that was made by microsoft? Cause it sure seemed to be making fun of microsoft, and how clueless they are?

spoof |spo?f| informal noun 1 a humorous imitation of something, typically a film or a particular genre of film, in which its characteristic features are exaggerated for comic effect : a Robin Hood spoof. 2 a trick played on someone as a joke. verb [ trans. ] 1 imitate (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect : it is a movie that spoofs other movies. 2 hoax or trick (someone) : they proceeded to spoof Western intelligence with false information. • interfere with (radio or radar signals) so as to make them useless.

mock |mäk| verb [ trans. ] tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner : he mocks them as Washington insiders | [as adj. ] ( mocking) the mocking hostility in his voice made her wince. • make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible : at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretense of peace. • mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.

l008com |looz er| [noun] 1 Does not know how to read and gets mocked by spoof definition.

So long as I don't have to change my carrier to AT&T-Cingular I'd buy one! :)

...unfunny. who wastes this much effort to, at best, create a tiny chortle.

and some awesome writing by MacNN, as usual. i can see where people think 'the spoof was produced by MS'. since they have been known to do such things internally, and the MacNN article is typically ambiguous.

I don't know why so many people are whining about having to change to cingular/att to use the iPhone. It's like complaining that you'll have to trade in your piece of junk old car for the most advanced thing on wheels. I have had cingular since 2005 and i've never dropped a call from my end, and changing to a new phone is as simple as shuffling all your contacts onto the sim card, or, easier yet, if you have bluetooth, you can do it via iSync with your mac. Everyone i know with a carrier other than cingular complains about their service and signal coverage area. You can tell how desperate these other companies are to keep you away from cingular by their annoying tv ads. Anyways, if you want iPhone, you need to switch to the company with the best network. That's just how it is.

Hey, fast ibook, its nice that you think Cingular is the 'best' network. However, a lot of people don't think its the best, nor close to it. And Cingular's ads are as annoying as the rest.