Want to make Steve Jobs’ head explode? There’s a phone for that!

Many carriers and device manufacturers have claimed to have iPhone-killers. They tried and failed to unseat the giant, which has a huge following of users and a massive application store. But right now, at least in the United States, iPhone is tied to AT&T Wireless, which has been riddled with 3G coverage problems, much to the frustration of the company’s subscribers.

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iPsychopathy

Earlier this year Burger King had a Whopper Sacrifice promotion where if you de-friended 10 of your friends on FaceBook, you received a coupon for a free Whopper burger. Amazingly, a huge amount of people were willing to do this. However, I suspect that for a free iPhone 3G S with two free years of data and voice service — assume it’s the upper-end, 32GB model — that more serious, heinous acts of inhumanity would be willing to be committed by the average iPhone junkie.

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What’s Your Preferred Orifice for Wireless Carrier Sodomy?

This week, Apple did the unthinkable — it lowered the price of the existing 8GB iPhone 3G to a mere $99.00. And the world rejoiced, praise be The Fruit and he who no longer weareth the black turtleneck. Yes, I too noticed Schiller was wearing a grey Oxford and Jeans instead of the usual Silicon Beatnik uniform.

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Perlow, you cheap whiny bastard

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and I duke it out over at ZDNet regarding Apple and their (lack of) netbook strategy. I say they should license Mac OS X to Dell and the Chinese/Korean netbook manufacturers, and he says that I’m a whiny cheapskate and that Apple should stay on target.

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I Think I’m Still in Stage 2

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Pondering a world without Steve Jobs

I’m not going to theorize on whether or not Jobs’ pancreatic cancer has returned, is having a prolonged recovery from his Whipple procedure, or whether Apple is hiding the real truth of the situation, as many have suggested. Rather, I think some consideration should be taken as to whether or not Apple has formed an effective transition strategy, and has adequately prepared for the worst case scenario. What does Apple look like without Jobs?

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If at First You Don’t Succeed…

… Try marketing it a different way. Click here to read my article on ZDNET.

Introducing Between The Lines

For some weeks now I’ve been contributing as a guest poster on the newly relaunched ZDNet technology news site. My first official post as columnist on the site’s headline blog, Between The Lines, which I share with ZDNet’s Editor in Chief, Larry Dignan, was posted this morning. In it I address Apple’s (lack of) business strategy.

I hope you enjoy it as much as you do Off The Broiler. Here’s my Bio page and Disclosure for those of you who want to read it.