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1. Comment - Now That The Novelty's Worn Off...

   (Jan 14, 2007 - 1:06 PM)

   Well,
   
   I have watched and read about the iTunes media ultrahype with much amusement. While the US may have superior technological infrastructure in most tech fields than say Europe and Asia, the mobile phone industry there seems be eons behind. While a tech geek might espouse the technical superiority of CDMA 2x tech over GSM, its GSM (with 3G) that is winning the war, if it hasn't already. Most of the US is still locked into the mobile equivalent of the middle ages with CDMA and these unbelievable carrier-based plans. At least us GSM users in Europe and Asia can change handsets whenever we please, and carriers too, and take the ultra hip GSM phone with us whereever we travel (except the USof**es). Also, The variety of features on umpteen models of smartphones already available for a 3rd of the price Apple wants to sell their overhyped (as usual) gadget for in our markets, I will be very surprised if this ploy for Jobs and his spinmeisters will pay off in the rest of the world, which BTW is where all the new customers are. 600 smackaroos for an 8GB model! Fuhgedabbadit! Plus its closed technology, which is plain stupid, and not to mention arrogant! With convergence closing in fast, it would daft to expect people already enjoying open source alphabet-soup of compatible technologies on their phones, be it music, video, sharing etc. etc., to have to bend to Apple's dictats, just coz the phone looks pretty. And I doubt they have discovered a completely new scratchless material for their touchscreen, unless the aliens gifted it to them (the Apple hordes, aka suckers, might just even believe that). Don't forget, the mobile phone is THE most abused and overused tech device today for people who have one (er, pretty much half the planet?)!
   
   I wonder if this is the endgame for Apple, if this is the best they could pull out of their worn-out-overpriced hat...