Wow, Bloomberg "iPhone, massive fail"

[Myiphone7]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/appl...use-battelle-says-vBInxb_tQAujI9B6mB_YXg.html

This dude is out of his mind. iPhone hard to use???? Where's his brain!?!

 

[scaredpoet]

LOL!!! The Apple fanboy (he said it) going against Apple. I actually feel sorry that Apple no longer has Steve Jobs. Did anyone think Tim Cook would be a better Steve?
Tim Cook should have never come out and critized maps and offer third party alternatives this past Friday. It's a sign of weakness and uncertainty.

Oh, you mean like, how Steve first insisted in 2007 that third party developers should develop web based apps for the iPhone, and then later backtracked with an open letter to announce that plans for an App Store was coming?

Oh you mean like, how Apple dropped the price of the original iPhone for Christmas '07, and then when early adopters got angry, he offered Apple credit in an open letter?

Oh you mean like, how Steve pretty much acknowledged that Mobile Me's launch was a disaster and early adopters who paid money for something that initially were given several months of credit for sticking it out?

Oh you mean, antenngate and free bumpers?

Yeah, Steve NEVER would've addressed his customers to deal with a screwup. Never did it, ever.


Your points, and the points of this Bloomberg pundit, are pretty much exactly what the links in my signature point out. This isn't the first time Apple has stumbled on a product launch, and this isn't the first time people who love to cause a trainwreck for the thrill of watching it unfold have said the likes of "I've owned 9001 MacBook Pros, 5 of every iPhone model, 10 of every iPod, and have owned Apple products since the Apple II, but CLEARLY this is the end for Apple."

And then it doesn't happen.

If you're THAT sure the Appleocalypse is nigh, then please, find a better alternative, and buy it already. Judging from the sale numbers, it sure seems like hardly any number worth mentioning has actually done this.

If I was running a burger joint and someone

But you're NOT running a burger joint, and you're not running Apple. When you ARE running a burger joint, you can then criticize burger joints.

And when you ARE running a computer company, then you can kick Apple's butt and take their lead from them. Let us know when you do. Because clearly, if you knew more than Tim Cook about how to run a company like Apple, you'd be running a company like Apple already.

 

[rman726]

Battelle's original blog post for reference:

http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/09/am-i-an-outlier-or-are-apple-products-no-longer-easy-to-use.php

"WTF is all this “other” ****, I wondered to myself. "

Wait, this is a professional writer?

 

[protobiont]

Sooty, but what kind of self respecting tech blogger would have bought an iPhone 4 the month before the 4s came out?