Comments on: Are you still talking about that?

By: Blain

Blain — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:44:04 +0000

I’m late to the party, but I offer this:

The first iMac had a good 3 months from announcement to shipping. And it had the big hub-bub about conventional phone data speeds (33.6 vs 56k, anyone?), lack of this (floppies), lack of that (old ports). Everyone scrambled to lambast it(Actually, what did Ballmer say about the iMac?) and/or copy it (badly). And of course, we know how the iMac did.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:03:57 +0000

My guess has been that the iPhone announcement was timed primarly to zap the Zune media balloon. Intentionally or not, it sure did the job. Between the iPod as a current and competitive choice and the iPhone, which promises to leapfrog any Zune distinction or advantage, MS lost the first round if not the fight.

By: Rip Ragged

Rip Ragged — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:12:13 +0000

Thanks. It spoils the whole oh-I’m-so-much-smarter-than-you effect when I just leave a screw up laying about.

Happy Friday

By: Follower

Follower — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:33:22 +0000

Nima - I have no doubt your aquaintance has cooled on the whole iPhone thing right now, despite their initial enthusiasm. But just before the launch, after the advertising has begun in earnest, when the thought occurs of going by the Apple or AT&T store to see if they have any available… Don’t be surprised if they once again have a change of heart.

By: The Macalope

The Macalope — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:52:51 +0000

A.,

Elk. Or so the Macalope is told.

Mr. Ragged,

The Macalope fixed your tag for you.

By: a. musing

a. musing — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:34:14 +0000

Hey Macalope! I live in Alabama (context) and I was reading your website when friend who is a hunter came up behind me and saw the word ‘Macalope’ on my screen. He said “MACalope?” (just like that) - “What’s the Hell…” (well - he said ‘Hail’) “…is a MACalope?”. So I tried to explain, he interrupted, “Well what’s it TASTE like?”.

And I started to wonder, what *does* macalope taste like?

By: Rip Ragged

Rip Ragged — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:12:38 +0000

Oops. I forgot to close my tag.

By: Rip Ragged

Rip Ragged — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:11:57 +0000

I would like to ask some of these dimwit analysts a few questions. First, I would ask, “Are you surprised at how bad your assertions suck?”

I’m just wondering if it occurs to any of them that if you apply broken logic to invented facts you don’t really get a useable opinion. What you get is quite similar to the product of a properly functioning alimentary canal.

Perhaps they have misinterpreted the derivation of the term “analyst” to mean one who worships the human rectum. This would explain where their heads are.

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:18:29 +0000

I know there are a lot of blogs and a lot of dumb things can be said, but this article is amazing. Just before I flipped to the Macalope, I was thinking about the incredible buzz that the iphone had created. As brilliant as I think Jobs may be, I don’t believe the he or anybody else could have imagined the hysteria being caused by a product that’s still waiting to be released. Yesterday, Apple’s stock dipped 4 BILLION dollars in a matter of minutes because this new Holy Grail of phones was erroneously reported to be delayed until September.

And then this fool of the week decides to put in print so he can be quoted for all time that it was a mistake to preanounce the phone? Let’s forget about the fact that the phone had to be announced to get FCC approval. In February, an economist was estimating that Apple had received $400,000 in free publicity for the phone. $400,000? Chicken feed compared to the amount of buzz they’ve generated since then. I mean the publicity on this has turned into a freaking feeding frenzy (I like alliterations).

There’s still not guarentee that the iphone will be successful, but to argue that the preannouncement hasn’t led to what may be the greatest free advertising campaign in marketing history - is madness.

By: Dai Jones

Dai Jones — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:25:58 +0000

Jesus, these people are twats. Who “widely characterised” the announcement of the iPhone as a mis-step? What’s dominated the tech headlines ever since? What’s apple’s stock price? And why, OH GOD WHY, do Information Week still send me spam emails despite “unsubscribing”? I leave it as a philosophical point whether you can *unsubscribe* without ever, actually and really, *subscribing*. Christ knows how I ended up on their pointless shit spam list, but my rule of thumb is if an organisation sends you spam, it can’t be taken seriously whatever