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Post by idan on Feb 16, 2010 19:08:27 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. If you compared the spaces of variety of the different generations of the iPhone I would say that's fair.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 18, 2010 9:52:35 GMT
Ok. same thing as I see. Just like same as I am learning something new every day.
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Post by idan on Feb 18, 2010 12:45:05 GMT
Okay I get it you're an Apple fan. The first iPhone is different from the iPhone of today. You can pull out quotes of people who saw the original iPhone and then hold up the new latest version of the iPhone and say "look how silly they are" but I feel that's being dishonest. I know that we're on an Apple site and I do expect a slight Apple bias. Just as your selective pictures are doing also. The iPhone 1G vs the iPhone 3G/3Gs are different phones that share the same software (to a degree) Even the design changed, the camera the tech inside. Just as they look vaguely similar you can't say they're the same phone. The iPhone version one lacked MMS, no 3G support, no proper app support, poor battery, it was bulky and slow. The model that we play with and enjoy today is different. Would you swap a iPhone 3G for the 1G? As if you won't then don't claim they're roughly the same. Oh and if yo are going to choice pictures maybe you should have picked one that had the latest software.
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Post by Alex on Feb 18, 2010 13:13:42 GMT
I think this thread is getting a bit hostile...
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Post by idan on Feb 18, 2010 13:27:11 GMT
Not hostile but I feel that we just make ourselves look like over zealous fan boys when we only shine a light the positive of Apple.
I'm all for praising Apple but lets be fair about it.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 18, 2010 14:28:38 GMT
We will have to agree to disagree. I don't notice these people saying "This early first generation won't sell too well" they are for the most part condemning the whole concept. Expensive convergence device with onscreen keyboard. An outsider coming into an established phone market. Take my first quote “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 All of my quotes so far were made before it even launched. It is not the model they were knocking it was Apples ability to make a success of any phone.
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 18, 2010 14:35:39 GMT
I think this thread is getting a bit hostile... There is now a shortcut to this smiley =
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 22, 2010 17:33:16 GMT
I like this one.
“Apple begins selling its revolutionary iPhone this summer and it will mark the end of the string of hits for the company.”
Todd Sullivan, Seeking Alpha, 15 May 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 26, 2010 11:55:04 GMT
“What does the iPhone offer that other cell phones do not already offer, or will offer soon? The answer is not very much… Apple’s stated goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 seems ambitious.”
Laura Goldman, LSG Capital, 21 May 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Feb 27, 2010 10:22:54 GMT
Another gem…
“We Predict the iPhone will bomb. Which means that when the iPhone comes, Digg will likely be full of horror stories from the poor saps who camped out at their local AT&T store, only to find their purchase was buggier than a camp cabin.”
Seth Porges, The Futurist, 7 June 2007
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Post by millstonebarn on Feb 28, 2010 9:25:22 GMT
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 4, 2010 12:24:25 GMT
“The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld combined. Because its designers forgot Platt’s First, Last, and Only Law of User Experience Design (“Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee”), that product is going to crash in flames. Sell your Apple stock now, while the hype’s still hot. You heard it here first.”
David S. Platt, Suckbusters!, 21 June 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 9, 2010 13:59:58 GMT
“God himself could not design a device that could live up to all the hype that the iPhone has gotten,”
Harvard computer science professor David Platt told Reuters, 25 June 2007
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 14, 2010 11:43:27 GMT
And now some quotes from people AFTER it was released.
“The iPhone is certain to fade into history as another cool Apple innovation, that others will soon rush competitive, like-products to market, blowing away any significant lead Apple might have. The iPod mp3 player is an industry Apple essentially created, the iPhone isn’t.
Too many major players are in the mobile phone market, who have and will bring iPhone-like products to market over the coming months and years. LG has already done so with the LG Voyager phone, and now Microsoft’s plans for Windows Mobile 7 OS have been leaked and described in considerable detail by InsideMicrosoft blogger Nathan Weinberg.”
Mitchell Ashley, NetworkWorld, 11 January 2008
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Post by idan on Mar 14, 2010 15:14:41 GMT
Strange how hindsight is always 20/20
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