Letters to the Editor
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Enough with the iPhone already!
Isn't there anything else happening in the technology world or is the iPhone the epitome of technology and nothing else is worth talking about?
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Bill:
It is the hot topic lately, unless you can suggest another more exciting topic for Farhad to report on. That said, nobody is forcing you to read this stuff!
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AT&T
I was at the AT&T store today to yell at them about something, and I asked the sales clerk about the iPhone. He told me that they had just received a new shipment about ten minutes before I got there. How big was this shipment? A princely three devices. Their initial shipment was 16, and sold out in twenty minutes.
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I would fire the moron who over produced them
Shortages mean they more or less accurately predicted their production run. If they had run up big inventories it means that they over estimated demand and over produced to massive cost overruns. I would fire the person who made that mistake. Who wants the first batch anyway? You know they're going to tweak it and fix a few blemishes here and there. High inventories would mean they would have to drop the price, possibly below the cost and no one wants a fire sale like that disaster the PS3.
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Next Week
My better half ordered an iPhone via the Apple website and it will be shipped July 13. No rush, no lines, that's fine. Not everybody needs one the second it goes on sale. Reminds me of those media-staged Day After Thanksgiving sales where cameras record people stampeding through Walmart doors, risking life and limb for a $39 dVD player.
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1 Million Phones Activated
There are rumors that over a million iPhones have already been activated by AT&T. If that's truly the case somebody needs to hose down Motorola - it just s**t all over itself.
Wonder how long before Apple decides to leverage OS-X and enter the lucrative videogame space? Nintendo just proved you'd don't need bleeding edge hardware to launch a successful platform with their Wii - it's all about the interface and the games. Apple's strength is in interface and software. Seems like Apple could easily afford to blow $500 million or so in conjunction with Intel to launch their own videogame platform, with titles that would run on the Mac, the eventual successor to the AppleTV or the iPhone.
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"RealName":
You're trying to piss on the parade. You'll likely keep pissing against the wind about a phone you've never used that is blowing away the competition for wildly obvious reasons that you were too stubborn or too jealous to realize. The numbers don't lie, only your posts do.
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Does that shit talking mean anything
Or are you just a shit talker?
Seriously. So you don't like me? Bully fuck all for you, child. Now go bang your bong addled head against the wall, fuckwit. I=i'm sorry that I didn't drink your haterade but now piss off.
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Haterade
"Does that shit talking mean anything"
Yes, it does.
"Or are you just a shit talker?"
Nope. I was exposing you as one though. For example:
"I would fire the moron who over produced them" and "Who wants the first batch anyway?"
Do you live in a cave? It's well over 500,000 sold in a week. Even the RAZR didn't start with such a big lead.
"Seriously. So you don't like me? Bully fuck all for you, child. Now go bang your bong addled head against the wall, fuckwit. I=i'm sorry that I didn't drink your haterade but now piss off."
Hahaha...sounds like you did drink some haterade. For the record, I never said I didn't like you. It's also very amusing to see you call me a child while you're acting like one. Who is the shit talker now?
Btw, you write like an angry Republican blogger: Accusing someone of something you are guilty of doing, name calling, swearing, telling people to hurt themselves, rage, spouting non-facts as truth, etc. Well, I hope you enjoy reading Salon, even if it is bad for your blood pressure.
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Johnnyrandom
Let's try this again with small words and short sentences.
If
You overproduced something
Such that
You were left with
Large Inventories of
Unsold
Merchandise
Then
You
Would have blown your own estimates.
Now. That wasn't too fucking complex for you, was it?
Was it? Johnnyrandom? Was it?
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What the heck are you blathering about?
I am currently sending you this email listening to my new iPhone.
I went in to an AT&T store on Sunday afternoon, placed an order, paid an extra $14 for express shipping, and had my new iPhone in my hands on Tuesday afternoon. 15 minutes online and my phone was activated.
Why are you bad-mouthing Apple about this? There are no FACTS to support your idiotic blasts.
Another bogus complaint:
The Keyboard: The onscreen keyboard is three times the size of a Blackberry's. I have waited to get a texting phone until I get one with a keyboard that my chubby fingers can actually use.I learned to type accurately on it within an afternoon.
Please back up your criticisms, and not just spout them without thinking.
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Realname
"Let's try this again with small words and short sentences."
Oh, sorry...I forgot the other technique of the angry Republican blogger (which I'm assuming you are based on the previous two responses): Demeaning and condescending responses, regardless of reality or fact.
"If
You overproduced something
Such that
You were left with
Large Inventories of
Unsold
Merchandise
Then
You
Would have blown your own estimates."
Absolutely true...if it was based on reality or fact. Neither of which you have. You haven't even cited a single reputable source for your flimsy accusations! The facts remain that the iPhone is the best selling phone EVER within a one week period in the entire history of mankind to date. Is that too complex for you to to comprehend? On top of that, we have not heard a single report of overstocked iPhones, failed sales or much else to the contrary. If anything, this launch is being touted as the most successful cell phone launch, EVER. The numbers don't lie. Do they? Realname?
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Available in CA
According to the Apple website, most (though not all) Apple Stores in California and New York have iPhones available for sale Tuesday, July 10, although now they're sold out in Oregon.