“After the relentless buildup of the past six months, the temptation to trash Apple Inc.’s new iPhone is pretty much irresistible,” Hiawatha Bray reports for The Boston Globe. “If only I could.”
MacDailyNews Take: Why does hype – most of it generated not by Apple, but by media outlets and reporters – make Bray want to trash the iPhone as opposed to say, vindicate it or something? It’s interesting to note Bray’s desire and proclivity to go negative, which unfortunately seems to permeate the mainstream media today.
Bray continues, “The iPhone is exactly as cool as you’ve heard, and then some. For it’s not just cool; this phone is important, in the same way that Apple’s first Macintosh computer was important. The Mac showed us a better way to interact with computers, and forced the entire industry to follow its lead. Here we go again.”
“Other phones look like high-school science fair gadgets compared with the iPhone, an elegant marvel that even a hype-weary journalist has to love,” Bray reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacDoc” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: In the end, despite the temptation against doing so, Bray not only vindicates iPhone, but effusively praises it – and rightly so: Apple iPhone is that good. It is a rare game-changer. iPhone is a truly amazing device.