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Quote: Originally Posted by mrjoec123 ....I think the iTunes rental store has the potential to be almost that important to Apple's future. Not just what i quoted...the whole post...was one of the BEST I've read in a long long time. You nailed…
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This is really interesting - presumably, a tablet style portable wouldn't have the screen real-estate to replace a 20/24" iMac...but if all or most of the guts is gone i'm sure they could find a way to have the existing LCD and hub for the rest of t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by onlooker The delusions in these threads are frightening. I'm not even going to bother. This IS a rumor site... Some of it can be a bit pie-in-the-sky, but it sure makes for interesting speculation! I like seeing…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow I just don't see Apple putting a tiny physical keyboard on such a device after doing the iPhone. Especially after SJ spent so much time explaining why tiny keyboards squashed into a small space are bad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT A full-size laptop keyboard with a 1280x640 screen would be usable in coach class! One of the main reasons tablet format PC's haven't worked up until now is that they were either laden with a full-size/midget ke…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross One thing I don't think we'll see is an OS X-like GUI..... It would be much bettrr for a subset of Word, or a part, to be used, that would be fully compatible with Word when moved to a big machine, rather …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Most people see their ads via the TV, how many tv ads for Macs do you see, the only ones are for Dells umm...they are TV ads! I donno where you are from, but I see one of these ad's at least 2 times a da…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning But the phone market is different than the MP3 player market, people looking at it will just think it is a fancy phone. Not that different really, just bigger. Controlled by backward, monolithic companie…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign solved many of the bugs and the newer N-Series models I've played with have been great too. The W880i's music player software is IMHO as good as anything Apple has come up with. 10million units isnt huge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning No, but I haven't seen any TV adds for Macs either. And it you go into the resellers they are pushed aside, making more room for iPod stuff. We only have resellers in Australia, no Apple operated stores...…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign And he was wrong then too. Yep - just like its silly to say that iPod has missed the mark now. In 5 years you'll laugh at anyone that says iPhone missed the mark. Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Not according to Wikipedia... No need to split hairs...the point remains. The way Apple manage the iPod business works. It wasnt just some random chain of events that lead to success - i'm not saying th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Where was this perception of low capacity? In the immortal words of CmdrTaco from SlashDot: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign That's not the case…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Already had that on an existing platform 2+ years ago though. Really, it's nothing new. The feature item is their UI and ease of use, not the other features as most new phones have those already, and bet…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign There's literally thousands of competing products as opposed to the dozens of players at the iPods launch. Which were all cheaper and had backing by M$ with play for sure AND what Chucker said above... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning It was marketing, Apple actually market the iPod, you would think they would have learned to market the Mac as well, maybe they would increase sales that one. Marketing is part of it, as it is already with …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning the customer will be asking, why should I pay 500 euro more for a phone. You might think it will be harder, but 1% isnt a big chunk of the market. Its a conservative estimate. Thats the way Apple works - t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning But it wasn't released into a market where there was 1 billion similar devices being sold per year, with 80 million similar devices sold each year. It was released into a worse situation, where there were d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning 2006 world wide sales of smart phones were 80 million, Apple wants a 12.5% market share in one year? Nope - Again, iPhone isnt a smartphone. Apple said they want 1% of the whole phone market which is 10 mil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning How can you say that, when all you have seen of the device is the keynote. Easy - its that good. iPod wasn't this good when it was released and we all know how badly THAT went. Quote: Originally Posted…