MacDailyNews Take: Whopsie! Oppenheimer likely cringed at least inside as those words passed his lips yesterday. He had to know that Steve Jobs would be placing a call on his prototype iPhone as soon as the conference call ended. Looking back at our live conference call notes, we jotted, “Oppenheimer: Music phones aren’t ready to compete with iPod now, but that is likely to change in the future. Apple is ‘not sitting around doing nothing.’” Yup, that qualifies as “tacit acknowledgement of plans for an iPhone.”
[via Engadget]
Note: The photo at right is a mockup, stolen from Engadget.
"Yup, that qualifies as “tacit acknowledgement of plans for an iPhone.”
No, it doesn't. What if he's speaking of making the "iPod phone" from Motorola *better*?
There's no need to jump to conclusions based on such sketchy information. After all, that's ThinkSecret's job. :)
"What if he's speaking of making the "iPod phone" from Motorola *better*?"
Well, they certainly couldn't make it any worse.
I would LOVE an iPhone!! Say they give it about the storage capacity of an iPod Nano (or hopefully more), but make it a regular-looking flip phone with a big Apple smack-dab on the flip-up, maybe some OS X syncing and I'M SOLD!! :).
or they could be talking about making sure they keep the iPod itself relevant enough to continue to compete with music-playing phones.