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Where the hell is Leopard?!!! That's the only thing I wanted to see and it wasn't even shown! The iPhone is nice and all but I can't afford that. And I don't need all those features in a phone anyways. Touchscreen interface is nice though. AppleTV is rather pointless. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just burn stuff to DVD? Apple Computer Inc. becomes Apple Inc. Hurrah! And everything is oh so black.

Whether EDGE is 2G or 3G depends on implementation. While Class 3 and below EDGE devices clearly are not 3G, class 4 and above devices perform at a higher bandwidth than other technologies conventionally considered as 3G (such as 1xRTT). Because of the variability, EDGE is generally classified as 2.75G network technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE

It is still not Cingular's 3G (HTMS/HSPDA).

Yeah I love the phone but my biggest anticipation was finding out about the "secret" features of Leopard.

And the phone's not CDMA for Verizon :(

The purpose of apple is for a world launch. it's my understanding that the world uses GSM and only a small group of providers use CDMA (Verizon / Sprint etc)

Those of us with Verizon will never get cool phones like this probably because of CDMA which uses a hunk of battery life.

The reason you won't see the iPhone come to CDMA markets immediately is because of one main thing. CDMA carriers (i.e. Verizon, Alltel, US Cellular, et. al.) spend months testing and recoding the device's software to fit their network and features (i.e. Get It Now, EasyEdge, et. al.).

That's a major hurdle for Apple, I would imagine. Opening up their brand new baby to the hacks and whims of whatever company wants to gimp, disable, and otherwise maim (coughVerizoncough) the product to their desires.

And, yes, CDMA sucks battery life at nearly twice the rate of GSM.

Where the hell is Leopard?!!! That's the only thing I wanted to see and it wasn't even shown! The iPhone is nice and all but I can't afford that. And I don't need all those features in a phone anyways. Touchscreen interface is nice though. AppleTV is rather pointless. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just burn stuff to DVD? Apple Computer Inc. becomes Apple Inc. Hurrah! And everything is oh so black.

I'm with you brother.

Leopard. Probably won't be out till 2008. Maybe in public beta by MacWorld 2008. Seeing how WWDC is for developers, not the rest of the Mac community. It will only be demoed. Not released.

iPhone (The Apple Version of Zune) an overpriced flop!. Not to say the Zune is overpriced.

Apple TV. WEEEEEEEE!.

Looks like CES was more successful.

I'm with you brother.
Thinking more about it, I am sure that there is a reason that they didn't mention Leopard - what would be funny would be a press conference on Jan 29th announcing immediate availability or something similar.

Yeh it is not ready for public viewing yet.

Leopard. Probably won't be out till 2008. Maybe in public beta by MacWorld 2008. Seeing how WWDC is for developers, not the rest of the Mac community. It will only be demoed. Not released.

iPhone (The Apple Version of Zune) an overpriced flop!. Not to say the Zune is overpriced.

Apple TV. WEEEEEEEE!.

Looks like CES was more successful.

If not WWDC, then a special event like they had for iPod/iTunes, etc. It's coming before 2008.

I'm not sure what everyone is complaining about, the iPhone is one of the most revolutionary pieces of hardware Apple has released. You do realize that the iPod part of the iPhone is a precursor to the new iPods that are soon to come.

Not that I agree or disagree with you but your user name, avatar, user title, and signature makes me think you might be a little bit biased.

Not that I agree or disagree with you but your user name, avatar, user title, and signature makes me think you might be a little bit biased.

I completely agree with him. Does anything about me make you think I might be biased? :rolleyes:

Not to mention that it is the first product using multitouch technology. That's revolutionary by itself.

The purpose of apple is for a world launch. it's my understanding that the world uses GSM and only a small group of providers use CDMA (Verizon / Sprint etc)

Yeah, I know, but it still sucks. Why can't it do both? There are plenty that can work on both networks.

The iPhone looks sweet but it will fail, and it aint revolutionary at all, there have been phones like this before and the touchscreen is what killed it. They found that many users rely on some "feel" of their buttons and such and if you have ever used a touchscreen with small buttons, u would know that it is extremely easy to accidentally click on another button or hold the same button down for a lenghty period. If you want a phone, look at the Blackberry, the Motorolla Q or even the Samsung Blackjack... now those are phones, the iPhone is just an imitation of these phones.

BTW, I like the AppleTV too. (Un)fortunately, my XBox 360 does all of that right now for free (since I already own it). No need to buy. For the price, I think they should have included Time Shifting features for TV viewing...

Ehmm, how did your xbox 360 plays video from your mac hd, or itunes? Because, me as an xbox360 owner, would be very interested in knowing... since now, all I could achive was a poor photo slideshow and some WMV streaming using Connect360... :(

I'm not sure what everyone is complaining about, the iPhone is one of the most revolutionary pieces of hardware Apple has released. You do realize that the iPod part of the iPhone is a precursor to the new iPods that are soon to come.

LOL,

Seriously, compare the specs to MOST Nokia N80/N90 series phones and the Sony Ericsson's flagships

Then take a look at MDA etc.

Now, take a deep breath and say that comment again so we can have another laugh.

This phone would be a STEP BACKWARDS for me compared to my N80

The only thing revolutionary is Apple's marketing & hype to which nobody can argue does the job.

Remember, Betamax was better than VHS, but marketing wins the day.

A very bad MacWorld. Besides the iPhone and AppleTV - neither of which really interests me - I expected and/or wanted to hear -

- specific 10.5 release date set inc system reqs

- iwork/ilife 07

- redesigned mighty mouse

- hardware boosts to mac line

- new iSight

- 10.4.9 in software update

I was hoping Steve would grow up a little and stop bashing his competition in such a childish way. I know I'm gonna get super flamed for this one in a mostly-Mac thread (oh well) but is anyone else tired of seeing Steve come down so hard on Microsoft instead of letting his products sell themselves?

Seriously, how often does Microsoft take Apple ads or logos and light them on fire?

I was hoping Steve would grow up a little and stop bashing his competition in such a childish way. I know I'm gonna get super flamed for this one in a mostly-Mac thread (oh well) but is anyone else tired of seeing Steve come down so hard on Microsoft instead of letting his products sell themselves?

Seriously, how often does Microsoft take Apple ads or logos and light them on fire?

I agree with you. Apple has become such a childish company in the last year or two that it is sad to even listen to Jobs. At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would be entering into partnership with Microsoft. Included in this was a five-year commitment from Microsoft to release Microsoft Office for Macintosh as well a US$150 million investment in Apple.? One could argue that if it wasn't that $150 million investment, Apple might not be what it is today. Apple needs to grow up.

What's funny is that Vista is being released on schedule and Leopard wasn't even mentioned. Got to wonder what that's all about, huh.

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