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[Sgt PSN]

i love my iphone but i honestly don't see the point in this thing. 

it's for people who use their laptops more for web browsing and entertainment than anything else.  it's like a windows based net book, but better. 

that's the appeal for me anyway.  why spend $1000 on a macbook when all i'm mostly going to use it for is to sit in my recliner and watch tv while surfing the web?

[charlie]

i love my iphone but i honestly don't see the point in this thing. 

This guy disagrees...

[Sgt PSN]

i see what you did there

[mussa]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml

[Sgt PSN]

that's pretty cool.  i doubt i'd ever buy it, but still cool none the less. 

[Geowhizzer]

That appeals to the oldster in me.  I used to play most of those games at the local arcade.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It's also an April Fools joke, crackers.

[Sgt PSN]

ha!  i clicked on the buy button and yeah, not real.  it's a good idea though and i'm sure it would appeal to a large majority of the 30-45 yr old crowd. 

[Diomedes]

so from what I gather about this leak of the new iPhone, it's got a front facing video camera which Apple is going to say users can video chat with, from phone to phone or from phone to computer

that's some Jetsons shtein right there, straight up sci-fi

all you boomers who thought you got ripped off because we don't have flying cars by now, well, video phone is quickly becoming a reality.

can you imagine the shtein we're going to be able to do by seeing the person to whom we're talking, and more importantly, by seeing what they're seeing?  I'm on a job, got a problem that I don't know what to do...so I call my boss..point the phone at the problem while talking to him, and get my answer.  a billion ways to make it useful, pretty f'n cool.

[General_Failure]

Honestly, who really wants to see the people they're talking to on the phone? It sounds cool and all, but nobody wants to see Grandma's bed hair at 4 AM when she calls to tell you Grandpa had a stroke.

[Diomedes]

Sure sure, no one wants to see that.  But there are gazillions of ways it would be useful as hell.  Old lady sends me to the store to get some stupid shtein for the baby...I can ignore the details until I get there, ring her up, point the camera at the shelf and she can tell me which one of the idiotic things it is that I have to buy.

The possibility for errands are endless.

[Sgt PSN]

lol

[Seabiscuit36]

We're stuck with old technology of taking a picture on your phone and emailing it or texting it, or facebooking it, or twitter, or etc   This shtein is ridicuouls.  I never saw this type of technology coming, as a kid you always heard about TV Watches, but they were a joke.  Now your tv watch gets your stock tips, orders your christmas gifts, and finds you a place to get a great meal.  I didnt even have a real(i had a phonebag) cell phone until 2000.  I though the Nextel update get color screens was amazing.  Now i can literally do everything from a droid, and the iphone is the same

[mpmcgraw]

wait, you actually have a droid?

I didn't know people like you actually existed.

[Sgt PSN]

i don't know if verizon is still running the promotion, but for a while the droid was buy 1 get 1 free.