Vodafone TERRIFIED of iPhone - Seeks Restraining Order!

Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:linuxlovesosx-
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> CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>
>> > yes, now give us greatest human achievement of this decade...
>>
>> The iPhone does not even make the top 10.
>
> not yet of course, but it will be in the top 25 by new years eve of 2010.
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Not even top 50.

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Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:linuxlovesosx-
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> CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>
>> No it doesn't- no open wireless when I visit some of the technology
>> companies I do business with.
>
> then scratch them off your client list, geeeesh!


Why would I scratch Fortune 200 companies off my list?
>

Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:linuxlovesosx-
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> News <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...And can roam seamlessly between cells/APs...
>
> as you can with apple's wireless base stations since the beginning of
> 802.11 time...
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58596
>
> active roaming isn't unique to cell phones, geeeesh!
>

Hardly seamless.

David Friedman wrote:
> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> Oxford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I asked you a question: what are the four greatest human achievements
>>> of the 20th century?
>> but you failed to ask it correctly. points off for you.
>>
>>> Since you're so good at evaluating "greatest human achievements" and
>>> all, I thought it would be....interesting.....to see your answer to
>>> this, so we can evaluate your thought processes.
>> that's easy...
>>
>> airplane, transistor, www, landing on the moon.
>
> They beat the invention/discovery of quantum mechanics, relativity, game
> theory and continental drift?
>

I dunno... For me.. Silicone Breast Implants would make the list...

[DUCK]

:-)

At 29 Nov 2007 07:12:10 -0600 CozmicDebris wrote:

> Why would I scratch Fortune 200 companies off my list?

You're trying to tell us that the defense contractors you visit don't have
completely open networks?

Shocking!

CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:

> >> The iPhone does not even make the top 10.
> >
> > not yet of course, but it will be in the top 25 by new years eve of 2010.
> >
>
> Not even top 50.

it's already the No 1 smartphone, but how far it goes into the throw
away phone market is yet to be determined.

apple only builds products that last, so it's a bit of a unfamiliar
experience for the uncompetitive cell market.

we'll see...

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Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>
>> >> The iPhone does not even make the top 10.
>> >
>> > not yet of course, but it will be in the top 25 by new years eve of
>> > 2010.
>> >
>>
>> Not even top 50.
>
> it's already the No 1 smartphone, but how far it goes into the throw
> away phone market is yet to be determined.
>
> apple only builds products that last, so it's a bit of a unfamiliar
> experience for the uncompetitive cell market.
>
> we'll see...
>
> -

By 2010 it will be just another mid-range phone. Oh wait- it already is.

At 29 Nov 2007 16:24:28 -0700 Oxford wrote:


> apple only builds products that last, so it's a bit of a unfamiliar
> experience for the uncompetitive cell market.


I finally retired my Nokia 5120, purchased in 1999, when AT&T shuttered
their TDMA network in February 2007. (It was on Beyond Wireless, an AT&T
reseller, as a "backup phone" up in mountains beyond the resch of the GSM
network.)

My Nokia 8290, purchased in 2001, is still in occasional use today. (It's
my "stunt double" phone I take to places like the beach, or cleaning the
gutters, when I don't want to risk damaging or losing a $300 PDA phone.)

I have still-perfectly working Nokia phones that predate the first iPOD,
never mind the iPHONE, so spare us the "longevity is unfamiliar to
cellular" nonsense.

Two or three years ago, I even reactivated my first cellular phone, an old
Tandy CT-301 analog-only "brick phone" (built by Nokia back when they were
primarily an OEM rather than a name-brand,) that I bought in _1993_. A
retailer friend needed a remote credit card terminal installed far away
from the nearest POTS line for a weekend fair. I fibbed to Beyond Wireless
and told them the Tandy was a digital phone so they'd activate it, then
hooked my trusty data/fax interface cradle that had an RJ-11 jack in the
back for connecting the CC terminal to. Analog cellular data tops out
between 4800 and 7200 baud on a good day, and several connection atempts
failed and had to be retried, but everything worked as advertised, and we
had a remote credit card line for the weekend for free (Beyond used to
activate any old TDMA phone for free and threw in 35 starter minutes. We
still had a few minutes left after the weekend and the phone and data
cradle went back into my junque box in the garage!)

CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:

> > then scratch them off your client list, geeeesh!
>
> Why would I scratch Fortune 200 companies off my list?

hell yes! if a company can't meet my aspirations, they are out.

i guess you don't have high standards, that's all.

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In article <[email protected]>,
CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:

> > apple only builds products that last, so it's a bit of a unfamiliar
> > experience for the uncompetitive cell market.
> >
> > we'll see...
> >
> > -
>
> By 2010 it will be just another mid-range phone.

sure, but that is only if apple stands completely still.

apple is currently 4-6 years ahead of any other phone in this class, by
next year they'll be 5-7 years ahead.

that's just how apple works... they push the envelope more than any
other technical firm on the planet. look at the Mac, it's WAY beyond
Windows & Linux machines, 7-9 years at this point.

the same will happen with their handset line since the cell industry is
very weak / uncompetitive, hasn't ever been exposed to genius level
engineering like Apple has...

you'll see...

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"Oxford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> News <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...And can roam seamlessly between cells/APs...
>
> as you can with apple's wireless base stations since the beginning of
> 802.11 time...
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58596

uh, yeah, but the basestations need to be connected together with
ethernet...

<snip>

Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:linuxlovesosx-
[email protected]:

> CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>
>> > then scratch them off your client list, geeeesh!
>>
>> Why would I scratch Fortune 200 companies off my list?
>
> hell yes! if a company can't meet my aspirations, they are out.

Which is why you'll never leave McDonalds.

>
> i guess you don't have high standards, that's all.
>
> -
>

I have very high standards- the fact that I didn't fall for the iPhone hype
proves that.

Oxford <[email protected]> wrote in news:linuxlovesosx-
[email protected]:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>
>> > apple only builds products that last, so it's a bit of a unfamiliar
>> > experience for the uncompetitive cell market.
>> >
>> > we'll see...
>> >
>> > -
>>
>> By 2010 it will be just another mid-range phone.
>
> sure, but that is only if apple stands completely still.
>
> apple is currently 4-6 years ahead of any other phone in this class, by
> next year they'll be 5-7 years ahead.

No 3G, no word processor app, no GPS, no seamless sync...... they are 4-6
years BEHIND any other phone in its class.

>

In news:[email protected],
ed <[email protected]> typed:
> "Oxford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> News <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ...And can roam seamlessly between cells/APs...
>>
>> as you can with apple's wireless base stations since the beginning of
>> 802.11 time...
>>
>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58596
>
> uh, yeah, but the basestations need to be connected together with
> ethernet...
>
> <snip>

Minor insignificant detail. Oxford might be working on a plan to implement
this everywhere and for free. lol

CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:

> I have very high standards- the fact that I didn't fall for the iPhone hype
> proves that.

what hype? i have seen or heard of any surrounding the iphone. it's just
the facts... the fact you are jealous of iphone users... and the fact
you are still using Xnews/5.04.25, so by default you don't have high
standards.

someday you'll join the technically astute crowd, but until then...
you'll remain jealous.

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