AppleInsider StaffPalm chief executive Ed Colligan doesn't plan on losing any sleep over rumors that iPod maker Apple Computer is on the verge of breaching the cell phone market with a new handset device.
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,'' he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.''
Asked what to expect if Apple indeed were to deliver an iPod phone to market, Colligan theorized the device would likely employ WiFi and be sold through the company's retail chain rather than carriers like Verizon or Cingular.
Over the course of the last month, Apple is reported to have released its first mobile handset to contract manufacturers while it continues to work feverishly on a second device with additional collaborative capabilities.
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Pretty smug, Ed.
But the people at apple are not just "PC guys"
PC guys... that's scary; he has no idea what is about to happen.
Ed's right though, even if the expectation in and of itself is unreasonable. Apple isn't going to make the end-all, be-all cellphone on day one. It didn't even happen with the iPod and mp3 players in general. Apple will make a competent product with shortcomings that'll be addressed in future revisions or shortcomings they'll stick with because the Apple fanbase can tolerate it.
Thats funny especially due to the fact that the Treo 600 and 650s FLOPPED with Sprint. I know, I went through four and still ended up going back to my old phone.
Just wondering... is it completely necessary to put 'the Cupertino, Calif.-based company' in every single article? Same thing for windoze's 'Redmond based company'? I Honestly don't see the point...And by PC guys, I think they meant personal computers, ie mac & windows & linux & (insert here)