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"For a limited time IM+ for Skype iPhone version is being offered free of charge to all iPhone users."

No place to register on the phone page. Do you need to create a Skype account first?

STILL not enough to get me to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone that does so much more than I need a phone to do. I can understand the lust and I can understand that certain people need such devices ... just, not me.

DLMeyer - the Voice of G.L.Horton's Stage Page Pod-Cast

Im not at all interested by this news.

Yes, Chrissy1, register first. It's free - if you hit the right buttons.

Dave

Um, then don't buy one. Thanks for sharing. I know everyone was waiting breathlessly for your take.

@ DLMeyer

I KNOW!!! I mean, why in the world do people keep talking about hang gliders, or bulldozers? And who cares about football, or Barry Bonds? I'm not personally interested in these things, so why do people waste time talking about them???

PS - you know I'm kidding ;P

It's not a phone. It's a multi-function device. If you only need/want a phone, a smallish iPod, a calculator, a video player, a digital photo library device, get one. If you want something that does all these, relatively well, consider an iPhone.

you don't know the historyof bulldozers, i do!

You said, "STILL not enough to get me to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone that does so much more than I need a phone to do. I can understand the lust and I can understand that certain people need such devices ... just, not me."

I can understand and agree. My cell phone does not even have a camera and I do not want it to.

. . . . But, . . . that does not mean that I am not trying as hard as I can to come up with "reasons" why I "must" have an iPhone so that I can "justify" getting one. LOL

Actually, I figure if I can change jobs so that my new job requires me to fly around the country, then I will need maps of all those new cities that I will visit, . . .. so . . . . iPhone would be a perfect solution vs carrying tons of maps. . . . . Right??

en
MDN word "economic" as in I need a good economic sounding reason why I need an iPhone !!

we don't like you

shut up !!!

Is that the smell of indignant jealousy DLMeyer? Why yes, I think it is. I got an iPhone and let me tell you - it's AMAZING. Get over it and BUY ONE.

Call me when Apple partners with Skype to ship the real one...

MW: friend... Will Apple and Skype become friends soon? Like shipping a 3.x version for Mac AND iPhone?

Possibly a stupid question here, hope someone can answer it.

For those of us who are on non AT&T;areas; could this mean that somehow I could use a Skype connection as a work around?

That probably shows how little in know about Skype but...........?

Skype. You can TALK to people without using any of your cell phone MINUTES by using WIFI.

WIFI is UNLIMITED on the iPhone.

You have your right to post your opinion, of course. But please stop being so stuck up pasting your damn "voice of GLWhoreton" whatever URL link to try and get google ratings. It's really annoying. If we all started to do that, this place would be a mess. We all show restraint in this regard; won't you please?

I want the iPhone to be successful since I have a lot of money invested in AAPL.

BUT, I don't own an iphone and don't even want one so please stop the iphone news UNLESS it pertains directly to how much money I am making in my AAPL stock!

for the love of god I agree!!!!

meyer links blows

if i could click ignore him I would

I don't care for traffic signals and to this day I don't understand who is the idiot that goes out there and buys stop signs to put on intersections.

Oh and don't get me started on those yellow and white stripes on the road...

http://www.shutthefuckup.com

I get an Apache error when I try to load the page.

Link is broken now. Probably overwhelmed.

"STILL not enough to get me to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone that does so much more than I need a phone to do."

That would be the perfect example of a comment that stands in diametrical opposition to itself. "Not enough=much more."

Oscar Mayer
Take a Bite of Me

their servers is down.

MDN magic word SOVIET: as in "no iPhone or Skype for Soviet minded people"

enough advertising of your damn stage page already - we're all duly impressed, now stfu about it

If you want to increase your lousy pagerank, put the link in "name" part of the post. Doesn't MDN have enough damn ads as it is?

@ DLMeyer, Just get yourself a Camel! It will carry your mobile phone, ipod, Videopod, nano, MacBook, writing desk & stationary, extra battery pack, mobile home (Tent) collapsible furniture, cooking equipment, potty, wardrobe, library, address book, yourself! or kids. It will in addtion provide you with Milk (what a blast! rear ended type!!).

So with a Camel, who needs an iphone?

By the way, I'm also known at Camel's Dick Milker.

HUGE, gooey, smelly, and loaded with protein goodness.

@ CMD

Hey, I thought we'd lost you! I fart in your general direction!

Meanwhile... here is the message on SkypeForiPhone.com site:
HTTP Status 404 - /

type Status report

message /

description The requested resource (/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.20

Yeah I hate it the way MacDailyNews MAKES me click on stories about the iPhone. I am just looking for Mac news!!! Please macdailynews...I beg you – stop making me click on the iPhone stories!!!!

get back to me when ATT data goes 3G...

For all those that want someone to "Get back to me when..." NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU! NO ONE WILL EVER GET BACK TO YOU!

So exactly how fast does 3G 'go'?

"Skype. You can TALK to people without using any of your cell phone MINUTES by using WIFI."

Except using this application, it tells Skype to call your iPhone and uses your voice minutes.

This is not a real VOIP application for the phone, just a web interface to set up a SkypeOut voice call which connects both callers.

You pay the cost of SkypeOut calling you at your phone, plus the cost of SkypeOut calling your destination caller, plus the cost of your voice minutes (long distance if overseas).

LAME.

I am tired of online (safari) "software". We need native software for offline use.

@DL Meyer
Do us all a favor and come back here when you're past the "the world revolves around me" stage. Just like your pretentious link. Clue: NOBODY here cares about it!

DL meyer- the voice of stupidity.

"I am tired of online (safari) "software". We need native software for offline use."

Hear Hear. A web page is not an "iPhone Application" to anyone by Steve Jobs. PC World's list of top iPhone "Applications" in a previous post was about as pathetic as it gets.

It's interesting that so many responses here are to my first note (none for my second???) - perhaps more than for the subject at hand. Maybe three were sensible! The rest? "we hate you, DL".

FWIW, there were eleven downloads from my page were to folks who started here. (thank you all)
As for the G.L.Whoreton comment ... cheap, childish, unworthy of an adult. You just think you're a "grown-up" ... silly child.

Dave

I for one am glad the Skype is going on the iPhone. I have to talk to my clients in Hong Kong, Norway, and Germany almost every day. I have to plan my calls around my computer time so we can coordinate when people will be in the office (5 to 12 hour time differences). Skype on the iPhone will help so I can be mobil and not tied down. I love the idea.

It's easy to blame people who haven't tried this software.

That's why they're called Skype Goats.

Wow. Who is Except? If that post is true then that does, indeed, blow.

Maybe with Web 2.0 voice calls will be free.

"If that post is true then that does, indeed, blow."

Check out their site. Hidden in the fine print somewhere it explains it and what you pay.