“Softbank released a short statement today describing the reported Apple iTunes mobile phone plans as guesswork by the media. On May 13th the Japanese Nihon Keizai Shimbun Saturday Morning edition reported that Apple and Softbank would develop a mobile phone that has a built-in iPod digital music player,” I4U News reports.
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Nikkei: Apple, Softbank plan iPod mobile phones – May 12, 2006
Lies… ALL LIES!
Oops.
Next cell phone rumor….
first!
. . . . . . but I really haven’t much to say
except the rumor mills are getting out of line – and now companies have to release statements because the rumors may begin to affect their stock negatively
“guess work” does not mean “we are” and it does not mean “we are not”.
Of course, the cell phone thing could be true and Softbank is trying not to get in trouble for an NDA leak.
FIRST POST!!!! WOW!!!!
Mac lover –
Do you know what is more anoying than a first post that begins “first!”…Posts like this one
The other Mark –
I agree with you here. That was not exactly a strong denial of the rumor. It was more like a child caught in a cookie jar denial.
With stocks fluxing wildly with the Fed and Oil news..one would think they would want to distance themselves from rumors that could not possibly be true.
Hmmm… curiouser and curiouser.
“It is rather far fetched that Apple would do such a local deal. I mean sure Apple would do another ‘cripled’ iTunes phone deal as they did with Motorola, but they would not co-develop with anybody an iPod killer.”
Cripled? Cripes! Are iPod killers trained to be killers or are they born that way?
I always thought far fetched meant you threw your Frisbee deep into the woods and your dog brought it back to you the next morning.
MW: day
‘Guesswork’ doesn’t mean its wrong it simply implies that any information, true or otherwise, didn’t come from Softbank, or at least they are denying that is the case. Means nothing one way or the other but as there was no outright denial it may well imply that some discussions have/are going on about the possibility at least, or maybe it was simply a polite enquiry which no doubt every interested party have done at some stage or other.
Anyone else watching 60 minutes last night? On a news update, CBS news reported that Apple and Softbank were working on a phone together.
So how many of y’all actually want an iPod in a phone (or a phone in an iPod)?
This is a classic non-denial denial.
Connor – I’ll take one. I’m looking to replace my cell phone anyway.
A phone with an iPod would be fine. An iPod with a phone would not.
The phones are generally simple, reliable devices.
I and everyone I know have had to sent our iPods in for service far too many times. If my phone was attached to that kind of unreliable device, I would pass.
–Rob
That means it is definitely on its way!