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.
If I was Apple, I wouldn’t have allowed any reviews before the App Store opened. I mean let’s face it, the iPhone 3G is a lukewarm stepping stone toward something larger and more powerful probably by winter. What is there to report on, faster data speeds, slightly improved sound and a plastic cover?
It’s all about the apps. If these guys had some to download first, they probably would’ve spent a good deal of time raving about the App Store instead of stretching what little they had to work with.
and speaking of web whores, you should (not) see Thurrott whining away over at his ‘supersite’ about the beta 2.0 iPhone software he got his hands on, and his snarking on the other reviewers who got an advance phone.
yessireree, these guys are showing us a lotta class.
2007: The really huge problems with the first iPhone. It doesn’t have 2G.
2008: The really huge problems with the 2nd gen iPhone is they gave us 3G.
When will Apple get it right?!
What a confused, confused man. He can hardly string sentences together yet he is a tech reviewer for a major concern.
Who is this asshole and what has he been reading? Does he know how to read? The reviews have been pretty damn positive, Gary, you unshaven twit! This guy sounds like a cretin that can’t even dress himself.
@I liked the band Rush better
Me too!
Rush is the greates band EVER!!!!
(yes, yes, I’m a Rush fan. I like my computers to be Apple, I like my music to be Rush…. don’t blame me for liking the best of the best, hehe!!)
when the original iphone came out one year ago, battery life on a 3g phone was between 2-3 hours. steve jobs by that time said (and i think that it was the right decision to leave that feature out of the first iphone) that this is much too little and probably in a year or so it will be around 5 hours and that’s when it’s ready for prime time. now, one year later it is 5 hour battery life with 3G and people are still complaining about it. (no one was complaining about the 3 hour battery life of the nokia n95 back then). i think apple didn’t have a chance to go without 3G this time but 3G phones are still not ready for heavy daily use. the available batteries are simply not good enough. (otherwise i think that it wouldn’t be such a big problem designwise to make that fscking battery replacable if that’s what people want so badly).
Of course the iPhone stinks … after you shove it up your ass and regurgitate it through your mouth, that is. Either that or he placed in the same bag as his terd-brown Zune; anything would stink after that. Oh, and it could be the fact it uses OS icks!
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What a laugh.
Is this guy eating his lunch while he’s doing this interview. Or is he so overly fat that he’s swallowing his tongue as he speaks. I’m glad I never watch the prison channel (MSNBC) so I’m not subjected to this blubbering NYC male reporter.
Hey Krackow go jog around CP every other day. It might help.
Having to restate, yet again, that the battery is not removable hints to me that this guy may be on the payola to dig on the iPhone.
But so what? The iPhone is a success and will trample the competition world wide. I think Gary has an over inflated sense of self if he thinks he’s going to single handedly blow out the iPhone market.
Why are they saying the phone is a success or failure just based on the USA? It has a worldwide release. I live in the UK, who cares if your getting drop outs in Washington? Surely your only gonna care if you live there. Now when you look at the scale of the launch, why would you base a reason to dislike the iPhone on the way it works in one or two cities? You need better reasons than that. I think the iPhone would be a success regardless of these reviews were seeing. Even if some respected reviewer said it was total crap and not to buy it, we still would…. Aaaaanyways just a lil reminder that there are distant lands that exist outside america. Luvs ya all!
Man is his eyeglasses upside down?! Oh wait maybe his @$$ is where hi mouth is and brain is full of $#!+
HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME!! I HATE THE IPHONE 3G JUST BECAUSE I’M DIFFERENT. NO REAL REASON (BURP) JUST BECAUSE I HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT THAN EVERYONE ELSE!!!!!
Doe! Missed a key! ..maybe his @$$ is where hiS mouth is”..
Why wait till Friday to See the lines. They are forming now!
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Who is that retarded girl who was interviewing him?
what an absolute blundering review…a high school newspaper editor would do a better job at reviewing consumer technology…his points are so bad, I must assume he is under instructions to present a negative bias…..goodness gracious, have these so-called tech editors ever used an iPhone??
Funny how I never really heard much talk about how the majority of phones are subsidized until the iPhone hit the market and the haters came out to play.
Get off the cut and paste thing. How are you going to select what to cut and paste. There needs to be a second way to select and then to command. I see the patent application re fingernail or stylus so maybe they need that before it is possible to cut and paste. And I think the 3G stinks too, and that is why I am waiting until saturday to get mine.
That was one of the worst attempts at negative spin off of positive news, ever. I’m not sure who’s playing this moron off, but they should ask for a refund.
In fact he is correct about it costing more. However, Apple reports that this result is what people wanted. Jobs stated that 56 percent of the people who were interviewed about why they did not buy an iPhone replied that it cost too much up front. The fact that the cost of ownership was less made no impression on them.
The other unfortunate fact that led to the current state of affairs is likely to be the prevalence of “unlocking.” The Verizon CEO basically admitted this result when he gloated about Apple having to fall in line with the accepted business practices in the cell phone industry. It would appear that Apple has had to settle for defining the wholesale price to the carrier and the retail price, and no longer has any say in the cell phone subscription cost or services. No where was this situation more obvious than with Rogers in Canada.
I guess that we will have to just wait and see if the situation changes as we move into the next round of negotiations between the cell phone manufacturers and the cell phone carriers.
Gary . . . my advice to you is . . . DON’T BUY ONE! It’s not good enough for you, clearly. However, just remember this, you old sod: The greatest enemy of “THE GOOD” is THE PERFECT. Why don’t you just keep waiting for RIM’s new competitor. It should be out in a year or two, and IT will probably be perfect! WAnd with any luck, Microsoft should have its “Phune” out by then, and we all KNOW THAT will be flawless!
The iPhone 3G was never intended to be a revolutionary leap over the iPhone 2G. For cryin’ out loud, the iPhone has only been out for less than a year! Apple spent several years developing the iPhone – why would it dump an obviously popular design in less than a year?
Yes, there are missing features which should be there – cut & paste and universal search being two biggies. However, Apple knows that developers will fill the void for other items: MMS, voice dialing, etc. It’s more important that Apple spend time on preparing the 2.0 SDK and making sure OS X was really, really ready for developers rather than creating a couple of nice feature additions like voice dialing or video recording.
These things will come in the next version of the software. What I find funny is that goofballs like Krakow have to search hard to find problems with the iPhone, when the iPhone is so many miles ahead of the competition that they can’t possibly catch up. Notice RIM’s product to fight the iPhone – oh, wait, they have delayed it’s release again because of problems.
I watched it without the sound. It’s like Chris Farley has returned from the future after getting his hair done by Magnum P.I. and taking up residence in a sweet cardboard shanty.