Apple as Captain Queeg(scripting.com)
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Apple as Captain Queeg
http://scripting.com/stories/2010/07/24/steveJobsAsCaptainQueeg.html
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I think Apple is actually behaving completely reasonably about the antenna issue. I wouldn't have thought so until I realized that during the last few weeks, while I've had my iPhone 4, half a dozen strangers have approached me in public to ask me about my iPhone. Every single one of them had the same concern, which is if I had antenna issues and/or dropped calls. I never had a single person walk up to me and ask about any of the previous iPhones I owned, but now people regularly ask me about the single issue of the antenna. I am surprised to say it, but the antenna publicity put a big dent in the iPhone 4's reputation and Apple is definitely going to have to do some work, like posting lots of videos showing that other phone have similar problems, if they are going to minimize the bad reputation iPhone 4 got with some people.
That was a long story just to say that Apple is being petty with the Droid X video.
Not to mention “Rambling” and ”not written very well,” and ”based on a fairly ridiculous analogy given Apple's history over the last 5 years.”
If anything, the analogy should be reversed. Phones have had these problems with attenuation for years. Somehow it's Apple's epic problem now. Meanwhile everyone else has the problem but swears they are immune with “special dual-antenna designs,” a claim that one short skeptical video debunks.
If anything, the analogy should be reversed. Phones have had these problems with attenuation for years. Somehow it's Apple's epic problem now. Meanwhile everyone else has the problem but swears they are immune with “special dual-antenna designs,” a claim that one short skeptical video debunks.
Seems much more likely that Dave is Captain Queeg.Early success, muckraking ever after, yep. sounds like Dave Winer.
Very funny! :-)
I could leave the rest of the article, but I think the key point is that this story was largely on its way out at this point. The fact that Apple drug it back up yet again seems to suggest that their PR department just doesn't know how to handle bad PR.
Sure we have free cases. But what we don't have is Steve Jobs begging us to take them.
Not to mention Apple dragging the upstarts... you know, the other multi-billion dollar companies, into the mud.
Not to mention Apple dragging the upstarts... you know, the other multi-billion dollar companies, into the mud.
I get it, there's a lot of anti-Apple hate on the interwebs, but why in the hell should I waste more than 30 seconds of my life skimming this tripe?