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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 17, 2009 15:56:49 GMT
Just some epic quotes. Most listed here… iPhone QuotesEdit. This thread picked up quite a few comments. If you just want to look for the quotes then scan each page for the icon.
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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 17, 2009 15:57:45 GMT
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
Palm CEO Ed Colligan, commenting on then-rumored Apple iPhone, 16 Nov 2006
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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 22, 2009 23:12:35 GMT
“Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail…. Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits… When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good.”
Michael Kanellos, CNET, 7 December 2006
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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 30, 2009 14:37:47 GMT
“The economics of something like this aren’t that compelling.”
Rod Bare, Morningstar, 8 December 2006
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 4, 2010 15:39:48 GMT
“The only question remaining is if, when the iPod phone fails, it will take the iPod with it.”
Bill Ray, The Register, 26 December 2006
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 5, 2010 11:27:39 GMT
“I don’t think this device will meet the fantastic predictions I have been reading. For starters, while Apple basically established the market for portable music players, the phone market is already established, with a number of major brands. Can Apple remake the phone market in its image? Success is far from guaranteed. ”
Jack Gold, J. Gold Associates, 10 January 2007
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furfoxache
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Post by furfoxache on Jan 9, 2010 11:33:45 GMT
Posting via my iPhone PMSL! Were these the same guys who wouldn't sign the Beatles? Ah! The benefits of 20/20 hindsight!
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 10, 2010 11:17:57 GMT
Were these the same guys who wouldn't sign the Beatles? Ah! The benefits of 20/20 hindsight! Playing the odds is not an exact science is it? On Apples current form betting against them may not be the smartest of moves. It has been a while since Apples last lemon.
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Post by wierdostomps on Jan 10, 2010 15:25:29 GMT
New iPod Shuffle?
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 10, 2010 22:22:44 GMT
Well yeah, I think it is a bit dumb, but then I think most forms of exercise are a bit dumb too. The previous model was much better.
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 12, 2010 10:56:08 GMT
“And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.”
John C. Dvorak, 13 January 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 14, 2010 8:57:10 GMT
“The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant… Apple is unlikely to make much of an impact on this market… Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won’t make a long-term mark on the industry.”
Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg, 15 January 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 18, 2010 19:26:56 GMT
“Consumers are not used to paying another couple hundred bucks more just because Apple makes a cool product. Some fans will buy it, but for the rest of us it’s a hard pill to swallow just to have the coolest thing.”
Neil Strother, NPD Group, 22 January 2007
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Post by HeatherKay on Jan 18, 2010 19:41:18 GMT
Amazing, isn't it. I bet each and every one of those so-called experts has still got their job, too.
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 22, 2010 23:12:52 GMT
“$500 fully subsidized with a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine …. Right now we’re selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year, Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months, they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace and let’s see… let’s see how the competition goes.”
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 17 January 2007
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