“The long wait for iPhones in Canada will soon be over,” Cheryl Chan reports for The Vancouver Province. “Rogers Communications announced yesterday that it has inked a deal with California-based Apple Inc. to carry the iconic, much-awaited devices nationwide.”
Chan reports, “Eamon Hoey, of Toronto-based management consulting firm Hoey and Associates, said the release of the iPhone in Canada will be too little, too late. ‘It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “bc” for the heads up.]
Besides getting immediately iCal’ed for abject idiocy in preparation for guaranteed future ridicule, Eamon Hoey — Canada’s Rob Enderle — will also get his Hoey and Associates client list republished right here:
Hoey Associates’ client list includes:
• Bell Canada
• NorthwestTel
• SaskTel
• yak
• Group of Gold Line
• Telus
• Toronto Hydro Telecom
• Telecom Ottawa
Source: Hoey Associates
Tellingly, Rogers Communications is glaringly absent from Hoey and Associates’ client list, but Rogers’ competitors are, of course, in plentiful abundance.
Shouldn’t Cheryl Chan have disclosed such obviously germane information in her report?
Contacts:
• Cheryl Chan:
• The Vancouver Province Editor-in-chief, Wayne Moriarty:
While we have no love lost for Rogers and their fleecing of Canadian consumers, we value transparency in the media to the utmost. If the likes of The Vancouver Province won’t provide it, we will.
Too Little to Late? I think not. More like about freakin time!!!
I love that MDN iCal’s all these clowns… To little to late is what he should be saying about his clients.
Ah, the race toward irrelevance. Fun to watch ain’t it?
I wish I could get back the two minutes it took me to read that article.
“‘It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.'”
Does he own one? Has he not seen the SDK announcement? Is he living under a rock? Well, now he’s iCal’ed. Thats what he gets for being ignorant with iPhone development.
for an MDN take, that was brilliant. They seem to have every telco in the country on that list except rogers.
GREAT catch on the clients of Hoey.
Wow! I hope both of their inboxes are flooded with MDN users responses.
“I wish I could get back the two minutes it took me to read that article.”
It’s in the next update to Time Machine. It will be pre-released before it’s available.
Sounds like a load of Hoey to me…
He is right, iPhone is too little too late, just look at the pathetic (MDN bloodbath yeah right lol) iPhone sales in Europe, I wonder if the carriers even made any profit whatsoever.
I really hoped the client list was made up. Then I clicked on “yak”.
@EvangelizeWithRespect
Oooooh, beat me to it!!
This guy doesn’t know what is talking about… how come it’ll be too late for iPhone 2.0?
Question: When MDN posts an email address, does anyone have an idea of just how many emails get sent? Is it in the hundreds? more? just curious how many email boxes have been shut down
Bill Gates to Mr. Hoey, “… check is in the mail!” Mr. Hoey, “Nice doing business with you!”
Unfortunately for Mr. Hoey, and fortunately for Canadians, just ’cause he says so doesn’t make it so.
‘It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.'”
Well, it’s easy to shoot down this remark by pointing out that Apple is expected to release a new iteration of the iPhone and there probably won’t be any phones comparable to that. (Not to mention what happens when the App Store opens in June and re-invents the cell phone world – again.)
But let’s just take him at face value. Where are these alternatives to the iPhone he’s talking about? Everyone’s chasing the iPhone. No one’s come up with anything that currently competes with the iPhone.
I know he’s just trying to get hits, but…c’mon! You’ve got to at least PRETEND that your critique is viable.
It seems that someone is talking total nonsense. What exactly is this particular alternative or replacement for the iPhone? There might be some close alternatives for the 2.5G iPhone, but there won’t be anything that comes close the the 3G iPhone. It may not have a features list as long as a chimp’s arm but what it will have will most likely be easily accessible and with those SDK apps coming down the pike, all the other smartphones might as well be designated for the scrapheap.
“I wish I could get back the two minutes it took me to read that article.”
I wish I could get back every second of the time I spent reading The Province over the years… it is a disgrace as a “news” source. It really only exists to pacify sports and, to a lesser extent, “entertainment” fans and glut up our lives with even more advertising.
The two daily papers in Vancouver are published by the same crap company and should be ashamed to even exist.
much ado about nothing… who cares… people will buy the unlocked version of the phone anyway…
i dont even have one… but when the 3G model comes out. look for a bunch of iPhones to flood the unlocked market
oh, and the iPhone will still dominate with Blackberrys as the only competitior. enough said… bad press hasnt stopped Apple products when they are what the customers want. Only the dumb guy believes everything in the media regarding a product without checking it out.
At least i had the decent enough to check out Vista before saying XP was better because it was faster.
hoey is hooey
Sounds pretty much like Balmer’s talking points were reprinted verbatim.
Let’s just assume that only Mac folks would want to buy an iPhone so as to carry their Address Book, and iCal with them. This ignores all the other cool stuff the iPhone does.
In Canada that must be 3/4 of a million folks. (I’m guessing, it may be much more, and growing)
Gee, if I had a captive market of 3/4 Million qualified buyers for something worth $500, I’d be thrilled.
I just bought a $500 Razr to replace a stolen Razr. The old Razr would update the address book on BlueTooth. The new one requires so many workarounds as to be almost unusable.
I’m a tad annoyed. I paid the full price so as not to be stuck on my service for longer than necessary as I expected the iPhone to arrive soon.
iphone Canadian release=good
Rogers` tie in=bad
inevitable iphone VOIP client=best