Comments on: The iPhone Tour: I Give Up

By: Bejron

Bejron — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:09:43 +0000

Seriously, give it a break !! Sure it’s new and interesting but you can’t compare the iPhone launch with CLI (Command Line Interface) vs GUI (Graphical User Interface)..

By: maniacmusician

maniacmusician — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:56:29 +0000

Stop complaining about people that complain about your coverage of the iPhone. Everybody’s doing it (plug: Engadget), but it’s still not cool.

By: George

George — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:37:37 +0000

We’ll see if all you speak of comes true, or Steve Jobs ends up hanging out with Milli, and Vanilli.

I will say though I pity the people who hastily change their carrier to AT&T as they are pretty lousy, IMHO.

Also there is not a phone out there that loads google map data as fast as they depict in the propaganda, not even a 3g phone! So it’ll be interesting how many real-world experiences match the slick marketing pitch.

By: B Dobbs

B Dobbs — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:34 +0000

I don’t understand the reluctance to cover one of the biggest mobile product launches OF ALL TIME. There didn’t seem to be the same reluctance to cover that turd of a music player, the Zune.

In fact, I still see regular stories about the Zune on here… a music player that by most accounts seems to have been bought by about 3 people.

There IS a difference between “hype” and genuine excitement for an innovative product. That’s the distinction between Microsoft and Apple: MS needs to pay people to act excited about thier products, and Apple just shows you the product, and people tend to wet themselves naturally. Cynics call it the “Reality Distortion Field” (TM), but the reality is that people are ACTUALLY excited about the iPhone.

By: yoshi

yoshi — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:46:53 +0000

Hmm… for someone who’s first computer was a Mac 128k and lived through MS/Apple DOS and every single damned version of Windows – your rant doesn’t work for me. Especially since MacOS came out just under 2 years before Windows 1.0 did so you got the order wrong.

After MacOS – the next real groundbreaking desktop OS was OS/2 (linux doesn’t count since it wasn’t real usable at the time). A multitasking OS that was years ahead of Windows and MacOS in capability and stability. So while you where rebooting your machine every time you clicked on an icon, piddling with your config.sys files to maximize the available memory under 640k, we were connected to a dozen other hosts, creating and sharing files, and we just turned off our screens at night and went home with the full knowledge that machine wouldn’t be dead when we came in in the morning.

That was my moment – because after OS/2 got beaten down – it was a massive step back to deal with Windows NT and 2000. But by then Unix was coming in being …