluetooth to the phone. Just scroll through the various words and phrases in the lexicon and click to append or send.
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    kiwi-in-dckiwi-in-dc Posts: 102member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by e1618978

    Too big a pill to swallow. T-mobile is the same size company as apple, so they would have to double the number of apple shares outstanding to buy it (Apple does not have enough money to pay cash).





    Could still happen depending on how much cash T-Mobile has - once a merger closes the combined company resources are available to pay for it - this is what Bernie Ebbers did when he arranged for Worldcom to swallow the elephant when he "bought" MCI using MCI's large cash reserves to complete the deal.
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    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by kiwi-in-dc

    Could still happen depending on how much cash T-Mobile has - once a merger closes the combined company resources are available to pay for it - this is what Bernie Ebbers did when he arranged for Worldcom to swallow the elephant when he "bought" MCI using MCI's large cash reserves to complete the deal.



    Since T-mobile USA, inc. is just a unit of Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, T-Mobile International, I doubt that there is any cash included with the asset sale - any cash net of operating funds would stay with the rest of the company.



    MCI was a stand-alone company - completely different deal. Those kind of transactions only work when the stock market price is low compared to the asset values. In this case there is no stock market price.
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