“This morning Apple announced a record-breaking weekend for sales of its new iPhone 5S and 5C. In the first 72 hours more than 9 million phones were sold in 11 countries around the world,” Sandy Cannold writes for ABC News. ““’This is our best iPhone launch yet,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. ‘Demand for the new iPhones has been incredible.’ The pictures of the frenzy plastered all over TV, the web and beyond since Friday back up what Cook is saying.”
“To me though, all this over-the-top fanfare and even the record-breaking first weekend of sales could actually be cause for concern,” Cannold writes. “The reason I am voicing a bit of doubt is that it seems like Apple is now trying to squeeze every last bit of profit it can out of an aging, shall we call it, iStone.”
“To me and millions like me it seems a lot more evolutionary. It looks a whole lot like the last iPhone and the one before that and the one before that too,” Cannold writes. “And you know what else looks the same, the way Apple staged the release of the 5S and the 5C. Just like every launch since the first iPhone hit the market we watched people wait in line, sleep outside the store and ham it up for the cameras once they got their hands on their shiny new device. Hasn’t Apple seen how the competition makes fun of these events in commercials?”
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t blame Apple because you don’t know WTF you’re looking at, dummy. Yes, huge queues of people camping out all over the world are quite the concern – for iPhone knockoff peddlers, that is.
Cannold writes, “This is no longer the Apple of Steve Jobs. The Apple that seemingly every couple of years rocked the consumer electronics world with a product so innovative that it changed industries forever.”
MacDailyNews Take: Let’s be a bit more precise:
iPhone was released 5 years, 7 months, and 19 days after iPod.
iPad was released 2 years, 9 months, and 5 days after iPhone.
Tim Cook has been Apple CEO for 2 years and 30 days.
Cannold writes, “So for me it boils down to a two simple questions: Does Apple become a boring profit machine like Microsoft, churning out upgrades and improvements to its existing line of hits? Or do they find a way to create another ‘must have’ new product, new category, new something that we never thought we needed and we can’t live without? The ball is now squarely in Tim Cook’s court.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, look: Mr. Myopic managed to peck out two hackneyed questions and now he thinks he’s served Tim Cook. Sandy, you’re not even on the same planet, much less on the same court, as Tim Cook. Forget the ball, you’re not qualified to serve Tim Cook fries.
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MacDailyNews Take: With superficial vapidity such as Cannold’s piece above, it’s hardly surprising that fewer than one in four Americans have confidence in television news.
Here’s some advice, Sandy: When you don’t know jack shit about what you’re writing about, don’t write it.
Anne, why don’t ring up Ben on your Apple iPhone and ask him if Sandy is really the best he can do?
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Yet another excuse for Apple FUD. Yawn. Next, please.
So many haters…omg!
People talk shit when apple is down, people also talk shit when apple is up! Always talk about the impossible such as the lack of Steve jobs. I feel the same to some degree but don’t write this kinds of article, it’s just made him look even worst than the so called analysts who missed the target!
FUD, propaganda, gossip, rumor, all to one end:
Manipulation. When you see the FUD, you know someone somewhere is being manipulated. Just be sure it’s not you.
“It looks a whole lot like the last iPhone and the one before that and the one before that too.”
Assuming this guy has an Android phone, he should know all about new phones that look like the last iPhone (or 2-3 versions back).
Here’s what Apple should do! Turn the iPad 10″ into a PHONE! What a coup that would be. The BIGGEST phablet on the market. Know one will ever know what idiot is hiding behind that embarrassingly HUGE mobile phone.
Making fun of Apple Bear bullshitters® is way too easy. They are the Luddite clowns of the modern age. You’d think they’d care about their self-respect. Apparently, they’ve sold that as well as their shriveled souls.
You don’t change a brilliant design, you don’t fix something that’s not broken, you let samsung floor the market with every shape and size of rediculous phones, that’s what they are here for
MDN, your take on this occasion is so concise, vitriolic yet so entertaining and timely that it brings joy to a readers heart.
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Bunch of FUD from a reporter that knows nothing about technology.
ABC needs to hire a qualified tech reporter and get rid of this one.
Does Apple become a boring profit machine like Microsoft?…
At least we know it wasn’t Microsoft who paid off this rectal orifice, Sandy Cannold who writes for ABC News.
Remember this idiot’s name. They’re wrecked their reputation.
Sandy Cannold who writes for ABC News.
Used to be I eagerly read news from US especially the situation analysis by “analysts”. Now I look forward to the daily laughs
why are these numbers bad?
because these are not sales to the public, about half are carrier sales for their stores to later sell
Apple is playing Samsungs way now – so its bad
You are just trolling all over the place aren’t you?
Wow, let’s see just how STUPID stupid is. Stick your head back up where it belongs because your coming out is just plain laughably.
When your favorite Android maker gets it’s privates knocked on the dirt, you can only resort to hating and name calling? Pitifull ! Lasttime I checked, Samsung’s phone looked just like last year’s also. How different of you want it to look ? No one has improved on the design of the automobile in the last hundred years! Still has four wheels and an engine and the driver steers with a wheel.