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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- ControlcChris, on 02/24/2008, -6/+94No.
- Acqua206, on 02/24/2008, -20/+82Gayest thing I've ever heard.
- gallagherFTW, on 02/24/2008, -4/+26do you meet up and party at the apple store?
- linuxpenguin, on 02/24/2008, -4/+23If it's only for iPhone, I doubt there will be anything social about it. . .
- wawilli, on 02/24/2008, -1/+20I'm not too keen on the whole "know where your friends are" aspect..
Because if I know where they are, then they'll know where I am; at home, always. - omgsideburns, on 02/24/2008, -7/+23iPhone is more important than my family.
Go rot in the ground. - apc3161, on 02/24/2008, -1/+15An elitist Apple social platform? Sounds right, wouldn't be surprising.
- ccxftw, on 02/24/2008, -1/+15I agree, but last time I checked gay wasn't a race.
- RobotBuddha, on 02/24/2008, -6/+17That's stockholme level over identification with a brand. It's actually managed to one-up the women who choose their friends based on whether they bought prada or not.
- j2002, on 02/24/2008, -2/+12My God.
- drakethegreat, on 02/24/2008, -1/+8Agreed, I just bought one but this seems like a terrible idea. People already complain about how closed off Facebook was in being college only forever. I think an iPhone only network would just irritate people.
- stevejobs, on 02/24/2008, -1/+8I only want to be 'friends' with someone who owns an iPhone. Anyone else is poor and annoying to me. Now be gone with you Nokia bums.
- j2002, on 02/24/2008, -3/+10I can see this being a hit with Apple Fans everywhere - I mean isn't the only reason for getting a Mac or an iPhone so you can feel like you're part of an exclusive club and look down on people who aren't "in on it".
- webznz, on 02/24/2008, -6/+12I have an Iphone and i think this idea is crap!
- uppedbyhiggins, on 02/24/2008, -4/+10A word can only have one sole meaning.
ps. I find "*****" offensive. You hear that? You have OFFENDED someone on the internet! Try sleeping tonight with that on your guilty conscience. - mcmlxxii, on 02/24/2008, -1/+7It's not exclusive - anyone with an iphone can join. Question is who would want to? Can you imagine what sort of place an iphone-owning only social network would be? *shudder*
- Kronk42583, on 02/24/2008, -6/+11hmm so they can be even more arrogant because they belong to an exclusive iphone myspace. now they can clutter up their iphone with illegible text and stupid glittering pictures and spam each other with application invites. i'm sorry i don't have an iphone
- SuperCujo, on 02/24/2008, -1/+6Don't you think it is funny that if the government wanted to track exactly where you are, the ***** would hit the fan. But when the users themselves give up their privacy, all in the interest of being hip and cool, not one complaint is heard.
If the government could set up a really successful social networking site with geolocation technology, they would have everything they need to track a population. - misconstrued, on 02/24/2008, -1/+5The entire market is down and I happen to believe that Apple's stock price was way overinflated.
(i owned apple stock. i sold it last year, along with all my other stock, before everything took a dive) - Archer007, on 02/24/2008, -0/+4This is madness! NO, THIS IS STEVE JOBS.
- lambmj, on 02/24/2008, -0/+4Have you ever seen two or more iPhone users compare notes? If so, then you know that there's already an iPhone social network, it just isn't online.
- ControlcChris, on 02/24/2008, -5/+8Wait for it.....wait for it.... NOW CUE THE APPLE FAN BOYS!
- jasonhdavis, on 02/24/2008, -0/+3A semi-ubiquitous (around myspace/facebook size) is defiantly a big step. Making it iPhone only might be a way to jump start it (assuming the iPhone SDK gives you more robust tools than other phones).
Mobile networking is definitely coming; I have mixed emotions about it, but it could be a less superficial way of meeting new people in different social situations. - banmaster, on 02/24/2008, -0/+3Or the ability to cut'n'paste perhaps.
- zeal2k7, on 02/24/2008, -1/+4Great. They can call it iStalk.
- MyNameIsJoe, on 02/24/2008, -0/+3Yeah that wasn't funny at all. You're going to have to try harder the next time.
- shreyans, on 02/24/2008, -2/+5I was so worried that I was the only one who thought this.
- mrminty, on 02/24/2008, -0/+3Thank god, I now just might buy an iphone, so I can be sure I can avoid everybody on that social network like the ***** plauge.
- bdbElysian, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2Wow the more Apple stuff is segregated and proprietary (i.e. Mac OS) the more 'Micro$oft' they seem.
All they need to do now is manipulate the gaming industry to stop using DirectX and OpenGL / AL and use what they might call ‘iGraphics’ and ‘iSound’ and boom Apple and their fans will make Micro$olf look like amateurs.
A little ironic considering what Mac OS is build on. - PathDaemon, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2Agreed. Facebook + mobile (not just iPhone!) location-aware features (dodgeball-like) would suffice, with Plaxo taking care of contact synchronization. No need for more networks.
- kru1e, on 02/24/2008, -3/+5As someone who has an iPhone and loves the iPhone, this is stupid
- qpid, on 02/24/2008, -2/+4No the stock price dropped due to market conditions and lower than expected ipod sales, not iphone sales.
- JudgeMonkey, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2I Judge that to be complete nonsense.... and damn you for interrupting my banana break.
- Nitrodist88, on 02/24/2008, -3/+5I really can't see this happening. How many people do you know? Of those people, how many have iPhones? Do you have a iPhone? Are you and these people willing to sign up for this network? Why choose this network over other, more open (as in open to people signing up) networks?
The network would also be effectively cutting out anyone who didn't have a iPhone; 98% of the world. Splitting up people into multiple social networks doesn't work well, in my opinion, in the first place and making a social network exclusive to a set group of people doesn't really serve the purpose of a social network at all which is to connect you to other people.
A social network that requires a $400 accessory isn't going to be very popular, much less successful. - kcap122, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2facebook was better before they let in everyone else. now it's just taking the low road to myspace
- CrankyMcGuy, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2Let me start first by stating that the author is a prat for claiming all iPhone users are elitists. That's a serious strawman argument based on bias that starts the article off on the wrong tone. It's one of those polarizing statements that does nothing for furthering discussion. iPhone users will rankle at it and tune him out, and non-iPhone users will just focus their animosity on the concept of iPhone elitism and not on the general point of the article.
Still, I think that the article has an interesting premise, though misses the mark for lack of scope. Having an iPhone only socnet that is built for iPhone's and their unique interface sounds like a great idea. I'm not so interested in hooking up (will be married for 20 years this Aug.), but using a socnet that utilizes iPhone features sounds like a good way to make use of the iPhone. I also think that a socnet utilizing the strengths of Blackberry might also be a good idea. Why not create a socnet that plays to the unique strengths of a targeted interface? - scheming, on 02/24/2008, -1/+3facebook is definitely a viable website on any web browser including all web browsers on ALL mobile phones. to think an iPhone only network would actually out-do what facebook has already done is dumb. unthinkable actually. in short, like was said above: no.
- kevinmotel, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/03
- Calcularius, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2Aside from Apple , if I could get off of this moron-ridden polluted dump, I would.
- JudgeMonkey, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2I wouldn't have a problem if the government had some project that could follow everyone around with some omnipresent camera, peering in on you no matter what you are doing, but it was opt in. Choosing to do something no matter what, such as being tracked by the government, isn't an issue if it's choice.
BTW, they already can track you. Sure, they say it's only for 911 use, but the ability is there. - iobuffa, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2When I saw this article, I immediately thought about iRovr. It's a shame TechCrunch doesn't know about it. It's a great, active iPhone social network. If you have an iPhone, it's worth checking out.
- gknewell, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2no
- RobotBuddha, on 02/24/2008, -1/+2It's funny as well how many assumptions are often made about the sdk. Almost nothing's been said about it by apple, but for some reason everyone writing about it seems to be laboring under the assumption that it'll be 100% open to access any hardware on the system. While that might be the case, given apple's dealings and comments so far, it seems really weird to just assume that from the start.
- Testiculese, on 02/25/2008, -0/+1While this is indeed highly stupid (unsurprising), it would be best to keep people dumb enough to buy that brick off the normal social channels. (IS there such a thing as a normal social channel?)
- berrray, on 02/24/2008, -1/+2This is less of a shock to read about than the terrorist hunting on WoW.
- KaiserAce, on 02/25/2008, -0/+1What are you doing?
[Tweeny-bopper] is... lyk OMG! totally updating my status on my iphone! - Calcularius, on 02/24/2008, -1/+2It already has that, it's called the internet.
- ryan83189, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1iFriends
- MyNameIsJoe, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1well you can't track people on the site I'm on. And you never will be able to. That's just creepy anyway.
- mrminty, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1I hope this version will have less intercourse with cousins, however.
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