I'm trying to figure out how any of these goobers got to the logical progression that leads them to speculate about an Apple mobile phone product. Knowing what I do about the mobile phone business, and what I do about Apple's hardware engineering organization, I find it hard to believe that this speculation is grounded in anything resembling reality.
Of course, I was completely blind-sided by the transition to Intel. Still, the way mobile phones are qualified with mobile phone networks is weird and Apple has so far resisted entering that market. I'm also suspicious that a lot of these rumors might be unwarranted speculation based on inside knowledge about meetings between Apple and redacted about something entirely unrelated to mobile phones.
yeah, that's the wacky asssumption i pointed out. it would make more sense to think about RF as, say, wifi or bluetooth given apple's current product lines that contains RF than to be, like, OMG IFONZ upon reading that, but that is something we will not speak concerning.
It's possible, but having watched Apple long enough to remember how certain many people were that Apple was going to sell widescreen iPods, release a tablet computer, buy SGI, buy Sun, buy Sony, revive the Newton, convert to Be OS, convert to Linux, open source NeXTStep, open source Classic Mac OS, release Copland, have a speech and gesture recognition computer, be bought by SGI, be bought by Sun, be bought by Microsoft, license the Microsoft OS, sell the Mac OS to Microsoft, and ditch the Motorola 68k computing platform and transition to the Intel 286, I'll put my elder statesman status on the line here and say that the only difference between the far-fetched rumor some overenthusiastic fanboy makes up in a web forum and the professional evaluations that a pundit provides by flogging info from their deeply embedded sources is the airtime per diem.
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Date: 2006-12-03 04:59 am (UTC)Of course, I was completely blind-sided by the transition to Intel. Still, the way mobile phones are qualified with mobile phone networks is weird and Apple has so far resisted entering that market. I'm also suspicious that a lot of these rumors might be unwarranted speculation based on inside knowledge about meetings between Apple and
redactedabout something entirely unrelated to mobile phones.no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 06:52 am (UTC)Things that make you go hmmmmm
Date: 2006-12-03 06:25 am (UTC)I am looking forward to seeing what comes out at the next Macworld.
Re: Things that make you go hmmmmm
Date: 2006-12-03 11:55 am (UTC)