Apple's Rumored PowerPod

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Apple's Rumored PowerPod 238

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:16PM from the get-your-lust-on dept.

mobilemag writes "MobileMag has released a photo of the new Apple PowerPod. This sounds like an amazing device! With Wi-Fi and video messaging, the powerpod could very well be a hot seller."

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PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

by Lord Grey ( 463613 ) * writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:16PM (#8741783)

You know this is an April Fool's joke 'cause the product name doesn't begin with an "i".

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Swiss Army Knife (Score:4, Funny)

by IdeaMan ( 216340 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:17PM (#8741797) Homepage Journal

My swiss army knife does that too.
Also includes:
Ear Floss.
Portable Angiogram.
X-ray laser.

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Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)

by Sparky77 ( 633674 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:18PM (#8741813) Homepage

Is this another attempt to make the cordless extention cord?

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it would be amazing if it was real... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:19PM (#8741825)

iBut iApple iIs iToo iOverpriced iTo iHave iAnything iDecent iAt iThat iPrice.

iWho iKnows iThough, iRight?

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Good news (Score:5, Funny)

by generic-man ( 33649 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:20PM (#8741834) Homepage Journal

I'm glad to see that Apple finally got on the ball and developed a portable media device with WiFi. The original iPod has sold very poorly because it had no wireless [slashdot.org] and less space than a Nomad.

However, I'm only buying it if it has Bluetooth and can support Linux. Otherwise, it's lame.

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April Fool! We melted your server! (Score:5, Funny)

by jayhawk88 ( 160512 ) writes: <jayhawk88@gmail.com> on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:20PM (#8741835)

Enjoy the $2k bandwidth bill!

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Apple? (Score:5, Funny)

by Quasar1999 ( 520073 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:20PM (#8741839) Journal

At this point, you might as well call the company orange... these april fools jokes are funny when they are reasonably real... that's what had me going 3 years ago on slashdot... but this is just stupid... Who's with me?

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Re:Somehow... (Score:5, Funny)

by Sparky77 ( 633674 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:22PM (#8741871) Homepage

What? That is wierd. People must be reading the article.

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just in case. (Score:5, Funny)

by fjordboy ( 169716 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:23PM (#8741881) Homepage

Just in case the page gets slashdotted, I'll paste the text that I got from it:

The page cannot be displayed

There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.

Please try the following:

Click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Open the www.mobilemag.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please contact the Web site administrator by using the e-mail address or phone number listed on the www.mobilemag.com home page.

10060 - Connection timeout

Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Background:

The gateway could not receive a timely response from the Web site you are trying to access. This might indicate that the network is congested, or that the Web site is experiencing technical difficulties.

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Slashed... (Score:5, Funny)

by xThinkx ( 680615 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:24PM (#8741887) Homepage

and Dotted

That was quick, April Fools, enjoy your stupid bandwidth bill

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Um... (Score:3, Funny)

by skidde ( 670293 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:24PM (#8741889) Homepage

"mobilemag writes 'MobileMag has released a photo...'"

Well, he tried.

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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

by MikeXpop ( 614167 ) writes: <mike@noSPAM.redcrowbar.com> on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:28PM (#8741926) Journal

Now we know where apple got the idea for the iMac [powerpod.com]

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Yes, but! (Score:3, Funny)

by Tibor the Hun ( 143056 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:31PM (#8741950)

Does it support Ogg Vorbis?
If so, then this is definitely an iPod Killer!
And if not, this is certainly the beginning of the end for Apple.

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Re:Swiss Army Knife (Score:1, Funny)

by commonchaos ( 309500 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:31PM (#8741954) Homepage Journal

What? No monkey?

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If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

by mhlandrydotnet ( 677863 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:31PM (#8741959)

If you realized it was April 1st after Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? then you're a telepathic genius.
If you realized it was April 1st after IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level then you are just a regular genius.
If you realised it was April 1st after Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap then you are smart, but mostly hate the media.
If you thought it was April 1st after 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop then I can refer you to a friend of mine, Akmar #!#! (prounounced She-bang-she-bang-bang for those not versed in l33t sp34k or recent polls) who has some pills you might be interested in.
If you didn't think it was April 1st and you got all the way to Omniscience Protocol then I'm surprised all those hours listening to your own subliminal music and drinking coffee hasn't killed you yet.
If you ... ah screw it. I can't even keep up with the editors. And there's still time left yet!

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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

by System.out.println() ( 755533 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:32PM (#8741964) Journal

Actually, you know it's an april fools' joke because Slashdot didn't call it 'lame'.

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Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

by Tumbleweed ( 3706 ) * writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:38PM (#8742009)

If you realized it was April 1st before reading anything online, because you have a friggin' CALENDAR, then you're a super-duper-telepathic uber-genius who must be immortalized via a bronze sculpture in the middle of every town square in the world.

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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:42PM (#8742049)

People jokingly announce really cool things that have no chance in hell of ever coming out.
Yeah. Like this joke on SecurityFocus [securityfocus.com] about Microsoft improving security.

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Hosting company gone too (Score:3, Funny)

by Nynaeve ( 163450 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:57PM (#8742137)
mobilemag.com is hosted by a Canadian company:
Domain Name: MOBILEMAG.COM
Name Server: NS2.IHOST.CA
Name Server: NS1.IHOST.CA
Even the company web site [ihost.ca] is only intermittently available.
If you can't get to it, part of it says:
All Accounts Include:
- ...
- 99.8% Uptime
- ...
So much for 99.8% uptime! I think they will be having some words with their customer soon. Maybe 'mobilemag' will post the graphical stats for us. :)
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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2, Funny)

by Gear_Media ( 749496 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:58PM (#8742148)

you obviously missed this [macosxhints.com] april fools joke.

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699? (Score:2, Funny)

by -kertrats- ( 718219 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @07:06PM (#8742202) Journal

Why would i possibly want to spend $699 on a PowerPod? Why, for that much, i could pay the licensing fee for a copy of linux!

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Re:Apple? (Score:5, Funny)

by OS24Ever ( 245667 ) * writes: <trekkie@nomorestars.com> on Thursday April 01, 2004 @07:12PM (#8742277) Homepage Journal

I'm with you. I hate april fools day. It's the one day a year I have to actually work instead of randomly surf links thrown out by Slashdot.

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Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

by Dirtside ( 91468 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @07:42PM (#8742528) Journal

Well, since I knew exactly when it would next be April 1st almost a year ago, that makes me a super-hyper-ultra-mega-duper-telepathic chrono-genius who must be immortalized by carving the entire Earth into the shape of my head.

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Re:That is too... (Score:3, Funny)

by 47Ronin ( 39566 ) writes: <.glenn. .at. .47ronin.com.> on Thursday April 01, 2004 @07:53PM (#8742602) Homepage

Not as hilarious as the iPod port of DOOM [ipodhacks.com] (!!)

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yeah! (Score:4, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @08:00PM (#8742642)

And it had better come with two mouse buttons too.

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Re:Wait a minute (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @10:50PM (#8743580)

Don't joke about that. I'm still living down the time one of the layout guys had me go back into the press room to fetch a bottle of cyan halftone dots. And then the press guy told me they were all out of cyan and had me call (I shit you not) our ink vendor.

I still get kidded about it. Every couple of weeks somebody makes a wisecrack about halftone dots.

That was seven years ago.

Kill me, please. Somebody just kill me.

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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:4, Funny)

by bahwi ( 43111 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @11:53PM (#8743953)

How is that different from every other day on slashdot?

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Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 02, 2004 @01:04AM (#8744343)

Shut Up! Thats not photoshopped. Its done with MS paint.

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PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

Swiss Army Knife (Score:4, Funny)

Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)

it would be amazing if it was real... (Score:2, Funny)

Good news (Score:5, Funny)

April Fool! We melted your server! (Score:5, Funny)

Apple? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Somehow... (Score:5, Funny)

just in case. (Score:5, Funny)

Slashed... (Score:5, Funny)

Um... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

Yes, but! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Swiss Army Knife (Score:1, Funny)

If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)

Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:3, Funny)

Hosting company gone too (Score:3, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2, Funny)

699? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Apple? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:That is too... (Score:3, Funny)

yeah! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wait a minute (Score:2, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:4, Funny)

Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:1, Funny)

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