Get Apple'd

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When my baby/love child/significant other/partner/lover/mistress/mother (not my daddy ok ^&*&) - Apple Imac G5 20" with Airport Express, Ipod Shuffle and Memory Upgrade(which i luv) is being repaired (the keyboard has been replaced - my private equity investor said i had worn out the keyboard blogging, "cutnpaste i corrected, 'other than 8 words before each post'" : the audio only works for itunes, but not for podcasts, web radio, quicktime, mp3 streaming etc aaaagh) and the Apple Service people are being great (I have the tech guys direct number, he answers in 3 rings, we speak twice a day - equal amount he calls, and i call - perfect relationship, other than the 'he' and 'apple support' part, for me'y'all-ok.) As soon as it happened and they said a week to repair I ordered the new Ibook 14.1 which other than fuzzy screen :) and its not a powerbook, has a great spec, but I'm still waiting for delivery for that (from virtualcommunities where i used to work) Anyway, the latest on this HUGE nothing story, on Apple Video Ipod vs Itunes phone, looks now like its a ITUNES phone, except if they also have an IPOD phone. Like Cludo I guess. From engadget :

"The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple and Cingular have finally settled on an agreement that will have the carrier offering the Motorola ROKR music phone by the holiday season. And, as suspected, the announcement will supposedly come at the September 7 media event in San Francisco. The source for all of this seems to be “people familiar with the matter” (aha!) who also confirm that Apple will be introducing an update to the iPod line on the same day, as also evidenced by the wording of the media event invitation which reads, “1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again.” The question still remains, then — are the music phone and the iPod update the same device? Oh, and we’d love to link directly to the WSJ article cited, but too bad — it’s behind a costwall."