Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
Yet, fireman15, that is exactly what Apple did. Where is Palm today? RIP Palm.
Again, you are CHERRY PICKING only those reviews that fit YOUR misguided and outdated opinion. . . those that the writers are exceeding embarrassed they ever wrote them looking back with 20/20 hindsight. . . and some have said so.
Now, I broke my determination not to address you again, but this one was so egregious it could not be left standing. I'm done.
LOL!!! You crack me up!!! Sorry Swordmaker, but sometimes the strings that control you are just a little too visible.
Yes, I am sure all those reviewers and consumers were wrong!!! They were wrong about the dropped calls, the “quirky qwerty”, the lack of important and expected features, pathetic internet speeds that make you “ache for a dial-up modem”, and Apple choosing to partner with the most backwards cellular provider. Swordmaker... the reviews I linked to were from the biggies when it came to the most trusted sources of information on technology ten years ago.
The positive reviews you cite are mostly thinly veiled celebrity endorsements that had much more in common with Forrest Gump endorsing a ping pong paddle than a technical review. And Apple bought a hell of a lot of those types of celebrity endorsement “reviews”. They had deep pockets even then. And then we have a bunch of more recent “reviews” from people trying to rewrite history on the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone. These are laughable at best and make all manner or ridiculous claims easily refuted claims about the 1st iPhone.
And lets just get it out in the open shall we? The reason you keep harping on multitouch is not because it was so useful, so beloved, or even so noticed by people who used the first iPhone... it is because in an over-hyped phone with a pathetic set of features it was the only evolutionary improvement over previous phones that could be claimed as a somewhat original idea. And this was central to the billion dollar travesty judgment in the lawsuit against Samsung, not your little chart that has cherry picked pictures of phones before and after the iPhone.
You will continue to make outrageous claims whenever accurate historical information is posted or linked to about the first iPhone in this or any other thread. You are thoroughly invested in perpetuating the mythology about the first iPhone. It was just long enough ago that the memory of most can be influenced by this kind of nonsense. I am sorry but the first iPhone was a dog of a phone that had the one of the best marketing campaigns ever seen. But all the gooey eyed reminiscing in the world and all your endless sophisticated sounding nonsense will not change the facts. The first iPhone was not revolutionary... it just sold well and that caused the competition not to imitate but to improve their products. Which fortunately forced Apple to improve their products. And that is the way that capitalism is suppose to work.
“Sorry Swordmaker, but sometimes the strings that control you are just a little too visible.”
I just wanted to clarify this statement. Swordmaker is not employed by Apple. He is not that good; he is a toothless old tiger. He is a fanboy, a wanna-be. He may erupt in vicious insults, but anyone who has a cogent argument that contradicts his Apple centric view of the world can control him. Apple doesn’t hire people like that. If this thread were a test to see if he was good enough... he just failed miserably.