iPhone Photo Leaked
Ever since the Motorola ROKR came out and was revealed to be so wonderfully craptastic, rumors have been swirling about Apple launching a mobile communicator line. The traditional rumor goes something like this... Apple makes a combo iPod / mobile phone and launches itself as a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator,) leasing GSM dialtone from Cingular or T-Mobile and reselling it to the end consumer. Even though they're "renting" someone else's telephony network, there's still profits to be had by offering higher value services... perhaps something like .Mac? What info we do have comes from sifting through patent and trademark filings. Earlier this month, curious bloggers discovered that Apple had trademarked the term "Mobile Me(tm)".Apple's been pretty tight-lipped about the whole affair, but then again they're generally tight lipped about their product strategy. So it was a great surprise when photos of the "Mobile Me" were posted on Engadget and TUAW : The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
It's interesting timing... Not long after Pixar buys Disney... er... uh... I mean... Disney buys Pixar, we see Apple-branded sim-cards popping up in mobile phones. Given Apple's iSync infrastructure, it would likely be a relatively trivial task to integrate .Mac services like email and blogging. Heck we could even see a return of the Newton; this time as a dedicated media pad for rendering Disney content.
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