“For as long as Microsoft has been setting — and missing — schedules, Apple has been announcing and simultaneously shipping its biggest breakthroughs. Until recently, that is,” Tim Beyers writes for The Motley Fool.
Beyers writes, “Enter the so-called iTV, which was announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference in September, and due to ship this month as the newly dubbed Apple TV. ‘Was’ is the key word here.”
“On Monday, an Apple spokesperson told the Reuters news agency that the company would have to delay shipping of the product — which aims to wirelessly deliver downloaded videos, music, and photos from your computer to your TV — until mid-March,” Beyers writes.
Beyers writes, “Remember this when you next decide to mock Mr. Softy, Mac addicts.”
Full article here.
This has to be an attempt at satire because no one in their right mind would equate Apple’s 2-week shipping delay on a single product to Microsoft’s years of delays on multiple products, right?
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Bear Stearns: Apple TV and iPhone have changed the Apple story for the better – February 21, 2007
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Report: first batch of 100,000 Apple TVs to ship this month – January 11, 2007
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Tim Beyers – “Remember this when you next decide to mock Mr. Softy, Mac addicts”
Translation – “Fsck you.”
-c
That article is dumb but did you see this one?
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16794367.htm
I quote from the opening paragraph:
“What the music industry should discuss, instead, is how to move toward a smarter business model that offers music for rent rather than purchase.”
Words fail me…
DUMBASS MACDAILY NEWS DEFENDING APPLE, WHICH TERSELY SAID IT WILL SHIP IN FEBRUARY. YOU MACDAILY NEWS ASSWIPES, YOU ARE LOSERS
Tim isn’t joking. He is finally showing some true colors, just itching to steam Mac folk and defend the sloth empire which is Redmond.
But MDN you are completely accurate when you state that two weeks does not come close to equating to months upon months or years upon years of delayed product – or worse yet – Promised features that get cut one by one, and when the product is finally released by Mr. Softy, late mind you, the product resembles something akin to a brown Zune in a toilet…
Yo “R”.. take a Xanex.. geesh
R…..
don’t blame us for being abused by your fat sweaty uncle… talk to your shrink.
MacB
@R
Your penis envy is showing, young man. Get back on your lithium and take a long, long, long (dirt) nap, OK?
Thank you.
This dufus is trolling for hits. If people stop going to sites that publish rubbish like this, rubbish like this ceases to exist.
Just say “nope”.
Look guys, you can’t counter blind, fanatical hatred, which the writers of The Motley Fool have always reserved for Apple. If it’s Monday, hate Apple. If it’s Tuesday, hate Apple. If the stock market goes down, it’s Apple’s fault. You get the idea.
This kind of kindergarten thinking really doesn’t deserve any response. These people live in a horrible reality that requires them to lash out at better products to feel justified. They need to leave their abusive relationship behind, but until they do, they’ll continue to dribble out these tiresome and childish fulminations.
Two weeks… two years… clearly the same type of problem both companies are having.
Let’s see…Duke Nukem Forever was delayed, Longhorn / XP2VistaSP3 was delayed…TV was delayed.
THEY MUST ALL BE THE SAME!
BRILLIANT!
=)
What a fool…like, literally.
Look guys, you can’t counter blind, fanatical love, which the writers of Mac Daily News have always reserved for Apple. If it’s Monday, love Apple. If it’s Tuesday, love Apple. If the stock market goes up, it’s Apple’s fault. You get the idea.
This kind of kindergarten thinking really doesn’t deserve any response. These people live in a horrible reality that requires them to lash out at inferior products to feel justified. They need to leave their imaginary relationship behind, but until they do, they’ll continue to dribble out these tiresome and childish adulations.
Copland.
Now everybody can shut the hell up.
There is another article saying it was probably an FCC delay, not really Apple.
Tim puts the Fool back in Motley.
@R….did you have to look up the word TERSELY? Since it is spelled right, I assume you did.
@One Word…
If you’re going to slam MDN posters, dumbass, at least learn to spell! Apple’s operating system was “Copeland,” not “Copland.” (How old ARE you?)
As my friend Bugs used to say, “What a maroon.”
Tim Beyer is a really poor analyst.
Just look at his track record re AAPL.
This is just another data point on what a joke Motely Fool is.
Stay cool…anyone with half a brain realizes that a 2 week delay does not equate to MSFT’s track record….years on Vista, years on Zune, dropped functionality, etc…
Two weeks doesn’t make 5 YEARS PC FOOLS!!!! If you don’t like the content here than go away. Just remember when you are running your 5 year old Vista that Apple’s Leopard will be the latest and greatest totally new operating system which to date is still the most secure operating system in the world.
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Just more “foolishness” from the Fool. And they want me to buy a one year subscription to their newsletter for $150. To be fair, they have said a few good things about Apple over the last two years… but…
@b
MDN is spot on. A 2 week delay in the introduction of a revolutionary new product is neither here nor there. Microsoft, on the other hand, are years late with Vista, and its not even the Longhorn product that was previously announced.
The writer of the article attempts to equate a 2 week product delay with the Vista scandal.
There is a great deal of misinformation peddled about Apple – and MDN are, rightly, quick to point out such errors.
It is a shame you used such emotional and derogatory language in your post. If you had a point at all it is certain to have been lost…
Obviously they’re not at the MS delay level, but Apple has been plagued with product on-timeness problems for as long as I can remember. Not new.
The more troubling thing for me is the very fact of participating in the vaporware game at all.. announcing a product that doesn’t exist (Apple TV at WWDC in September? To what purpose? Because they didn’t have anything better to show off? That’s not even a product for which developers were invited to develop.), announcing it again, with practically no change, naming a release date, and THEN delaying it. The whole thing smells, and I don’t care for it one bit. No sir.
“Enter the so-called iTV, which was announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference in September”
Wasn’t the iTV announced at a special media event not WWDC?
If you’re gonna start poking fun at the article at least don’t look like idiots in the process by missing details like this.
“That article is dumb but did you see this one?
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16794367.htm
I quote from the opening paragraph:
“What the music industry should discuss, instead, is how to move toward a smarter business model that offers music for rent rather than purchase.”
Words fail me…””
Words don’t fail me.
Can you say another lamebrained, pseudo-socialist paradise.
I say “pseudo-socialist” because that is how this tool envisions the financial rewards being distributed, however…his scenario is one that is capitalisticly operated. He still envisions the labels being relevent (even though they would be totally unnecessary) in this particular music business utopia.
Not to mention ignoring the almost total consumer rejection of the music subscription business model.
What a joke… Apple has often missed shipped dates, especially with new machines after MacWorld… remember those dual processor machines (the ones with AC Delco glycol cooling) took a long time to hit the delivery spot. Actually Apple often enhances them when thye ship late.. like everyone gets free overnight shipping… and is the very reason why I never order overnight shipping on “hot of the press” orders.
Motley fool is aptly named…
Now if Apple delayed shipping, then said sorry no HDMI, then delayed again and said no wireless streaming… then they could legitimately be called “Microsoft like”.
Apple did not delay shipping and take features out as far as I know.
@Randian
OH MY GOD! I simply point out Apple’s greatest blunder, (which has a lot of striking similarities to Vista (although that did eventually ship), and this is your response:
@One Word…
If you’re going to slam MDN posters, dumbass, at least learn to spell! Apple’s operating system was “Copeland,” not “Copland.” (How old ARE you?)
As my friend Bugs used to say, “What a maroon.”
You are the perfect example of why Mac users continually get treated so poorly in the media. I’m so glad you’re good at spelling, you sound like you should be able to graduate high school within the next few years.
iPhone, bitch!