Apple Should Make A Phoneless iPhone
Apple Should Make A Phoneless iPhone
Maybe they could call it the iPod Retouch?
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The sky is falling!
Sorry, no, it’s iPhone sales that have dipped into “Sell off your Apple Stock!” territory. Well, for some folks, anyway, and the stock price dropped from around $196 to $181 in a week. I didn’t sell any of mine.
Mark Gurman said this in his free newsletter: “Apple Inc. has finally acknowledged a hard reality: The US smartphone market is mired in a slump.”
Poor Apple, on the verge of bankruptcy again. People need to help them by buying new phones!
I did my part last year by buying an iPhone 14 Pro. However, I don’t expect to buy another phone for at least five years. Why would I? It’s a great phone and I almost exclusively only use it for CarPlay when I’m driving, plus maybe a few pictures of things around the house. One of these days I want to use it to take some better pictures of my coin collection, but that would involve pulling them out of the safe deposit box and I have a feeling that may never happen. The bank is over four miles away!
Phones, particularly iPhones, have become pretty darn good and they don’t change all that much year to year. Yes, the 14 got emergency satellite, but what could be coming that would make me and a few hundred million other folks trade up? I bet there are a lot of people at Apple worrying their overpaid little heads about that!
No need to fret, Apple, the iPod Retouch is your answer. Make a new iPod Touch line with all the features of a phone but no cell service! Make cheap ones and Pro ones, just like you do now, but leave out the cellular chip.
Crazy idea, right? Apple discontinued the iPod Touch a few years back because nobody wanted it anymore — well, some somebodies did, but not enough.
Funny, though, those suckers are on eBay for over $300. Just sayin’.
I hardly ever use my phone as a cell phone. I’ve heard that a lot of younger people never use their phones that way: it’s all What’s-a-thingy and Signally or whatever the latest internet talkie-talkie app is. Most oldies like me couldn’t imagine not calling the pharmacy to renew a prescription, but I do it online. And my wife always asks, “What did they say?”
Why call anyway? Very few businesses answer their phones, and if they do, you go to voicemail hell. It’s far easier and faster to use whatever internet method they offer. And the ones that don’t offer anything? Get off your horse, Gramps, we have Uber now!
How hard would it be for Verizon, T-Mobile, et al. to tie the internet to voice? THEY DO IT NOW! That’s the Wi-Fi calling option on your iPhone or Android thingy. Your call goes through those internet pipe things but still gets to the old phone lines. Amazing, huh?
Apple shouldn’t be wasting money paying royalties for cellular modem chips and paying engineers to develop their own. Convince one cellular company to buy in to these no modem iPhones and the world would follow.
Cellular modems would be like your appendix: maybe it was useful once, but it’s a waste of money now.
Oh, oh, danger Will Robinson! What about emergencies! Duh, skip back a few paragraphs; have you already forgotten about satellites?
Of course Verizon, the T-boy, and everyone else make a lot of money from cell services, so there would be resistance, but think about it: isn’t this inevitable? Don’t cell modems feel a bit vestigial?
Hey, Apple, get off your cellular horse!
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