Thursday Fun Links: Reflecting on iPhone-doubters Past
Not sure if it’s the year winding down, or malaise with alternatives, but a variety of sites have begun once again re-listing the quotes of competing executives who doubted Apple or the iPhone had potential, staying power, or even any chance for success what-so-ever. 3 generations, 40 odd million units, 100,000 applications, and 2 billion downloads later, these revisitations include:
- Gizmodo’s Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007
- AAPLinvestors iPhone Death Watch
- Daring Fireball’s ongoing Claim Chowder series [Google search link]
(TiPb typically files such things under CEOh Snap)
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I’m glad to see the iPhone has been so successful. I like that the competitors are stepping up and with good products so as to push Apple to innovate with their next model. Steve Balmer must be saying, “Damn, I’m was wrong again!”
In ur face suckers
I would love to see a tape of someone showing him his comments from then now and see his reaction! Would be very interesting I believe!
lol steve u shoulda known about steve
What’s funny as many of these jokers are now saying Android is gonna kill the iPhone. There is no chance. iPhone is too far ahead in unit sales and prices on iPhone will only go down from here and new carriers will eventually open up new markets.
i love iphone mobile phones, because they have all the required professional softwares in it. if you are a business man then i would recommend it to you. have fun.
I wasn’t aware that a physical keyboard was necessary for emailing. So, my iPhone emails haven’t been going through all this time?
I am a once and future iPhone doubter. I didn’t think it would gain the traction it has, now I own three (me, wife, son). Despite their shortcomings (and they are numerous and mainly revolve around Apple being run by total control freaks) they are the best smartphone currently on the market.
I think they will stay a great phone, but market share will peak and decline as other, more open platforms, begin to match the iPhone’s features and ease of use.
But hey, what do I know? I’ve been wrong before.
The iPhone death watch site is hilarious. What a collection of clueless assclowns!
What gets me is that the people that will come in here saying “yeah, you should never doubt…blah blah blah” will be the same folks coming in here doubting every other platform that’s not iPhone’s.
If one thing should be learned from this, no matter who or what, never doubt them. You’ll just look like an assclown in the end when you’re proven wrong.
Criticisms of the iPhone in 2007 were valid. It was too expensive, lacked basic features, and was EDGE only. Only after the release of the 3G and App Store did the iPhone become a world-beater.
I was thinking today. I don’t yet know anyone who owns an iPhone who has changed to a different phone later. That has to be unprecedented after 2 years, especially considering the number of people now with them.
Actually, if you LISTEN to what Ballmer actually SAID he was spot on.
You may remember that Apple was forced to drop prices dramatically shortly after version 1 was released because it was NOT selling well.
This interview took place before the iPhone was actually for sale. Ballmer CORRECTLY predicted the phone would not sell at that price. He was proven right.
It wasn’t till the price was cut and the subsidy dramatically raised that this phone started selling.
He also conceded even back then that Zune was not going anywhere.
You know you dont have much going on in the world of iphone when your are digging up archive footage.
Although i should expect that from a site like this (and Gizmodo since they are sucking SJ off every night).
Reading this is akin to a Bag of Hurt that is Blu-Ray….wait what?
But you also have to remember not everyone was on the Apple bandwagon (die hard Apple fans are who wanted the iPhone at first and remember that’s only 5% of the computer market), no matter what, it was going to take a little while before the iPhone was going to take off. When applications started to become available that is when people could see reason to switch from other smartphones. I think if the price was $400 now it would still be popular, look how many people buy jailbroke iPhones for that price or more.