“As the thrill of the iPhone’s unveiling wears off, analysts and users are asking questions about how the device will play away from the San Francisco stage where it made its debut on Tuesday,” Stephen Lawson reports for IDG News Service.
Lawson reports, “Some features of the US$499 phone stunned attendees at Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’s two-hour Macworld Expo keynote. Its music and video capability with the biggest and sharpest iPod display yet, its touchscreen interface that lets you zoom in and out with your fingers, and its nearly button-free design all drew big cheers. But much still isn’t known about the iPhone — even its name is now in doubt, thanks to a trademark suit by Cisco Systems Inc. — and some observers have slammed known shortcomings.”
Lawson lists the standard list of iPhone FUD from various analysts, including this nugget, “However, Jobs has a reason to make the iPhone live up to its hype, M:Metrics analyst Seamus McAteer said: 1993’s failed Newton handheld. ‘There’s one big black blotch on his resume. … This is his chance to wipe that clean, and I don’t thing he’s going to screw it up,’ McAteer said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iceforest” for the heads up.]
Do you trust M:Metrics analyst Seamus McAteer’s opinion when he doesn’t even know the simplest of facts? Apple’s Newton was developed under CEO John Sculley. Steve Jobs was not even with Apple Computer between 1985-1996 (Apple’s Dark Ages) during the Newton’s development and, in fact, it was Jobs who killed the Newton project (just when it was getting to be great, by the way) upon returning to Apple as “iCEO.” Reality might not tarnish iPhone’s shine, but some are doing their damnedest to tarnish it with fantasy.
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The massive FUD campaign against Apple’s iPhone ramps up – January 10, 2007
Direct deposit from M$?
Nearly button-free?
We’ve got months of this sort of back and forth speculation to come. The iPhone may fail, it may not, personally I’m already sick of reading all this uninformed opinion.
Yeah I agree how about they find something else to write about until it actually comes out. How much can you really write about something when you do not have all the facts. Better yet most of these people have not even held it in their hands.
like every other piece of new electronics
there will be early adapters
the price will fall
there will be some more adapters
the features will be integrated to mainstream products
why is the iphone different?
Yeah, and if my mother had wheels, she would have been a bus.
MW: however, as in: However, since my mother was not born with wheels, she did not have a Greyhound logo birthmark.
Nearly button-free?
Yeah, it’s got one button. remember?
I love early adapters.
“How much can you really write about something when you do not have all the facts(?)”
You just summed up modern journalism and blogging.
Well done!
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“If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon.
Come, come, Mr. Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas, be tolerant.”
Well forget it then. If it has a button, it must be crap.
My ex-girlfriend must have had wheels. She stopped for any stranger and gave lots of free rides for half fare. She even had a handicap access ramp.
Reality tarnishes everything
Signed-
Tarnish Face
This is a big load isn’t it… Well, it just makes me even more sure that Apple’s got something that naysayers are genuinely worried about, and the more worried Apple’s enemies are, in the end, the better for Apple, it’s customers, and its investors.
As I’ve already said, come April, May and June its going to be buy buy buy, reinvest some, and buy some more – and oh yes, see you on the beach in about 15 years.
Who reads those pages? The public at large? PC users? People looking for more information on the iPhone? Noooo sir… it is us. We who can read this elusive character []. And we don’t read it for fresh “content” because we know more about the iPhone, including what we <u>don’t</u> know about it, than the schmuck who wrote the piece. And what a piece it is! Of shit! It’s nothing but a collection of weakly supported opinions that doesn’t even qualify as FUD.
Yes there are issues unknown and unresolved about the iPhone. But what we know is this: in its first incarnation as a beta product, it is far and away the best interface for an advanced cellphone bar none. For that reason alone I will buy it and/or its more capable offspring.
Its name is not an issue, neither is the fragility of the screen [come on, give some credit to the company who designed it], the battery, extra memory, limited applications, lack of 3G at the moment, etc., etc., etc…. Jobs didn’t wait 2-1/2 years to release a clunker; this product is too important for Apple. And it is far superior to what I have now or otherwise expect to have when it is available. No FUD can take that away.
So I’m not reading any more weakly supported opinions by a bunch of nincompoops with otherwise nothing to say. Except for fun, maybe
;-p[Did I defeat the emoticon? Oh how I hate graphical emoticons!]I’m beginning to wonder about the big, big twisted pile of snakes out there writing these Apple hate pieces. A lot of them just hate Apple…maybe they have psychological issues..just have to hate something to feel better about themselves.
Of course, there’s no doubt for many there’s nothing more in it than an MS payoff.
Now, I’m starting to think some of these people are short sellers in the market. Spreading FUD for a little market payoff. Motherfuckers.
Here’s the truth if you can handle the truth…….All the people at Apple working on the iPhone, hardware and software are a symphony of consummate performers. Together, they have produced a thing of beauty and function. And NO, I’m not kissing anyones ass. These little critics can barely bring themselves to utter one complement for all the expertise and hard work needed to bring this to market.
My God, if this had been introduced by MS they’d all be f*king delirious with celebration just before they went prostrate in anticipation for Ballmers next stage burlesque.
The reality is the iPhone makes all other smart phones look like Idiots! That’s the reality and there are more apps to be added to the iPhone which were not on the prototype that Jobs demoed. And the Newton was so early 90’s and Apple was in a different corporate direction at that time. Apple today knows what there doing and is totally focused on everything they do and they have an awesome R&D department.
I see an even brighter shine once June comes around and all the apps are finished on the iPhone.
It’s funny isn’t it that Apple becomes a worldwide household name and everybody all of a sudden becomes an Apple historian.
I really wish these idiots would do their research before posting FUD about Apple.
Steve Jobs may not have been CEO when Apple developed the Newton, but the Newton still died (was killed) when he held the helm. It may not be a black mark… but it certainly is a stain.
And what colour would you like your new laptop in?
To be honest and more accurate – it is the CUBE that was his biggest failure (more that it was too ahead of it’s time, along with manufacturing issues)
I just read that the Blackberry Pearl now comes in white.
See. The masterful innovation overhauls have begun.
I wonder if Naomi Campbell has requested an iPhone prototype for target practice? She’ll probably stick with the heavier phones for now. Less recoil and better damage spread.
Who is “M:Metrics analyst Seamus McAteer’s “??? is he a taxi driver? Like the “Taxi driver expert on computing” that shows on a BBC program in London? No, I don’t believe so, Taxi drivers reads the news paper once in a while.
Egg freckles.
Amazing how many articles have been written already criticizing the iPhone by “journalists” who have never even used one!
They are all just regurgitating each other’s lies and FUD.