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To: Cogito who wrote (56275)	8/24/2006 1:09:28 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213184

With their expertise in product and interface design, and with components available from third parties, I'm sure Apple could put a swinging cell phone together. I'm sure. On a related note, but possibly off topic for Apple (or maybe not), I'll bet there is a ton of pent up demand for a very basic simple to use cell phone that is not a camera, not a music player, not a game device, all it does is just ... make phone calls (and receive them :-)) Oh yeah and has excellent reception and battery life. I just know so many people who can barely use their phone who would love something like that. You know who - the ones who are not good technologically , for example when using a PC they want to know "where's the any key?" and ponder the answer to the eternal question: "when I reboot my PC, why does the cup holder go away?" For cell phones: (Hold down the 1 button and you get one. hold it down for 3 seconds and you get voice mail ------"whhaaat?" OK here smash it with a hammer and it initiates self destruct sequence) Bet Apple could come up with something great for people like that if they get into cell phonery.

To: Cogito who wrote (56275)	8/24/2006 10:06:36 AM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213184

Allen, Ergonomics is a big shortcoming of far too many companies whether it be in software or hardware. Apple is truly one of the few that actually has ergonomics up and front when designing hardware or software. This has also been my way of doing things and I've had much more resistance than you can imagine when it comes to proposing solutions. Too many people just don't understand ergonomics and that they have a right to expect a high quality ergonomically designed product. Look around you and you'll start to wonder how come so much "crap" still sells!