New Apple Equation: Microphone + WiFi = iPhone Killer

Yesterday, Steve Jobs re-introduced the new Apple handheld equation:

Microphone + WiFi = iPhone Killer

With a microphone and WiFi, you have access to Google Voice in a browser, thus a potential phone. Add to that a Verizon MiFi and you have a de-facto cell phone.

That, and not Steve Jobs’ bogus answer to David Pogue on how Apple did not understand how to market an iPod Touch, is the reason we did not see a camera and video in the iPod Touch. And why the Nano does not include WiFi.

That is also why we we will not see an iPod camera, as Joe thinks we will. And why the iPad could have both WiFi and a microphone – it’s not a hand-held (or at least what a consumer understands a handheld to be).

Expect future Apple handhelds to follow this formula – Apple needs to protect its iPhone franchise

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