• The $900-ish Porschephone looks suspiciously like a $450 phone with a Porsche logo on it.
• From the department of “Tough cheese, you agreed to it:”TechCrunch’s Dan Kimerling has had enough of developers complaining about how Apple runs the AppStore.
• Bling fans rejoice! Goldstriker is now dipping the new iPod Nano.
• Taiwan wins international creepy robot of the month.
• Die in spectacular and public fashion with a DIY fireworks ignition system.
• What you’ve been waiting all this time for: swivel-head HDMI plugs.
They’re HDMI swivel plugs, not USB
Once again… and this is one of my pettest pet peeves. Anyone who would buy a phone or any other gadget because it has some name like Porsche, Armani, etc. on it – Is a total dick (moron, jerkoff, idiot, loser, clueless bastard, clueless bitch, fucktard…) take your pick.
Sorry, I’ll go outside until my blood stops boiling.
Have a nice day.
JAKE0748
Of course they are it’s like that joke; whats the difference between a porcupine and a porshe?
The porcupine has it’s pricks on the outside.
Thank you, DTPHANTOM. I know that there are many people out there who feel the same as I do. I’m not always sure if there are enough of them.
If it turns out there aren’t, then I may just fall on my Swarovski diamond-encrusted 24-carrot gold plated, 3G suicide device.
This response to Dan Kimerling is very clear, well written, and concise:
http://tinycrunch.com/2008/09/27/youre-wrong-dan-why-developers-should-be-complaining-about-the-app-store-tinycrunch/
Clearly, both sides are right:
• It’s Apple’s App Store, and they can do what they want.
• Apple should in fact be more open and talkative about what’s OK and what’s not –
– because WHEN the other phones have App Stores, Apple won’t have any more pissed off developers.
I still can’t believe that anyone can sign up for Apple’s ecosystem and then act surprised when Apple does as Apple is.
And let us remember that they all actually sign in the literal sense. That big collection of words you put your name to? It means something. It means you’re an unsalaried freelancer writing software for Apple, and it can fuck you whenever it wants.
Porsche design division has done very many very estethic and cool products. This phone is definately on in this line.
paying stupid money to advertise other people’s products for them.
there’s porsche toaster. 2 slice toaster for 99UKP (182USD).
dont buy this hype. dont buy this shit.
I know that from this picture I can’t judge the menu layouts or tactile feedback of the switches and button, but somehow, the lines and weight of this phone just strike me as… off. They displease me.
If I was in the possession of unlimited resources,I would get the Porsche phone to remove the logo at home and puzzle people.
But then again, there’s that variable of unlimited resources versus odd urges.
Jake, Phantom, ACX: it’s only puzzling until you understand that the very rich have so much money that those prices don’t matter. What most people mentally peg as “rich” is a long way down from that level.
I’m completely down with the “let them code for Android” school. If it works out, then Apple will probably loosen up the App Store, and if it doesn’t, well, then.
TNH: Indeed. Compared to the likes of Vertu, these are a bargain.