Word: ipodding
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...wired world. Take singing fish, digital guard dogs and belly-dancing robots. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, second-tier techno-marketers are proudly carrying on the tradition, hawking wacky wares that beg the question: do we really need this stuff? Last year, an iPod-Dock/Toilet-Paper Dispenser stunned the crowd. Once gadgeteers had explored the kitchen, living room and bedroom, they rushed to the final frontier: your bathroom. Among the thousands of objects cluttering booths throughout Las Vegas's CES convention halls this time around, here are some of the oddest...
...iPhone breaks two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it on a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying version of itself. Two, when you take two devices-such as an iPod and a phone-and squish them into one, both devices must necessarily become lamer versions of themselves. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod, and a mini-Internet computer all at once, and contrary to Newton-who knew a thing or two about apples-they all occupy the same space at the same time, but without taking...
...American pastime. (Jobs declines to talk about the options issue.) But there's no point in pretending that Jobs isn't special. A college dropout, whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's Toy Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into...
...Jobs demanded special treatment from his phone service partner, Cingular, and he got it. He even forced Cingular to re-engineer its infrastructure to handle the iPhone's unique voicemail scheme. "They broke all their typical process rules to make it happen," says Tony Fadell, who heads Apple's iPod division. "They were infected by this product, and they were like, we've gotta do this...
...quite right to call the iPhone revolutionary. It won't create a new market, or change the entertainment industry, the way the iPod did. When you get right down to it, the device doesn't even have that many new features-it's not like Jobs invented voicemail, or text messaging, or conference calling, or mobile Web browsing. He just noticed that they were broken, and he fixed them...