“When Apple released the white iPhone 4 in April, a lot of people were scratching their heads. Others simply snickered. The product suffered a 10-month delay and a string of broken promises from Apple that it was ‘coming soon,'” Jason Hiner writes for ZDNet. “That’s not like Apple, which is usually as efficient as a blood-thirsty dictator.”
“At the time the white iPhone arrived, most in the tech industry were expecting the next iPhone to be released just a couple months later in June/July, since that’s been Apple’s pattern for the past four years,” Hiner writes. “In retrospect, the launch of the white iPhone in April along with the launch of the Verizon iPhone in January should have been clear signs that pattern wasn’t going to continue this year. The current expectation is thatthe next iPhone will arrive this fall, potentially sporting Verizon LTE 4G connectivity.”
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Hiner writes, “The change in release schedule has certainly given the white iPhone 4 a longer shelf life. But, the significance of this product has nothing to do with the fact that it will likely be on the market for just 5-6 months. It’s about the power of ‘No.’ …Apple said ‘No’ to the product repeatedly, swallowed its pride, and endured ridicule over the delay. Apple waited until it got it right…”
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Also, ahem, Apple have just been granted the mother of touchscreen patents.
Yes? Do tell..
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387401,00.asp
“Apple iPhone Patent a Huge Blow to Rival Smartphone Makers
Apple’s newly awarded patent gives it ownership of the capacitive multitouch interface, spelling big trouble for rival smartphone makers, say patent experts.”
Etc.
I guess that patent was a BIG part of why Apple waited so long to go after all the copy cats. It’s about time! It’s hard to sit back and watch all these Android phones rip off Apple’s iOS software and nothing happens….Let’s hope Google pays for all their non-inventive, rip-off ways of growing their business
Apple is winning ? what a Joke…
Microsoft beat apple at desktop computer…
and soon, Microsoft beat Apple at mobile os with WP7 Mango also on tablet PC with Windows 8…
Ha Ha Ha! You sarcastic bastard 😉
Thanks.
I needed a laugh this morning.
Scroll back a few days to see the article posted about the windows devs horrified at the windows 8 preview.
Windblows phones are a joke. Mango is as well.
Gonna take over? They actually have to sell to be in the running…
MS didn’t beat Apple in mobile with WP7; it was clearly the Kin that took-out Apple.
BING! Give that man a cigar!
i dont think so, coz Android will rule them all 😀
When it comes to tablets Microsoft has proved itself to be the biggest failure after nine years of repeatedly trying to push the tablet platform and they got soundly smacked by Apple’s iPad in nine months. Why? Because they’re so stubborn trying to foist some bloated and antiquated desktop OS on a slim handheld device. A bunch of damn fools at Microsoft.
I would guess you’re American, and possibly not from a major conurbation. I would suggest that one day soon you leave your mom’s basement and go somewhere like New York or London and spend some time travelling on the Metro or Underground, taking a real close look at the devises that people are using. I can promise you this; on the London Underground at least, you will have to spend a very long time travelling before you spot any recent WinMob phone. You might see one or two Android phones for every seven or eight iPhones or Touches.
Yes, we Americans are quiet familiar with computing devices, even in very rural areas there are good selections of iPhone/iPod and other latest gizmo accessories at kiosks in 24/7 truck stops… typically well before new devices are even on sale in the rest of the world. Obviously you’re not aware of all the gadgetry available to the RV industry here either. Our reddest neck hicks might only have 3 teeth (perhaps a tie with the English) but they’ve also got a laser powered BBQs mounted on their trucks. Might be worth pointing out that almost all computer tech is designed in the US, traveling the London’s Underground is about as relevant to Silicon Valley as walking the Serengeti. In fact iCloud will be hosted from the Confederate South.
Americans can make fun of our country cousins for being a little backward, but from foreigners its laughable and they should have a little more sense to remember their place in all this… after deepest Alabama.
Bill Hicks reincarnate!
Thank you for your post good sir.
America.
Land of the Free
BECAUSE of the brave!
‘Might be worth pointing out that almost all computer tech is designed in the US’
Designed in the US by a Brit, or designed in the UK?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
http://www.arm.com/
OK, let’s all play the half-assed wiki game…
Now by Jon Ive, you mean 20 year US resident, working for a 35 year old US company, designing their hardware cases? Might even surprise you to know that people have been ditching their home countries and coming to America for centuries to develop their innovations.
Now by ARM, do you mean the joint venture started by Silicon Valley USA’s Apple and VLSI, that’s now using Acorn’s tech?
Like the Battle of New Orleans all over again.
At first I thought you were joking, but on reflection I think you are right there! Microsoft beats Apple to the bottom.
Bing this..
Apple is worth $100 billion more than Microsoft. If your parents owned a share of MSFT 1 year ago, today it’s worth $2 more, if they owned a share of AAPL it’s worth almost $90 more.
This is probably because they make better software–that people want to use rather than have to use. And Mac sales are growing fast while PC sales are flat or shrinking. This is probably because a lot of people are buying iPads instead of a new PC.
However MSFT still leads Android in Malware, enjoy that while it lasts
what ? winning? are you sure ? it’s not 1984, this is 2011… the Microsoft Era…
Steve Ballmer! For as long as it takes!
Long rule Ballmer …..
no no no, you wrong… this’s Google Era
The sad thing is that the market beating Ballmer is taking is like watching a small child get beat up and you wince at the low low level of competence there versus the Steve Jobs cosmic market force and it actually gets painful to watch. Painful to see Ballmers foolish, whimpering and inadequate take on things. These guys don’t know what hit ’em once things started getting more on a level playing field. And Job bided his time and played the game until he could sneak up on them unawares with his wares. Now it’s Apple’s game to call and the body count and bloodbaths are mounting up one by one…
Competition however is good (with the complete hardware/software infrastructure as Apple has built) but only competent competition. Don’t see much of that around though. Only Microsoft has the resources to do that, and, well, Ballmer’s in charge. Need I say more?
In retrospect, the launch of the white iPhone in April along with the launch of the Verizon iPhone in January should have been clear signs that pattern wasn’t going to continue this year.
Which is what a lot of us were saying at the time.
Exactly. I imagine Apple realized long ago they could use something to extend the iPhone 4’s lifespan and delayed the white version a little (or a lot) longer than needed for production/quality reasons.
Gotta love bloggers who write with 20/20 hindsight, but still get it wrong.
The delay of a good product is better than the release of a bad one; something Apple’s competitors can’t seem to figure out.
underpowered junk toys iPhone4 ? haha, even iPhone cannot file transfer via bluetooth to another phone… and iPhone is still single core phone that always lagged performance XD
I just tried a new Galaxy and BOTH of the apps were AWESOME!
I was in staples and saw the new playbook
Decided to give it a try… It was broken and wouldn’t fire up. 2 days after launch 😉
playbook is a junks.. the real tablet is Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the real smartphone is Galaxy S 2…
Yes, I’ve tried the Galaxy Tab and the Xoom tablet at several different retailers. Neither worked properly at any location. But yet somehow iPads work all the time no matter where you find them.
Thanks for trying to rile up the regular crowd. Sometimes it gets a little serious in here.
iPads is copycats of galaxy tab, you know…
hmm, not sure, look at Korea and Asia Markets, Galaxy Tabs is just sell like their copyiPads…
Gawd, the trolls are getting dumber, if that’s possible.
iPhone still exists ? android has eat apples slowly but sure 😀 … and yet, iphone only become minority like their mac, hahaha
Thank’s for the laugh!
Wow good read but if only this article would also apple to another apple products, time machine.
It is hot and as a backup works seamlessly but NOT adequate.
To place all your data into one drive is simply crazy
i have overtake apple iOS market share with Gingerbread 2.3.3 . and they (iOS) will die as fast as steve jobs die
Will no one rid us of this offensively ridicullous poster? Creep!
It must be the day of the fake trolls who want to spend all day reading the inflamed responses to their attempts to get people all riled up. Enjoy the trolls, folks, and don’t take them seriously.
Go yell at your wife, to yell at one of your 8 kids, to shut up and bring in some roadkill for dinner.
I hope you get kicked in the head by Chuck Norris!
You can make fun of Jobs.
You can make fun of Ballmer.
You can make fun of Ive.
but you may not use our lord Chuck Norris’ name without retribution and besmirching!
ohhh, look, iSheep and apple cult fanboy will happy, but not for long…. when Android and WP7 kick them out…
What’s with all the trolls today?
Weird. Annoying but laughable. Maybe ballmer et al have hired a bunch of trolls as a FUD strategy. executed as clumsily as their usual marketing and product intros.
You mean what’s with the E(distant)SL trolls today? I haven’t seen spelling and grammar mangled this badly since my last trip to Engadget.
Apparently: Apple = winning. Everyone else = outsourcing.
Must be a new Troll app out on the Android Market.
Desperation. They become trolls when they are nervous.
Hmm, not sure. They are likely riled up over the recent patent to kill their chosen platform?
Still – I treat the posts as jokes along the way of a ZT. However they could be much more humorous if they properly employed English (or “American English”…no comments from the Brits, OK?). We must applaud ZT for correct usage, giving his humorous, and wrong, point of view.
Enjoy the rest of the troll posters, you ‘regulars’. The next few days should be very amusing!
Do these discussions regularly get taken over by anti-Apple lug nuts these days? This is sad. Maybe MDN should require that all comments by left by registered users.
Sometimes I think it’s just MDN admins stirring the pot for more comments and page hits.
yeah, apple is a crapware and jokes at operating system industry. they sell linux for money, what a craps…
apple should learn more with richard stallman and linus torvalds
apple is winning ? what a premature declaration.. nokia is still on the biggest player at phone market. This time, they will kick apple to sea with Symbian Anna and Windows Phone 7 Mango phone this year. So, for apple cults, get happy as long as you can, before nokia kick you all
you would think MS or Google could afford to hire trolls that actually write and speak english…
ah, still apple propaganda to make their fanboy cults happy and loyals. but the truth is apple beating up with Google, Samsung, and Microsoft…
LOL, someone must have linked a Fandroid site to this story!
LOL, samsung should stop their component supply to Apple. and that make apple dies
Nope – Apple would find another supplier and Samsung would die.
“That’s not like Apple, which is usually as efficient as a blood-thirsty dictator.”
Ummm … looking at Gaddafi, Assad, Mubarak, Mugabe etc, I think they are more Microsoft than Apple … they monopolize for a while through deceptive practices, but sheer inefficiency and arrogance puts them out of touch with the people, and one day, they turn into blundering, panicked has-beens with nowhere to hide.
I think the recent patent victory, has driven the trolls into a frenzy. Seems many of them are writing English as a second or third language.
More like: seems many of them are writing in english for the second or third TIME
Apple did say what the problem was. Phil Schiller mentioned that they were having trouble with the proximity sensor. It has to work whether you’re white or black, or have a beard, in hot or cold weather, and it turns out that an IR sensor surrounded by a white bezel behaves differently from one surrounded by a black bezel.
It’s good to see trolls here. Much of what they say is factless and childish.
To cover silly matters:
1. Windows still dominates marketshare.
2. Android also has great marketshare.
3. Chevy outsells Porsche.
4. Timex outsells Rolex.
There will always be more “junk” or low margin products which are great products for most people. However, there is always someone on top with cutting edge technology, highest quality, and considered the most revered by the consumers.
Windows and Android users are simply mucking up the bottom and looking up at the glowing Apple. These other users are were viruses, bad customer service, half-working products thrive.
You are welcomed here anytime trolls. You are scooters in the car show world.