Apple’s list of things that really suck, according to TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz:
5. You: Do you hold your TV remote upside down? Do you grip a golf club by its head? Do you hold a knife by its blade? There is a correct way to hold the iPhone. Would it kill you to do it right? If you can’t do it right, at least put a bumper on it?
4. The Press: “This has been blown so out of proportion that it is, it’s incredible,” Steve Jobs said Friday at the Apple iPhone 4 press conference.
3. Blogs: The Gizmodos of the world should be made illegal and should shut down immediately… That move, however, would not include John Gruber’s Daring Fireball or our friends at MacDailyNews, who have shown that they get us and what we are all about.
2. Other phone makers: You want to see a crappy phone? Have you seen Research In Motion’s BlackBerry? How about the HTC Droid Eris or the Samsung Omnia II?
1. Consumer Reports: Who made these nerds boss?
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s good to see that Scott actually does have a sense of humor and can use it in his writing, however rare that may be.
Suddenly donkey boy realizes that idiots like himself may actually be going as far as killing the gooses that lays The golden eggs.
A technology without Apple leading it would be as good as the stone age….
Please inform us Europeans, that don’t anything about this joker. Who is that guy writing for TheStreet.com?
anybody know where I can get a Zune! Good Grief!
Your life without Apple:
1-Your OS would still be MS DOS
2- Your MP3 player would be … Oh yeah you wouldn’t Have one.
3- Your CRT screen would be 8X8 with a magnifier( Brazil anyone?)
4. Your smartphone would have a 2 in by 2 in screen attached to a micro keyboard and would light in the dark( hence the “smart” term)
5. The phrase ” one more thing” would elicit groans!
Need I go on?
LMAO. Holly xD… that is so funny…
Especially…
2. Other phone makers: You want to see a crappy phone? Have you seen Research In Motion’s BlackBerry? How about the HTC Droid Eris or the Samsung Omnia II?
LMAO
So now that it is coooool to dumb on Apple, every doorknob get to spill some mental vomit onto the net… aahh the street gutter.
The thing that really boggles my mind about antennagate is that when you tell people, this is not unusual and that other phones demonstrate similar issues, they ignore that fact and just harp on and on about Apple.
When you show them a host of videos of phone demonstrating the exact same issue, they ignore that fact.
I still say it’s like flying on a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, experiencing turbulence, and acting like it’s the only plane in the world that hits turbulence.
Whine whine whine! How dare Boeing release this plane without telling us that we would get shaken if it ran into turbulence! The plane doesn’t work! It’s should be recalled!
The haters on this issue are wrong.
I’ve had the phone for 2 weeks now and it’s behaved flawlessly for me in every day use.
Two types of people actually see this as a problem:
1. People who don’t actually have one and are just Apple haters seizing the opportunity to make waves. (You could show these people buildings collapsing when death gripping an Android phone and they would ignore it.)
2. Have an iPhone 4 and are sitting in a corner, in the dark, drooling, mumbling, and death gripping their phones over and over saying, “SEE! SEE! SEE!” These are people who would not have even known there was an issue without Gizmodo turning it into one. These are the people you want kept away from small children and animals.
My phone is not dropping calls. I can sit there and squeeze it until it drops bars, or I can use it to get work done, make calls etc.
I’m sick of idiots like Leo Laporte who are in a bad AT&T area bitching about the iPhone when I know the area he’s in has bad AT&T service.
The one problem here is that Jobs would not cast blame on AT&T and son-of-a-btich that’s where dropped call blame belongs.
Yesterday I watched Leo Laporte go on and on about the antennagate issue and how wonderful is Android phone is. First off, he’s in fricking Petaluma. Horrible AT&T area. Second, he’s now on a CDMA network instead of GSM. CDMA is much less likely to drop calls than GSM. GSM phones need a high quality signal.
Nonetheless, La Porte goes on and on about his iPhone dropped call issues and it’s misleading. The guy is normally an Apple fan boy to a fault, but in this case, he’s really being very misleading and I don’t understand why. Maybe it’s bathing in all that Old Spice.
Bottom line is people need to hear one fact. Your experience with the iPhone 4 will be better than with the 3GS when you get the brainwashing out of your head and just use your phone.
@ perfect stranger;
#2 is wrong- your mp3 player would be MS-DOS also.
Mp3 players were around before iPod. They just sucked.
“Who made these nerds boss?”
Nerds? If they were nerds, they would actually have gotten it right.
Now Safari 5… that sucker has issues.
The one thing that brings Scott Moritz down…
His mouth
Perfect Stranger has got it all right!!!!!!!
I’ve got about 40k in a fund that’s been moving sideways that I will use to add to my Apple holdings. The only question is how low will it drift? If it goes below $200, I’m in.
Moritz doesn’t write an opinion column so much as a pathetic plea for help.
#3 should vex and frighten you, MDN.
Don’t fall for it!
My Diamond Rio PMP500 was pretty cool.
@theloniousMac
Leo Laporte went native shortly after he popped off the headset on his own show when Arrington set him off. I imagine after some reflection on Arrington’s relative success (biting cheek), he decided that pulling a 180 would be the only way to make him relevant again.
Lesson: Michael Arrington should never be a guest on your show.
I got as far as The Street before quit the article.
@theloniousMac
The Leo Laporte I used to remember, of TechTV fame, no longer exists. I used to love watching this guy, like 10 years ago. Seriously, my tv was always set on the channel, and I would just watch for hours, and mostly because of him, he was very personable. However, when G4 bought the station, Leo changed. It wasn’t very fast, and it was hardly noticeable, unless you hadn’t heard him in awhile. And that is what happened to me. I used to his radio show via podcast all the time, I think it is called the Tech Guy. Then I stopped listening, for like 5 years. However, a local radio station started syndicating it on Sunday nights, but I didn’t know that. I turned on the station and was just listening to this guy rail on Apple for having DRM on their music, mind you this was after Steve Job’s open letter calling an end to DRM on music. It was if he was blaming Apple for DRM. It was seriously ridiculous. I was getting upset at this voice on the radio, and getting ready to call in and tell off the host, but it turned out to be Leo. Now that disturbed me a little. Leo should have known better. He lost it somewhere.
And basically, that is why I have stopped listening to him. I used to love watching him, I even managed to get his autograph and picture taken with me when him and Patrick were at the maryland state fair about 6 years ago. But, I say all that to say, I could see Leo doing that now with the AT&T thing, he has lost it… I wish he would find it again, because I rally want to like him again
@Perfect Strangers:
Dead on, brother. Must say that after I read that I heard Ha-Ha-Thump-Thump. That was me laughing my balls off.
MDN… I am a faithful reader… but from your ‘MacDailyNews Take’ comments, I believe ‘Scott ‘Moron’ Moritz has suckered you in. That is not a keen sense of humor you sensed, the points he was trying to make are his actual opinions…
or more likely, his irrational delusions. Scott has never missed a chance to pile on.