Nothing will kill the buzz faster and brand the iPhone as a failure, said Hazelton, like negative word-of-mouth from the first buyers. And although the early adopters may be especially savvy about technology, one unknown could play a major role. “There are relatively few people who use smart phones in the US, and most of them are business users. This will be the first smart phone aimed at consumers,” he said. “It’s a complicated phone, basically a computer, and like computers, like Macs, it may crash, maybe a lot.” Tales of iPhone problems, say frequent crashes, will turn Apple’s hope into another Newton, Hazelton argued, referring to the 1993 PDA flop.
Jesus.. lets read that again: “It’s a complicated phone, basically a computer, and like computers, like Macs, it may crash, maybe a lot.”
You know, if my iPhone is as reliable as my Mac, then I’ll be extremely happy. My Mac locks up once every few months, at worst. What a load of crap!
“The price of Apple Inc.‘s iPhone and the cost of switching to AT&T Inc.‘s wireless service may suppress demand for the device, according to a survey by research firm IDC.”
“The price of Apple Inc.‘s iPhone and the cost of switching to AT&T Inc.‘s wireless service may suppress demand for the device, according to a survey by research firm IDC.”
Oh that’s yesterday’s “news” .. that’s partly the reason the stock pulled back yesterday. Shock..surprise.. a $500 phone isn’t a mass market phone! Maybe that’s why Apple said they were only going after 1% of the market initially.. duh…
[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]Nothing will kill the buzz faster and brand the iPhone as a failure, said Hazelton, like negative word-of-mouth from the first buyers. And although the early adopters may be especially savvy about technology, one unknown could play a major role. “There are relatively few people who use smart phones in the US, and most of them are business users. This will be the first smart phone aimed at consumers,” he said. “It’s a complicated phone, basically a computer, and like computers, like Macs, it may crash, maybe a lot.” Tales of iPhone problems, say frequent crashes, will turn Apple’s hope into another Newton, Hazelton argued, referring to the 1993 PDA flop.
Jesus.. lets read that again: “It’s a complicated phone, basically a computer, and like computers, like Macs, it may crash, maybe a lot.”
You know, if my iPhone is as reliable as my Mac, then I’ll be extremely happy. My Mac locks up once every few months, at worst. What a load of crap!
This is a perfect example of pure FUD. This Hazelton does not base his conclusions on anything new, does not add anything new, but through fuzzy reasoning creates FUD to scare retailer investors. Savvy investors would see right away that there is 0 input. In fact, if Hazelton’s goal would have been pumping instead of FUDing, he could haVE used the same starting point to pump the stock by paraphrasing his gibberish:
Nothing will boost the buzz faster and brand the iPhone as a startling success, said Hazelton, like positive word-of-mouth from the first buyers. And although the early adopters may be especially savvy about technology, one unknown could play a major role. “There are relatively few people who use smart phones in the US, and most of them are business users. This will be the first smart phone aimed at consumers,” he said. “It’s a complicated phone, basically a Mac, and like Macs, it may provide seamless experience far beyond what most users expect from a smartphone” Tales of iPhone experience, say its easy of use, will turn Apple’s hope into another iPod, Hazelton argued, referring to the 2001 MP3 iconic Apple player.
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This is a perfect example of pure FUD. This Hazelton does not base his conclusions on anything new, does not add anything new, but through fuzzy reasoning creates FUD to scare retailer investors. Savvy investors would see right away that there is 0 input. In fact, if Hazelton’s goal would have been pumping instead of FUDing, he could haVE used the same starting point to pump the stock by paraphrasing his gibberish:
Nothing will boost the buzz faster and brand the iPhone as a startling success, said Hazelton, like positive word-of-mouth from the first buyers. And although the early adopters may be especially savvy about technology, one unknown could play a major role. “There are relatively few people who use smart phones in the US, and most of them are business users. This will be the first smart phone aimed at consumers,” he said. “It’s a complicated phone, basically a Mac, and like Macs, it may provide seamless experience far beyond what most users expect from a smartphone” Tales of iPhone experience, say its easy of use, will turn Apple’s hope into another iPod, Hazelton argued, referring to the 2001 MP3 iconic Apple player.
CNBC power lunch interviewed two negative commentators. Most of the talk was about how “corporate” users would not buy an iPhone. One of the experts called the iPhone useless. He then went on to qualify that somewhat by attributing the comment to a friend of his. Both guys concluded by saying they would wait for future versions of the iPhone to see if it had 3G and corporate email access.
“To test iPhone’s durability, Thandu says, they doused it with water, dropped it on concrete and bounced it off sidewalks,” Cauley reports. “Thandu says he took the iPhone with him on long runs, sweating all over it. ‘We wanted to test the limits of it.’
I take it this means that rather than the usual “a Kleenex scratched my screen so badly I couldn’t see the display” rubbish, we’ll get “iPhone display so hard it rubbed my face raw”
[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]So the iPhone has been tested to breaking point:
“To test iPhone’s durability, Thandu says, they doused it with water, dropped it on concrete and bounced it off sidewalks,” Cauley reports. “Thandu says he took the iPhone with him on long runs, sweating all over it. ‘We wanted to test the limits of it.’
I take it this means that rather than the usual “a Kleenex scratched my screen so badly I couldn’t see the display” rubbish, we’ll get “iPhone display so hard it rubbed my face raw”
[quote author=“willrob”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]So the iPhone has been tested to breaking point:
“To test iPhone’s durability, Thandu says, they doused it with water, dropped it on concrete and bounced it off sidewalks,” Cauley reports. “Thandu says he took the iPhone with him on long runs, sweating all over it. ‘We wanted to test the limits of it.’
I take it this means that rather than the usual “a Kleenex scratched my screen so badly I couldn’t see the display” rubbish, we’ll get “iPhone display so hard it rubbed my face raw”
Tommo, what are you quoting here?
It was an article published today all over the web describing the AT&T testing process for the iPhone.
Apple’s iPhone Buzz: YouTube Accessible, Should Businesses Reject It?
Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits:
Yesterday, there were 6,538 articles about Apple’s (AAPL) (over a 24 hour period) on Google News. That’s about 300 more than Wednesday and about 650 more than when we started tracking on Tuesday. Clearly, we haven’t peaked yet.
One of the items that generated news Wednesday was the fact that iPhone buyers will be able to view YouTube videos on their iPhones. And Apple has already updated the iPhone photos on its Web site to include a YouTube icon on the front screen as you can see above.
Meanwhile, Gartner, IDC, and the Wall Street Journal are busy claiming that businesses should shun the iPhone, assuming that it can’t sync with Microsoft Exchange (not true) and that it will be a security threat to their networks (also not true, especially if they are already running Microsoft Exchange). C’mon guys, get a clue. The real drivers behind these stories are not business leaders (who are undoubtedly trying to figure out ways to get one for themselves), but IT shops who, as Dilbert puts it, are the preventers of technology. Businesses will reject the iPhone just the same way that they rejected the PC originally—yelling and screaming while executives bring them to work anyway.
Among those articles, though, is a particularly amusing one from the Onion that gives a new set of specifications for the iPhone. I’m particularly excited that every iPhone will come with an iPhone hat, so that others will know you own one during those brief periods when you aren’t using it. Now that’s marketing.
Let the FUDsters howl and whine. When corporate executives shove iPhone email support and integration down the throats of IT managers, they will be severely weakening Microsoft’s domination at the heart of corporate communications. So the iPhone is not only a threat to mobile phone hardware and software competitors, but also to Microsoft’s central position in the enterprise. By forcing alternatives to Microsoft, in order to integrate the iPhone into the corporate communications infrastructure, Apple will be shaping the battlefield to be more friendly to enterprise Macintosh support. That’s a halo effect, even if it is coerced.
“Analysts: iPhone Has Neither Security nor Relevance”
Apple’s upcoming iPhone: It’s a “security nightmare,” it will “turn your security team into zombies,” . . .
The security experts who are worried about the hot, new gadget base their fears on the fact that the iPhone will be capable of much of the same functionality as the BlackBerry, without the enterprise-class security.
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.. that’s partly the reason the stock pulled back yesterday. Shock..surprise.. a $500 phone isn’t a mass market phone! Maybe that’s why Apple said they were only going after 1% of the market initially.. duh…
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