“I have to ask one question from Apple, if I may. What’s up with the sheer arrogance in regards to iPhone? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The lack of presence at last week’s CTIA tradeshow was purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry. Sure, I guess I can understand the magical feel you are going for, Steve Jobs style, but to barely showoff the iPhone at the wireless industry’s largest tradeshow was downright pathetic,” Gundeep Hora, CoolTechZone’s Editor-in-Chief, writes.
Hora writes, “It’s great that you are quite possibly the only company to pull off something like this successfully, but it doesn’t make it any less annoying. Not to mention, Jobs, didn’t your PR people recommend you to show off the iPhone at CTIA? Personally, I wouldn’t be too arrogant at this point, especially considering the fact that the iPhone is going to be nothing more than a temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.”
“Had you let the industry (press, analysts and competitors) experience the iPhone throughout CTIA, maybe you may have realized the idiocy behind the $599 price tag, and the phone’s lack of usefulness. Clearly, it’s not designed for business users, and very few average consumers, mainly teenagers (the seemingly obvious target market of the iPhone), will have the budget to invest in a ludicrously priced cell phone,” Hora writes.
Full article here.
Waaa! Apple didn’t show up at a show featuring outmoded tech that suddenly looks hopelessly dated! Apple insulted the entire wireless industry! Waaa!
This article has been iCal’ed. We will revisit it in the future.
Contact info: Gundeep Hora
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It is difficult to take seriously an article written by a person whose name is Gundeep Hora.
People are so used to business as usual that they don’t even see what’s happening here with Apple. Apple is going to become HUGE!
It was Horta.
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HaHaHa What a self important Wanker
“it’s not designed for business users”…. Well we can tell right there what kind of business cred Mr Gundeep “Editor-in-chief” Hora has.
Where does MDN find these people?
Do you make them up ?
Almost every teenager I know (and I know a great many) has:
An iPod,
An Xbox, PS3, PSP, Wii, or all of these,
A computer,
Money to party every weekend.
Trust me, they will find a way to buy an iPhone. All of them.
-c
@ Thomas
You should laugh at other people’s name. Gundeep’s brother, Kneedeep married his cousin Inshit…so now he is Kneedeep Inshit. Think HE likes people to laugh at him??
I meant you SHOULDN’T laugh
His name is Pididiot, first name Stu
Here is the REAL reason Apple wasn’t there:
From the day of the announcement, the shell-shocked industry tried to downplay the iPhone with statements like, “Yeah, we’ll have a $200 copy that does the same thing in 3 weeks”
Why would Apple give the industry more time to TRY and COPY the iPhone’s features?!?!
These guys are desperate to try and reverse engineer HALF of the iPhone’s features (Look at the CRAP MS is trying: http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/microsoft_tries_to_outdo_apple_iphone_with_new_zenzui_mobile_ui/ ) It’s funny and pathetic.
Anyone angry at Apple is just upset that it will take them longer to rip off REAL innovative ideas.
MW: schools: Apple SCHOOLS the industry again!
Hora is right – the novelty will eventually wear off. Probably as soon as version 2 of the iPhone is released.
Agree with iScott – I know where NOT to go for tech news.
My wife and I are each getting an iPhone. Fortunately we’re already with Cingular. And for what it is worth, we have not had any problems with Cingular. I realize this may not be true for everyone – but we’re very pleased with Cingular (ATT)and are looking forward to the iPhone. (Oh and new monitors from Apple too.)
Peace.
And I suppose the iPod is just novelty too. One word on this story FUD!
HA! What a self-important ass! So Apple has insulted the ENTIRE INDUSTRY!?! Now they’ll never get invited to any parties 🙁
Gundeep needs to pull his head out of his ass and take a look around. The iPhone is going to rock the “entire industry”. Poor old Gundeep might just be the last to know.
iPhone will quickly get outdated and is mostly a fad…
Lets see…. isn’t that EVERY phone on the mareket?!
Evidently, now it is just for iPhone, but the latest Chocolate, Razor and BlackBerry look set to stand the test of time.
A. Don’t click and give this guy hits.
B. Watch him look really, really, dumb come June – five-years from now.
C. Watch this guy buy an iPhone and love it.
Not that it really matters, but “Hora” in my language means someone (usually a female) who does certain things for money. Maybe kind of fits this guy
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WAAA! Hora of Horas! WAAAA! Pass the iHanky (sniff!!) please! WAAA!!
Gundeep Hora,
You ignorant Gundeep!!!
Perhaps Apple felt that it would be better to have a product that was shipping before being in your sacred trade show CTIA.
Was it not better to have the CEO of AT&T touting it or is he just wasting
his time with a “Temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.”
The FCC Chairman might differ with you as well.
But you are the Great Gundeep of the award winning CoolTechZone
web site are you not?
Lets just see what happens to your beloved CTIA show after June.
I wager the new name will be MacWorld Wireless.
Just a great gundeep thought.
My email to Gundeep:
I’d like to ask a question, too, if I may. What’s the point of CTIA tradeshow? Well, according to their website it’s “to exchange ideas, create partnerships and collaborate to bring wireless telecommunications to new heights.”
Where in there does it say, “let every Tom, Dick and Harry play with your stuff?” I think you’ve jumped the shark Gundeep. And why should Apple, or anyone, have to appease the great Gundeep, God and Gatekeeper of Wireless in order to compete in the marketplace? Paradigms are bad for technology, bad for creativity and bad for consumers. You should Think Different, Gundeep. Really.
I think iPhone has been hard to see for three reasons. 1. It isn’t finished – maiinly because of the integration with ATT and ironing out some of the features (therefore they don’t want to be there to be asked too many questions); 2. They don’t want people to copy it – Apple is becoming wise to the successful knockoffs out there, they don’t want the knockoffs to beat them to the punch on either iPhone or Leopard; 3. They want the actual release to be news. If they tell everything now and let it appear to be an established deal, it won’t have the news worthy impact that today’s viewing market craves!
And by the way, isn’t Gundeep Hora being just a wee bit arrogant in claiming to speak for an entire industry? I mean, I know that CoolTechZone is right up there with the Wall Street Journal and all, but still.
MDN Magic Word “full” as in everybody is full of something…
Does anybody know what the $2%?! he is talking about ???
I just did some checking:
An 8GB iPod Nano costs US$249. A Blackberry 8800 (from Cingular) costs US$349.99 with a two-year contract. Just doing the math to buy both of those devices would cost me US$598.99.
How much does an 8GB iPhone cost? $599.
The shame is that CoolTechZone’s editor is judging the iPhone against other “smartphones” with anemic media capabilities. Unlike other smartphones, the iPhone has a full feature set without compromising functionality.
A lot of things deserve to be iCal’d but this article belongs in the FUD Hall of Fame.
Back to help desk, bumdeep. My AOL acount is expiring. And yes the computer is plugged in.
Who paid him for this hatchet job? Did cooltechzone say hey
we sure would like some hits to show our advertisers that we truly do
get eyeballs, lets say something untrue and stupid about the iPhones and drive them Mac nuts wild.
Tell this Palm and Rim licking boy to hold on to his beaded car seat
and wait for the storm which is the iPhone.
Take no prisoners Steve…
Just a uncooltechzone thought
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Usted es un torpe idiota.
Tonto y nada inteligente.
No vuelvo a leer las porqueria que escribes en CoolTechZone
aghh.
Where are Hora’s rants concerning the ineptitude of current phone OS designers? Anyone?
And yeah, not going to the site.
M.X.N.T.4.1
You can’t make sweeping judgements as if you know what you’re talking about then moan about not having seen it.
Oh, but we know that you can! More than half of the rants against the iPhone, to this point, written by supposed “tech” writers, have them blathering on about things Steve addressed in the Keynote. All they had to do was watch to get the information and not look like an ass.
But nooooooooo, that was too difficult.
Apparently ranting and raving like an ass about a topic you are uninformed about is not just for Usenet anymore. 😀
Gundeep Hora’s previous prediction was that Apple
would soon stop making OS X
http://blog.willbenton.com/2007/02/gundeep-hora-is-hilarious/