iPhone + AT&T for another two years?
InformationWeek is reporting that AT&T, the sole provider of Apple’s iPhone in the US, is seeking to extend it’s exclusivity agreement until 2011. As it stands, the agreement ends in about a year. And then I got to wondering—since I’m so indecisive about a new smartphone lately—would I actually get a phone if my mobile carrier, T-Mobile, were to offer the iPhone?
Fandango on your iPhone!
In a weird bit of irony, PC World is reporting that the iPhone has a new app for buying movie tickets through the popular ticket site Fandango. First off, I don’t use Fandango because they charge me a convenience fee. For the convenience of not having to go to the walk-up machine they have at the theatre? Well, that’s a lot of pointless! Second off, why isn’t Mac World reporting it? I mean, the Apple iPhone isn’t exactly an Intel-or-AMD based machine, running some fancy Windows CE. Or maybe I’m still stuck on the old-world definition of PC.
Anyway, I’m not getting it because (a) I don’t use Fandango, and (b) I don’t have an iPhone, and (c) if I ever get tickets online, it’s thru AMC, because I have an AMC MovieWatcher card.
Which reminds me, I need to see more movies there; I gots ta Ka-Ching!
Demise of the iPod?
Content Quake has a story about the iPod that has me sad. Granted, it’s two months old, but I just found the site. CQ says that because of the cell phones that can double as MP3 players—proven, ironically, by Apple’s iPhone—the iPod is no longer necessary.I don’t really want to get an iPhone. But, I will be sad when Apple announces they will no longer be making iPods. I still whip out the old 2G, 20GB iPod, when it’s been charged, and go for a round of bad music. I’m so glad it doesn’t have the stuff from the 90’s. What was I thinking, listening to bad techno music? I must have gotten in with the Azn crowd, I guess.The most exciting part of the CQ article, to me, is the mention of hard drives in cars to play all your MP3s. That would be totally sweet.
