> Assuming Apple will let you install Skype on it via the App 
> Store, then you can make a call. 

With something like half the world using Skype, it would seem Apple wouldn't
resist tapping it somehow. 

Then the criticism was misguided, because a phone by any other name ...


> But it doesn't have the cellular  
> technology, or a SIM card and so on, or a locked in contract with <insert 
> provider here>


But if it talks like a phone, walks a phone and quacks like phone ... ?

It's like we're looking at something obvious but not clear enough: that the
Internet effectively replaces the telcos. There are capacity issues, but
solveable. The telcos are basically extinct. 


Bill


> -- 
>   Alan Bourke
>   alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm


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