Apple Readies "I'm an iPhone" Ads Against Android

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iPhone 3Gold - 28 Sep 2008 06:45 GMT

Apple announced a new series of ads being produced to help squash
Google's Android platform before it takes off. Apple sees Android as a
threat to the growth of the iPhone even though most iPhone users
dismissed the recently released G1 as "not an iPhone killer."

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Larry - 28 Sep 2008 06:50 GMT

iPhone 3Gold <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:0db82193-3275-4748-aef3-
e6c85af59aaf@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> Apple announced a new series of ads being produced to help squash
> Google's Android platform before it takes off. Apple sees Android as a
> threat to the growth of the iPhone even though most iPhone users
> dismissed the recently released G1 as "not an iPhone killer."

The iPhone killer part happens when the hackers take over Android and start
figuring out how to turn it into a mainframe on steroids....like they did
with my Linux tablet...which already runs Android, of course.

If the hackers take a shine to it....Apple is in trouble.

Run-Bunny-Run just won't be the same when the guy next to you is playing
Playstation III games on Androids PVM (Playstation Virtual Machine) with
his Wiimote controller...in 3D.

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iPhone 3Gold - 28 Sep 2008 07:25 GMT

> iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:0db82193-3275-4748-aef3-
> e6c85af59...@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> Playstation III games on Androids PVM (Playstation Virtual Machine) with
> his Wiimote controller...in 3D.

PlayStation apps play on the iPhone now too

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Larry - 28 Sep 2008 17:06 GMT

iPhone 3Gold <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:064361e4-b7ad-41b1-81d9-
8df6a28cc2be@y71g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:

> PlayStation apps play on the iPhone now too

For how much $$$$?

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iPhone 3Gold - 28 Sep 2008 22:05 GMT

> iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:064361e4-b7ad-41b1-81d9-
> 8df6a28cc...@y71g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
>
> > PlayStation apps play on the iPhone now too
>
> For how much $$$$?

FREE for jail broken phones

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 28 Sep 2008 13:23 GMT

> > Apple announced a new series of ads being produced to help squash
> > Google's Android platform before it takes off. Apple sees Android as a
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> The iPhone killer part happens when the hackers take over Android and start
> figuring out how to turn it into a mainframe on steroids...

.....with the HELP of Google engineers.

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Todd Allcock - 28 Sep 2008 21:06 GMT

This post might've been a lot funnier if you linked its source, so others
could get in on the joke:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/09/im-an-android.html?from=rss

Or, at the very least, quoting the funny bits:

> The ads will attempt to scare users away from the Android-based phones.
> "If you've watched enough science fiction, you know that androids
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> emotions, or forming into human-hating killing machines. "I'm a geek.
> Anything's possible," said Google founder Sergey Brin.

Unless, of course, Vic, you didn't realize it was a joke...

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