“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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Well, Apple apparently had a reason to not make a big scene at this trade show. I don’t think they were trying to make a statement or piss people off by not going/making a bigger scene but there was a marketing scheme behind it. Perhaps more suspense maybe? I don’t know, I’m not in the marketing field.
However, I do find this comment quite funny:
“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.”
I seem to remember a time, years ago, when people thought the same thing about the Ipod. I now see more people with Ipods than I see without Ipods. Now, I’m not saying I think the Iphone will be as good as a product for Apple as the Ipod was/is but it’s not going to be a bust 3 years from now either.
I really would like to see what an absolute and complete idiot looks like
Could someone please provide a link to a page with a photo of
Gundeep Hora?
It will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
I like this line…
The lack of presence at last week’s CTIA tradeshow was purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
It can even be applied to this show…
The lack of presence at any CES tradeshow is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
This is just another one of the many things I love about Apple. There’s Apple, then there’s the rest of them. Apple isn’t about rubbing shoulders with mediocrity. Furthermore, another message to this industry might be this…
The lack of innovation or consumer focus in mobile phone offerings is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
Who wants to be a part of that?
This explains alot. I just found Gundeep’s post on Chris Pirillo’s blog.
He is only 18 years old….
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I like this line…
The lack of presence at last week’s CTIA tradeshow was purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
It can even be applied to this show…
The lack of presence at any CES tradeshow is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
This is just another one of the many things I love about Apple. I think it’s cool they present their products on their terms. There’s Apple, then there’s the rest of them. Apple isn’t about rubbing shoulders with mediocrity. Furthermore, another message to this industry might be this…
The lack of innovation or consumer focus in mobile phone offerings is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
Who wants to be a part of that?
The lack of presence at last week’s CTIA tradeshow was purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
It can even be applied to this show…
The lack of presence at any CES tradeshow is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
This is just another one of the many things I love about Apple. I think it’s cool they present their products on their terms. There’s Apple, then there’s the rest of them. Apple isn’t about rubbing shoulders with mediocrity. Furthermore, another message to this industry might be this…
The lack of innovation or consumer focus in mobile phone offerings is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
Who wants to be a part of that?
Unlike most corporations, Apple lives in a glass house. They can’t file for a trademark in Tuvalu without someone noticing.
There are a lot of people who know that wireless devices have to have FCC approval, and that the process is public, so it was very probable that some fanboy was monitoring the FCC for the iPhone.
Apple wasn’t arrogant, they were put into a position where they had to walk a tightrope between announcing a product they couldn’t legally offer for sale on the one hand and having the FCC do their product announcement on the other.
Would they have preferred to have the product announcement after it was legal to sell it? I don’t know, but I do know that their hand was forced.
This incident reminds me of the scene in the movie “Perfect Storm” where the stud goes upstairs to bed the babe, while the losers downstairs get to listen to the creaking springs and the squeals of orgasm. Where would you rather be — getting laid or drinking with the guys? Jealous bastards.
The phone biz is fashion biz.
What´s hot today is out in 3-6 months.
Can Apple keep up with the fast pace of coolness and innovation in this cut throat market?
I like this line…
The lack of presence at last week’s CTIA tradeshow was purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
It can even be applied to this show…
The lack of presence at any CES tradeshow is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
This is just another one of the many things I love about Apple. I think it’s cool they present their products on their terms. There’s Apple, then there’s the rest of them. Apple isn’t about rubbing shoulders with mediocrity. Furthermore, another message to this industry might be this…
The lack of innovation or consumer focus in mobile phone offerings is purely disgusting and an insult to the entire industry.
Who wants to be a part of that? Why does Apple have to play by a crappy industry’s rules?
He obviously sounded awfully butthurt from a failed expectation. Was he brought up the only child in his family? Sorry if Apple didnt give you a silver spoon when you expected it.
someone call the Waaahhhbulance! Quick before he crys us a river!
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Who’s this guy? I work in the enterprise IT and never heard of him. Based on his whining I can already ascertain his personality. He’s another “industry analyst” who thinks the products he monitors will rise and fall on his perception. What a joke!
Dvorak doesn’t get it either (Gartner much less). I don’t care what you think, I’m getting an iPhone. My wife will probably have an iPhone, and my kids (when the prices come down with other models and Cingular offers product replacement insurance) will probably have iPhones or some iteration of an iPhone as well. Gundeep, you’re either a troll trying to get more click through revenue for your site (I’m sorry I went there in the first place) or you’re having delusions of granduer concerning your own grasp of the market. Apparently, he’s never really seen what people pay for Blackberry’s or Palm devices that really work. Having to work with these things everyday, I know what the real cost is and if the iPhone even does half of what Job’s demoed, it would be a bargain compaired to these other devices.
If it’s not such a big deal, stop making it one.
Hora: “I’m a bricklayer, not a reporter.”
Ah, the bliss of ignorance.
Gundeep? (that’s some gay thing, right?)
You’re Gundeep in your own shit. Shut the fuck up and get a brain. If you had any marketing savvy you would know that this thing will sell millions. And guess what? If you think Apple is stupid enough to forget about Exchange integration, forget it. By the time the iPhone reaches market it will have that functionality.
Is that a novelty item, ASSHOLE??
” fact that the iPhone is going to be nothing more than a temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.”
Sorry but not if has as many patents as Steve made seem that they had and he enforces them. Not one cell manufaturer will be able to copy the services that the iphone has. Besides they couldn’t think of this stuff before , so expect nothing new from them as they spend most of their time in court.
This guy contadicts himself, seems he can’t remember what he wrote before. Just another guy looking for hits.
bye bye lard a$$….. HARDHAT, HARDHAT.
“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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In my language Themotie means a person of indeterminate gender.
Apple didn’t show up at CES either. How “arrogant”!
Thanks, Gundeep Hora, for yet another bit if free publicity for iPhone. That was such a stupid rant, it will make more people want to check out what all the “novelty” is about. If it was posted yesterday, I would have thought it was meant as an April Fool’s joke.
@Apple will stop making OS X
Thanks, that was truly hilarious.
Besides they couldn’t think of this stuff before , so expect nothing new from them as they spend most of their time in court.
A good point. Certain tech elements are falling all over themselves to pretend the iPhone has no compelling features, yet if it’s feature set is so pedestrian, why has no manufacturer offered the seamless OS integration, multitouch interface, true web browsing and full MP3 functionality?
They just can’t. As long as the industries associated with data, it’s presentation and access to same try to ape Microsoft, there will be no room for innovation and certainly no revolutionary ideas.
Whorea: Not that it really matters, but “Hora” in my language means someone (usually a female) who does certain things for money.
A lawyer?
Apple received more press for 30 seconds of iPhone with AT&T’s CEO than all of the other new and coming phones combined.
Apparently this guy needs to learn a little about marketing and performing – always leave ’em wanting more!
MDN take is dead on, BUT they left out that Apple did the other phone manufacturers a favor by not showing up.
The way it sits now, they have 2-2.5 months to sell their outdated ancient crap technology. Had Apple shown up in force, they other vendors/ manufacturers would have had a SERIOUS problem moving their stuff. Apple showed a little mercy by giving them another 2 months.
(inebriated Mexican Bandito, brandishing pistol)…
“CTIA? CTIA? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ CTIA!).