Call me a cinic but, I think it's a possibility worth mentioning, yeah, absolutely. There's definately some degree of ownership as everytime a Microsoft related story is reported or presented on MSNBC they always disclose affiliation.

Another way to look at it is to ask what might be more likely

1) Apple shipped iPhones that arent able to receive a call, perhaps in haste to meet their deadline which would consequently flush their reputation and the goodwill behind this launch down the drain.

2) A newswoman who is able to read prompters and queues all day long in real time well enough to consistently deliver a polished presentation is unable to find the giant green button with the phone on it and press gently (although it did somewhat look as if she had pressed below it).

3) In the bitter throws of heated competition between two rivaling giants who stand to lose or gain many multiple billions of dollars and dominance over new and contested markets that will utimately yield unknown sums of money decided to pull a string or two between contacts from one organization to another, ultimatley making a phone call asking a journalist or two to throw some cold water on the competition's red hot hype, which unfortunately is six to twelve months ahead of any response you might be able to deliver....


Yeah... I think that's possible and ultimately the most probable. I'm not saying I feel that it's wrong for a side, when engaged competitively, to take such an action. If they have the option, they should. It's business.

Perhaps I'm completely off base in my line of thought, I dont know however, I'm always willing to voluteer that. But, why does it strike you so severely that someone would have that outlook?

-Brian A.

A WiFi/VoIP mobile communications infrastructure would cheaper to maintain. It's also easier to send much larger amounts of data via WiFi than CDMA or ASM.

Well, given the fact that she's an *MS*-NBC employee (as in Microsoft-NBC)... I think it's possible her 'attempt' to answer a call on the iPhone might not have been purely genuine.

I think it's just who he is. Without a doubt he had access to product once iPhone RTM'd but, probably chose not to. He is absolutely one of the nicest persons in the industry and, I think is not credited enough for his work at the begining of the PC industry. It's speculation but, I feel that if there had not been an Apple I (his design, Job's dream), there probably would have been another 10 years of incremental Altair type clones before anything else would have came along and galvanized the industry the way the Apple I did.

Well, its Woz.. It's Woz, the co-founder of Apple, chief architect for the line of products that established the company, waiting paitiently in line with the rest of the Apple customers... for an iPhone...

To a lot of people, this culture of a utopian unity, weather real or only perceived, is what is special about Apple.