Comments on: Mac fans are nothing if not predictable

By: His Shadow

His Shadow — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:17:17 +0000

Let me get this straight. You review a product you have never touched and found it wanting. You then have the gall to make recommendations to potential customers of a device no has seen and that you admittedly know almost nothing about.

So why exactly do you get to bitch and moan about the response you got?

Face it. The only thing predictable about these debacles is that ignorant analysts proselytize about things they know nothing about and then are shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that they get called on their horsecrap, and somehow believe they have been wronged.

You wrote a column full of ntohing and pretended it was analysis. You got what you deserved and any claim to the contrary just enforces the fact that most tech writers are hacks.

By: lionemom

lionemom — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:46:43 +0000

(Hi, Andrew!)
So I am late posting here, but I remembered reading something about this just after Steve Jobs finished his keynote at macworld. So I googled and found something similar with the same info. What most Apple fanboys (which, by the way, the author of this piece calls HIMSELF!) seem to either not know or forget? The iPhone is not that impressive in Japan, where they are WAY beyond us the in the world of cell phone technology.

http://www.tranism.com/weblog/2007/01/sorry_iphone_ja.html

And, moonshadow, that is awesome!

By: moonshadow

moonshadow — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:28:40 +0000

here’s something to check out it says it all http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=354164471&size=o

By: poo-flinging monkey

poo-flinging monkey — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:12:47 +0000

I am not a monkey; you should ignore the monkeys.

Sometimes you have to walk past their cage, but they don’t usually start screaming and flinging poo unless you unless something sets them off. sometimes they start on their own. sometimes you do things you don’t realize will set them off – like appearing out of nowhere or kicking a rock which hits their cage.

you didn’t mean to set them off, they won’t understand even if you do apologise, but there’s no reason to do anything but keep walking. don’t let them bother you. whether you or they are right or wrong is not important if all you want is to stop getting poo on you – just move away from the cage.

you can’t blame the screaming poo-flinging monkeys for being what they are, and you can’t change them.

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:03:56 +0000

what you did to bait them, andrew, was to write a positive first paragraph. that made them think ‘ok maybe i’ve taught him his lesson and he will finally kiss the groud Lord Jobs walks upon in this column. i will read on…’

and then you didn’t.

come on, mac fans, you know what to expect from andrew. and he’s not wrong. there are some important issues to take with the iphone. although it’s really neat, it’s not revolutionary. it’s not something i’d bet the consumer market – at least the folks who don’t want to pay for paving the road – is ready for. the only reason i’d want to get one is to show it to other people and say ‘hey look what i got me…’ and the only service i can get reliably where i live is verizon’s, so it would be an expensive, good-looking mp3 player for me. i already have an ipod.

i really think you get a kick out of going at andrew when he offers his comments on these things. the noise in these comments is all you guys getting your kicks by ganging up on someone you don’t like.

what do you mac fans think about the zune?

By: Alex MacDonald

Alex MacDonald — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:28:52 +0000

Lol, probably. Although it is on a Windows 2000 server, so that may be it.

By: GaryL

GaryL — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:32:37 +0000

That would explain why its down at the moment.

By: Alex MacDonald

Alex MacDonald — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:39:13 +0000

I swear, some of these people make me want to switch back to Windows (Vista isn’t looking too bad right now).. Kantor writes in a column and his blog, it’s editorial, opinion, of which he’s entitled. I’ve been waiting a long time for a device that syncs seamlessly with my mac, but for me (opinion coming) this iteration of the iPhone (Apple Phone if the trademark thing doesn’t go away) isn’t it. Not because of 3g for me but because of it being a locked down system with no exchange sync functionality. Like it or not exchange is the prevailing infrastructure in corporate America and without interoperability selling 10 million of these things in the first year is nigh on impossible. Thats 20% of cingulars subscriber base! A subscriber base that 95% of spend $0-$100 on a phone. Not gonna happen no matter how shiny it is. I’m perfectly happy with the actual smartphones I do have, you know, the ones that let me add the software I want to add, use autd on my exchange server, add the memory that I want to add and have an actual “useable” keyboard (unlike the touchscreen monstrosity that David Pogue found “Difficult”) that I can use one handed while driving and composing SMS messages and browsing the web… Plus, and this is a biggie, I can stay contract free with t-mobile, get my phones unlocked by them and get my data for $19.99 instead of the $45 that cingular charge.. Not to mention that Mark Space have done an incredible job with the missing sync for WM5.. Yeah, I like my smartphones to be just that, smart… An no, I haven’t held this phone, never actually will until it does become “smart”, it’s just my uneducated opinion of something that I have absolutely no knowledge btw, so go easy fellers.. I swear, I am a mac user, my website was even “made on a mac”…

By: Gzero

Gzero — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:37:10 +0000

I bet you’re actually pretty pleased with the responses you get from so-called “Mac fanboys”; otherwise, you probably wouldn’t get any hits on this site at all. Nice going.

By: thufir

thufir — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:01:14 +0000

andrew, I have to ditto big time what matt said above– it’s the user interface that makes this thing so special. Focusing on the techincals (“not enough memory”, or “not 3G”) just demonstrates you have lost sight of the big picture. Got caught up with the trees rather than the forest. It’s the UI that will make this thing take off. Example: my wife who doesn’t give a crap about how cell phone work, who is the very antithesis of a geek (she hasn’t even touched her brand new motorola-whatever phone, which is still sitting there on our counter after two weeks without being activated), after seeing the iphone, now she’s a ravenous fan: “I’ve gotta have this!”. That’s the kind of reaction which will cause the iphone to skyrocket. average non-geeky people are gonna crave this thing like crazy. Why? Because the UI.