“Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple’s iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,” Michael Shields reports for Reuters.
“‘No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program,’ Gates was quoted as saying,” Shields reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “DD from Belgium” for the heads up.]
Aww, no Phune. That’s okay, Microsoft provides us more than enough to ridicule already.
Guess them patent things really work! Gotta get me some.
In other news, Apple will not be launching any product that competes directly with a big table.
Microsoft won’t launch iPhone rival
“Won’t”? More like “can’t.”
That’s good, because if they did, it would be identical in looks to this…
http://www.apple.com/iphone
…but it would have a blue screen of death and never function correctly. Oh, and no multi-touch. Stylus only.
@John Gee. Very good!
What?!?!
Microsfot knows when it’s beaten?
Alleluia!
Too bad. MS hardware is usually the only MS product that doesn’t unmitigatedly suck (the zune being the exception, which was really a repackaged toshiba product anyways). I mean, maybe they can’t program an OS worth a damn, but they sure do make good mice (mouses?)!
Grigori, they could try! Sort of like they tried launching an iPod rival. Hmmm … you think maybe they learned something with that?
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Dave
@ John Gee: LOL
Thats BS. I think I recall them saying the same thing about the iPod.
When they found out you couldn’t DRM phone calls they decided it didn’t fit their business plan.
That’s got to be the smartest decision MS has made – Maybe ever.
after the leaked memo yesterday showing pictures of a literally cloned iPhone interface on the MS phone prototype OS, don’t be too sure they aren’t still spending their vast R&D;bucks on a competitor unit – just wait and see what shakes out. As our readers know however, the consumer electronics river flows rapidly, and without an OS monopoly, MS hasn’t fared that well in the marketplace keeping up with the current.
dd
Aw, come on, having no Phune to ridicule is no Phun!
One other thing: This may be the first notable sign of developers in general and MS specifically adding products in response to everything Apple brings out with the attitude that, if Apple can do it anybody can do it. There are just some things that Apple does better than anybody else does – It’s not elitist, many companies have unique products that they specialize in that other companies either won’t even try, or try and ultimately fail at.
This is a huge letdown for Microsoft enthusiasts like myself. The I-Phone lacks buttons, Exchange connectivity and cannot play Windows Media files. Apple had 5 years to come up with a decent phone and it has been met with critical disdain and indifference. Feature after feature were removed to get the I-Phone out on time and the best Apple could do was foist a mess on the unsuspecting public. I was really looking forward to Microsoft creating a game-changing phone. If not Microsoft, who?
Your potential. Our passion.™
Well, since Bill Gates is retiring this year, Microsoft is free to release an iPhone competitor next year and not have to worry about making him look like a liar. The company is free to change it’s direction once he’s no longer calling any shots.
Maybe Bill’s trying that reverse psychology thing that Steve does…you know like when Steve said no one wants flash MP3 players or music players that play video…?
“In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program . . .”
These things are done in calculated steps.
First come the lies. Next up is the “CallsForSure” partner program. THEN, the Zune Phone and backstabbing.
It’s in their mission statement.
He he, I get it Zune Tang! You wrote the middle of the paragraph on Vista and changed the words to iPhone and Apple! Late, “met with critical disdain and indifference.”, “Feature after feature removed to get [Vista] out on time…”, “…the best [Microsoft] could do was to foist a mess on the unsuspecting public.”
Until now I never realized how much you have been joking!
There is only one piece of Microsoft hardware I’ve ever loved and that was my Trackball Explorer. Tried all the logitechs and hated them, in the end when mine broke after 4 years use I had to go on eBay, I’m constantly looking for another.
MDN is not exactly in a position to laugh or ridicule anyone. This site is very very poorly designed and full of ads!!
It is Apple that produces the cool products not MDN and they are certainly a lot more civilised when they poke fun out of Microsoft.
Get and education MDN.
Gates often says things that are blatantly wrong, so why should we believe him now?
I also don’t believe the 100 million copies of Vista sold. He just throws numbers around.
They eventually will come out with a phone like mess, but the initial release will come with solitaire and minesweep that will also include a rotary dial for ‘nostalgia’.
“Get and education MDN.”
Classic!
cluck, cluck, cluck…
“after the leaked memo yesterday showing pictures of a literally cloned iPhone interface on the MS phone prototype”
That was not meant to be a MS phone, it was still a new version (photo shop conception) of MS windows to run on other phones
As I see it, nothing has changed, they are trying to copy the look and feel of an iPhone soft ware wise, for sale to their window mobile platform users
And of course MDN also fails to acknowledge the ovbous fact that Apple also copied for its iPhone: the touch interface was not actually Apples invention at all. Some one else came up with it, like many of its products.
But of course we all know this is just the usual MDN flame/click bait.
@M.X.N.T.4.1
“There is only one piece of Microsoft hardware I’ve ever loved and that was my Trackball Explorer.”
Absolutely! I dare say it is the best trackball ever designed. There’s absolutely nothing out there that’s even comparable in functionality and ergonomics. I can’t believe it was an MS product!
Maybe Apple didn’t invent a touch interface… But they sure as hell innovated and went somewhere no one else was or is capable of going. Show me a rival device to the iPhone that has even a fraction of its usability, and then try your argument.
Steve said the same thing about video on the ipod and developing the iphone, so you always have to assume these CEOs are bluffing.
Personally, I’d rather MS did try to match the iPhone and get embarrassed once again.
Of course, ChrissyTwo, there is not a single product offering from microsoft that they did not purchase first, then put their name on. Zero. Not a single concept that they created, then developed from scratch, and successfully competed in the marketplace. It may be a smart business model in order to make tons of money, but little “innovation”, as Bill likes to toss around so much, and no effort.
@ChrissyTwo
I prefer model 1. Can you upgrade to model 1 please? Model 2 seems to be full of bugs and flaws.
@dbcoyle
Where did MS copy the xbox 360 from? Just curious.
Awww Zune you’re at it again. I love your sarcasm. Com’on!! Let’s us know what Mac you’re using. Did you upgrade to the new Mac Pro? Come on Zunie let us know.
So all that FUD from MS right after the iPhone release was just that… FUD
“Microsoft won’t launch iPhone rival”
no, they won’t.
…but will they try to?
Wow – shocking!
Because the zOOn was such an iPod killer, they got smart and let Apple have the phone market.
MS – go back to what you do best, writing half-assed software and making the WORST commercials ever!
What’s the big deal. If there was going to be one, all Microsoft would have done is pay LG (or some other actual phone maker) to design and engineer the phone, and put a Microsoft logo on it. It would have to use Windows Mobile as the OS. So there would be absolutely zero point in releasing a “Zune phone.” For once, Microsoft makes a good call. (I like Microsoft mice too…)
Can anyone launch a phone that competes directly with the iPhone? Maybe in several years others will have something, but by then…
@ChrissyTwo,
While I won’t begrudge you your opinions of this site, I have to wonder why you continue reading content on this site if it bothers you so much. It seems to me that if the site bothers you so much that you would just not frequent it.
There is another site that I absolutely loathe for the lone reason that one of their writers is an absolute twit and can’t write to save his life. I started to protest this idiot’s braindead drivel and then realized that I didn’t have to stay there and read his crap. To do so would have been either an effort to hope in futility or just plain masochistic.
So the same advice I offer to you. Don’t punish yourself man. There are better things out there than letting something bother you and have to spout it to others who may not share your disdain.
Cheers!
Nothing has changed. No one would consider it news if Microsoft announced that they weren’t planning on building a computer to compete with the Macs, right? Microsoft has too many partners in the phone market using its software to have any interest in creating a competing product, same as in the computer market.
My criticism is with MDNs attitude and the general smugness of a lot of you here.
I am not defending Microsoft as an innovator, which would clearly be absurd, but I am glad they are competing with Apple here. Apple needs to be kept on its toes because we all know they can be as bad to there customers as anyone else at times.
@ Vlad
I like a man who knows quality when he sees it.
ChrissyTwo. Feh. ChrissyOne is respected here. ChrissyTwo is disrespected here. Yeah, and who here believes for a second it, and I do mean “it” is a woman?
Piss off you 14 year-old momma’s boy troll.
p.s. ChrissyOne is MDN posting under a pen name. That is why they introduced the name registration system so they could continue to do so without interference. Basically a few of us regular posters saw straight through MDN posting a Zune Tang, ChrissyOne etc. and started using the names ourselves. Which of course did not go down very well with MDN.
Any who exactly is MDN? For someone who obviously dishe a lot of dirt out on other people surely they should not feel they have to hide their identity? What exactly are they hiding?
No Apple Big Ass Table?
I’m pissed off.
@ ChrissyTwo
You’re a solid No. 2.
@ChrissyOne
HA! A stinky, festering, fly arousing No. 2.
Chrissyone = MDN – Zune Tang
ChrissyTwo is the Zune of MDN.
i.e., a sorry copy-cat.
Why do we “hide” our identities? Because nutjobs like you have been known to stalk and otherwise interfere with our lives, that’s why.
This is for fun – if MDN is where you go for serious debate, then you’re in need of using the front door more often…
ChrissyTwo = anger – wit
ChrissyOne (or should I say MDN).
I see you have no answer to my arguments, just childish insults.
Wait… You know that ChrissyTwo will also use ChristopherTwo as well, right? Because that is how original (s)he is.
OK, come on. Bring it on you predictable lil turd!
“Phune”. LOL
ChrissyTwo:
Neener Neener Neener.
@ ChrissyTwo
ChrissyOne does not hide her identity. You change your identity often enough that they are naming a multiple personality disorder after you.
I hope paid Microsoft Astroturfers also get medical coverage.
Hang on, I gotta go make a ChrissyTwo. BRB…
How old are you, ChrissyTwo?
If you’re not still a middle schooler, you REALLY need to find some proofreading skills, not to mention attend a serious grammar, mechanics, and usage review. You will be taken much more seriously (by all of us “smuggards”) on this site if you can differentiate, say, between “there” and “their.” (See your last post.)
Otherwise, AmericanJoe said it best. Pack up your pill box and go somewhere else if you don’t like it here. None of us will change, so love it or leave it.
Who cares about proofreading for christ sake! It is not important. Have you seen what this site looks like!
@ChrissyOne
ROTFFLMMFAO!!!!
I see so because you dont agree with me I should leave?
How does that work?
@ChrissyTwo
Hey, if it is not important, then piss-off. Why are you here astroturfin’ if it isn’t important?
Believable, just like they were not going to make their own MP3 player prior to the Zune release.
LIES
“None of us will change, so love it or leave it.”
Yeah, C2. You’ll find that we are quite a bunch of intractable bastards.
..I love you guys.
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Oh, hang on, I see. Because you dont agree with me and what I have to say contradicts your own opinions you cant hanlde it and the only way you can hanlde it is if I leave. What does that say about the strengh of your arguments?
No, you should leave because you are an astroturfin dumb-ass. Disagree all you want here, but at least make sense and know your facts before you smash your fingers on that Dell keyboard.
Two points:
1. Gates copies everything SJ does, everything.
2. Jobs said he wasn’t working on a phone.
@ ChrissyTwo
I never said you should leave. Actually, my posts tend to look all the more brilliant when cast in the dim light of yours, so you could stick around and be my sidekick. Kind like and Electra Woman & Dynagirl kinda thing… it would roxxor! I even have the outfits.
@ ChrissyTwo
“What does that say about the strengh of your arguments?”
Honey, they’re just too polite to tell you about the odor.
ChristopherOne: I take it you are the sub-prime MDN alter ego and ChrissyOne is the prime!
Sure! I would LOVE to be under ChrissyOne! Thanx!
Or on top…
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This sounds familiar, BG says M$ will not compete, then few months later they release something that does.
So, ChrissyTwo… Would you be the cock-blocker for ChrissyOne? You know, the ugly and fat-assed friend that interrupts whenever the good looking friend is doing well?
Here is my prediction:
This is a Microsftian attempt to copy Apple and Steve Jobs, by denying that they are doing it, right up until the time that the implement it.
Don’t worry, they’ll screw their partners on this one, they always do.
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Good thing I like chicks.
So, C2… Do you like old movies?
“I even have the outfits.”
The very definition of a Kodak moment.
@chrissytwo,
Why do YOU, Mr. “why hide” use crissytwo as your moniker?
Surely a bright and honest man like yourself should put his name and email addy on here for all to see?
Nobody told you to leave, but you do stink up the joint…
@ TheConfuzed1
I don;t know why we’re even having this conversation – homeboy doesn’t even work there any more. If you think Ballmer isn’t running around the office right now, picking out new window treatments and installing banana dispensers and big tires hanging from ropes in all the meeting rooms, the you’re living in a fantasy world. Bill can say “We’re only making cheese from now on!” and it would be about as meaningful.
@ Ampar
@ ChristopherOne
“Sure! I would LOVE to be under ChrissyOne!”
Many don’t survive. Most can never walk again. All go away smiling.
I used to post under John, which is my name, but someone else registered it and I cant use it anymore… also, seeing as MDN uses a pen name and so do most other poeple here (and posting a gmail email address is not revealing your identity!), I dont see why I should be any different.
I think she’s gone. All the thinking must have been more than she could take.
@ChrissyOne
Sounds good! Can I bring my wife? If yes, be gentle with her, she might have to drive me to the hospital afterwards.
@crissytwo
Oh,why didn’t you say so – JOHN!
Yes, John.
That surely identifies you as unique.
No mixing up JOHN’s!
Why are you here, really?
eHarmony kick you out?
@Me In LA
eHarmony? Feh. More like Lowered Expectations kicked him out.
Microsoft: LiesForSure™
@ ChristopherOne
“Can I bring my wife?”
If she’s really cute, you might be outta luck.
@ ChrissyTwo
“(and posting a gmail email address is not revealing your identity!)”
Honey, if you can’t find pictures of me in my underwear in under 2 minutes, you might need to take a class.
@ChrissyOne
What?!?! Why?!?! What is wrong with really cute?! You don’t like cute?
@ ChristopherOne
*YOU* might be outta luck. She, on the other hand…
;P
(you know I jest)
(or do I?)
@ChrissyOne
OK, she stays home.
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“I’m the tall one.”
Nice! Although those belts are a bit re-volting. But watt can you do?
Now Now C2, it’s not worth it getting all rill’d up over who is and who isn’t MDN.
Actually, I have it on good authority that MDN is a 2 person opperation in a strip mall in upstate New York. C1, on the other hand, is a photog and computer whiz living in the Shire in Washington State. If you will just look on a map of the united states of america, you will see that this is a distance of 3000 miles. Much to far a commute to be handled by a venti frap and a bagel with cream cheese. (don’t you just love them?)
C1 – some of the best back and forth I’ve ever seen from you. BTW… Did you ever steal that sign?
I can’t cheat on my wife though… Tell you what, kill me afterwards so I would never have to look into her eyes.
Wait, this is sounding really sad…
ChrissyOne, we have to break this off before someone gets hurt. Unless you can deal with my hairy-ass AND my wife’s super-cuteness at the same time?!?!
Chickens!
Microsoft shows it’s yellow backbone to the world.
Scared Apple will wipe the floor in another failed business sector eh Bill?
How ironic that Microsoft chimes a response that Steve Jobs once repeated when asked if he was in the hardware business. I though he was in the software business and thus OS X is part of their DNA.
@ ChristopherOne
Deal. Only if you let me shave it.
(Sorry, I’m not good at stopping.)
@ Ampar
Again with the puns!!! We’ve come full circuit!
@ Sanctimonious Blowhard
“C1 – some of the best back and forth I’ve ever seen from you. BTW… Did you ever steal that sign?”
First – thank you!
Second – No, I only steal from Wal*Mart and RIAA.
Chrissys-in-crisis! Oh my!!
Flame war! Everybody duck!!
@ChrissyOne
Deal!
Not good at stopping? You mean this banter, or shaving? ‘Cause if the latter I have some back-hair too! You wouldn’t have to stop at the butt since you are not good at stopping!
Microsoft has a history of saying they wont do something and then announce a product (not finished).
@ ChristopherOne
“You mean this banter, or shaving?”
They both become rather addictive.
“Flame war! Everybody duck!!”
In the way that Germany vs. Belgium is a war, maybe.
C1… could you shave it to look something like this?
@ Petey
Bill is just trying to lure Apple into a false sense of security.
Okay… and even stronger sense of security.
…
Okay, maybe not.
@ChrissyOne
N I C E !
OK, call me. My number is KLondike 5-LOVE.
@ Sanctimonious Blowhard
(shudder)
That’s why I like cycling.
@ ChristopherOne
You live in Springfield?!?
@Sanctimonious Blowhard
I am not that hairy.
Any more…
@ChrissyOne
Um, sure. But what State?
@ ChristopherOne
trivia:
It’s Oregon.
@C1, actually.. that was a picture of C2
I want a name shortener too!
ChrissyOne = C1
ChristopherOne = Ch1
OK?!?!?!?!
Puleeeeeeeeeeease!
@ChrissyOne
I thought you were making a Simpson’s reference. No?!?!
ChrissyOne you are a fake. You are MDN. You have yet to provide any proof whatsoever that this beleif is wrong. MDN has yet provided no proof at all as to who it actuall is. Given the number of PC ads on here it is probably a front for Dell!
I was. And it’s Oregon.
@ ChrissyTwo
ChrissyTwo: “Get and education MDN.”
Ouch! Sounds like C2 needs to get an edumacation.
@Chrissytwo…
“I used to post under John, which is my name, but someone else registered it and I cant use it anymore…”
did you say the three words correctly?
klatu…. verata….. nikto!
@ChrissyOne
That is where they live! Hrmpf. I had no idea. I saw the movie and the episode (I have seen all the episodes up ’til a couple years ago) that showed Homer and family looking at a map with nearly every state X’d out (states they were banned from) and I thought Oregon was one of ’em?!?! No?!?!
I need to find that episode…
@Sanctimonious Blowhard
Did you mean: “Klaatu barada nikto”?
I still say you shoulda snagged the sign C1. I mean really. How good is targets security anyways?
@ ChristopherOne
Well, it may not be ‘official’ Simpsons canon trivia. It’s just where Matt is from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening
@Sanctimonious Blowhard
Oh my Gort!
@ChrissyOne
Gotcha! Then it prolly is…
@C1…. that’s how it was said correctly in the original movie it was used in. I was thinking that C2 used like it was said in Army of Darkness.
@Sanctimonious Blowhard
Did you mean “@Ch1” when you wrote “@C1”?
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Notice how MDN normally posts as either Chrissyone or Zune Tang but rarely both at the same time.
I thought it was
Ohwah…. Tajer… Kaiyam…
@ ChrissyTwo
Oh, C2, I forgot you were here! You may go now.
C1… no, I think it’s…
ohgaw…. dmypee…. peehurts
@ Ch1
“Did you mean “@Ch1” when you wrote “@C1″?”
I believe he did. Ya see? This is going to get confusing.
That’s it. I’m changing my name to THX1138.
C1, I gotta ask. What DID you do to hack this poor little bugger off? I mean, wow. He even calls himself Chrissytwo. That’s gotta hurt. lol
“That’s it. I’m changing my name to THX1138.”
wasn’t that the guy that Han Solo was answering for on the headset when he was rescuing Lea?
@ChrissyOne
OK. I will change my name too… To IEEE1394.
@ Jim – TIV
I have no idea, actually. I think it might be his way of dealing with his crippling sexual disfunction. Or maybe it’s the result of many years of tossing off to old issues of Outdoor Life while sitting on his trap shooter and yelling “Pull!”. That can’t be good on one’s mind. The only other thing I can think of would be all those times when his mother would put him in a dress, handcuff him to the piano, and play show tunes until he wet himself.
I mean, you gotta feel sorry for the guy.
ChrissyOne, that solid No. 2 on to us.
And she floats.
Your potential. Our passion.™
“while sitting on his trap shooter and yelling “Pull!”.”
Holy CRAP that was funny.
Hey everybody! (Hey Dr. Nick!)
I am totally new here. I was hoping for some guidance. Who is righteous here? Who should I avoid like the plague? I just want to have a grand ol’ time, being nice a curtious and receiving the same in kind.
So what do y’all say?! Let’s have respectable fun… ‘K?!?!
@ IEEE1394
Welcome aboard, my fine serial bus interface standard! You’ll love it here! If you really want to know who’s in charge, ask Zune Tang®! He’s the glue that binds us all together, with his wit, charm, accurate news coverage and commentary, and a fair & balanced view of Apple and the computer industry. Let’s hear it for ZT®!
@ChrissyOne
ZuneTang® huh? Hmmmm… that sounds an awful lot like PuneTang™. Is it similar? I must say, I rather like PuneTang™. Maybe I will like ZuneTang® equally as much!
lol, looks like we’re all getting a bit antsy waiting for the “Stevenote!”
Thank you for the kind words, ChrissyOne, however I don’t think I can trust this ‘IEEE1394’ person.
You MAC lemmings like to get all high and mighty with your talk of ‘open industry standards’. It’s all bunk. Standards are the result of a bunch of sorry little companies getting together and duplicating what Microsoft has already accomplished. What’s the point? Maybe if his/her handle was ‘Windows Live 23-pin MS-serial Interface Vista 2008 Edition’ I’d feel a bit more comfortable about this newcomer.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Aha, now comes Zune Tang, as if by magic. What are the odss on Zune picking up on a comment on page three of a flame thread…. unless he is actually MDN/Chrissyone in disguise!
Gotcha!
@ZuneTang®
LOL! I tried to register “Windows Live 23-pin MS-serial Interface Vista 2008 Edition” but the control-freaks at MDN said that the name was too long! HA! Just like with file names on the MAC! LOL!
@ ChrissyTwo
I said good day.
Wait wait wait… I get it now! ChrissyTwo IS MDN! That reverse psychology master! MDN, er, I mean “ChrissyTwo”, was waiting for this perfect opportunity, like, for instance, when ZuneTang@ showed up way at the bottom of page 3 comments, to twist it around to make it seem as though ZuneTang and/or ChrissyOne were in fact MDN. HA! We are all on to you, C2, er, ah, MDN!
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But now we all know that ChrissyTwo IS MDN!
Well played MDN. Well played indeed. Kudos to you! And Kudos again!
They can’t afford to…they’re bleeding cash left and right.
No, no, *I’m* MDN. Please start sending all that ad revenue to me, if you’d be so kind.
Can’t help but be a little curious about the cough duplicate cough IP addresses from some of the posters. Where’s the MDN Webmaster when you need her most?
Your potential. Our passion.™
Acapulco.
Do you people seriously think I log out and log back in as someone else to talk to myself?
Maybe it’s time to go outside more, kids. Anonymous handles were fun in the heady days of MDN’s youth, before registration. But now… I can barely be bothered to log in to anything *one*… I certainly never log out of my own ID to pretend to be someone else. The only time I don’t post under my usual handle these days is if I’m on my iPhone (which sometimes has problems logging on) but I (almost) always mention said fact.
-c
P.S. Oh, and I’m Peterson and Shoeman and Reality Check.
P.P.S. Just kidding.
P.P.P.S. Or *am* I???
“Windows Live 23-pin MS-serial Interface Vista 2008 Edition”
That just rolls off a
tongue.
(I apologize if you were eating when clicked the link.)
“cough duplicate cough IP addresses”
Playing fast and loose like you’re IP freely? (multiple spellings and punctuation are optional)
Nope. Just playing with Harry P Ness.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Zune broke?
@Jubal
You noted that MS said that they wouldn’t launch a competitor to the iPod.
And they didn’t.
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MW: attack, as in “If that’s the best attack MS has against Apple, sell MS short.”
@ emmayche
“And they didn’t.”
WICKED BURN!
@ chrissytwo
MDN is an East Coast-origined Orange fan.
C1 is a West Coast hipster WunderBabe.
Clearly not one in the same.
<<Aww, no Phune.>>
That is actually doubly funny for me, living here in Japan. The word in Japanese for animal sh!t is fun… (sounds like phune).
Zune Tang/MDN: How do you know about the “duplicate IP addresses from some of the posters” unless you are MDN? That sort of information is only available to the site owner!
Proof that you are MDN!
“MacDailyNews Take: Aww, no Phune.”
Just when I think you guys have come up with every M$ slam zinger possible, you crack me up again. Love the “Phune.”
Yeah, I find that duplicat IP address comment highly suspicious…somebody messed up.
“Chrissyone = MDN – Zune Tang”
Before U were saying C1 was ZuneTang… now you changed yr mind?
AND if she is – ALL THE MORE POWER TO YA GIRL.
AND in advance… thx for MAKING MDN a fun place to be.
And THX for OWNING and RUNNING THE SITE C1 also…
and well – thats why yr #1!
—-
As for C2 – get a new name… it’s not hard to invent one.
Try to look on the positive – even if your ticked off…
YOUR comments are always welcomed. It a place to leave yr comments.
I feel so exposed? OK I confess – like I’m Naked.
So here, I am coming clean, I am Dougless, aka Sgt.Peeper, aka Dr.DungWorth, aka SinisterWoz, aka Butt&Early;(sometimes not explaining), RustyBedSpring and most importantly iPeeNightly.
Sheesh – what ya think 8 glasses of water will do to a guy.
After the kidney transplant – it’s what the Dr. ordered.
-Dougless
MDN posts under both the Zune Tang and the ChrissyTwo pen names.
It continually dishes the dirt on all sort of folks, yet isnt big enough to actually own up to how actually runs this site.
Just saying.
“Just saying.”
You’re wrong. And oddly enough no one obsesses over this delusion but you. Can you hear an echo?
No, I am not wrong. MDN hides its identity.
Yes, you are wrong. But you’re just conveniently changing your assertion. MDN is not ChrissyOne. I’ll bet your life on it.