Everybody’s complaining about the 100 songs limit but in reality it’s close to memory limitations of the phone.

Look, Apple didn’t sabatoge this by putting a 100 limit on this device. Um iPod 512 shuffle? Do these not get sold because of the song limit? No. Nano kill these? No.

Facts.
(1) Price is to expensive for halfwit, ugly, bricklike phone.
(2) Design wise its about as attractive as a wheelbarrow full of cracked cinderblocks and frog manure.
(3) It’s like carrying a brick around. Clunky.
(4) Poor marketing
(5) If it held 1,000 songs it still wouldn’t sell because its about as fashionable as you grandmother’s leotards.
(6) Razor will do better depending on price and promotional marketing.
(7) Motorola should let apple design the phone and do the marketing.
(8) I don’t think Motorola is so stupid in business that they would let someone take this much advantage of them as implied in this article. I think Motorola is trying to get better licensing arrangements from apple so when they do put it on a phone such as the razor they wouldn’t have to pay as much becuase they could cite the fact that the Rokr was such a failure.
(9) Conspiracy theory….ooh Apple next move
iToilet. Every time you flush it picks a random song from your playlist and you get your own refreshing music to cover up the noise of the toilet flushing.

LOL
PS: Comparing APPLE to MSFT is like comparing a scientist to a serial rapist.
If it was MSFT it wouldn’t be iPod it would be
iOWNU

As far as the point of Apple vs. phone manufacturers, yes, they are competitors; granted, the phone manufacturers have to license components from Apple. Furthermore, how many people do you think are going to buy a ROKR that don’t already have money invested in iTunes? The ROKR isn’t average joe material but more geared for the Apple-head who has invested time and money into their iTunes collection and doesn’t want to buy an iPod Shuffle to go with their cell phone, iBook, and regular iPod (for the videos, of course). Most people will take the free phone that their cell phone provider is offering and not spend $150 on a phone. That leaves them with $150 to invest in an iPod device or more songs through iTunes. This isn’t even for us, the computer nerds, because we can see what a piece it really is. Instead, the ROKR is just the tip of the iceberg that gives the masses an idea to have wet dreams over and us something to complain about because any press is good press.

I mean, damn, how much time have we now spent on talking about a bad version of a possibly good idea?

Consider this… the name of the phone was stupid.

ROKR. It conjures visions of Guitar Center, of Otto “likes to get Blotto” from the Simpsons, it’s reminiscent of maladjusted, unpopular kids in school.

RAZR sounds okay. A razor is sharp. A razor is cool. Cut. Cut. Cutting edge. Even the word sounds good. Full of positive mental associations. Sleek, sharp.

You wouldn’t be embarrassed to say you own a RAZR phone. You’d be afraid the other person would laugh at you if you said you owned a ROKR phone.

Mr. Zander is a bit silly. I mean, he managed to be succesful at Sun during the internet bubble… a time when a babboon might have done as well (in his place).

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