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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 15, 2010 8:52:26 GMT
Strange how hindsight is always 20/20 Oh yes, I totally agree. I think though that comments on the iPad are generally more guarded as a result of getting it so wrong over the iPhone. We hear more "Well it may do well, but at the moment I don't want one" type of comments rather than the clear denouncements that the iPhone got.
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 16, 2010 11:02:50 GMT
“We are not at all worried. We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life. They are not going to catch up.”
Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft Mobile Communications Group Product Manager, 1 April 2008
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Post by wierdostomps on Mar 20, 2010 9:13:47 GMT
Strange how hindsight is always 20/20 I think though that comments on the iPad are generally more guarded as a result of getting it so wrong over the iPhone. We hear more "Well it may do well, but at the moment I don't want one" type of comments rather than the clear denouncements that the iPhone got. And that feels a perfectly legitimate stance to take. I read a very balanced review in Computer Shopper yesterday (I was VERY bored!). It listed all the usual reasons the reviewer was unconvinced - lack of Flash; poor scaling of iPhone graphics etc etc. All of these things seem perfectly legitimate criticisms to me. But essentially, they are looking backwards and comparing iPad with the past, whereas if I am right, we should be looking forward at what it will become.
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 22, 2010 14:20:57 GMT
“The iPhone is a niche product.”
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, 17 April 2008
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 26, 2010 15:26:42 GMT
“Windows Mobile has nothing to fear from either the iPhone or Google Android. One’s an emerging one, the other is a very limited form factor. One has relatively limited hardware support and limited distribution; the other is just one form factor from one company with limited choices of operators. So they both at this point feel fairly restrictive compared to all the great options consumers would have with a Windows Mobile phone.”
John Curran, Microsoft UK, 24 Oct 2008
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 31, 2010 9:19:23 GMT
“But when it comes right down to it, the BlackBerry Storm will be the superior mobile device and represents a true iPhone killer.”
Andrew Hickey, ChannelWeb, 14 Nov 2008
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Post by idan on Apr 5, 2010 11:19:32 GMT
Those who have opinions are going to get in wrong sometimes, those who sit on the fence and point out the mistakes of others can always claim to be right.
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Post by Forum Cat on Apr 5, 2010 13:35:03 GMT
Those who have opinions are going to get in wrong sometimes, Of course, that is the point of this thread. Making a dogmatic statement without evidence to support it is a risky business in these days of the internet where the words of analysts can be recalled and picked over. It is the dogmatic nature of the comments that makes them amusing in hindsight.
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Post by idan on Apr 5, 2010 14:18:40 GMT
I know, I just think we should share the other side the over hype. Like the G4 Cube, that the tech audiences loved but ultimately bombed.
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Post by HeatherKay on Apr 5, 2010 19:13:30 GMT
Hey! My G4 Cube is still used! Best bit of Apple tech I ever invested in. He'll be ten years old next January.
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Post by Forum Cat on May 19, 2010 6:24:36 GMT
One or two Palm Pre comments…
” I’ve only been able to play with one for a few minutes, but after seeing Palm’s impressive presentation of its Pre smart phone at the Consumer Electronics Show’s opening day I feel fairly certain the phone could just be the device that gives Apple’s iPhone a run for the money.”
Gary Krakow, TheStreet.com, 8 Jan 2009
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Post by Forum Cat on Jul 6, 2010 9:19:53 GMT
“Palm just did what Nokia and Microsoft and RIM couldn’t do: deliver a better experience than Steve Jobs did.”
Scobleizer, 8 Jan 2009
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Post by Forum Cat on Jul 11, 2010 10:01:45 GMT
“The Palm Pre has it all, making the iPhone look almost like — dare we say it — a version 1.0 device.”
Wired, Priya Ganapati, 12 Jan 2009
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Post by Forum Cat on Jul 12, 2010 15:03:35 GMT
This one was surprising in it's naivety.
“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later. Think about it — If you bought the first iPhone, you bought it because you wanted the coolest product on the market. Your two-year contract has just expired. Look around. Tell me what they’re going to buy.”
Major Palm investor & co-founder of Elevation Partners, Roger McNamee, 5 Mar 2009
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Post by Forum Cat on Jul 21, 2010 0:02:57 GMT
“The Palm Pre Will Be an iPhone Killer”
Ross Catanzariti, PC World, 2 Apr 2009
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