...they found something to do with the ipod battery-put it in a phone and make it removable/replaceable...just goes to show, wait, it's better and cheaper....gimme gimme gimme MAC!

Tempted to downvote for cingular/gsm only and no Canadian carrier, but the geek in me won't allow that.

Upvote for kingbob's sense of humor. Heh.

Where is this video from?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

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@brendotroy: It's from apple.com. (I'd reccomend viewing it there as well — with the correct aspect ratio and sofourth...)

That's OS X running on that iPhone. That's touchscreen technology including scrolling and size manipulation of images, etc.

Besides Cingular (AT&T), Yahoo (e-mail) and Google (Google Maps) are involved.

http://www.apple.com/

Thanks, arnor! I'd anxiously watched accounts (blogs and pictures) from the Jobs keynote, but I didn't realize Apple had already put "ads" like this up. And yes, it's pretty dreamy (although not without complications). This excites me not so much because I'll be preordering one, but because I really agree with what Jobs said - that this is going to advance technology in a leap, not an increment. It's an exciting time to be alive and geeky.

No to all virals.

The Apple dealer at a Mac meeting Tuesday night pointed out that sales of this phone will be through Cingular, so he won't be selling these.

Really, dotdude? Are you sure he wasn't mistaken? From what I heard (although I can't find an attribution right now, which means it may be rumor or made-up), these were going to be sold both in Cingular stores and by Apple (apple.com & b&ms). If this "dealer" were a reseller (like your local "we know Macs" store that's not an Apple Store), then maybe so. Either way, I'm waiting for them to be unlocked, at the least, before I buy one. Even possibly the hottest piece of fetish-worthy tech of my adult life isn't worth switching to Cingular for.

Apple Inc is simply the Dark Sith. You are all under it's dark shroud.

MacSift.

He could be wrong. But that is what he told us last night.

Several at the meeting said that Apple is notorious for spreading rumors to confuse folks. These are people who have used Macs from the very beginning and keep up with all the intrigue, etc.

As I was saying. Dark Sith.

Oh yeah - I'm one of the new Apple "fanboys" sucked in by the iPod, and I'm sure that my segment is as annoying to longtime Mac devotees as the new fans that flock to an established band when they have a radio hit are to their longtime followers.

Still, I can't believe that Apple will keep this Cingular-only for long. Sure, they're claiming that they're "different", and they have won some concessions from Cingular, for sure (especially, apparently, in redoing their network to accommodate that drool-worthy visual voicemail system). Still, I can't imagine that they wouldn't open it up to the rest of the market (Cingular subscribers make up less than a third of the cell phone market in the U.S.), and since they're releasing in Europe, we know that an unlocked (or at least differently-SIMmed) version is possible.

Can you hear the word sell and out? It's ringing all over the place but no one dare say it. Because it is the church of Apple Inc.

MacSift!

Vive la Rèvolution!

The partnerships in all this were interesting:

Apple+Disney+Paramount+Google+Yahoo+Cingular(AT&T)

And in the keynote, the theme was let each part of the partnership be good at what it is good at.

The economist in me says go good efficient corporate activity! The consumer in me cries shit am going to get fucked eventually ah?

Yes - I bet the CEOs of Yahoo! and Google were thrilled to come out one after another ... although I personally wish they'd eliminated Yahoo! altogether and let Google handle the push e-mail ... IMHO gmail "pwns" yahoo! mail.

Yes, only 1/3 of US customers use Cingular right now. Did it ever occur to you that maybe part of their plan it to capture a lot more?

@cardboardhut:

Did it ever occur to you ...

Will it run Skype?

I don't believe so, winkler.

And Yes, it was so awesome that I posted 2 videos. I almost posted three.

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