Our lecturer told us the other day that they’re working on various methods of haptic technology on phones, and one of them is to vary the temperature depending on, for instance, whose calling you. So if you don’t have their number it would literally be a ‘cold call’. So your Dad isn’t too crazy to believe you I guess. (Apologise inclusion of my lecturers lame pun.)

that’s an iPot

Ah bless indeed. Dad’s never think their kids lie to them…(see examples such as: “I’m minding them for a friend, I don’t smoke/drink etc…”)

The Journal is really giving iPhone loads of attention. Are ye sponsored by Apple? Much better phones out there

If Polly put the kettle on it could be a Polpot

You should try the iPhone6, I’ve ordered mine from China.

I gave up the fags & pints! Now I can afford the IPhone 5

You can’t smoke an Iphone.

Did you mean Nineteen seventy six ;-)

It’s a smartphone. It does all the things a smartphone does. What else should it do? I don’t mean this only about the iPhone, I mean this about all brands.

Simon not defending it, but you can only revolutionise an industry once, that’s what they did with the original iPhone, they’ve streamlined and made it a better phone with every iteration since, hence my earlier statement about evolution. There may not be anything new, but it’s certainly better since. And please go read some of the reviews and opinions of the 5 vs SIII you’ll be surprised.

Nokia are screwed. 90% of the market down to as you said around 10% That def is real trouble.

HAHAHAH! Agreed! And something else…Have they all forgotten who set the benchmark for smartphones. I do believe its name began with an i and ended in a 3

Apple once had a slogan:
Think Different.
The first word of the slogan, for the slaggers, is what is the problem.
Says she who started on an Apple IIe.

They’ve 3 iOS product lines, 4 if you include the appleTV, they’ve 3 computer lines laptop, MacBook, mac pro and the iMac. Very simple and clean definitely gone are the days of John sully and Gil amelio

Currently, yes, they have very clear product lines where there should be very little humming and hawing over which device is best for a particular customer. Apple have been extremely good at this since Jobs returned. But they have to resist the urge to fiddle with this. Already the iPod range is a lot blurrier than their other ranges, they just about get away with it but another type of iPod would be a silly move. And I’d be less than optimistic about a mini iPad, as there’s two basic problems with this; firstly, it blurs the lines. Is an iPod touch an iPod or a micro iPad. Secondly, Apple have always been very arrogant with their attitude to their customers, but this has, strangely enough, worked in their favour. When net books started appearing and pushing down the price of entry-level laptops, jobs declared that they would never sell a laptop for under €999 and he was right to say this. As a company, Apple tries to dictate what the market should want, rather than the market dictating what Apple should sell. It’s not a “nice guy” policy, and it wouldn’t work for most companies, but it works well for them. Producing a cheaper, smaller tablet to compete with other cheaper, smaller tablets is trying to fight the competitors by the competitors’ rules, not Apple’s rules. They’d lose their advantage. The sad truth is, one of Apple’s selling points is that they are expensive, and they are good at doing “luxury”. Doing “economy” or “budget” isn’t their speciality. I don’t care too much about betraying Jobs’ legacy, whatever that means, but veering away from his rather successful strategy sound like shooting themselves in the foot, but it may well happen because very few people are as utterly convinced of their genius and infallibility as Steve Jobs was.

John, apple already produce a sub €1000 laptop, it’s called the iPad, I’ve got v2 and use it for remote management, I have a wireless keyboard that allows me to type up documents it has in fact replaced the laptop I used for 99% of all the things I did with it, Flash enabled websites being the exception, the iPad mini if it ever comes is a way of competing agains the kindle fire or the galaxy note but I do agree if apple starts to dilute the product line they’ll affect their premium status.

@ Niall – I get you. In effect the iPad was Apple’s way of getting into the net book market. But in terms of how they define their own product lines, Apple are and we’re rapidly opposed to the iPad as being referred to as laptop/net book or even computer. The iPad isn’t a Mac. We’re not talking about what it is, we’re talking about how Apple markets it. In their eyes, their computers ( Macs ) run OSX, their “iDevices” run iOS.

they sure did, as did Apple. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with LTE. That could be a real stumbling block for Apple.

Yep and now Apple are suing the Russian govt for breach of trademark for using the name iCON.

apple must be gone mad. they also sued polish online supermarket over the web adress which is http://www.a.pl as a.pl is nearly the same as apple when pronouced in polish…

also owners of the supermarket have another web adress http://www.fresh24.pl and apple is suing them over the logo which is round green fruit with one leaf on the top of it…

so If anyone has plans for the very own business do not use any fruits in the name of company or logo as apple is just waiting to sue you…

where does it end? where?

Did they not learn from the Apple Computers vs Apple Records (the Beatles) case?

@damian i think they are just trying to win back some of the money they had to give to the beatles

This time the thief didn’t get away!

Personally I’m very excited about the new i RON. It apparently revitalised old clothes and has a ground breaking steam injection system!

“Crapple” would have been funnier… Although I do enjoy my macbook pro

It’s called Viber. :-)