New Rotary Phone is Partnered With Apple

An innovative rotary telephone poised to enter the market place in 2018 was unveiled on Cape Cod recently at the annual convention of the Massachusetts Dial Telephone Manufacturers’ Association.

A full report of the MDTMA meeting at the Swan River Convention Center in the village of Barnstaville Mills, is to be published in the upcoming issue of  “Number Please Monthly”, a semi-annual magazine for retired telephone operators.

Ed Bell, the publication’s chief editorial writer, said that Luke Bach, the president of the manufacturer’s group predicts that the rotary phone will soon replace all Android and iPhone devices.

“Mr. Bach, how can you say that a phone based on technology developed in the late 1800s can supplant today’s high speed wireless devices?”

“You didn't hear me correctly Mr. Bell, I didn't say we are going to replace them, I said we are going to supplement them.”

“How do you plan to do that?”

“It’s very simple.  Number one, instead of a complicated and quirky 'qwerty' keyboard with up to fifty different buttons, our rotary phone only has ten choices and yet each phone contains the entire alphabet plus all the numbers.  Number two, we are giving away an apple with every single unit.”

“Mr. Bach even if you are able to get people to buy these machines, will they be able to use them?

“As an editorial writer Mr. Bell you should know that rotary phones, or dial phones as some people call them, will work just fine with the digital technology of the 2000’s.  All of our offices and all of our members use their rotary phones every single day.  The phones work on a principal called pulse dialing.  It’s every bit as good, and even better than the wireless systems used by Android and Apple.  It’s more reliable and far less costly. Our motto is: "with a rotary phone and a quick dial, you’ll never have a call end up in a rubbish pile.”

“That seems to be a silly motto.  I don’t get it.”

“Think about it Mr. Bell.  With a rotary phone you won’t drop your calls because there are no lost calls with a dial phone. Plus it makes a cool sound when the dial moves.”

“One final question Mr. Bach.  You say your phones are going to be affordable.  How can this be if you’re giving away an iPhone with each one?”

“I didn’t say we're giving away an iPhone with our rotaryPhone.  I said we’re giving away an apple – and we are.  Every customer gets a dial phone and a free Mac.”

The full report of the MDTMA meeting will be in the next issue of “Number Please Monthly”, available by subscription only. 

DISCLOSURE: The writers and editors of this article do not have any stock in any firm manufacturing rotary telephones or any farm growing apples, or any high tech firm assembling “Apples”.  For information and a stock prospectus for rotaryTelephones, contact the author of this article through Cooper’s News Stand on Main Street in Barnstaville Mills, Cape Cod, USA – Box 13, zip code 105.7