Apple, Inc. stunned the world today by announcing that it will retire the name iPhone, and the product will hereafter be called the "ROKR 2"
Geeky first-adopters will recall that Apple foisted the ultra-crappy Motorola ROKR phone on an unsuspecting populace in 2005.
The ROKR was the first phone that was able to link up with iTunes, Apple's license-to-print-money web-based music purchasing service. The phone sported a whopping 512MB of storage space and a -Lord, no!-SD expansion slot.
This recipe for international success was hamstrung by the fact that the phone would only load 100 songs, so that it wouldn't compete with the product Apple actually gave a sh-t about, the iPod.
The $8200.00 phone also featured a rotary dial, 15 minutes of battery life, and a candy-bar form factor that just fit inside a Hefty trash bag.
