“Analysts beholden to Microsoft are deeply concerned about the threat posed by Apple’s troublesome new iPhone: it’s far too much money, does nothing new at all, it’s missing all kinds of essential features, and it’s doomed to fail even by such minor details as its name,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran writes, “Further, they are quick to point out, the iPhone is all just vaporware anyway. At least it is until June, at which time it is certain to whimper into an unappreciative market, just like Sculley’s 1994 Newton or Steve Job’s last bomb, the PowerMac G4 Cube.”
Eran writes, “Or, alternatively, the iPhone may storm the market like a plundering pirate fleet, killing off all competition and everything else we hold dear: 3G liberties, the freedom to write our own phone apps, and the desperate plight of developers, developers, developers. Oh the humanity!”
The iPhone has caused more reason to fear and doubt the uncertainty of Apple’s survival since the iPod,” Eran writes.
Full article, including Eran’s “Five Phases of Media Coverage” as they pertain to Apple and Microsoft, the Zune joke, Greenpeace, and much more here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
Related article:
The massive FUD campaign against Apple’s iPhone ramps up – January 10, 2007
Read the article. What are you scared of Windoh suckers? Truth?
You know you are morons, does it hurt reading it loud and clear?
You are so used to eat shit you like it. You deserve Windows. Stay there and stay outta here. PLEASE, STAY on WINDOWS, keep eating shit: it actually is good for your health.
There is some wisdom on old saying. One that I remember is “It is not worth to give pearls to pigs”.
Well, not even lipstick: Microsoft still has to learn that. Vista has lipstick all over the place. Still sucks.
To everyone accusing me of being a “troll”…
Maybe you should try actually using facts and logic instead of name-calling. But I guess I wouldn’t really expect any better from supporters of RDM. But don’t mind me, just bury your head back under the sand and pretend that Apple is the be all and end all of technology and Steve Jobs can do no wrong.
OK Everyone. I am just messing with ya.
I am really a Mac user and the Zune is a bag of crap…
Sorry!
I’ll behave in future.
The article is so much “tongue in cheek” I almost bit mine off laughing so hard.
The facts at the bottom are probably the most humorous because they are mostly accurate. Are they from a skewed perspective? Yep. But what isn’t these days. Everyone wants to sell something, so they cast their choice in the most favorable light or go trolling to get the sensationalist ferver going.
Take it for what it is and let yourself be amused. I work, and by work I mean my primary job/career/moneymaker, is supporting and administrating almost every shipping OS. If you can’t see the humor in all this Windows/MacOS/Linux/*nix fanaticism, then you need a funny bone transplant. Every OS does the same basic things, process input, generate output, and interface with the human race or other OSes. Plain and simple. Arguing over which is better/more vulnerable/invovative is childish at best, although, I do have to say, Apple has more fun with it (watch the Mac v. PC ads).
Best thing to do when you find your self espousing one OS vehemently, is to take a step back, get over yourself, and do what you like with what you like. Let the “professionals” stab at each other in the media and enjoy the show.
So who is getting an iPhone when they come out then?
The Cube, Newton, 20th Century Mac didn’t sell in the amounts forecasted so they’re considered failures. They’re great products but if you spend $xx on creating them and you don’t break even, it’s a failure. Apple, inc. is a business and they have to make $ or there are no additional products. I admire all of these products but they still have to be profitable
Ah, Zune Tang. It’s good to hear your voice – er – read your post. Yes, as a serious music afficianado, I do all my shopping at Circuit City. That’s where all the serious equipment is sold. And I mean serious stuff from companies like Aiwa. I love Aiwa. Are they still in business? I hope so. In any case, Circus City is where I bought my inferior iPod when I should have been pouring my hard-earned cash into Steve and Bill’s shared bank account. But, y’know, I’s got me a mental defect that keeps me from seeking out quality products from the obvious leaders of technoligical innovation in all the world, bar none, since the Romans built the aqueducts tens of millions of years ago when T-Rex was Lord of ALL CREATION and we worshipped ants.
Sorry. Ranting. Zune Tang’s got it. ‘Nuff said.
Flannigan, why do you come here?
This is a site by Mac fans for Mac fans. Do you really think your destorted views on reality will change our minds.
If you were a Mac user you would understand why we are so loyal to Apple.
Oh and by the way. Steve Jobs has the vision and desire to make great products. The bottom line is secondary to him so in that alone he can do NO wrong.
Busting the skulls…,
Uh, the documents CBS aired regarding Bush’s “service” have not been
proven to be false.
If you are wanting objectivity, read the Yellow Pages. The very name of this
site (MDN) informs possible readers of its slant. If you want to read blather
about Windows, go read George Zero-u’s delusional ramblings.
Just think, Zune Tang, in five years Apple will finally license Win$in their vertical and/or horizontal iTunes album art scrolling so your crippled Zune can break down while you finally get to finger scroll.
iTunes built right into the multitouch widescreen iPod?…wow…I bet M$ thought of that first, but passed on it because users like you, Zune Tangy, couldn’t handle the thought process. Vaporware?…I don’t think so. We have seen this thing in action and only your M$ can buy out FCC approval.
Zune, you would be on this site if you didn’t have Mac envy…you are really drooling over features you never imagined and located all in one device.
Eran writes a lot of smart, well thought out articles. His site is a good read.
“Real music enthusiasts and technically astute gadget aficionados don’t shop there. They go to Office Max or Circuit City, and that’s where Zunes are flying off the shelves.” – Zune Tang
It’s true. I was in Circuit City the other day and watched as one of the managers walked up and shoved a whole display full of Zunes off the shelves and onto the floor to make room for the upcoming iPhone. Some of them flew pretty far.
Flannigan,
You’re kidding, right? MDN objectivity I mean. I don’t come here for the objectivity.
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“They go to Office Max or Circuit City, and that’s where Zunes are flying off the shelves.”
Funny. When I searched for MP3 players at Circuit City in the 100.00 – 299.00 range and listed by most popular, the Zune came in behind all the iPod Nano models and the 30 gig iPod. It also came in behind numerous Sony, Sandisk, and Creative units. So I guess we have to define “flying off the shelves”. Perhaps you meant flying back into the boxes returning to Microsoft?
Should I check the ratings at Office Max?
I saw some Zunes flying off the shelves too Mr. Zune Tang. Hell, after a few more tokes were yours dancing too? Cool man, way cool.
Your potential, our uh…ummm…errr…whatever man.
ROFLMAO
great article. Fun reading.
Windows and Microsoft are such an easy pick nowadays. They are getting beaten from each and everyone. You can’t hear/read anything about Microsoft without comment like “What are they thinking in Redmond? If they are still thinking, that is”.
So funny. Truly they are the IBM of this century. Spiralling down and no safety net in sight.
There once was a young man named Flannigan,
Who was trying to become a man again,
By stroking real quick,
He enlarged his dick,
Til it looked just like a small pen.
I grew up on a farm. We had a jackass named Flannigan.
He used to eat his own poo.
The cube? Jesus, got anything recent?
Oh, I know how about:
Origami (supposed to change everything)
Zune. (Nice try, but if your launch week is a 50+ year old nerd pretending to be hip, that is just sad)
WMA and PlaysForSure both failed.
BOB
From Roughly Drafted’s own website…
Phones & PDAs.
Microsoft’s decade of investments in WinCE and Windows Mobile Smartphones have only barely matched the market share of Palm, which itself is a run down company out of ideas. Microsoft couldn’t out-maneuver the incompetent Palm within a decade of trying; now both are ineffectually fighting over the dying PDA industry while Linux and Symbian slaughter them in the smartphone arena:
Symbian 75%; Linux 14%; Microsoft 5%; Palm 5%.
I would say the above is a bit more oa collasul failure than the Cube…
There really ARE some obvious trolls here. I can’t wait to get my iPhone here in England. I have been looking for a compact device to type articles on the train, bus and at shows where I photograph. This will be perfect. There is nothing like it. I know cos I’ve been searching. So glad it doesn’t have a weighty hard drive as well. That’s another thing the Trolls don’t want to understand.
OK, Flannigan, let me try to decode your secret message, which made no sense in its original form. Here is my slight modification:
“”Please, MDN, stop posting this Dvorak fanboy junk. It just makes this site look even more like a koolaid-drinking MS zealot-fest, destroying the last pretension of objectivity. It has been proven time and time again that Dvorak will stop at nothing, not specious arguments or even twisting facts or outright lies, to try and make Apple look BAD and Microsoft look good. One wonders just what Apple did to Dvorak in his childhood to cause this behaviour.”” Flannigans message decoded for its true meaning. LOL
OK. lets vote. Who thinks my version is better and who thinks Flannigans is more correct???? LOL
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Dan is my goto Mac Man… even have his widget on my dashboard… geez, that sounds kinda … well you know.
As far as me getting an iPhone.. not in the Market, not enough ambition to get or need one. Now if was merely an ipod with that interface I’d probably get one.
Notice how Dan’s detractors have yet to put up any evidence that he misrepresents facts.. hmm. So easy to criticize when you can’t DO.
@Flannagan
Who wrote:
“To everyone accusing me of being a “troll”… Maybe you should try actually using facts and logic instead of name-calling.”
You were asked above to give evidence of the lies you said existed in Daniel Eran’s writing. Now how about you prove YOUR case against him so you use logic and facts??
I know you won’t. Because you are the worst kind of mindless shit-thrower.
(Sorry about the language)
“Now how about you prove YOUR case against him so you use logic and facts??”
I can’t give you what doesn’t exist.
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And Id like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air
In west philadelfia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said were up in no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air
(only the first three episodes of season one)
I begged and pleaded with her the other day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kissin and she gave me my ticket
I put my walkman on and said I might aswell kick it
First class, yo this is bad,
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of bel-air livin like,
Hmm this might be alright!
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air