There. That ought to generate a little traffic.
Apple is getting better and better at generating buzz for upcoming products. I’ll bet half a box of Kleenex® and a brass bookmark George W. Bush would get less press coverage jumping naked from the third story of a burning brothel than the iPhone 3G has gotten.
The weird part is, I probably won’t get one for a while. We don’t have 3G in my neighborhood yet.
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Just got my new issue of Mac|Life in the mail. They devote several pages to the iPhone 3G. Betcha didn’t know it doesn’t have copy and paste. I swear it. It doesn’t have voice dialing either. Can you believe it?
It’s a phone. Really, people. It’s a freaking phone. It does a lot of stuff phones are kind of new at doing, and a bunch of stuff that NO OTHER PHONE CAN DO AT ALL.
Let’s say I have a dog. It can talk, type, sing the National Anthems of every English-speaking country in the world, and cook. I want to sell it for slightly more than the price of a standard dog of the same breed.
In this climate I’d be up against a chorus of complaints about its inability to fly a plane or perform differential calculus.
Sure. It’s good to keep pushing the technology forward, but DAMN.
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The Macalope and Daring Fireball have already scooped me on this, but there’s some lady named Anita Hamilton who thinks iPhone Apps should be free. This would be an absurd suppository in and of itself and without qualification, but she probably got paid to write the article.
In nature there is no free anything.
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The “99 Cents Only Stores” in Sahuarita AZ, and Coachella, CA, will each be selling nine iPod Nanos for 99 Cents each on Thursday, July 10. This according to Earth Times.
That isn’t free but it’s close, so, um, Anita, why don’t you make a road trip to Arizona. You’ll save hundreds. Maybe.
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After absolutely nothing happened today to change the value of Apple’s stock, the price went up five bucks. This exactly mirrors the lack of tangible factors which caused the stock price to go down.
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Experian has released a study that says some people don’t plan to buy 3G iPhones. In fact they claim 54% of online consumers won’t buy them. That means 46% of online consumers will buy iPhones, according to my math. Let’s see, a swillion-skillion and seven online shoppers — eight times nine is seventy-two, carry the one, i before e except after c, then take the square root of the hypotenuse – according to my calculations that’s a bunch of phones Apple is about to sell. Experian makes their report sound like a death knell for Apple. Based on the gloom-and-doom tone of the report, it’s easy to guess which way all their rounding errors went, if you get my drift. Even if all their numbers are accurate it sounds pretty rosy for Cupertino.
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We have met the enemy, and he is us.
– Walt Kelly
10 responses so far ↓
1 Sarah // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Don’t talk to me about Mac - stupid pipe symbol - Life. They used to be cool when they were MacAddict. They understood how Mac people feel. Now they are boring sell-outs and you have to wade through pages of ads for Sony computers running Vista in order to hear them complain about whatever Apple released three months ago. We’ve been MacAddict subscribers since issue 1, but as soon as our current subscription runs out, that’s the end…
2 baxtrice // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Remember, the iPhone is doomed, DOOOOMED! (are there enough o’s in that?) Because Google/Android is open source standa… blah blah blah.
/snark
3 zacksback // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I agree that the Mac|Life isn’t that great. I started with issue 1 also and collected the CDs. That was back in the days when they were kinda snarky and irreverent. Jack Miler wrote a couple pieces for them and he fit right in. Now it’s corporate and boring.
4 zacksback // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Jack Miller (I read it three times and still missed it - sobriety sucks)
5 Huh? // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Sobriety… This strange word you use… What does it mean?
As to the 50-whatever percent of people not using 3g… I know of at least 4 people. They live in North Carolina, and barely get regular cell coverage. Just look at a map showing 3g, and about, oh… HALF is not covered… yeah…
Should I not be drinking this?
6 Nxxx // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Have spotted the flaw in your dog illustration. If the dog can sing the National Anthems of every English-speaking country in the world, who is going to sing the Star Spangled Banner?
7 Rip // Jul 8, 2008 at 6:00 am
@Nxxx
Roseanne Barr.
8 Caped Cod // Jul 8, 2008 at 7:12 am
So now you’re insulting all of the dogs in your illustration, whether they can type, sing, etc., or not. PETA’s going to have a field day.
9 zacksback // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:07 am
Forget the damn dogs. Is Anita Hamilton coming here to Az today or not? Wife’s due home tomorrow and I need to know if this woman is Don Julio cute or Millers Lite cute.
10 Paul // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:38 am
Sir, please! Lack of 3G is no excuse for not buying a 3G iPhone and supporting the Steve.
Also, seems to me lack of copy/paste Steve being stubborn again, like one-button mice. It’s got a fricking web browser! Why would it not have copy/paste?
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