Comment Re:Wi-fi? (Score 1) 352
Personally, I think you've nailed it here.
Every Apple show or product announcement shows some improvement in the iChat(AV) software... so it's not really a big leap for Apple to market a device that uses Wi-Fi (even just your home wifi) and allows you to speak with your iChat contacts for free and away from your computer, merge in the iPod (so every person in your house needs their own), add nice-to-haves like e-mail alerting/forwarding from your Mac and you could be onto a winner.
Like others have posted, I don't see the logic in Apple releasing a product to a market that is tightly controlled by other companies (the wireless carriers). Apple will want to show that they can innovate in an existing market but the cellphone market at the moment provides what carriers want to provide (and bill for) not what customers want.
Every Apple show or product announcement shows some improvement in the iChat(AV) software... so it's not really a big leap for Apple to market a device that uses Wi-Fi (even just your home wifi) and allows you to speak with your iChat contacts for free and away from your computer, merge in the iPod (so every person in your house needs their own), add nice-to-haves like e-mail alerting/forwarding from your Mac and you could be onto a winner.
Like others have posted, I don't see the logic in Apple releasing a product to a market that is tightly controlled by other companies (the wireless carriers). Apple will want to show that they can innovate in an existing market but the cellphone market at the moment provides what carriers want to provide (and bill for) not what customers want.
