Cingular cell phone service - Re: Apple Flops: iPhone will flop like Mac Mini, Cube, Newton, etc, etc

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Re: Apple Flops: iPhone will flop like Mac Mini, Cube, Newton, etc, etc

Steve Hix

2007-07-04, 3:33 pm

In article <labolide-05040B.09554404072007@news.giganews.com>,
Kurt <labolide@spacegmail.com> wrote:

> In article <1183533448.834802.119500@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> dj.john.england@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> I wouldn't worry, the asjbio poster disappeared pretty fast off this
> board after all the success.

Oh, not to worry; one of his many sockpuppets will be back any time now.

Kurt

2007-07-05, 3:33 pm

In article < 468d12e3$0$16396$882
60bb3@free.teranews.com>,
Todd Allcock < elecconnec@AmericaOn
Line.com> wrote:

> At 04 Jul 2007 16:40:53 -0700 Kurt wrote:
>
>
> Perhaps. But to be fair, even though the iPhone sold amazing numbers the
> first weekend, those sales were to people who, like the rest of us, had
> not seen or used the product in person.
>
> They bought based partly on hype, and mostly on the reputation of Apple.
> Hopefully the product will live up to their expectations.
>
> This kind of takes me back to when the Segway was released. Reports of a
> "mysterious new transportation product" flooded TV news- people
> speculated it'd be everything from a personal airplane or jet pack to
> Star Trek's matter transporter, and it turned out to be a scooter. A
> really neat high-tech scooter, but essentially a scooter.
>
> With iPhone, Apple's been laying the "revolutionary" stuff on a bit
> think, so I hope the product can live up to the expectations of the half-
> million buyers.
>
> I can't help but think quite a few are going to feel a little bamboozled
> after the novelty wears off, and they realize it's also more of a nice
> high-tech scooter than a jet-pack...

The industry needed a shakeup. Phone manufacturers have been too
complacent with their offerings. Apple knows good industrial design and
function. Hopefully, we'll see a shake up with the others. I think the
Apple is only going to get better.

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Mitch

2007-07-05, 10:33 pm

In article < 468d12e3$0$16396$882
60bb3@free.teranews.com>, Todd Allcock
< elecconnec@AmericaOn
Line.com> wrote:

> This kind of takes me back to when the Segway was released. Reports of a
> "mysterious new transportation product" flooded TV news- people
> speculated it'd be everything from a personal airplane or jet pack to
> Star Trek's matter transporter, and it turned out to be a scooter. A
> really neat high-tech scooter, but essentially a scooter.
Boy, I was paying attention, but I guess I didn't read the nutcase
press. Not one wild guess that I read was anything like this kind of
childish nonsense.
And I don't think many actually believed those were real possibilities,
either. In other words, I don't b=think people expected a jet-pack, I
think they expected to be disappointed.
Whatever they thought, what was released is actually revolutionary and
innovative.

> With iPhone, Apple's been laying the "revolutionary" stuff on a bit
> think, so I hope the product can live up to the expectations of the half-
> million buyers.
>
> I can't help but think quite a few are going to feel a little bamboozled
> after the novelty wears off, and they realize it's also more of a nice
> high-tech scooter than a jet-pack...
Yes, I suppose there will always be a few nutcase press reports trying
to exaggerate (probably to get readers attention), and certainly there
are always a very few people who actually expect some kind of bizarre
miracle (largely because they minimize the real effort and science that
new products require).
But that doesn't mean that anything would be judged by them. We judge
by the real and intelligent comments, right?

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