Will The iPhone Kill The iPod?

Edward Sinovian writes "According to Cnet.co.uk, the days of MP3 players, digital cameras and satellite navigation systems are numbered with cell phones about to take center stage. "PDAs have already been crushed by smart phones and the same thing looks to be happening with standalone MP3 players, particularly the smaller flash ones — a theory supported by Apple's recent entry into the world of music phones. If you then take into consideration the convergence of camera, GPS, TV and laptop-like functionality into mobile phones, it raises the question of how long it's going to take before all you need is a mobile phone." With that in mind, do you think that the iPhone will kill the iPod?"

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[soft_guy]

Don't worry. They will eventually ship the iPhone Shuffle for cheapos like you.

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[gnomeza]

Just one button.
It dials a random number from your phonebook.

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[alcmaeon]

Plus, a button less phone seems counter-intuitive to me.

Back in the day, no phones had buttons. They had this perforated wheel thing called a dial. In fact, when we push the buttons on a phone today, we still say we are "dialing" the number. There was even a time before there were dials.

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[carpe_noctem]

Besides I want an ipod with me all the time, I don't like being attached to the blackberry all the time.

Just be careful next time you walk through airport security with four ipods strapped to your belt, ok?

Couldn't resist

[almiray]

How long would it take to realize that Apple is going for the Tri-corder killer?

How many features....

[Anonymous Coward]

... can you pack into a "phone" before it stops being a phone.

The iPhone or any of the other mp3 playing phones arent mp3 players... so how long before they become something else. The smartphone didnt kill the pda, the pda is interbreeding with the phone population at large, producing deformed mutant offspring.

(not that some smart phones arent ok... there just not pda's or phones)

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[markov_chain]

You had dials? Spoiled brats. We had to touch the red and green wires together repeatedly to make up the number.