CNBC: 3G iPhone due June 2008; Apple prepping new 50% thinner MacBook Pro; ups iPod touch production

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1. Competition – you’ve got to love it!

   Steve’s seeing all the other goodies (including some pretty interesting phones) in Best Buy, Circuit City, Frys, etc, etc, and decided it’s time to move the schedule up or risk having his stuff pushed to the back of the shelf.

   Now, tell me again that the higher tech versions of everything with the Apple logo aren’t ready to ship today and every day.

   The strategy of getting us to buy everything multiple times is in jeopardy when competitors get their act together.

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2. Hayata!

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3. @ Golfer

   Actually he would be inconsiderate.

   As the old cartoon says, “Nobody knows I’m a dog on the Internet.”

   Everyone needs to “think” before posting. It’s not called the World Wide Web for nothin.
   I always thought it woould be a neat idea to have an icon next to your name with the county flag. That way you could see at a glance where that person is from or posting from. Then you could cut them some slack on proper english.

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4. P.S. I must admit, though, that I don’t understand Touch sales… hasn’t everybody seen the phone and the Touch side by side and wonder why the Touch screen is so lousy? Today’s buyers of Touch will be tomorrow’s owners of 2 Touch’s – one they can use as a music player and one they can use as a door stop.

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5. any chance the existing iphones could be upgraded with firmware update and new batteries? It’s not something I’m well versed on, but if not, so what? Most of the features that require bandwidth still work well with wifi, which is available most places I spend any time at, other than my car (depending on where it is, of course.) I doubt most people salivating for an iphone at the moment will be waiting till next June to get their hands on one. Just more FUD bullshiiit. Besides, at&t;doesn’t have a lot of 3g coverage anyway.

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6. I still don’t get why 3G is so important – I am certainly not doing all of my web browsing on the iPhone and when I am out and about the EDGE is plenty fast enough. The only thing that 3G will help with is you can cruise the web and get email while on a phone call(Can’t do that with EDGE)

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7. I am an iShowOff. Proudly so since June 29th. I have no regrets. The iPhone is the best phone I’ve ever used. 3G?? Haven’t really missed it so far, but I look forward to seeing what it add’s in real world tests.

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8. @Tired of Retards

   I’m glad you registered you name so Golfer and Think can give you crap ever time you write something. It’s a blog people, it’s not English 101 and you won’t be graded on your spelling.

   When you spend time telling someone else how dumb they are, better hope you are freak’n perfect. I doubt it.

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9. ” . . . and you won’t be graded on your spelling.”

   No, but it will go on your permanent record. (I’ve always thought that was a funny and ridiculous threat from a teacher or principal.)

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10. “No, but it will go on your permanent record” – well, I do have this incident on my record involving a russian circus bear, belly shots of JD, and Anna Nicole Smith on the Thunder Mountain ride at Disneyland that keeps coming up in interviews.

    wait.. oh… you meant SCHOOL record. Ah…

    my bad.

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11. I feel like the mobile phone biz is a completely different beast than the computer biz and therefore early adopters of such items as the iPhone will feel the pain of their choice more harshly than if it were a computer… for the mere fact that a lot of technology doesn’t tend to need to be updated as frequently as mobile phones do. (They mostly need to be updated to keep up with consumer demand… aka the desire for the ‘latest/greatest’ stuff).

    But as far as this goes, it’s not hindering me from getting an iPhone in January. My contract with verizon will be up on the 8th and I’ll be getting an iPhone on that same day. Unless they announce a 3G iPhone at Macworld Expo to come out in March or earlier, I have no intentions of waiting another 6 mos for it. The 3G aspect just isn’t enough of a selling point for me to justify waiting longer than I already have. They’ll have to be much more new goodies than that to get me on board. I whole-heartedly agree with MDN on the “if you wait for the next best thing in tech, you’ll never own any.”

    Guess we’ll [probably] know the real answer to all these speculations in January, huh.

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12. Jim – TIV:

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13. I refuse to buy an iPhone until Apple integrates 4G and a PEZ dispenser.

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14. @Shift…

    I feel like the mobile phone biz is a completely different beast than the computer biz and therefore early adopters of such items as the iPhone will feel the pain of their choice more harshly than if it were a computer…

    Are you high? This phone is insanely great. I’ve got phone, internet, video, maps, email… I don’t expect to feel pain for a looooong time. In fact, “pain?” I don’t think it’s likely that I’ll feel it at all.

    Money well spent is money well spent.

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15. ” may be a retard, but you are ignorant.”

    learn English and give up on whatever unimportant language with no future that you also speak.

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16. everything is going to be all right folks…take it easy

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17. ya will this is all true, im getting the new iphone when it comes out in july, it’s going to officially be anounced in june, it’s going to be sick, glossy black, annd 3g! thinner then the previous iphone oh ya!!!!

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18. Has Apple’s Macbook pro come in the market for sale? – Mike

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19. Yes, Apple’s Macbook pro is available in the market in 3 sizes 13, 15 and 17 inches. Those who are looking out for portable computers with precision engineering and advanced technology should go for it. – Simon

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