On June 1, 2009, Apple will announce the release of what it calls “the most revolutionary application yet” for its iPhone brand of cellular telephone.
At a recent tech show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jobs described his latest iPhone app:
“iPhone users currently enjoy the greatest collection of apps in the industry. With a touch of the screen, you can turn your iPhone into a compass, game player, or a GPS.
Now, we’ve done something truly revolutionary. We’re going to allow you to talk to other people in real time from your iPhone. That’s right. With our new app, you’re going to be able to punch in a few numbers and be able to talk directly with other people. We call it a ‘telephone’ app, and it’s going to change communication forever.
Wendell Donaldson, chief editor for tech magazine We’re Really Not Complete Dorks. Really. was allowed to use a demo of the new telephone app. ‘It is amazing. I was able to dial a couple of numbers and talk to people. Their voices come out through a little hole at the top of the iPhone and I speak into a little microphone at the bottom.
Initially, I was speechless. Then I realized that defeats the point, so I started talking. The other person could here me loud and clear. No more texting and emailing for me. I’m going to start telephoning people.’
Jobs estimates that his new telephone application will be especially popular among drunk single guys, especially at 3:30 a.m.
WHAT?! That’s crazy. It’ll never catch on. Besides, that’s why I have Verizon’s “can you hear me now” netword. The answer is always no.
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I will leave a comment when I stop laughing. It could be awhile.
Mala, “It’ll never catch on.” HAHA!
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I aim to please.
Talking on the phone is so 2004. A couple of notes though….one, my daughter calls all telephones “iphones.” The generation gap is already widening and she’s only 2. Second, thank God I beat the iphone constantly in contact revolution by getting married just as text was blowing up. I can barely contemplate the humiliation. And C, when is Apple gonna come up with the “breathalizer app” that shuts the phone down when its 3 am and today’s lonely hearts are yet to give up hope? I think that could be a real money maker.
“Initially, I was speechless.” Very nice TDW, you’ve done it again. No one can turn a phrase better.
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The significant other doesn’t text you to death? My SO will text me from a different room in the house. And thanks for the kudos. You know I love the flattery.
Oh, technology! What will they think of next.
I’m new around here. Love the blog!
Party on.
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Hold up! What are all my bitches doing over here?
Ok, here’s way TMI for you guys. Back when we first started dating, I had hit the hay early and my man was still downstairs. I sent him a text that said, “Come up here, I think I’d like to (insert dirty deed here).” He came up about 12 seconds later and I did said deed. The next morning he checks his phone and is all like, “WTF?” Turns out, he didn’t get my text, as his phone was in the bathroom charging. He just happened to come upstairs. I asked him what he thought when I attacked him when he came in. His response?
“I just thought, I’ve struck gold with this one.”
I will wake up tomorrow and curse myself for drinking and commenting.
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Best. Comment. Ever.
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Drink up and keep typing! This blog is much cheaper than Cinemax.
LOL @ Travellinbaen, “breathalizer app”..brilliant!
New to the blog…love this post.
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Thanks, Harmony. We currently have openings for regulars. The position is yours for the taking.
Drinking and commenting…what the hell was I thinking?
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No, no. It was very good. In fact, I recommend your getting liquored up before all your comments. In fact, I may take TB’s breathalyzer idea and rig the site so that you can’t leave a comment unless you’re tanked.
Nice idea TDW. I just caught on to the whole texting thing this past year, but I frequently call my husband from across the house. Now he just sends me to voicemail.
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Your husband sounds like my wife. She’ll send me a text question that’s impossible to answer via text, such as, “Explain the role of the invention of the cotton gin in the perpetuation of slavery in the South.” I’ll then call her immediately and it’ll go to voicemail.
Don’t complain about the spouse using the phone from the other room. Mine goes across the house, into a closet, closes the door, turns out the light, surrounds herself in pillows and then tells me very important things in sign language, things that when I act contrary to result in angry instructions to purchase a hearing aid.
The fact that a hearing aid is actually a reasonable suggestion has no bearing on the issue of her insistence on communicating in this fashion.
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First, that’s damn funny. Second, I can empathize. I get in trouble for running afoul of things that were never said, just thought.
roflmao. I love drunk dialing, this will be SWEET~