Apple's Rumored PowerPod 238
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."
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:1)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2, Funny)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Insightful)
iMac, PowerMac
iPod, PowerPod?
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)
Dude! (Score:2)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
That is modded 5-Funny, but I don't understand what is so funny. Besides the similarity in name to the iPod, etc, what does that have to do with coming up with the idea of the iMac?
What am I missing? Or is it just a lame kind of "Mac Humor?"
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Did you even *follow* the link that was posted?
(hint: it's an Apple-unrelated site with an object very similar in structure to the iMac)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Yes, it's basically a solar panel attached to a big battery. I knew it was unrelated to Apple, but I didn't think it resembled the iMac. I though the iMac was a one-piece workstation. After doing some quick googling, I realized that I had never seen an iMac before. I was thinking of the eMac, which is many times more ugly.
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Not particularly, but I see that it may have been, had I understood it at first. I guess it's the whole "explaining a joke just ruins it" thing... Sorry, hopefully I didn't ruin it for someone else.
Re:That is too... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Book, PowerBook
iMac, PowerMac
iPod Mini, iPod
fs
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
(no product), iBook, PowerBook
eMac, iMac, PowerMac
iPod Mini (could be argued that it's the ePod), iPod, PowerPod?
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:1, Interesting)
Actually that link was wrong. It wasn't announced yet but that picture is leaked from Apple. They're hoping for a May-June release.
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah. Like this joke on SecurityFocus [securityfocus.com] about Microsoft improving security.
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:4, Funny)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:2)
Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but I still want it (Score:2)
Difficult? Yes. Needs fuel cells, low-power displays/HDs and other scientific/engineering breakthroughs? Yes. Beating Microsoft in profits within a few years? Priceless!
Any Apple decision make
Re:1,000 songs != 100 movies (Score:2)
Re:1,000 songs != 100 movies (Score:2)
Swiss Army Knife (Score:4, Funny)
Also includes:
Ear Floss.
Portable Angiogram.
X-ray laser.
Re:Swiss Army Knife (Score:3, Interesting)
A swiss army knife and USB memory drive all in one. Very cool :)
Here [google.com] are some other links.
Note that this was announced before 4/1.
Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait a minute (Score:2)
any (film) grips in the house fall for that or the "sky hook"?
Re:Wait a minute (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Wait a minute (Score:2)
hmmmmmm (Score:1, Insightful)
f00lz.
Re:hmmmmmm (Score:2)
it would be amazing if it was real... (Score:2, Funny)
iWho iKnows iThough, iRight?
Other Features? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Good news (Score:5, Funny)
However, I'm only buying it if it has Bluetooth and can support Linux. Otherwise, it's lame.
yeah! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good news (Score:2)
Can you say sarcasm? [m-w.com] I knew you could.
Now ain't that just the kettle calling the pot black.
(tig)
April Fool! We melted your server! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:April Fool! We melted your server! (Score:2)
it looks like they posted it themselfs to slashdot.
and if you ask me they deserve that bandwith peak, take a look at the front page and see if you can find any real stories at all!
Mobilemag.com & Infinium == Dishonest Scam art (Score:5, Interesting)
This might be more funny if Mobilemag and its owners didn't have a less-than-stellar history that could be compared to Infinium Labs.
Don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products. Mobilemag's owner Fabrizio Pilato has a history of being a dishonest scam artist.
The most recent example of Mobilemag dishonesty [slashdot.org] is posting a story to Slashdot as an anonymous reader that points to (surprise, surprise!) Mobilemag. Of course the post is written as if some third party who has nothing to do with the site submitted it.
Check Mobilemag's Recently Accepted Submissions history [slashdot.org] for the proof. The Slashdot scam is the least egregious of Mobilemag's sins.
If you need some background on Mobilemag.com, here's the skinny:
Mobilemag is the latest incarnation of TwoMobile (a.k.a. TwoMobile Guys), a pair of high school drop-outs who participated in a de facto fraud with the Canadian dotcom incubator NRG Group. NRG billed itself as a youth marketing research firm that used teenaged "CEOs" as gimmicks to get media attention. (Based on NRG/Mobilemag/TwoMobile activities, the investment waters in Toronto -- Canada's financial capital -- have been poisoned for serious businesses that have an Internet strategy as a key business component. This comes from a lawyer who brokers investment for technology-related companies.) The TwoMobile.com domain is now being redirected to Mobilemag.com.
The two teens used the investment money to buy all sorts of top-dollar toys and electronic equipment such as digital video cameras, pricey suits, etc., burned the cash away with parties, personal trips around the world, vacations and booze. They moved back in with their parents in small-town Ontario when the free ride was over and they ran out of money, and therefore couldn't afford to live in Toronto.
"I created a business where we can play with toys and go on trips!" Mobilemag owner Fabrizio Pilato said that to a Toronto newspaper about an earlier version of the site when he was asked about funding. In other words, he's a scam artist.
"We were sick of reviews that were really more like advertisements" is what the owners of Mobilemag was quoted as saying. His statement would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that Mobilemag is all about advertisements -- the site sells its coverage to manufacturers -- and pandering to the product manufacturers just to get more electronic toys for free.
So don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products.
That $2000 bandwidth bill will be more than paid for by increasing their ad rates (for the larger audience) and by revenues from clickthroughs on existing ads.
Re:Mobilemag.com & Infinium == Dishonest Scam (Score:2)
How about the investors whose money they squandered?
How about any of the dozens or hundreds of real startups that couldn't get financed because of deceptive schemes like this one?
How about any unwitting investor who decides to give this fellow their hard-earned money without knowing his history?
There's something called "full disclosure" that's a legally required practice in investment circles. It's unlikely this TwoMobile fellow would have disclosed his
Apple? (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Nobody (Score:2)
Re:Apple? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Apple? (Score:2)
Tidbits article on DHS selecting OSX was a doozy (Score:2)
Sadly, they pulled it at midnight... guess left coasters don't get a full day of April Fools.
The writing was understated, complete with some seemingly supporting links to real news. An excellent job. Much better than "PowerPo
Re:Apple? (Score:2)
They're funny when you're nine. Possibly.
April Fools! (Score:4, Interesting)
Coincidence (Score:5, Insightful)
You could try harder! (Score:3, Informative)
Oh really? (Score:3, Insightful)
But no link to Apple's press release... and Apple's site doesn't have anything on it.
Next year, I'm sleeping through 4/1.
Re:Oh really? (Score:2)
text of page since it is awfully slow (Score:2, Informative)
The PowerPod features a hi-resolution 5 x 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD and
I wish (Score:2)
just in case. (Score:5, Funny)
The Real One (Score:2, Informative)
Slashed... (Score:5, Funny)
and Dotted
That was quick, April Fools, enjoy your stupid bandwidth bill
Um... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, he tried.
Forget the PowerPod! This is more serious! (Score:2)
p.s.
Do a better job fool (Score:2)
Do one of the following:
1) Make stuff that is just so rediculous its funny
2) Make stuff that is so hard to tell from the truth you actually fool people. That way the fooling of the people is funny.
Slashdot and most other sites on the net seem to keep doing the third option on April Fool's day, and that is to make fools of themselves. Stop wasting our time. Try something more subtle and intelligent. Like what google did.
Yes, but! (Score:3, Funny)
If so, then this is definitely an iPod Killer!
And if not, this is certainly the beginning of the end for Apple.
If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you realized here... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you realized here... (Score:2)
Gmail not a joke (Score:3, Informative)
If they can do what they say, I'd definitely consider the service. I'd be more than willing to pay for a non-ad-infested if I could access it via IMAP as well as through a web interface. Especially if it had some really great anti-spam features and/or procmail filter access.
Does anyone know how to move downloaded e-mail back up to an IMAP server?
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2, Insightful)
* People start using Gmail. Love it. Use it all the time.
* Google goes public.
* Microsoft buys 4.99% of Google then AOL.
* AOL (now MS) exercises right to buy 2 mil. shares of Google. MS all but owns Google.
* Microsoft has at its fingertips billions of email messages now easily and quickly searchable.
I know they have msn and hotmail already, but this would add to it in a big way. Not only that, what if the government pressured MS to grant it access to search everything with this new s
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
Every possible thig that can go wrong DOES go wrong. The lesson to be learned here? Don't do anything, because MS will buy it out and have all your stuff!
Please keep in mind that while the DOJ was compromised by the Bush administration, the FTC has said 'no' to MS takeovers before, and I very much doubt this one would fly.
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
* Microsoft releases the dogs with bees in their mouth so that when they bark, they shoot bees at you.
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
If someone doesn't start up such a service, someone soon will - it's a great idea, and I'd definitely trust Google's technical abilities for such a service over most anyone else's. They've got scalability _down_.
Re:Gmail not a joke (Score:2)
Perfect Shadows = CG (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Perfect Shadows = CG (Score:2)
Yeah, Slashdot ran out of the good jokes somewhere around, uh... wait a second...
Nevermind. There weren't any today.
Re:Perfect Shadows = CG (Score:2)
Re:Perfect Shadows = CG (Score:2)
No official press release... (Score:2, Informative)
Are they even trying anymore? (Score:2)
They need to work on their specs (Score:2)
Seeing as how the iPod mini holds over 1,000 songs and it's 4GB, this should say can hold over 5,000 songs. You know Apple wouldn't understate a product.
Yeah, I know I'm nitpicking an April Fool's joke, but seeing as how there's no real news I have to waste my lunch break somehow.
(And no, I'm not flaming Apple. I'm an OSX switcher myself.)
$699, right, for mac addicts (Score:2, Insightful)
Hosting company gone too (Score:3, Funny)
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:
699? (Score:2, Funny)
"1,000 songs or 100 movies" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:"1,000 songs or 100 movies" (Score:2)
They could be very short songs too, thus negating your "argument".
iDVD on iPod here now (Score:2)
Is it just me.... (Score:2)
What a shame... (Score:2)
Big day for apple (Score:2)
Something is a bit inconsistant here (Score:2)
Now apple has announced it, and I hear little aside from praise and jubilation. So what's suddenly changed? Did you all wake up this morning and say "You know what, I do want a portable video player. I was dead wrong 2
Re:Something is a bit inconsistant here (Score:2)
I just didn't see anyone who posted, "It's a bad idea".
Re:Somehow... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pictures/SpyMac (Score:2)
SpyMac moderators are horrendous trolls that scour the web looking for anything debunking the site.
SpyMac is the haven for just about EVERYONE in the scamming side of the Mac Community - it caters to them.
SpyMac also perpetrated the iWalk.
Sounds like I have a bone to pick with them - no not really - it's just a real eye candy that leaves a bad ta
Re:Ok people... (Score:2)
Re:What the PowerPod really is: (Score:2)
Re:Old pic (Score:2)
Re:April Fools (Score:2)
The ultimate Slashdot April Fool's story, in that it is also as unfunny or more so than the other Slashdot April Fool's stories.
Am I rite?
Re:April Fools (Score:2)