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Apple Mobile Me MVNO?
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Ok guiez this is teh trooth. I sweyr.
Count me in as beta tester number two. I took this picture with my iSight, I was too lazy to get the 5MP Camera, sorry for the inconvenience. I only use that camera when not taking pictures of super secret apple beta products.
Anyway, here it is.
EDIT: Oops, my bright green sim card is falling out of my phone in that picture...d'oh. Maybe I'll get a better picture later.
Count me in as beta tester number two. I took this picture with my iSight, I was too lazy to get the 5MP Camera, sorry for the inconvenience. I only use that camera when not taking pictures of super secret apple beta products.
Anyway, here it is.
EDIT: Oops, my bright green sim card is falling out of my phone in that picture...d'oh. Maybe I'll get a better picture later.
Um... Virgin?
When's the last time you heard someone say, "Check out my new Virgin mobile phone?" My guess is never... That aside, Virgin is all marketing and not very good marketing at that. Apple on the other hand has both "brains and brawn" (great hardware and better marketing). I wouldn't be surprised to see an Apple phone in the future, but... well, actually I'd be very surprised to see that.
These Apple phone rumors are really just "Can I please have an iPod/Newton?" rumors in disguise. And as someone else noted, what Apple phone would ever have a protruding antenna? Seriously, that's just wrong. Can you imagine an iPod with a protruding antenna? Didn't think so.
mugwump said:
When's the last time you heard someone say, "Check out my new Virgin mobile phone?" My guess is never... That aside, Virgin is all marketing and not very good marketing at that. Apple on the other hand has both "brains and brawn" (great hardware and better marketing). I wouldn't be surprised to see an Apple phone in the future, but... well, actually I'd be very surprised to see that.
These Apple phone rumors are really just "Can I please have an iPod/Newton?" rumors in disguise. And as someone else noted, what Apple phone would ever have a protruding antenna? Seriously, that's just wrong. Can you imagine an iPod with a protruding antenna? Didn't think so.
Fake. Not because I think it's inconceivable Apple would become an MVNO, but because there's no reason a SIM for a test account would need to have an Apple logo on it! The magic's in the account programming and the data stored on the card, not the artwork. 
Actually, I'm happy to see the blurry photo. I was feeling kind of left out at this year's MWSF since no one steped up with photos their cousin took when he was left alone in a service elevator with the newest Apple products.
So we get our "Find the Fake" hunt a little late this year. At least we get to play the game
So we get our "Find the Fake" hunt a little late this year. At least we get to play the game
Ask yourself this: How many cell phone users know about their SIM card? How many cell phone users open up their cell phone enough to look at the SIM card? Why in the hell would Apple label an internal piece like that?
Unless Apple starts slapping their logo on individual memory sticks, this is fake.
Unless Apple starts slapping their logo on individual memory sticks, this is fake.
Of course it is a fake...but a success anyway, as scissors and an iTunes Gift Card already gave birth to more than 30 comments on MR...
Nothing to see here, people...move along!
Nothing to see here, people...move along!
Apple + Verizon? That would be poo-poo...
I was wandering through flickr.com this morning and found these images.
I would be into an apple phone/wireless feature package. I'm currently in the market for a new provider/phone anyway. However, I have Verizon right now and their customer service is awful.
Anyway, here's a link to the page I found. Think this is a fake, but wanted to hear what yawl had to say...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrelmo/
I was wandering through flickr.com this morning and found these images.
I would be into an apple phone/wireless feature package. I'm currently in the market for a new provider/phone anyway. However, I have Verizon right now and their customer service is awful.
Anyway, here's a link to the page I found. Think this is a fake, but wanted to hear what yawl had to say...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrelmo/
Of course this is fake. The idiot doesn't know the difference between gaussian blur and lens blur. If you are going to try to pretend that it's real, at use the lens blur filter or motion blur, idiot. Go to photography and Photoshop school son, and stop acting like an iFool.
Not happening.sartinsauce said:
- Verizon now has its own set of user interface requirements.
- Verizon just started rolling out their VCAST Music Store, which uses Windows Media.
- Motorola's CDMA hardware and software is significantly different from its GSM hardware and software, native UI similarities aside.
#2 WMA with Janus DRM on iTunes with FairPlay DRM. Riiiiiiight. <Ben Stein> And Apple's incentive to support WMA with ~80% of the legal download market today is? Anyone? Anyone? And Verizon's incentive to permit a direct competitor to its own music store? Anyone? Anyone? </Ben Stein>
#3 Motorola has publicly stated that one of the reasons it took so long to get iTunes running on a phone was integrating its operation into the rest of a GSM phone's operations, and running it on a completely different chipset and OS than the iPods'. Motorola uses Qualcomm chipsets for their CDMA products these days, which is completely different from what they use in their GSM products. That in turn means not only would Motorola have to redo all that work for a CDMA version of iTunes, but have to get yet another vendor involved (Qualcomm) in order to tie everything together correctly. Messy.
Best bet: Apple offers a BREW version of the iTunes app as a separate download from Verizon's Get It Now store, assuming Verizon permits even that much. Personally, I'm not holding my breath unless or until Verizon's music store tanks in a spectacular fashion. Apple as a MVNO is more likely still.
READ the posting... SEE the fake
The clue is in the question, people:
"He was a real Shakespeare buff too, this guy. I'm not sure what reader he was using (built in) but he showed us "Julius Caesar" and it looked great and rendering just beautiful... He wouldn't give us any more information regarding carriers but said to be aware of March 15 as a key date."
Now go and read Shakespeare's "Julias Caesar" and look for the significance of March 15.
Congrats to the poster for an excellent & amusing ruse.
"EV-DO, Brute?" ;-)
The clue is in the question, people:
"He was a real Shakespeare buff too, this guy. I'm not sure what reader he was using (built in) but he showed us "Julius Caesar" and it looked great and rendering just beautiful... He wouldn't give us any more information regarding carriers but said to be aware of March 15 as a key date."
Now go and read Shakespeare's "Julias Caesar" and look for the significance of March 15.
Congrats to the poster for an excellent & amusing ruse.
"EV-DO, Brute?" ;-)
It's real
A person I know family member is part of the Apple team on this project, and it is in test phase currently
A person I know family member is part of the Apple team on this project, and it is in test phase currently
All I can say is that back in July of 2002 [Apple Expo Paris? Maybe WWDC but i think that was a little earlier in the year], Steve Jobs announced a partnership between Apple, Cingular and Sony.
I know, because it's the whole reason that I chose Cingular as my service provider the following month and have been with them ever since.
Obviously, it looks like Sony has been replaced with Moto since then, but what was he talking about with Cingular?
Although these Engadget pix look pretty "hokey", I'm inclined to believe that Apple will become an MVNO. Their obviously getting into the business of content distribution with music, music videos, television episodes, and more than likely full length feature films.
Why wouldn't they try their hand at being a mobile phone and mobile phone service provider as well? They've already started integrating iTunes into Moto's phones through Cingular [which I think is just a guinea pig program for them anyway], so why wouldn't Apple just blow the doors off of the mobile phone/pda industry with it's own full featured Mac Phone [Blackberry/Treo killer - especially know that the Treo 7 series is using a winBlows OS] with a Mac Mobile content delivery system [Verizon VCast killer]?
Take the gloves off Apple! Due for the mobile phone and provider industry what the iPod and iTunes is doing for the digital music player and music industry... TEACH THEM HOW TO DO IT RIGHT!
I know, because it's the whole reason that I chose Cingular as my service provider the following month and have been with them ever since.
Obviously, it looks like Sony has been replaced with Moto since then, but what was he talking about with Cingular?
Although these Engadget pix look pretty "hokey", I'm inclined to believe that Apple will become an MVNO. Their obviously getting into the business of content distribution with music, music videos, television episodes, and more than likely full length feature films.
Why wouldn't they try their hand at being a mobile phone and mobile phone service provider as well? They've already started integrating iTunes into Moto's phones through Cingular [which I think is just a guinea pig program for them anyway], so why wouldn't Apple just blow the doors off of the mobile phone/pda industry with it's own full featured Mac Phone [Blackberry/Treo killer - especially know that the Treo 7 series is using a winBlows OS] with a Mac Mobile content delivery system [Verizon VCast killer]?
Take the gloves off Apple! Due for the mobile phone and provider industry what the iPod and iTunes is doing for the digital music player and music industry... TEACH THEM HOW TO DO IT RIGHT!
munkees said:
Oh! You know that person too!!!
We better not tell anyone else because we wouldn't want to get that person or their family in trouble.
Let's do this:
You post the name and phone number of that person we both know, and I'll tell you if your lying or not.
sure names steve job phone 1 800 appleMacQuest said:Oh! You know that person too!!!
We better not tell anyone else because we wouldn't want to get that person or their family in trouble.
Let's do this:
You post the name and phone number of that person we both know, and I'll tell you if your lying or not.
no this person is a good contact, has two family members at apple one is on that project, my contact told me about wireless phone connection plan off apple before any silly pictures came about.
I expect to see...
If Apple becomes an MVNO, I'd expect to see Apple try to integrate cell technology into some of its already existing products....
1) a laptop with a pcmcia cellular modem
2) an ability to "tether" a cellular modem via an Apple branded comm manager
and then...
3) a tablet with on-board cellular ability
4) an iPhone/iTunes
If Apple becomes an MVNO, I'd expect to see Apple try to integrate cell technology into some of its already existing products....
1) a laptop with a pcmcia cellular modem
2) an ability to "tether" a cellular modem via an Apple branded comm manager
and then...
3) a tablet with on-board cellular ability
4) an iPhone/iTunes