No bluetooth and no phone make Jack...

FUCKING PISSED OFF. How do such short sited and moronic people rise to such high ranking positions? No, I'm not going off on Bush again, although that statement still applies to Dubyah. Can anyone tell me? I'm really talking about Jon Rubinstein, a Senior VP at apple. He doesn't "believe in convergence theories" and is pretty sure that the iPod will stay as money as it is for the next ten years.

"On the iTunes phone I can load 100 tunes," said Rubinstein ."However, with the iPod my whole music collection becomes mobile."

But the iTunes phone sucks hairy balls! Everyone knows; blind rodents in China know that. So you'll take a marginally conceived product, release a TERRIBLE implementation of it and interpret failing market reaction as a public outcry against unified devices? That's like Henry Ford rolling out a motorized razor scooter and deciding that people didn't want cars. From the comments:

It'd take a company which doesn't already have a vested interest in keeping things this way to do it,

Hey you! In the phonebooth! Get out, google needs to dash in and save the world again. I dunno if they're even thinking of producing hardware products, but if they sold a VOIP phone with decent features for use with their new WiFi system I'd have one. Sorry, back to what a douche this guy is. I kinda hope for his sake he's just messing with us and doesn't actually think this stuff is true. Fact of the matter is, the ROKR sucks because its good for iPods if it sucks. A policy of "if it ain't broke, don't improve on it" is not one I can get behind. Apple is walking the line here, they've still got a bit of good karma left over from when they weren't raging tool bags. I'll spare the entire company for now, but this dude is going on my enemies list. Read the article and check out the comments, I bet you won't find too many assenting opinions.