“After a hard rumor rain, it’s time to break out the myth mower and buzz down the noise to a lower threshold,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Here’s five myths of the iPhone that need a fierce clipping:
1. Verizon EVDO iPhone Just Around the Corner: Sorry, this isn’t going to happen. For starters, we know AT&T has an exclusive contract in the US through 2011. Even if it didn’t, or if Apple found some way to terminate the contract, offering an EVDO phone still wouldn’t make much sense.
2. The App Store is Doomed Over 6 Canceled Apps: Apple has turned down a half dozen programs from the App Store, and a gaggle of pundits have decided this means dire consequences for Apple.
3. The App Store Proves That Anyone Can Sell Mobile Software: Alas, such reasoning didn’t work for those trying to clone iTunes or offer an alternative.
4. iPhone Games Can’t Compete: iPhone compares well against the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS.
5. Steve Jobs Doesn’t Like Video Games: Jobs has also voiced a complete lack of interest in TV, contrasting passive TV watching with active computer use. Despite that, Apple now sells the vast majority of all TV downloads.
There’s much more in the full article here.
Daniel Eran Dilger is a liberal.
Other than that he really knows his stuff. Other than his political views, I can’t see anything wrong with his reasoning.
No one is perfect.
Eran is an Idiot,
A drive by comment from a non-registered poster.
Slashdot calls such posts “anonymous cowards” for a good reason.
I don’t like Eran’s political views but to call him and idiot without a shred of proof to back up your claim itself is idiotic.
I can come up with a half dozen examples where Eran has gotten things right when the majority of the Tech media has got them fabulously wrong, can you come up with some examples otherwise Mr. Anonymous Coward poster?
I doubt it.
Olternaut “I agree that daniel should keep his political comments to himself and stick to tech.”
Actually I have no problem with him posting his political views I just wish he’d keep those posts separate from his technology posts. It’s only when they are dumped into his technology posts that they bother me.
Those readers who don’t want to read Daniel’s political writings can simply choose to NOT click on links to his articles. I mean, it’s not like Daniel traps readers into reading his political writings by giving them misleading titles.
The so-called conservatives in this country do everything they can to diminish and demonize. Take the Iraq War for example–remember how it was unpatriotic for people to voice their opposition to the war BEFORE it began and how they were called traitors. Then, after Bush went to war, those who opposed the war were (again) traitors. So, when exactly is it appropriate to oppose a war–never??
Face the truth–those people who can’t handle dissent are cowards.
“Those readers who don’t want to read Daniel’s political writings can simply choose to NOT click on links to his articles. I mean, it’s not like Daniel traps readers into reading his political writings by giving them misleading titles. “
He has laced them into his technology posts in the past. I couldn’t find it via a google search but he made a reference to the Supreme Court and the 2000 election in one of his technology posts a few years ago. I think he’s gotten better at separating his political posts from his technology posts since then, but it hasn’t always been the case.
Again, it’s his blog, he can post what he wants, it’s just that some people don’t like reading his political rants that would otherwise enjoy the technology portion of his blog. If he wants to drive those people off, that’s his choice, its his blog.
btw, are you saying that conservatives are all cowards, Arnold?
I guess Apple can avoid making an iPhone for Verizon, but I am not going to choose a cell company based upon the phone. Other manufacturers can make a phone for both types of networks.
Having a name like twilightmoon and a circle beside it doesn’t make you any less anonymous.
If you’re really sure you want to stop being the anonymous coward you accuse others of being, start posting with your real name and email address. Up until then you’re no better.
“iPhone compares well against the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS”
In which way? Game sales? Game quality? Game selection?
@twilightmoon
Surely it can’t be that hard to come up with an argument better than one that would expose me to Spambots? Back when MDN had the option for people to include their email I did so, so I have already posted my email on here.
As for my real name what difference does that make? Twilightmoon is the name I post under on the internet, pretty much anywhere I post.
The iPhone can’t compete with the DS or PSP. I love my iPod touch and some of the games are nice, but just like any other phone or media player with games as a sideline, it’s not ever going to match a dedicated games system. At the moment it’s got nice graphics that put games a cut above what you’d get on other phones, but the simple fact is you need hardware controls of some sort to get anything above a very shallow experience (point and click adventures aside). Steering by tilting is a nice idea, but awkward as it means your view is also constantly and unnaturally shifting (and means you can’t do anything else at the same time), onscreen buttons lose their sensitivity as the screen gets greasier from fingerprints (and you’ve either got your hands in the way of the screen, which isn’t exactly ideal, or have to have a dedicated buttons area that cuts down screen real estate), and even though the iPhone/iPod touch screens are fabulous they’re never going to be as accurate as a button press. Even the DS, the king of touchscreen gaming, has a full complement of hardware controls too. And it’s rare where you’ll find a game that’s all touchscreen – and even then, you’re looking at pinpoint stylus control and a whole separate screen for input.
Sorry, but I just don’t see it happening without some sort of dedicated hardware add-on. Apple should concentrate on keeping the platform as the best smartphone/internet tablet their is – touting it as being the best gaming platform is inviting comparisons the iPhone simply can’t win.
MDN Rethugs are fucking hypocrites if they take offense to RDM political posts.
Wasn’t it just the other week that some reality challenged loser was defending that fuck-tard Sarah Palin on here? Was that not mixing politics with tech?
I come to this site to read Mac news, not Fascist Republican drivel that I could get on the Ministry of Truth Channel (aka Fox News). I also find RDM political rants irritating, but I completely defend his right to post whatever he wants on his own blog… as well as my right to NOT FUCKING READ IT!
Pretty simple… sorry if the language offends sensitive Republican ears. Ya’ll seem so god damn sensitive these days… I wonder why?
Daniel knows what he´s talking about when it comes to technology-stuff, and so he does politically. It´s very typical of neo-cons like ricdano and mates to want to boycott.
Where were your screams about boycott after the Bush-administrations lies upon lies about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ?
Yeah and by the way, the last 8 years have been very good for the USofA huh ?
I´m sorry to see such a country beeing damaged by greedy, creationst, rightwing, christian, gayhating conseravtives.
Soon well have three supernations , China, India and Russia. The USoA has been fucked up by Bush and all his crooks…
oops, forgot to mention ; I WANT the US to be one of the supernations in the world, I DON´T want just the three mentioned…
You’re all hilarious. You can’t accept that someone else has a valid opinion that disagrees with yours, so you all start speculating some sort of other motivation.
1) I am a Mac user, and have owned one since the first Mac was made
2) I am more liberal than the vast majority of Americans, and have no beef with Daniel’s political views
What now, kids? What sort of secret agenda must I be pursuing now? Or is it possible that I merely happen to think that DED is a moron whose foolish babblings should be kept off MDN, and preferably contained to his own blog where anyone who is still beguiled by his faux-reasoning can seek it out? It’s fine that you disagree, but I was just expressing a view; there’s no need to start supposing personal facts about me to try and somehow explain my disagreement, unless you really like making the readership of this website look bad.
“As for my real name what difference does that make?”
Well when you post as twilightmoon, you’re an anonymous coward, and when you use your real name, you’re not…
This might qualify as “Bud Nipping” if Eran had any credibility outside the fanboy community who already believe everything Apple says.
He is seldom right about anything and therefore doesn’t have any credibility, consequently no buds have been nipped.