PocketUp » ireader http://www.pocketup.com Pocketable Gear Talk Tue, 04 May 2010 03:01:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 my Wednesday Apple prediction http://www.pocketup.com/2010/01/my-wednesday-apple-prediction/ http://www.pocketup.com/2010/01/my-wednesday-apple-prediction/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:29:09 +0000 JohnJohn http://www.pocketup.com/?p=386
  • The Apple iReader will be released.  Two versions a) an AT&T 3g and Wifi b) Wifi only.  Yes folks I think Apple is sticking with AT&T.  I don’t believe Apple wants to move away from the GSM, SIM based, world standard.
  • Core I5 processors in the 15″ MBPs and the Core I7 in the 17″(I will buy that one)

    • Some of you are asking yourselves why do I think Apple will stay with AT&T.  It’s very simple.  Almost everyone hates their mobile carrier.  Whether it’s Verizon, Spring, T-Mobile, AT&T, etc, we all hate them for some reason.  I also think this because Apple does not want to move away from SIM card based mobile devices.  Building a CDMA and GSM device is a waste of resources in Apple’s mind If you want our devices change carriers.

    I’m ready to go out on a limb here, but I think in the near future Apple will buy AT&T’s wireless division.  I think Apple is very interested in keeping pace with Google.  A few years ago when the 700mghz network became available, and Google was bidding, I think Apple was very intrigued by this.  Asking themselves why would Google want that.  This got Apple thinking about mobile communications on a different level, not just hardware.

    Apple is very tatical.  They start by releasing devices that cause AT&T to spend money and build their network.

    Remember this is from someone who thinks Google will buy Verizon too. :)

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