This is great news. I just hope the Deathstar (AT&T) doesn't load down new iPhones with bloat ware. Wait, does Apple contractually prevent that? Sweet.
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AT&T Reports New iPhone Coming
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I think the monthly fees for the AT&T/Acer netbook start at $60/month for 2 years. Ouch! That's over $1500 for a netbook!Then it must be all about money because I would like one of these but not have it tied to a monthly subscription.
Maybe Apple will release it at a higher price like the iPod Touches, but if you get it from AT&T with a monthly data contract then it only sells for $99 because AT&T will recoup from the monthly fees.
dongmin, looks like I just dumbed down what you said
While I don't think it's worth it, it's not $1,500 for a netbook. It's $1,500 for a netbook AND internet wherever you are. I'm not saying it's worth it, but it's more than just getting a netbook.
It's a great deal if you are considering getting a netbook and want to subscribe to an internet plan. If that's not important, it's not worth it.
You are right, it is not just the netbook you get for that $1500. But they could cut a similar deal with Apple, with perhaps a higher initial cost or a higher monthly cost. I am just saying it is not impossible that you might see an Apple netbook (not an iPhone) for $100, but you better count the additional (total) costs. Don't get carried away with the seemingly small $100 initial price.
Apple never said such a thing.
As for the $99 netbook, didn't Sprint or another carrier already have a sale like that, as long as you signed up for a contract? And yeah, it's likely to be using Linux.
Not true you're completely wrong and spreading misinformation, Steve Jobs said over and over again during his introduction of the iPhone that physical keyboards are a pain and nearly useless.
I hope it never gets a physical keyboard. I had one on my Voyager and other phones and over time the paint from the keys started rubbing off and making it look very bad. It took me sometime to the touch screen keyboard on the iPhone, but now I love it.
Apple also made fun of Intel cpus for years. Like that mattered in the end.
Jobs is a salesman, not an engineer. He says whatever he feels like in the heat of the moment.
He said that keyboards take up valuable frontal real estate*, and that an onscreen one made sense. (Never mind that it takes up real estate when it's displayed.) It's what a salesman says when he has just that item. That's not the same as saying they'd never use one.
He also made fun of physical buttons, yet the iPhone totally depends on a physical button to work (the Home button), whereas other touch phones don't need one.
And later on, Apple realized that they needed to add the physical volume buttons that the iPhone already had, to the Touch.
Life is not black and white.
* His exact words related to physical keyboards, were: "And, what's wrong with their user interfaces? Well, the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 there. It's this stuff right there. They all have these keyboards that are there whether or not you need them to be there. "
Of course that particular objection doesn't apply with a slider keyboard. (His other comment about buttons in general being cast in stone, does.)
I would love a physical keyboard. However, the iPhone does just fine without it and I doubt Apple will add one.