Apple to Become Wireless Provider? 286
nonsuchworks writes "Forbes reports on the possibility of Apple becoming a 'mobile virtual network operator,' or MVNO, in order to extend the iTunes and iPod brands into the cellular phone market. This would allow Apple to circumvent the cellular carriers who have so far balked at carrying the iTunes-enabled mobile phone." From the article: "It might sound far-fetched, but the pieces are in place for it to happen later this summer. Apple is already developing a hybrid iPod/cell phone with handset maker Motorola. And companies ranging from the Virgin Group to The Walt Disney Co. are proving that a new network model can allow all kinds of businesses to easily enter the mobile market."
Yeah right (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently we have exhausted all the good TLAs (Score:3, Funny)
MVNO
Apparently we have exhausted all the good TLAs and must venture further into FLAs.
This is an unfortunate start as it looks/sounds like
mv? no.
First to predict... (Score:5, Funny)
Also, in 3 to 6 months Microsoft will apologize to their employees, customers, and vendors for falling so far behind as an MVNP and music distributor. But Balmer will commit to catching Apple, Google, and AllOfMp3.com within the next 3 to 4 quarters. It's Microsoft's top priority next to releasing Longhorn, WinFS, security, DRM, the next version of SQL Server, Exchange 2007,
Lastly, Apple frustrated with the iPOD to car stereo interfaces and refusal by many automobile manufacture to integrate the iPOD directly into their automobiles will purchase an Korean automobile company and begin manufacturing iCars. These cars will include new design innovations including ergonomic steering wheels and see through dash panels. Initially the automobiles will run on Honda gasoline engines, but Jobs will announce in the first 4 years of production that the iCar (and soon to be released iSUV) will switch to Toyota engines that can run on electricity, gasoline, jet-fuel, whiskey, and the sweat of some breeds of Tibetan mountain goats.
Step aside Dvorak I have spoken.
Re:FINALLY! (Score:5, Funny)
Let's quit paying lip service to convergance and really get there folks!
Re:Apparently we have exhausted all the good TLAs (Score:3, Funny)
I thought they were called ETLAs...
Re:YES! (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully it will come w/ a stylish and sophisticated laniard so you can wear the device around your neck... and of course the option to purchase other laniards that match your outfit.
Another 500 million? (Score:3, Funny)
but how does a (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Apparently we have exhausted all the good TLAs (Score:4, Funny)
It is interesting how one can determine the age of many UNIX programs by looking at their age. Programs like mv, cp, sh and dc stem from the seventies, whereas programs like cat, sed, gcc, ftp and man where first introduced in the early eighties. While TLAs are still the most common, there has been some FLA early adopters like perl.
Hold Music (Score:3, Funny)
Will they have a Tom Jones edition?
These are the burning questions.
Re:In other words (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yeah right (Score:2, Funny)
What exactly are you doing with that other hand while surfing the web?
You don't want Batman's utility belt !?!? (Score:3, Funny)
You've got that all wrong. Only geeks want to carry around a Batman's utility belt full of gadgets.
If you don't lust after Batman's utility belt, you're not the geek you think you are. At minimum, your belt should have cell phone and an iPod. Maybe a smallish GPS device? And of course, a grappling hook...
Sure, my wife would make fun of me. But if I came across a utility belt half as cool and half as full of useful gadgets as Batman's, I'd wear it almost every day...
Practical, sane, non-gadget-crazy individuals like yourself don't want to carry more electronic devices than can comfortably fit in a pants pocket. Because they're afraid they'll look too geeky...
Re:Yeah right (Score:2, Funny)
My keyboard has about *100* buttons and I don't have to point it at anything first.