Comments on: Reality Check: the iPhone 4 launch in perspective

By: kdaeseok

kdaeseok — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:11:36 +0000

Checked my friends’ newly bought ones and I think it’s pretty fair to say iPhone 4 is unstable for the time being. Two of them have the proximity sensor problems which activated loudspeaker during a phone call, and ALL of them had the ‘death grip’ antenna issue.

You may want to wait for the iOS update or better, wait for the next version.

By: enzos

enzos — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:17:15 +0000

berult n. a word dinosaur, sp. Thesaurus vex

By: UNLK A6

UNLK A6 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:09:36 +0000

Always look forward to berult’s posts. What does he or she mean–or do for a living for that matter? Do tell.
Another sane post Daniel, good work. Shoulda’ mentioned the launch of the JooJoo. I don’t think it brought any server’s down, did it.

By: John E

John E — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:09:58 +0000

First, anything Apple is hot news these days, so the echo-chamber media is going to make mountains out of molehills about any problems real or imagined just to have sh*t to publish that people want to read. right up there with celebrity gossip.

Second, all the professional whiners and Apple-bashers on the web have orgasms writing that kind of stuff. and oh god there are so many whiners. the web is turning into Crybaby City.

Third, who remembers the similar wailing and weeping at the launch of the 2G three years ago? a few months later, nobody cares.

But the Kin, ah, that epic fail will go down in history like the Ford Edsel, not to be forgotten. buy one now for 50 cents from some bargain bin and hang on to it for 40 years. it will be a very rare collectible by then, finally worth more than an iPhone the same age!

By: komodomac

komodomac — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:57:43 +0000

Hey Daniel,
Your spellcheck is inserting a wrong word in a few of your articles: BEGIN, instead of BEING.

BTW, very insightful articles and well grounded perspectives.

By: berult

berult — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:54:55 +0000

Survival of the ‘unfittest’.

Nature’s reversal of evolutionary ‘purpose vying’ to degenerative ‘remorse selling’. Let’s make mediocrity a value added commodity, a serendipitous public utility, a supply driven and demand stricken meritocracy…

…and free ride the waning, fading glory of those good old evolutionary days!

Why not ‘black mass’ the wind out of Progress’es sail, …for a regress buying celebration could unsuspectingly half-life the head out of the grieving nail!

By: FlyersNY81

FlyersNY81 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:09:09 +0000

Reading all these stories about how the iPhone 4 has so many flaws and SJ is being an ass about addressing them I was beginning to lose some confidence I had in my new phone
After reading this article… Confidence restored!!

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:41:58 +0000

“You’re quoting it wrong.” – Gus

Did SJ ever ACTUALLY say “you’re holding it wrong”?? Because that’s what everyone here is quoting. In my recollection, he said “don’t hold it that way”. That’s very different.

Besides, if you want more than a curt quip, you should probably talk to a Customer Service rep rather than emailing the CEO. Anyone ever gotten an email response from a Forture-500 company CEO before, at all? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?

By: E. Wetzell

E. Wetzell — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:23:43 +0000

@JohnWatkins

I am well aware of the oddities of RF-I deal with it on a regular basis. My gripe isn’t with the technological limitation, which IS a real phenomenon in all RF devices, but rather the poor articulation of the actual issue and the solution.

Yes, people have a microscope on Apple right now and are prepared to blow things out of proportion if taken out of context. You know it, I know it, Dan knows it-so why doesn’t Apple? When you are watched closely, you better prepare your remarks the more carefully. Granted, it was an off the cuff remark from Steve Jobs, but “you’re holding it wrong” plays right into the hands of those who are willing to decry Apple as seeing themselves as infalable and treating their customers as idiots (not that I agree with that, mind you).

Others have made the point about how Apple represents a superior design and superior products. I totally agree-I love my Macs and other Apple products. However, others have made the comment about how they fully expected to buy a bumper or case and who in their right minds wouldn’t. I would counter that by asking who would design a product that required an extra, seperately purchased piece of equipment for the device to function properly? Is that superior design? Or is that more fodder for the people who have an axe to grind? And when that “axe is ground”, then who’s fault is that?

By: stormj

stormj — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:20:37 +0000

@ShabbaRanks – This article isn’t apologizing for Apple’s mistakes. It’s criticizing the hyperventilating coverage of the latest Apple “failure” each of which are the reverse of a Pyrrhic victory. Many more of these failure and they will win it all!

@Daniel – The reason that you are grasping at behind all of this Apple hating coverage is simply that Apple’s mission always has been to take technology away from the geeks. Whether or not they have this in the forefront of their consciousness, they act it. In other words, making consumer devices (or the GUI) so that average people can use it deprives many in the tech industry of their professional and psychological raison d’etre.

Google on the other hand is about making more and more geeky things. Some are incredibly powerful, but I can’t think of a single Google product that isn’t designed for “power users” first, and, well, if it just happens to be usable by others (like gmail) then that’s fine.

So, tech writers, many of whom have frustrations of never quite cutting it as a programmer or an engineer, maintain their I’m-so-smart attitude by contempt for the users they have to help out. And when Apple lets their grandma make movies on a cell phone, it starts an ego collapse.

It was the same with all the kool kidz calling the Mac a “toy” because it didn’t have a command line. It’s the same with iPhone because you can’t edit dot files to be super 3l33t.