Tom Kaneshige reports for InfoWorld, “The iPhone, the tech symbol of the ‘in’ crowd, is on the verge of crossing the line into AIG-like excess and arrogance. ‘I’m not sure, under the current economic conditions, that it’s a great statement to make,’ says Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. ‘You may not want to flash it.'”
MacDailyNews Take: The real question is where do you hide the BMW amidst the myriad soup lines of “The Great Depression II?”
“Yet the iPhone’s cultural impact is much more than just another wedge separating the haves and have-nots; the iPhone changes how people interact with each other and their surroundings. Traditional cell phones and iPods already audibly isolated people in their own little worlds, and iPhone’s visual carnival pushes that isolation further,” Kaneshige reports.
Kaneshige reports, “The visual nature of the iPhone can be a big distraction. Will consumers, walking around with their heads down as they play a game or look at a map on the iPhone’s mini-screen, collide with each other like pinballs?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “scopie” for the heads up.]
Kaneshige’s deadline must have caught him by surprise.
What a bunch of morons.
Not dipstick Enderle again! Enough of it.
And the iMac is dangerous in earthquakes!
Rob Enderle the “independant” analyst who just happens to be consulting DULL. OOOh when Rob speaks, people listen…not
I find myself talking to strangers at the next table at dinner — discussing iPhone applications.
This makes absolutely no sense at all.
Good grief, Charlie Brown. This nitwit is equating a $200 phone to those AIG execs who went on the $400,000 spa retreat after the government bailout? Oh, but Rob Enderle agrees, so it must be right. Rob doesn’t have any ulterior motive for bashing Apple, now does he?
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P.S. GO PHILLIES!
It’s just not fair! boo hoo!
“Hey Enderle, there you have your $15,000 Dlls for today’s article… from your friends at Redmond…..”
$200 minimum for an iPhone vs $200,000 minimum salary – yeah I can see the parallels in excess… not.
You don’t need to ‘flash’ the iPhone, you just use it and the reaction is in the others around you: a good reaction, not a “what a w@^ker” reaction.
Sorry … stopped reading when the asshat fscukup Enderle was mentioned. I only need that fukkkkup to come and clean my toilet on a weekly basis
What world is someone from who considers success a failure?
Someone who’s left behind?
End – of – times Enderly. MDN, you really know how to wind your readers up. What a manky maroon wankabout he is.
SB- Enderle, but who cares?
walking around playing video games and bumping into stuff.
thank god they published this article!! people need to know about the dangers of… not looking where you’re going…
brilliant
WTF! now the iphone is too blame for consumer excess? sorry if your 3yr ARM just readjusted and you have to leave the home you could NEVER afford. or that fact you maxed out your credit cards at 24.99%APR. boo-hoo.
WTF? AIG-like excess? Beyond stupid.
Maybe if we all flash Rob E. at once he’ll run out of town. Or, as Speedy Gonzalez says: “¡Enderle! ¡Enderle! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!
@Winston: I WANT to believe!!!
@applecart: Intel must have taken out a mortgage they can’t afford — they’re complaining about ARM, too.
Once again, if you can’t beat an Apple product by actually making a better product, the paid-off surrogates for iPhone’s competition will come up with some ridiculous stuff.
Remember when it was obvious that Mac OS X had much better security than Windows XP, it was “Mac OS X is not secure because Apple has not hired a ‘security czar’ to promote security.” Or Mac OS X will have just as many viruses as Windows (or at least one), if its market share number rise above 2 or 3 percent.
Or when the iTunes Store “locked you in” while most people who buy and use iPods play music ripped from their CDs or obtained “elsewhere.”
When the competition has to resort to such measure (that have nothing to do with the products themselves), you know they are really desperate.
There were similar comments in the 80s when consumers started buying personal computers. What luddites!!
Well, I guess diamond wedding rings are going to take a real hit now that this article has hit the street. LOL
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Just a thought.
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It is sometimes really really hard to credit the crassness of these people.
Aspiration anyone?
I’m throwing all my shoes away.
They look sooo elitist…..
impeccably inane