#phone

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#before #calls #contacts #hard #how

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#battle #customers #developers #i #i think

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#breakthrough #buy #communications #compelling #computer

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#click #each #first #going #interfaces

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#been #device #ever #going #iphone

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there. ↗

— Davy Jones

#children #family #hear #i #keep

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy

#business #get #gold #industry #into

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny