Mac, iPhone, and iPad user Rush Limbaugh today discussed Apple Inc., Tim Cook, and the next-gen iPhone on his radio program that, since its inception on August 1, 1988, is the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States.
The 3-hour Rush Limbaugh Show airs daily on a network of approximately 590 AM and FM affiliate stations. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network. A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.
From the live transcript:
I’m not kidding. I got people e-mailing me, being depressed about the new iPhone. I kid you not. Well, I’ll tell you why. It’s because apparently everything is known about what it’s gonna be, and that’s like taking Santa Claus out of Christmas for people. Apple’s big announcement is on Wednesday, and everybody thinks they know what the phone’s gonna be. It’s gonna be a four-inch screen. It’s gonna have LTE, 4G LTE in it, it’s gonna have whatever, people know it. It’s not a new design. It looks exactly like the current phone, a little thinner. It looks just like the current phone, just a half-inch longer. But no wider. It’s gonna have a bigger screen but nothing on that screen is gonna be bigger. There’s just gonna be more space on the screen and the Apple fanboys are all depressed…
It’s amazing to track this. You know, I’m a Mac fanboy myself. So I track this stuff… It’s amazing to look at the various things people are interested in, and you can find depression everywhere, disappointment. And Apple hadn’t even said anything yet. But everybody’s convinced they know what it’s gonna be, and it’s like Santa Claus. One guy even said that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is so boring they better get a celebrity out there to conduct the big show on Wednesday or nobody’s gonna watch it.
Full transcript here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Rush is wrong about so many things. Why would anyone care what he thinks about the next iPhone??
It sounded to me that he was relating not what HE thinks, but what his listeners and people commenting on blogs think.
Exactly
Rush’s listeners are wrong about so many things. Why would anyone care what they think about the next iPhone??
*rimshot* BAM!
Rush’s detractors are wrong about so many things, why would anyone care about what they think…
Detractors of Bimbaugh detractors are wrong about so many things, why would anyone HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, couldn’t finish participation in caring about Bimbaugh ditto head babbling. I just don’t care.
It is not wrong to note that he took a LOT of illegal viagra with a private plane full of dudes to the child sex capital of the Americas. He is a despicable human being, a moral vacuum. What wife is he on 3 or 5?
He sure leads his flock well though, a couple million unthinking, parroting lemmings.
He uses iphone just like other apple fans. Now every other red neck is using iphone. 😉
@Gupta,
So YOU are denigrating someone else’s ethnicity/background–
REALLY?!?!
BTW, it’s “redneck”, not “red neck”. What’s the matter, is Google not paying enough to hire smart people these days?
@Karen umm, “redneck” is an ethnicity?
Would you care to list the things that you have personally heard Rush to get wrong – not what you have heard others spew about him.
Thanks – I’m waiting.
Rush is obviously right about this—it’s what some people right here have been saying.
Rush has, again, put his finger on what comprises an Apple fan: a person motivated by exquisite surprise, like a kid.
Good news! Your wait is over. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895
Google “limbaugh errors” and actually read the links. You’d be hard pressed to disagree. I hope.
“Jeff Cohen founded FAIR in 1986. He served as the group’s executive director for a number of years, and later on its board of directors. Upon taking a full time job with MSNBC in May 2002, Cohen stepped down from FAIR’s board.”
So some guy who qualifies to get a job working with the rest of the fact less windbags at MSNBC is gonna present FAIRness reporting on Rush? Nice try Sherlock and thanks for the great laugh!
I am not saying that Rush never makes a mistake, he has admitted to some on his program on the air, but using MSNBC as a source? You might as well quote Bagdad Bob.
All credibility lost.
Rush is a media windbag. There are also media windbags on the left. Rush is just the king. And, if you disagree with this, then you have more time to wastes than brains to think. Sorry, it’s true.
tbone, you response is typical liberal name calling. You really don’t have room to talk unless you actually listen to the show for a while. Don’t just jump blindly into the haters club. Don’t let yourself be defined by anger.
For years I listened to this windbag. Had no choice, co workers played it right next to me. This is what I observed: Rush is a race-baiting, misogynistic, hateful man. He talks in blustering circles, he champions a rapid ideology not grounded in facts, and is a science denier.
Add in his multiple wives, trips to child sex tourism locations, drug abuse and Richie rich bootlicking and you are not left with much to be proud of, certainly not very conservative in real life. He even has you lemmings snowed, he has admitted on occasion that he doesn’t even believe all the crap he says, he claims to be an entertainer, as if dividing Americans was entertaining, something to be proud of..
I do find it interesting how “enlightened” his follows purport to be. It reminds me of the Heavens Gate followers. Now if only the flock would complete the mission.
Oh Jean, Rush only gets everything wrong.
T-DRONE,
You are everything that is wrong, you commie!
This is hilarious. The worst insult you can throw at someone is “commie”?
a few months ago this blow hard was convinced that the ‘liberal dems’ had hacked into Siri on his iPhone and were broadcasting propaganda to him. He’s been wrong about everything from the war in Iraq to over-fishing the oceans. The better question would be ‘what has he been right about?’
Too many to list – I ride in my truck a lot, listen to radio, surfed Rushes show for years. He was wrong about Iraq war 2 – in a big way( Rush was a big fan of the attack and thought it would be a low cost short term affair. He was wrong about GW Bush ( he thought that Bush would usher in an economic boom.) Of course as time goes by he qualifies all his statements and backtracks . The trick is to get an extremely old Rush program and listen to the ACTUAL comments . Not his spin on them 3 years later. Have a nice day ditto head.
And he was right about Iraq, the wave of democracy in the Middle East is a result of the democracy in Iraq.
Bush economics was fine.. It was Bill Clinton who destroyed the world financial system with his social experiment.
At President Clinton’s direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties.
The threat was codified in a 20-page “Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending” and entered into the Federal Register on April 15, 1994, by the Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending. Clinton set up the little-known body to coordinate an unprecedented crackdown on alleged bank redlining.
The edict — completely overlooked by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the mainstream media — was signed by then-HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, Attorney General Janet Reno, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, along with the heads of six other financial regulatory agencies.
“The agencies will not tolerate lending discrimination in any form,” the document warned financial institutions.
So this is where it all started. In 1994. When the government pressured lenders to qualify the unqualified. To put people into houses they couldn’t afford. Or else.
That Kool-Aid will rot your teeth. Oh, and nice copy’n’paste job.
Facts are inconvenient to a liberal. Easier to ignore them and pretend they never happened.
Rush, the gay fatso is so wrong about so many things. Why would anyone care what he/she think about the next iPhone??
Oh, I don’t know, maybe because he gets to hear the complaining directly from millions of people? Regardless of whether you like his politics, the guy has an inside view into the public’s reactions.
Well, one segment of the public at least.
LOL
I already knew it. 😉 Next iphone is gonna be boring with almost same design.
@ Limbaugh:
You are right, Highest rated talk radio show with “Red-necks”.
😉
You, Pat, Chris, Edward are the idiot probably emailing Limbaugh so often.
Go back to India, Sanjay, you CNN troll, you !!
He’s speaking for others, who may not agree with the point he is making.
As usual.
True dat. What makes rush a tech guru.
So many things wrong about Rush. Is why would anyone care what he thinks about the next iPhone.
A taller screen = Apple’s worst iPhone yet.
You might want to register that name. You will get a lot of milage out of it for the next 8 1/2 years.
LimBAH!
It’s classic, people complaining BEFORE the product is announced. Complaining that there’s no surprise, complaining that the changes aren’t going to be big enough, complaining that Tim Cook is too boring…. well, I agree with the last one.
Can someone at Apple convince them to get Jony or Scott to do the presenting?
I just don’t get it. Pundits and bloggers and commenters decrying the inadequacy of something that DOESN’T EVEN EXIST? How is this even allowed on this pathetic excuse for a planet? I’m out of here.
He is the only one who got depressed
All the apple fanboys I know will get the iPhone whatever it is or it’s going to be and they are not depressed about it.
I think you need to read the story. Rush isn’t depressed. He said that people are telling him THEY are depressed, and most aren’t depressed about the phone, they are depressed that so much has leaked that there’s no surprise left.
Finally. Someone who can actually read.
Plus 1!
That was my interpretation as well. And I have a similar reaction as an 4S owner (i.e., ‘meh’) after reading the pundit’s predictions over the 5.
Normally, I’d read these estimates with a grain of salt, thinking that Apple would keep one major card close to their vest and surprise everyone. But the pundits/rumor mongers have been pretty spot on lately.
Will the new iOS and hardware/bandwidth cut down on some of the lag Siri now has in answering queries? And will they immediately have adapters for all of the legacy docking peripherals? That’s what I’m curious to hear about tomorrow.
Ha ha ha… Its probably true, except it won’t be the real Apple fanboys who are upset – just the fashionistas from the “iWant” generation who HAVE to have the latest toy…
I would rather listen to Apple than a bunch of whine*ss manorexics that will never be satisfied.
* All is rumored until Apple speaks the facts, Jacks 🙂
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uBuy AAPL ?
By March 2013, apple shares will drop to $300, or maybe $250.
I’m just telling you what I know.
😉
Gosh it must be wonderful to know so much about the future. But there is one thing for certain, a person needs to take profits when they can. Profits on paper can disappear in an instant. Only a fool or an inexperienced investor holds on without taking profits. It’s just investing 101. You can’t spend it if you don’t have it. You don’t have it if you haven’t taken profits. You don’t have profits if it’s all on paper. I have seen so many people make this mistake over many many years. But you can’t tell them anything. They know better because their stock has run up and they think it will run up forever. That doesn’t happen. It has never happened. It will never happen. You can stay invested long-term with one company if you wish but you have to pull profits out occasionally. It’s just common sense. Apple goes up. Apple goes down. If you sell some or all when Apple is very high guess what you can do with that money if you wait a while until Apple goes down? That’s right, you can invest in Apple! It’s not daytrading. It’s not market timing. It’s just common sense. Rule number one, never fall in love with a stock. Even a company that you are smitten with.
100% disagree! Can’t wait till Wednesday comes.
Exactly I don’t understand what anyone is depressed about? I’m as excited as hell about it. Really? You expect Apple to do a yearly phone earth shattering paradigm shift equivalent to the first iPhone’s introduction? Really? You think 4G, a bigger screen, iOS 6, Apple Maps, Passbook, Ver. 1 Siri just aren’t enough? Really? Nothing less than a Transporter, Replicator, IDT: Inter-Dimensional Travel, Time Travel & Warp Drive features will satisfy you? Really? REALLY? Get a life.
Not every year, nor paradigm-changing, but remember there was disappointment right after the 4S was announced, even on MDN. That of course was quickly overshadowed by Steve Jobs’ death the very next day.
And to pre-empt the obvious comeback to that: don’t think “record sales” is some kind of proof that the 4S was a great update instead of merely good. Samsung Android sales/shipments is proof enough that isn’t necessarily the case.
“4G, bigger screen” etc… No, frankly they’re not enough. They’re incremental and expected–and in some cases, already in competitor phones. There needs to be *some* surprise feature or spec in the new iPhone. If the rumour mill got it all, then part of the thrill of following Apple is dampened.
Transporter? Replicator? Come on, no need to get all hyperbolic–even the 4S had Siri as a surprise feature.
I won’t be upgrading my 4S (company phone), but do hope to see something unexpected on Wednesday.
It will take very many more of these “boring” shows before people begin to tune out. Apple has NOT announced anything yet, and everything we’ve seen or heard so far were only rumours. I have no doubt that there will tons of people watching, following tweets and expecting in anticipation what is actually going to be announced (as opposed to what has been rumoured).
To me it appeared that Apple was on warp drive right up to and including the iPhone 4. Then they switched off the warp drive and used jet propulsors on the iPhone 4S.
If the mockups are to be believed, Apple turned off jet propulsion for the iPhone 5 and has gotten on to a bicycle for its development path. Two and a half years of…nothingness…apart from a taller screen?
Man…am I disappointed….
Clearly, you have no idea how Apple designs and produces its products.
I’m shocked, shocked you are here spreading your special brand of gloom and doom.
Beyond the ridiculousness of that statement, what do people expect Apple to do? Introduce an iPhone which is no more than a rolled-up screen? Produce iPhone contact lenses so you don’t even need your hands? Release the iBrain, the iPhone that interfaces directly with your brain so it’s the fastest phone yet?
Get real, people. The iPhone was a quantum leap forward in communication/computer technology. That can’t happen every 1-2 years.
Guess we’re all just stuck living with our old, common, nothing-so-special iPhone 4Ses or 5s for a couple more years. Life’s pretty tough.
Yeah, talk about your 1st world problems.
Seems to me phones didn’t change much for the first 115 years and now people want major change every 115 days. Grow up. Yeah first world babies all right. Go out and tackle some real problems and issues than how fast your tech changes for you
I had heard that Steve Jobs was personally vested in iPhone5’s development (not the 4S) before he passed. That, to me, seems something to be very excited about!
Apple does not make product for the whims of people without taste.
Remind me again of your great taste in farts.
I couldn’t give a rat what this fetid piece of human filth has to say about anything. He promised that he would move to Costa Rica if health care was passed into law (maybe to enjoy Costa Rica’s single-payer system or maybe to find more teenagers), but he’s still here. I wish he would go, already.
Such a ‘tolerant’ liberal you are. Typical, you like diversity in everything but political thought. Anyone who disagrees with you is a fetid piece of human filth. Get off your high horse.
In case you missed it, he was commenting on the epitome of intolerance of political thought. I guess it went over your head.
He was commenting in an intolerant way. Thanks for taking the bait though. Highlighting comments from Limbaugh help you hit the site again and again, bringing in that revenue, AND insuring that we will read more from Rush…. But– back to Apple: All design change is not good. If iPhone sales tank, then I’m guessing the designers will go back to the drawing board. I’m not sure change only for the sake of change makes a product better. I like the look of the wider screen phones but I don’t like holding them. Let the marketplace decide. 🙂
No, I come to MDN to read Mac related articles. I die a bit when a self professed humorist is believed to be a trusted news source.
El Rushbo feeling the pulse of the nation.
Ohbummer standing on the pulse of the nation.
Ouch!
Of course Apple fans are depressed; if the leaks prove true then they’ll have to deal with the fact that the incremental upgrade to the iPhone is two years behind every other phone maker on the planet. I hope for them that Apple has some big secret that has NOT gotten out yet that will impress us all. We will see.
And just how is it two years behind? Others are throwing flaky beta crap out there in their panic to stay ahead of Apple. I’ll wait for Apple to get it right. I suspect there will be “one more thing” announced on the 12th. God I miss Steve Jobs.
Bimbaugh again pretending to represent reality. 😛
It’s true… even douche bags are allowed their own opinion… God Bless America…
You’re certainly evidence of that.
Rush a douche? no, it’s idiots like botvinnik who listen to Limpbaugh who are the true douches
No it’s morons like jim who are the certified, approved, unregulated, confirmed, trained lifelong true douches. A Douch First Class of the Realm. (Let’s hope his genes die out living in his Mom & Dad’s basement.)
I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh anymore than I’d listen to you, Jim.
I bet you could pass as his doppelgänger though… Inside and out….
How do you type the vowel with the umlaut…I’m too lazy to ask Siri to look it up…
Hannah
If you are on an iPhone or iOS device hold down a letter and other variations will pop up.
well, you’re wrong yet again, Jim…that’s something you’re getting pretty good at.
I am curious, what is it that everyone is wanting? Are there things that the iPhone is clearly lacking?
Sampling the more extreme demands: teleportation, force shield, mind reading, origami form factor, quantum computing, telescoping screen size, John Gruber filter, soma generator, celebrity email database, EMP gun, a Siri hologram modeled on Cortana or Minka Kelly, and a USB port.
No way Apple could ever spring a surprise.
IT’S. A. PHONE. jeez people need to get a life. i like using my iPhone but come on, this level of obsession/depression about it is ridiculous.
Apple’s phone will be the best one on the market.
Will it be as revolutionary as the jump up from pre-iPhone days? Of course not. It’s unreasonable to expect so.
A beautiful, sturdy phone with an iOS upgrade that improves what needs improving > all of the knock-offs on the market regardless of the cute commercials and non-stop advertising from the Android ilk.
With Apple, I always have a glimmer of hope for something absolutely amazing and unexpected. In the history of the company — the most innovative company of the past 35 years — the “oh my Gawd!” moments are still few and far between and most who follow the industry know that.
+1 You get it
“A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.” The man who’s a proven liar that has continually spewed racist, hateful, BS and those FACTS don’t matter?
You don’t agree with him, so you attack him. Yet, you cannot legitimately list any of the accusations you made. Facts DO matter. You just don’t have any.
No corrector. mush gumball himself says he is not news. He says himself he only uses humor to make his opinion known.
Let’s see.
Rush has risen as an entertaining talk show host no less influential than Phil Donahue or Oprah Winfrey.
Rush has a great comic sense when it comes to skewering the train wreck that is the American political system today. He senses people’s exhaustion with high-minded social prescriptions that never materialize except in the form of more taxes. That has been his ticket to success.
He differs from other well-known demagogues in that he frequently references the importance of the U.S. Constitution, and holds it in high regard—he understands full well the importance of free speech, making possible his own prominence in the noble opposition.
You call him mush gumball? Really? That’s the best you can do? Are you in the third grade? I am a redneck with two advanced university degrees…. That means I listen to Rush occasionally for a laugh and I drive a big pickup, carry a Bible, have a great job and own guns… Hahahaha I am your worst nightmare… Keep your head down Citizen X 😉
No, I call him mush gumball. I’m not sure what your ahem, “accomplishments” have to do with anything, but whatever.
I think those “proven FACTS” are ones you made up in your own mind. A standard radical Libertardlian tactic – when the facts don’t suit, make them up! You have demonized and generalized the competition in your own mind. Libs are the most rude I’ve noticed (and I am a registered Democrat) like they have the right and nearly always resort to the last bastion of name calling. Most conservatives are much better behaved. Acting the way you do is an endorsement to run the other way – fast! So on behalf of more polite Dems everywhere, behave yourself!!!
Well said.
I am extremely conservative (and tend to be very libertarian). I prefer to think for myself and make my own decisions.
Personally I am not a Rush fan, although I have nothing against him.
Quite frankly, I don’t care what anyone else thinks or believes as long as they have taken the time to think through something and not just spout off at the mouth without giving it a second’s worth of thought.
The name calling and hatred are what gets me about some of the posts above.
So you don’t like Rush- who cares?
Most of you did not even take the time to read the article without first blurting out names and arguing what an xxx (pick your expletive) Rush is.
Are you on here to read about Apple, or are you on here to yell and scream about something the first time a name you don’t like is mentioned?
Many of you posting on this topic have so much pent up hatred of Rush, and everything on the “Right” that you can’t see straight- you just go straight to name calling and yelling.
Frankly, I would think if you hate the right so much, you would want to try and bring people around to your way of thinking.
I can tell you that no one is going to be converted by the name calling, yelling, whining and sheer hatred in many of the posts above.
You don’t like Rush? OK.
You want to have a conversation about why you don’t like him? OK.
You want to yell and scream and ramble on incessantly? Go somewhere else please.
Well said Mike. Most of the uncivil discourse is coming from the left, a ruder bunch.
@Mike:
Sounds like you nailed it.
IMHO the majority of LEFT comments are juvenile off-topic name calling and the majority of RIGHT comments trend respectful and factual.
The story line focuses on friends of Rush reacting negatively to iPhone 5 faux news reports, not the man.
In October 2011, the same was said about the iPhone 4S. And we all know how that turned out. Record iPhone sales went on to eclipse all previous models combined.
The negative press speculation is nearly universal downplaying another iPhone revolution.
Food for thought: Model-T was a revolution over the horse and buggy. 100 years later and although the automobile is refined annually, it still has four tires.
I expect Apple to move iPhone 5 evolution forward. But probably not as much as the tech/ignorati press would like.
Who cares about the press and tech analysts. They have proven time and time again how wrong they are when it comes to Apple.
Record sales on the horizon …
News to me, everyone I know is looking forward to getting the new release.
He gives no numbers and I can bet he doesn’t even read all the email and snail mail he gets, so allot to him could be 50 and then again we need to remember that Samsung and other players that are against Apple have Propaganda departments that have pushed out and created lies also, this is documented.
In a few days we will know for sure, but I’ll bet this release will blow all other releases out of the water, how many times has Apple proved that no matter what nonsence is being pushed out on the Internet they just make thoes “Chicken Little” ranters look like chicken sh**.
Allot – To parcel out; distribute or apportion
To assign as a portion; allocate
A lot – A lot, a bunch, heaps
Rush is one of Apple’s biggest supporters. You are just too retarded to comprehend the article.
Ah, you say “potato”, I say “kumquat.”
Or potent, depending on if auto-correct is on.
No, I’m one of Apple’s biggest supporters, but I also don’t look at them as a diety. I have seen them make many mistakes over their existence, yet they have always recovered and come back fighting strong. That is why they are a dominant force today.
I can personally say that I have no love for Flush Toilet, because he is always full of it. Maybe he should be flushed more often. However, crazily, there are times I agree with him, God that’s scary.
The man does covet technology, and why not. Without it, he would be deaf today, since his cochlear implants keep him functional in his profession. Also, his admiration of Apple’s innovations should be highly acknowledged. He is a good judge of well made technology.
With that said, many of his listeners don’t have the horse sense they were born with. To live a life based on speculated rumors doesn’t get you very far in this modern world. I’ve always known with Apple, that only seeing is believing, and that talk is cheap. When I worked for Genie over 16 years ago, Apple would always say that they would never comment
on unannounced products. I learned to live with that, it sure kept me from putting my foot in my mouth.
With that all said, I’m going to see what IS announced on Wednesday, and then wait to judge the reaction then. I’m sure that Apple’s sales will skyrocket after the announcements as well as their stock prices. Until then, I’m going to chill and watch others make jackasses out of themselves.
The proof is always in the pudding!
The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it—I know you knew that—sorry if I’m a bit of a schoolmarm.
That phrase could easily be interpreted as a variation of Steve Jobs’ famous dictum “Real artists ship”.
Because, by now, that has sunk in to the collective consciousness—people’s expectations have been shaped: Apple will deliver; Apple will surprise; Apple will confound the accursed, imagination-challenged pundits.
Tim needs a coach, like in the King’s Speech.
Nothing wrong with being boring, but Steve has spent tons of time around famous people, paying attention to popular culture. He, at least once, had taken LSD. Not that I condone such a thing.
Tim needs adventure. He needs to conquer, he needs to take a walkabout and discover the world more. He needs to bring those experiences back to Apple and develop a strong ethos that he has personal discoveries to add to our culture.
He was basically the strait man to a dynamic duo and frankly now, he either needs to bring in a bent individual or he needs to bend over himself and learn an thing or to about thinking different.
Tim already does a lot of bending over. (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
Give it a rest bot. Go back to your King’s gambit or something.
well, in Tim’s case it would be Queen’s gambit…or something.
Sigh…I walked into that one 🙁
If all of these leaks are real — basically showing a full iPhone 5:
Where are the cease and desist letters?
Has Apple responded in any way?
Is this an experiment in letting leaks go?
Are they fake parts, and the people who leaked them think they’re real?
Would Apple spend enough time making a fake iPhone just to throw people off?
I’ve wondered about this too. Could Apple really throw up such a ruse as to catch the entire planet off guard? I don’t think so, but where are all the leaks concerning the iPods? Why just the iPhone and not much else? Yeah, we’ve seen some pics of the iPad mini, but that’s not a real product yet. We should have seen some iPod mock ups by now if Apple’s were suddenly such a sieve.
If I don’t get a contract-free iPhone with pay-as-you-go talk minutes and data in the US, I will be disappointed. I expect to be disappointed. I am depressed.
Rush Limbaugh is a Pig, if your smart you won’t listen to anything he says.
I’ve decided not to listen to people who tell me what not to listen to.
Wait—in symbolic logic, that’s a—Bertrand Russell paradox?
close, it’s Leon Russell.
Depressed about something that hasn’t been released, yet? Applguy is right. First world problem.
I’m eager to see what I’m going to buy.
Not a fan of his show or him, but frankly if we’re talking about an elongated screen, a bit thinner, 4G LTE, smaller dock connector, larger battery, and faster processor, that’s HUGE. Forget about the fact that it’s not “wider”. That’s ridiculous. What’s more, this is just the stuff we KNOW. I can’t believe ALL the secrets of the new iPhone have been uncovered.
Why anyone would not be excited about some of this new stuff is beyond me. Fanboys and consumers will be lining up for it as soon as it hits the market, they’re going to sell zillions of them – so what difference does his comments make? Any fanboy who is truly unhappy with the iPhone 5 is NOT a “fanboy”. Period.
Bring on the FUD , we’ll laugh all the way to the bank, again @800 then 850 and again in February 2013 when $ 900 will be old news.
Got a question about that creepy picture MDN uses whenever it posts Rush LIMPaugh click bait.
Is that Rush coming out of the closet to announce he is a Log Cabin Republican?
Rush has had more beards than a gallery of Renaissance Portraits.
I hear they’re mostly underaged beards from the Dominican Republic.
I’m hoping the new iPhone is a horrible as everyone is predicting it to be. Then, it will sell in astounding numbers, proving once again that pundit and rumor whores = idiots with small brains. I hope that the iPhone has every feature that Apple (the design and manufacturer) wanted to be in there, and not 1 item more.
In this, the 21st century, it’s time the so-called experts faced the obvious: pundits, idiots, and media whores are merely parasites, dwarf lampreys swimming toward the Kraken.
None of you or the rest of the whiners have figured it out yet. It’s not about the physical device – which, except for the retina display – has not changed from day one. The apps are what make the iPhone and iPad so amazing. The thought, creativity, utility, functionality, entertainment, programming, awesomeness is all from the Apps and the iOS interface. Once you start moving your finger on the screen, there is no difference between an original iPhone and a new one – the user experience is protected, guarded, and enhanced by the apps and iOS – the device may provide access to them a bit faster or brighter than the last one, but that’s it… I don’t care about the device, and neither do most folks. That’s where the Android and WindowsPhone folks have gotten lost. They keep trying to make wiz bang devices and they keep failing. Their platforms and apps are fractured, and the user interface is inconsistent, wonky, and hard to use. Because Apple made everyone play by their rules, the user experience of the Apps is amazing with an iOS device.
Yep. Apple writes software to sell hardware. The hardware sales finance the software.
It’s been that way since almost the beginning.
“A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.”
No wonder this nation is in such sad shape. It explains why 37% of ohio’ans think romney had more to do with or were unsure of who had more to do with the killing of Osama than Obama.
In a curious coincidence, a DOE study recently found the spelling ability of Americans subjected to polls to be 37%.
Why is this site promoting that racist, disgusting, pig feces and his show? Not only do you give credence to his name and comments, each time he’s mentioned it reads like a paid ad. maybe it is. Maybe he’s somebody’s uncle, or blackmailer.
In any case, I had to stop reading and will now leave the site to get this taste out of my mouth. Seriously, he’s disgusting.
I’ve watched every single keynote and product introduction Steve ever made. Also followed the reaction. Almost all the time the complaining was constant, which always made me laugh because Steve was so incredibly awesome to watch and listen to. Nevertheless the “letdown” was palpable and whiners let loose. And immediately ppl started using the new next great thing and sure enough the appreciation and enjoyment would start building. It was a pattern and even Steve would get bummed that ppl were so rabidly expectant and then stupid about how significant the new changes actually are, until of course they started using The New Thing. So yes there’s a bizarre depression among the fantasizing instant gratification crowd until learning curve and use accomplished, after the keynote.
Steve was an evangelist who was always bitterly disappointed that other mortals didn’t, at first, understand. Unlike a religious messiah, however, he expected others to eventually accede to his physical and practical beliefs—which were based on a universal human usability formula—and in the end, people did so, as adduced by sales figures.
I couldn’t care less what Rushs’ idiot listeners think. I can’t wait to hear everything confirmed or be totally blown away. I want The New iPhone now!
Rush peering behind the text? Jaysus, I think you have a schoolgirl crush MDN…you little hit whores. Here’s a nickel for ya’
Rush Limburger: A Legend In His On Mind.
Once again, like clockwork, everybody’s expectations are high and unreasonable about what Apple’s new product will be — setting yourself up for another disappointment (like they did a year ago when iPhone 5 was supposed to come out, but it ended up just being iPhone 4S). Remember folks, just because something perhaps should have a bigger screen, doesn’t mean that’s what will happen. And another thing, I feel that Tim Cook is getting a bad wrap being compared to SJ (and that’s exactly what people are doing). Tim’s presentation delivery style may be different, but it’s too bad some of you find it boring. I focus on the words he says and not so much on how he delivers his words. He has big shoes to fill, and it doesn’t help crapping on him. A lot of people still don’t understand how Apple works or thinks.
Bill
Monday, September 10, 2012 – 4:17 pm ·Reply
Rush is wrong about so many things. Why would anyone care what he thinks about the next iPhone??
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It surprises me, Bill. “Why would anyone” even listen to the most Popular, indluential, and Powerful Radio Personality of all time?
You figure it out, Bill. It’s probably for the same reason that you’re here.
Either you like him, or you hate him.
I like him.
Dennis
So was Walter Winchell, in his day. Now, of course, no one reads his writing, listens to his old broadcasts, or gives a damn about him. Enjoy your “time in the sun”, while the rest of us pursue more worthy pursuits.
Have been a Mac Fan for many years, however I am getting so bored with the way Apple drip feed their technology.
I have the iphone 3, 3G, 4 and the 4s and to be honest having played with the Samsung S3 it leaves the iPhone for dead.
Also pissing me off is the amount of law suits Apple is hitting everyone with, very much a throw back to the mighty Microsoft days.
It’s just another way to restrict technology and keep all the Apple addicts hanging on…
In that case, Andy—or is it Android—thank God for Samsung. I am sorry you wasted valuable years of your life suffering with Apple’s degenerating products. Clearly they deserve to die, except, oh, OK, let them live so we have SOMEONE TO COPY otherwise our smartphones will be indistinguishable from our toaster ovens.
Who is this Rush guy?
I’m starting to get sick of people whining. The people who say they are depressed are not Apple Fans. They are bored posers who need some kind of crutch to differentiate themselves from others and to feel good about themselves. If Apple’s lack of providing something “new and really different” was affecting the work or play of the said users, then they might have a case for whining about depression. Shit like this makes me long for the days when “Apple Fans” we’re the few and proud!
Whiners are losers. What does it say about people who stake their hopes and dreams on a company that merely sells consumer electronics? Only that in this day and age, leadershhip, ethics, and morals have been subsumed by consumerism.
Wait—that was supposed to be in the 1950s—what happened?
I agree that it is just a phone. The best phone… but nonetheless, just a phone. That said… I too am a little let down about knowing what I know about the phone. I also think they ought to get someone else to do the unveiling… Scott Forstall, maybe… that guy has crazy wicked eyes… they freak me out…
come on, everybody say the same everytime a new iphone comes. What’s next? Everybody is buying it!!!!!!!
It hasn’t been announced yet, Rush. You and everyone else out there are guessing. Maybe you are right but how about waiting just a little longer?
I’m not going to get into the pros and cons of Rush.
However if the quote I got people e-mailing me, being depressed about the new iPhone. is actually true, I really think that people should a) develop a sense of perspective – over 3000 people lost their lives on this day in 2001 as a result of a terrorist attack and another 5000 American service personnel went on to be killed in the resulting military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, with an additional 42,000 wounded.
With all of that, if people are ‘depressed’ because their little surprise has been ruined.
And if it is true, what’s the point of e-mailing Rush?? Is he some sort of psychic nutritionist that can heal their pain? No, he’s a fucking talk show host.
Seriously, the society we live in is so warped.
If the ‘SJ’ vision for the iPhone 5 is still inherent in this upcoming product then without a shadow of a doubt it will be ‘special’ and will not disappoint. However, all bets are off after iPhone 5.
One of the few thing that depress me about Apple is that Rush also uses it. The other is that little, in the way of Apple production, is done in the U.S.A. now. I may understand but I don’t have to agree with that move. I do not trust the government of China now and never will. I do not trust the word of the Rushster either.