"Apple's iPhone has been selected as TIME's Invention of the Year"

Enough said.



technically it should be called the Invention of 10 months. Last time I checked, the year ended a couple of months from now.

And I'm really disappointed in you people. 10 comments, and not one snarky one about where the Zune landed on the list? And you people call yourselves Electronista posters....

Sucks.

There.

Illegal file sharing is not the only use of bit torrent. Many Linux distributions can only be downloaded that way.

There's nothing about this that is about legal vs. non-legal filesharing (its not like they're doing this for the RIAA). Its all about trying to keep their bandwidth from being sucked dry.

Pushing the price of all other phones up will make the iPhone the cheapest, attractive and most functional phone. :P

But seriously, since the iPhone has gone down in price, and other phones willhave to compete with the iphone (in price, form-factor and functions), I think the opposite effect will happen: we're getting more functional and cheaper phones. Unless those phone makers are real idiots...

There is one thing the other phones won't ever have it: the elegant operating system. Unless the h*** freezes over, or when M$ makes a "good enough" mobile OS.

Hey Testudo, Since when does Comcast charge less.

I didn't say "less than x**", I just said "less". The thought going through Comcast's single-celled brain being "If we just lump all this c*** into one big pipe, we don't have to lay down as much line, or take up too much of our bandwidth with this internet c***, so we can add 10 more PPV channels that idiots suck themselves into!" and this, in turn, means they "only" have to charge you $60 for your internet connection.

Otherwise, they'd have to add more lines/capacity and then pass the cost on to you. So it's "less" then what it could be.

Obviously you dont deal with them regularly. I am held hostage by these corparate greed monsters. They are the only way I can get broadband. I have to pay more for less band width because I refuse to use their TV service.

Of course I don't deal with them. I used to. But I got tired of the incessant rate increases to cover their expenses for cable rollout, and their crappy service and technicians. h***, they're so beloved amongst people I know, that my friend's HOA fees pays for cable TV and internet (so they HAVE to pay), and yet they went out and got DirecTV and Verizon FIOS.

I've never laughed so hard as I did when one tech asked "Is there a Microwave near your modem. That's your problem!"

And you don't have to use their TV service. But you should get the basic package. Together, at least here, it costs less then broadband alone (and if that doesn't give you an idea of how they're trying to monopolize you...)

I am looking forward to the day I can cut those bloodsuckers loose. I read these forums regularly and all I ever see from you is an opposite. I think your whole reason for being is to be contrary even when you know it is wrong.

While comcast sucks, and the whole bit-torrent killing is just lame, that doesn't preclude that the concept behind it isn't valid in some sense. They're just doing a really crappy job of it (which is surprising, considering how they usually do such a cracker-jack job of things).

I'm all for the iPhone - but invention [of the year] - not so much_

Seeing as how Apple merely grabbed many existing facets of tech and packaged them together_

having a full blown OS on a phone is cool and somewhat original - but then they keep it closed and locked down_

I'm diggin the visual voice-mail and have been wanting some avenue to be able to keep my voicemail if I so choose without having it die 10 days later_

But invention - No_

Re-engineering previous tech - making it Innovative - Yes_