After careful consideration and several emails from readers who submitted this for inclusion on our otherwise fine site to which we uniformly replied, “No free publicity for drunk grandmas,” we’ve reconsidered; if only to shine a bright light on an unkept, slovenly idiot who has no business commenting on how to choose personal eyewear, much less attempting to singlehandedly talk down revolutionary products using reviews that he obviously cannot even read well enough to comprehend (try wearing them right-side up, Gary).
Without further ado, we present Gary Krakow of The Street.com in “The 3G iPhone Stinks” for your entertainment:
Direct link here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t listen to Krakow’s pissing-into-the-wind prattle — he’s obviously intent on destroying whatever wisp of credibility he thinks he had built up over at MicrosoftNBC before he checks out; one more eclair ought to just about do it, Gary — just read for yourselves the full reviews that he tries (and fails) to collectively twist into something they most certainly are not:
• The New York Times’ David Pogue reviews iPhone 3G
• The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossber reivews iPhone 3G
And, Gary, it’s “iPhone 3G,” you bloated, asinine failure.
The Wow starts now?
Message to Gary Krakow: you suck dude!
This guy as George Carlin would say is “Full of Sh-t”
“Gary Krakow: ‘The 3G iPhone Stinks.’” Translated, this really means: “I’m mad that I didn’t get an iPhone 3G early like Mossberg.”
What a desperate, grasping hack this man is. This is the lowest TheStreet has ever sunk.
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Don’t forget folks, there are some MAJOR PROBLEMS with the iPhone 3G. Like… Well, Walt had some dropped calls! And… er, there is still no cut and paste! And, um… 3G isn’t evereywhere!
MAJOR!!!
The only reason he thinks it stinks is because you can’t watch his crappy flash video’s on it.
If the iPhone stinks then it is because he left it in his back pocket next to his ass for too long.
Or he just needs to brush his teeth before talking on it….
He’s a prime example of the biased news and why America is tuning them out. He comes off as someone who has an agenda and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he was bought off by one of Apple’s rivals.
If you really listen to what he said… what he ACTUALLY said, it’s almost complete praise for the new iPhone. He even said that if you don’t already have an iPhone, it’s “One for the Books.”
But to those of us that do, it’s got MAJOR PROBLEMS!!!
And boy, is that girl dumb with a capital Duh.
So what credibility will this cretin have left when the iPhone 3G is a huge success.
Just like the 6 million sold in less than a year. Apple could have sold more if they didn’t run out. The 3G iPhone will be a huge success. Will Krakow apologize and say he was inebriated when he was being filmed?
“No free publicity for drunk grandmas.”
Oh, I laughed so hard I think I shat myself!
Gary Peter breath Krakow is living proof that self abuse shrivels your brain, he could use a shave and a hair cut while he’s at it. On second thought cut your head off fat ass and you won’t have to worry about the shave and hair hair cut, you will only loose a couple of pounds because an empty head only weighs that much.
This bloated unshaven windbag is unimportant.
The iPhone is a new generation of computer devices. Period.
It will dominate its market overnight.
Nothing will be able to compete against it.
Sure, these guys shouldn’t be given the time of day. Think “Streisand Effect”. But I would counter that this kind of intense stupidity must be held up before the world and ridiculed mercilessly.
I saw this earlier over at the street, it amazed me that he couldn’t distinguish between At&t;’s network issues, 3G flaws and Apple’s inability to control either. This guy sucks as far as technology reviews go. So we do have to forgive his lack of knowledge, but, that being the case, don’t report about it either.
All in all, Apple will sell 60 million total units by the end of 2009, at roughly $400 profit per phone that will be $24 billion. WOW!!! Now factor in 30% Mac growth a quarter, iTunes sales growth, Apple TV+iTunes, the App Store…… damn, I smell a $20 billion dollar Christmas quarter 2009.
This must be some ploy to get people to visit their site, since every other review is extremely positive. I guess they felt they had to over emphasize the negatives to stand out. Regardless it does nothing more than make them look bad to anyone paying attention.
Gary is a schmuck! He is either really bad at his job, or he is really good at it–meaning he wants people to write about HIM because they are pissed…such as we are doing. However, I think is just sucks at his job.
He is just like a conspiracy theorist. Remember the old rule about conspiracy theories (which Gary follows), not only do you want to find every waking piece of evidence to support your theory, make sure you also ignore everything that goes against it.
Bottom line is Gary “Schmuck” Crack-head, that if you ask the MILLIONS of people that own iPhones, if they had to choose between punching you in the face, and keeping their iPhones, or trading their iPhone in for a new supermodel wife/husband, they would choose the first.
Obviously he has no problem pimping out MS smart phones about “business and enteprise” and ignoring the fact that you can get games for those two, but then points to the fact that you can put games on the iPhone and “that’s not good for business”.
Stupid Stupid Gary, this phone isn’t aimed at “just” Business Customers or “just” entertainment consumers. Apple doesn’t offer 10 versions of their phones (just like they don’t do on their OS). There are 20 different Windows Mobile phones that do various things that the others don’t, and you have to mix and match to find the right phone, and unless you drop $400, you won’t get all the features. Apple just makes one phone that has everything!
What a schmuck
what an asshat.
Cut-n-paste will likely be in a future software update. That should not take new iPhone hardware. Wait for it.
Battery life – it’s funny to hear the same people who panned the original iPhone for not having 3G for using Steve Jobs’ battery life argument against the 3G iPhone. These people do not have a clue, or they are purposely being misleading. My understanding is that the battery life using Edge has *improved* over the original. It’s the 3G that pushes it lower – but you get 2X or 3X the throughput, so maybe it actually comes out better? At least it is faster. Sometimes you get what you want, but then don’t want it. Grow up.
This guy is a waste of natural resources (and my time). Conservation demands that he hold his breath indefinitely.
Someone should check to see if he is attempting to buy AAPL stock or options. I could do his job 100X better (and still suck at it).
Okay, I watched it again. These people are fscking retards. A previous poster is correct: none of the imagined “major problems” are actually problems. And the cost of plans? What the FSCK does that have to do with Apple? THOSE ARE THE CARRIERS’ RATES YOU FSCKING DIPSHITS!
This is the worst piece of hack journalism I’ve seen this week. Expect more as the iPhone crushes sales records and the competition in the smartphone space. I look forward to another one od Enderle’s idiotic “damned with faint praise” pieces.
the guy’s just trolling for hits – one more web whore.
and in case someone is trying to correct me, That would be 1st quarter 2010.
Thought you had me eh???
HELLO!
THE IPHONE DOESN’T STINK!
RUSH LIMBAUGH IS GETTING ONE!!
(sarcasm)
RUSH: All right! All right! After the stupid story in TIME Magazine, I told the staff, “I’m going to go out and I’m going to get gift certificates for 25 iPhones,” these new iPhones that come out Friday, because you have to go into the store and sign up. You can’t buy ’em online anymore. You can buy two to a customer, but you have to be there. It’s a whole new process.
CALLER: So, you know… (interruption)
RUSH: No, that’s not why I’m taking Friday off. No, I’ve got snarky comments from the staff now, from the broadcast engineer, asking is that why I’m taking off. No! I’ve got major dental surgery on Friday, if you must know. I am not going to go stand in line to get an iPhone. I have a special dispensation from that. Somebody else is going to go get mine. It’s been taken care of. I’ll have it when I got home from the dentist, but I probably won’t feel like using it. Anyway, sorry about that, Charles.
He’s wrong on his criticism of battery life. You can get external battery packs that plug into the iPhone.