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Author Re: Time Magazine: The iPhone Dials Up the Competition
Rod Speed

2007-06-28, 10:33 pm

tony < spacemarine@mailinat
or.com> wrote

> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote


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> but...it does have a keyboard. a qwerty keyboard,
> right there. its on the screen. still a keyboard.


What I said in the next bit.

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> that may be true. but i havent tried it yet. you have, then?


Dont need to on that particular question, nothing else is even possible.

And it cant cut and paste either, pretty XXXXed with email.

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> interesting. and how do you enter in these favorites in the first place?


Hit the tool that saves the current site as a favorite.

Even you should be able to manage that if someone was actually
stupid enough to lend you a seeing eye dog and a white cane.

> dunno about you, but i often type in new URLs that friends tell me about.


More fool you, I click on the link they include in the email,
even if I am talking to them on the phone at the time.

Leaves manually typing it in for dead.

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> i dont think its wrong. i think even people who have
> cell phones w/ media players still use ipods.


Only the fools.

> why? because the ipod performs its task
> better. why? because its easier to use.


Pity that you have to fart around with two separate devices.

Anyone with a clue gets a cellphone with an
integrated media player with a decent UI instead.

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> why?


Because most arent stupid enough to have two separate devices.

> when you buy an iphone, you essentially get an ipod. why?
> the defining characteristics of the ipod are its style and its
> ease of use. both of which are present in the iphone version.


You dont know that yet.

And few will be silly enough to piss $5/600 and $50/90/month on a 2
year contract against the wall when they already have an ipod anyway.


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