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- canewediggit, on 07/21/2008, -1/+38"As a corollary, he said that most teens will eventually buy subscription-based music services," - what? has he not realized there is not one successful subscription service out there? subscription services are failures as a business model for the music industry. this is why i don't waste my time going to conferences full of fake industry consultants.
- Cadenzah, on 07/21/2008, -2/+29Not long until we use the "mobile phone" for money transactions, keys, ID, etc etc. Much more convenient of course, but it will also make it very easy for the government to track down and spy on every single aspect of our lives.
It's the backside of technological improvements. - cuevas4711, on 07/22/2008, -4/+27This is only news to John McCain.
- zephc, on 07/21/2008, -2/+22Reading the comments on the article is pretty funny. The ranter there misses the point about a move from being tied to a desktop (or even laptop) computer, to increasingly ubiquitous, wearable computing, augmented reality, and most assuredly more. I think the vision laid out in Vernor Vinge's book _Rainbow's End_ is a good, weird approximation (though in reality, it will likely be even weirder still). What the iPhone has done is become immensely popular and pushed other phone makers to push their hardware and software to do new things.
The iPhone doesn't do a lot of NEW things (it even misses some power-user functions), but it does what it does really well. (Every time I've used a mobile with Palm or Windows, it has felt like a cheap toy.) - NordicSkiing, on 07/22/2008, -2/+18No ***** Sherlock.
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+15"When you combine this new technology with teens giving their permission to market to them, the growth could be exponential,"..
This whole time we can deny permission to be marketed to? Why did no one tell me?! - Managua8Green, on 07/22/2008, -3/+15please, don't call yourself too smart.
- liquidtaco, on 07/22/2008, -0/+10In Digg, bad Soviet Russia joke buries you.
- conversekid, on 07/22/2008, -7/+16The teens like me who are too smart to buy ***** we can get for free will ruin this business like we did paying for music.
The reason I will never use a subscription service: record labels and distributors still suck it up, and if it's anything like iTunes now, ***** quality.
Just another excuse for them to push product in our face and money in their pockets. - AndrewWiggin, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9Seriously. So there IS a reason Google built Android and Apple made a phone?
Buried as not news. - inactive, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9What? The government would never do such a thing! You're just paranoid.
/s - inactive, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9We already know this, look at japan.
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+8Not for me...
- pedo, on 07/22/2008, -3/+9they are the true predators. them and military recruiters.
- alimighty1, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7well duh
- jonshipman, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Of course they are allowed. But they'll have to come up with their own way to pay for it.
- merrickx, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7This is like saying, "For teens, the future is computers" back in the early 90's.
- k104, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5or a grammar one!
- wootmacs, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Jeezes, so many ***** articles......
yawn.... - Testiculese, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Best comment ever, from that site. I was about to write the same rant when I saw that line.
This article states: "The iPhone is just the beginning of the all-in-one device."
How can you say that and go to sleep at night. The iPhone is years late and again Apple is claiming to be doing something first and you all just keep this crazy little fantasy going on and on.
I can't wait for the iPhone to finally get more and more features which the Windows based smartphones have had for years and to claim they did it first. What's next.....are they going to claim COPY AND PASTE next year if they ever get around to it.
I have been listening to mp3s, watching episodes of South Park while still able to log on to our corporate website and fill out work reports and uploads photos and browse our shared calendars.......all on a smartphone for at least the last 5 years........also open and edit word docs, view pdfs. I have been able to write custom apps web based that can be used from the Smartphone browser.......I have been able to take video, photos, record meetings using the audio recorder....I even have more than one battery for longer trips when I might be without my charger for a few days.....I have been able to take photos and videos of my kids and send them to my wife when she goes to the mall shopping just to make her feel guilty...I have been able to text message...I have been able to remote desktop into my office computers and into our web servers.....FULL DESKTOP functionality when I am remote desktoped in.....I can open desktop apps and work on the computer from my mobile smartphone.......I have been able to have multiple storage cards with different content on them in case my kids wanted to watch a movie or listen to something different.....I have GPS......I have used my phone as a modem for my laptop in a tight bind when my wireless card was broken...I have installed and enjoyed playing games such as Tiger Woods Golf and more for years and years....I have been able to zoom in (sorry...no finger swipe...but I have been able to zoom)....I have been able draw on my smartphone and save my drawings to jpgs or email them...I have been able to take photos and draw on the photos and send to someone....I have been able to make animations using my drawings like a flipbook on my smartphone....I have played tic-tac-toe with children on my smartphone....I have been able to set up excel speadsheets with formulas....I have been able to open databases on my smartphone and work on them for business....I have been able to update websites on my smartphone....I have playlists....I can customize the look and feel....I can view flash files....I have been on 3G for years.....
Oh..I forgot.... "The iPhone is just the beginning of the all-in-one device." - inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Amen, brother.
- Skyhoper, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3The sky is blue, 447 Diggs.
- 0xbaadf00d, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Or you could get them a prepaid phone, which will teach them the value of money. Then you could spend a small fraction of the money you save and buy them a cheap PC or laptop, which is a much better tech learning tool than a pricey phone.
- Grommy, on 07/22/2008, -1/+4I hate cell phones.
- Owwmykneecap, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3When i was 12 or 13 I got my first mobile phone, so did everyone i know, its not new...
I'm not even a teenager anymore...
This guy is writing about them like they are some kind of new fangled tech the "kids" will "get down with".... - tgunner, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2I have a cellphone. Sometimes it rings. I don't see much need for anything more than that.
- aronnyc, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Isn't this already happening now? Why future?
- DamnMan, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Not unless the cost of mobile services comes down significantly in price and soon.
Do they honestly expect half of the teens(parents) in the US to spend 80 bucks a month for 5 gigabytes of data transfers? Then use these devices with these limits to download video and music on top of all the media rich advertisements they will want to deliver on the users dime. - boobsbr, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2wish someone would deface apple's site and put your comment in their front page.
- jimmiss, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Everyone knows this though. Look at Japan.
- nicolasavru, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2This business model is not flawed in and of itself, but the record industry refuses to allow it to be successful. I (and many others) would gladly sign up for such a model if I could download the music and FLAC and with no DRM, something that the record industry refuses to do. In addition, it would have to apply to a much larger collection of music than what is available currently on services such as iTunes.
The fact is, bittorrent sites offer a much larger variety of music in higher quality and DRM free. Of course your business model will fail when you're charging for an inferior product when a superior product is available for free. - joel8x, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Welcome to the club - no matter what the haters say, ever since the launch of the App store, the iPhone has become a life-changing tool. I don't mean that in a spiritual Mac-obsession way, I mean it in a "how did I survive without this simple connection to information in my pocket?" way.
- dstz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Stop with the apple fanboyism already. Neat products, but we don't deserve to be shoveled by thousands of amateur publicists like it happens nowadays.
"The iPhone doesn't do a lot of NEW things (it even misses some power-user functions)"
There, that was clearly enough as facts go, the rest is your own experience. - gettarat, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1I hate cell phones.
http://nextargps.org/ - inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Oh yeah I completely agree with you that they need to learn the value of money. But, when they do have the chance to purchase their own phones and electronics, the parents will not allow it. That is what ticks me off.
- MorphicMusic, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1This just in on the kinescope, the internets are going wireless!
- vailancio248, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Movies to be distributed on self destructing DVDs
http://digg.com/music/Prevent_Piracy_by_using_Self ... - Renton, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Meh, I'll just read the wiki.
- boobsbr, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1copy/paste?
- RobotBuddha, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1There's times when I wish I could get a job telling people twice my age what I did when I was a kid and talking about how it's the 'new thing'.
- djfreex, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1As long as they pay their own ..... bills, it is.
- grneye53, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I'll tell what we're creating is "mobile rage" because the day of the big test and your Iphone apps aren't working or that big date is on the line and you want to meet up with her and the "GPS" sends you to the most remote spot on earth, now you need a ride out of the spot when all of a sudden the battery quits or even better they hook you with "ROGERS IPHONE" unlocked plan from Canada!
- boobsbr, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1"too smart to buy ***** they we can get for free"
got it? - Testiculese, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Not my comment, but yea...Apple is fine and all, if that's what you are into, but like this guy, I'm sick of the lies and ***** hype of a nice looking, substandard product.
- fcamkar, on 12/18/2008, -0/+0http://frehomemadesexvideos.blogtur.com/
- krnldmp, on 07/22/2008, -3/+3Sounds to me like a whole big market is due to open up for a small phone that doesn't do ANYTHING but make calls and accept them from a short validated list. ***** advertisers up the butt.
- martha3855, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0Seems like the world become smaller now....
Everthing in our hand..... -
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