“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.
Full article here.
[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.
Ta Tony, Thanks , Great Cheers
Thanks, Nice Cool, Ta your cool, Awesome mate, Rocker,
Iphone Iphoon
Your a Top Bloke Ton, So Mr spell,
Toby Belch
You Suck! No on like you here, You use to be a PC user Go back to the dark
I’m not entirely sure what is supposed to be wrong with my English… but I don’t wish to enter into any kind of dispute.
The whole point I was trying to make is that Apple care so little for their potential customers that they appear to feel they can sell on the strength of hype alone. I want to TOUCH before I buy. Maybe it’s just in the UK, but Apple certainly do not make it easy.
@Admad
Interesting point , That is a Shame if its like that in that in UK, I have aheard a little about that ,
I will check whats up,
Apple Does not Try to sell on hype However,
Awsome Anthony,
you wrote:
“No on like you here, You use to be a PC user Go back to the dark.”
What you meant was:
No one LIKES you here. You USED to be a PC user. Go back INTO the dark.
If someone corrects your miserable English, it doesn’t mean they’re a PC user, does it? What sort of logic is that?
How old are you?
Big Al: Hiawatha Bray has, on many occasions, been extremely negative about very good Apple hardware and software. He is also a firm believer in security through obscurity.
Those who have followed Apple news for a long time should remember his trolling articles in mid-90’s on “beleguered Apple.” Hiawatha Bray is like Dvorak, only less successful at being a dumb troll.
just a feeling you where Tony, No problem with you correcting my spelling. Do it Politely
@Admad
As was stated before, in Apple Retail Stores all of the products are there for you to play with. How can you blame Apple if another retailer does not offer that same feature? Apple wants you to handle their products and try them out. But they only have so much control over the resellers that are not Apple owned.
I’m sorry you were not able to try one out. I think you would have been sold on it.
AppleGuy
What happened MDN?
Gee whiz MDN, this is sure not the attitude you showed last night when talking about the iBRICK.
Finally get your activation to ‘take’?
That’s also the effect of hype. It magnifies the buyers remorse that almost everyone feels after a significant purchase. Something about the human condition. There is no way even the most stalwart Apple iPhone supporter can push away all the doubts being seeded for the last 6 months. So when the device failed to <italics>immediately</italics> satisfy, there is the creeping fear that you’ve made a mistake.
It has, of course, passed.
Ahmed…the Apple store i visited had about 12 fully functional iPhones to play with! …and about 15 fully functional iPods of all flavors.
@Toby Belch… Have you considered that some of those who comment here may not be native English speakers? Your condescension is far more appalling than their grammatical errors ever could be.
Getting back on topic: It’s nice to see someone who couldn’t bash the iPhone, no matter how much he wanted to. Of course, we still have to wade through drivel from the likes of Enderle. I’m sure, even after he has seen it, that he will continue to pronounce the iPhone lacking in every conceivable way.
MDN. You guys are complete tools. Someone criticizes anything Apple and you automatically dismiss them as irrelevant and wrong.
Bray’s been fair to Apple in the past. I think the “temptation” s/he described was just a straw man to be knocked down.