DoD? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 00:36 GMT

There ain't no way in sweetest eventuality called life that DoD would allow compromise in its supply chain. It is not a knock down. It is a way DoD says "We trust you Mr!"

iBomb? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 00:53 GMT

A friend bought one of those... it seems to be some sort of fancy cell phone thingie, except it doesn't do 3G.

Bombs #

By E Posted Friday 16th May 2008 02:23 GMT

Designed in California.

Assembled in China.

Delivered to the middle east.

@AC #

By Antidisestablishmentarianist Posted Friday 16th May 2008 02:34 GMT

Wow, you could be a comedian. No really.

iBomb #

By Paul van der Lingen Posted Friday 16th May 2008 07:12 GMT

reading the article on Safari-for-windoze, I'd say that's a good place to place the name iBomb..

Re: Bombs #

By P.Nutt Posted Friday 16th May 2008 07:36 GMT

Apple seem to really put some serious work into the packaing - the shape and texture. The rich black box, the clean unobtrusive font, the side-shot photograph of the item itself on the box lid....3ft wide picture of an iBomb

And you open the gorgeous black box and lift the white cardboard inside flap, itself adorned with clean offset typeface declaring "Designed by Apple in California," and you are confronted with what is quite possible the most thoughtfully designed and pleasing packaging you can get safely securing tht all important oil relocator munition (Sorry bomb). I am sure the people the bobms wil be droping on will have a smile on their face knowing that the bomb falling on them has 82% less packing materials than the you average bomb.

Mine is the combat jacket designed by Armani.

What Roadmap? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 08:17 GMT

Why would you buy a company with the intention of killing off the only product they make that

a) works

b) is profitable

c) is a niche product unlikely to have lots of competitors

makes no sense

Zappy Zippies ......Hot Embedded Sleeper Hippies? #

By amanfromMars Posted Friday 16th May 2008 08:36 GMT

A comment in Wow ! ! ! By chkm8 Posted Saturday 26th April 2008 18:45 GMT on the cited earlier report ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/25/apple_pasemi_missiles_storage/ .... " And how companies such as Lockheed Martin would use product's from a company such as Apple(crap), is beyond me..." makes a lot more sense if the lead roles are reversed, as they are .... And how companies such as Apple would use product's from a company such as Lockheed Martin (crap), is beyond me.

Although it is probably definitely not beyond NeuReality Stars, who can conjure up a Broad Band of Magic from Thin AIR and a Suite of Thin Clients, Work, Rest and Playing in Vertical Cloud Stacks..... for Party Tricks and Confidential Moves to Shake and Stir into Life/Energise Virtualised Environments ........ where Skunk Works for Real Parallel VirtuOSo Allies.

And the first "straight" to Realise that, will have the World at their Feet as a Ball, which they then will be XXXXPected to be able to Control and Direct to Target and ITs Goals. Although that Course, just to make Life Simpler and more CompleXXXX, is already Plotted in whatever Direction IT Chooses to Boldly Go.

Fasten your Seat Belts, Man on AIMission from Mars and Calling All Stars.

low power tech and threats #

By John Posted Friday 16th May 2008 08:41 GMT

Apple may want to get a chip they are buying to use less power, so they could get their own people to help the manufacturer with the engineering.

Plus, it's unlikely, but it could be a message to Intel: we switched to you, we can switch back if you dis us.

Apple to produce PA Semi powered Eee PC Palmtop/Sub Notebook? #

By Martin Norman Posted Friday 16th May 2008 09:24 GMT

This whole story doesn't make sense. Why would Apple buy PA Semi to kill off it's PowerPC line? More likely it has bought PA Semi to start using PA Semi to create chips for it's iPhones and iPods. Apple could well use a PA Semi PowerPC chips in their own version of a Eee PC. I mean OS X previously ran on PowerPC ;). So what's not to stop Apple producing a cut down version of OS X appearing on a PA Semi powered Palmtop/Sub Notebook? Hmm...

I Want One #

By Matthew Pringle Posted Friday 16th May 2008 10:13 GMT

Like all Apple products, I now want an iBomb.

Sure I will pull it out in the pub, showing all my friends. I will wear it with pride in the street and if I ever make a music video it will be visible in the background.

Obviously about 6 months after I get an iBomb, Apple will release a newer one, with greater killing capacity and a smaller casing. If the iBomb takes off, Apple will probably release a smaller, more portable version the iBomb nano or maybe the iGrenade.

After the iBomb goes main stream people will notice that it doesnt kiil the advertised number of people, it probably gets 80% if you are lucky, dropping to 40% if you own it for a couple of years.

I can guarantee one thing though, however good the iBomb is, the headphones will be sh*t and break after a few months.

Can you get "Benson, Arizona" on iTunes? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 12:24 GMT

A small number of iBombs may be defective. If you have purchased an iBomb please check the serial number. If you have purchased iBomb #20 please return it to your retailer...

Problems with iCruise iSight camera #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 13:17 GMT

Dear Mr Jobs

I recently bought a number of iCruise Missiles and I notice that the iSight integrated camera is not quite up to the specification we expected. While it is not a vitally important factor in my choice of large-scale obliteration methods I understand that many sailors aboard launch vessels have complained that they would expect Apple to have included an HD-format missile-cam in order that they can experience the missile's flight in true large-screen luxury. Also is it possible to have the missile in any other colour except white? The Afghans think we are surrendering every time we fire off a salvo at them,

Yours,

G.W.Bush

IBombs #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 13:34 GMT

HaHa makes me think of War Inc. I can just see Steve Job firing off Apple branded iBombs into some small 3rd world country.

"we can launch a matchstick in Milwaukee and put it up a termites ass in Tehran. our precision guidance systems never fail"...... BOOOM!

Universal Connector #

By Matthew Pringle Posted Friday 16th May 2008 15:09 GMT

Would the iBomb fit into todays military aircraft? Or would Apple design their own connector which only comes with the iPlane?

I bet the explosions would look prettier though!

Guidance Algorithm #

By Ron Hughes Posted Friday 16th May 2008 15:27 GMT

Has to run on OSX; EULA forbids use on Windows or Linux!!

[Don't know what the penalty for contravention will be though. Any suggestions?]

Targetting the iBomb #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 15:30 GMT

Targets designated by iSpy?

OOh its so pretty #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 17:30 GMT

Apple iWeapons will bring world peace , as they will be so beautiful no one will want to use them . and Apple will make a mint as the armies of the world will want the latest and greatest. Its ElJobso's way of out doing BillyG's humanitarian efforts .

But #

By heystoopid Posted Friday 16th May 2008 23:22 GMT

But , will an ibomb blend ?

Just one component... #

By Chronos Posted Saturday 17th May 2008 00:23 GMT

...of the iWar package. Death and destruction never looked so stylish.

Of course, you'll have to replace them all every two years because you won't be able to get the bloody batteries out.

The Ball passed to the Apple Core. Great Game On. #

By amanfromMars Posted Saturday 17th May 2008 14:21 GMT

"Apple iWeapons will bring world peace , as they will be so beautiful no one will want to use them . and Apple will make a mint as the armies of the world will want the latest and greatest. Its ElJobso's way of out doing BillyG's humanitarian efforts ." .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 16th May 2008 17:30 GMT

Now that is a Sound Realistic Plan for IT, AC, and QuITe Perfect for AI Beta Global UNGovernance .... Sublime IntelAIgently Designed, Immaculately Perceived Guidance Control.

@ Matthew Pringle #

By Tommy Gilchrist Posted Saturday 17th May 2008 16:12 GMT

That's the first thing in months that has actually made me laugh out loud

Free ipod with evrery bomb? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Saturday 17th May 2008 22:25 GMT

Sorry but... #

By Player_16 Posted Sunday 18th May 2008 17:43 GMT

When they see the price tag, they'll realize that it may be overpriced for what they want and opt to either get the Dell version or make their own for less by going through eBay...

...but run into problems using PayPal.

iBomb is a funny joke but learn what POWER is #

By Ilgaz Öcal Posted Sunday 18th May 2008 19:42 GMT

Power family chips are very important, nobody can "kill" them since there are billions of them in circulation.

I hope one day at least a person in IT media using "PowerPC" or "POWER" in their article look it up at least on Wikipedia! Forget asking IBM USA/Britain or the entire POWER organisation. Go to that small electronics repair shop and ask them what PA Semiconductor and Power CPU chips mean in industry.

Next time, chat with those The Register Enterprise guys and ask them if enterprise bothers with what CPU Apple uses rather than Sparc/Xeon/Power monsters they use. Ask BMW/Mercedes if they gave up using Power chips since iPod/iMac maker moved to Intel.

I'm waiting for the iBomb Nano #

By Geoff Mackenzie Posted Sunday 18th May 2008 20:14 GMT

Mine's not the bulky one ...

All joking aside #

By DV Henkel-Wallace Posted Monday 19th May 2008 20:10 GMT

Generally embedded hardware comes with an availability guarantee (i.e. the vendor has to keep making the same chip for you even if the state of the art has moved on). When you buy a company you can't just throw its contracts away. So Apple has to do this even if they toss PA Semi's business away -- they can just refuse to sign any new contracts to supply chips. Whether this has to do with the DoD or anybody else is no big deal.

So sorry, this isn't really news. The only real complicated question is why I would bother to read an article about something I don't think is news...