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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 24, 2010 16:04:52 GMT
“I’m more convinced than ever that, after an initial frenzy of publicity and sales to early adopters, iPhone sales will be unspectacular… iPhone may well become Apple’s next Newton.”
David Haskin, Computerworld, 26 February 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 1, 2010 12:08:55 GMT
“Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone… What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures… Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see.”
John C. Dvorak, 28 March 2007
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Post by idan on Feb 1, 2010 13:47:44 GMT
Interesting its the opposite of the iPad. Critics hated the iPhone consumers got excited anyhow. With the iPad critics are saying they love it but so far consumers are none fussed.
I think in the end it'll be a happy middle ground.
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Post by wierdostomps on Feb 2, 2010 20:01:44 GMT
I hope someone is collecting iDan's iPad comments for a thread like this in two years' time!
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 7, 2010 22:27:57 GMT
“The iPhone is going to be nothing more than a temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.”
Gundeep Hora, CoolTechZone Editor-in-Chief, 2 April 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 8, 2010 16:01:13 GMT
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 30 April 2007
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Post by idan on Feb 8, 2010 19:46:05 GMT
I hope someone is collecting iDan's iPad comments for a thread like this in two years' time! Yeah then we can do what they said about the G4 Cube too.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 12, 2010 12:52:31 GMT
“It’ll sell a couple million units to the many people who have wet dreams about Steve Jobs, and that will be about it.”
Matt Maroon, MattMaroon.com , 7 May 2007
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Post by idan on Feb 12, 2010 13:26:16 GMT
You know most of what they said would be true if they didn't re do the hardware. Most of these quotes are about the original silver iPhone that didn't set the world on fire..
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 12, 2010 14:19:34 GMT
You know most of what they said would be true if they didn't re do the hardware. Most of these quotes are about the original silver iPhone that didn't set the world on fire.. They sold them as fast as they could make them. It has taken years to negotiate deal with other countries and years to build up production levels. Did these commentators not expect the iPhone to have any updates? The old ones are basically the same product and are still fully supported.
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Post by idan on Feb 12, 2010 18:42:29 GMT
I hate the original model and it was rubbish, seriously the software was limited the phone big and it was painfully slow. If they didn't bring out the new model then it would have flopped as phones with better software and better designs were flooding the market.
These commentators were talking about the only iPhone that was about at the time. If you're going to say releasing a new phone with the same basic functions is still the same phone then Nokia is still making the same basic model and is the most successful phone ever.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 12, 2010 21:29:14 GMT
If you're going to say releasing a new phone with the same basic functions is still the same phone then Nokia is still making the same basic model and is the most successful phone ever. Which model is that then?
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Post by idan on Feb 12, 2010 23:20:43 GMT
The Nokia - any phone as its basically got the same functions.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 13, 2010 15:10:44 GMT
The Nokia - any phone as its basically got the same functions. I think you are stretching it a bit far to say that all Nokias are the same. They have numerous models and often varients of each model too.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 16, 2010 16:01:22 GMT
“How do you deal with that? How do they deal with us?”
Ed Zander, Motorola CEO/Chairman 10 May 2007
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