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Really, find an Apple keynote ever where this wasn't said. “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” is the classic example. The iPad was eviscerated ever

Really, find an Apple keynote ever where this wasn't said. “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” is the classic example. The iPad was eviscerated everywhere. The iPhone was laughed off as inferior in sooo many ways to Nokia's N95. Conversely, good luck finding an article predicting that podcasts would change everything. --- Yes, they improved a lot of things. They made a lot of good ideas standard functionality and in most cases, hard-wired them into the device hardware in a way that was unimaginable before. I'd bet a lot of money that we'll look at downloads on Apple TV's app store compared to FireTV and Roku's and laugh that they were ever compared.

danieldk 11y ago
Really, find an Apple keynote ever where this wasn't said. The problem of this line of reasoning is that it can be used to bin any criticism levelled at Apple. Some criticism has merit other criticism does not. Judge criticism by that. (E.g., many of the criticisms of Ping or the 5c were pretty much on the mark.) To be honest, I recognize some of the criticism of the article. On the other hand, Good artists copy; great artists steal. In the end it is all about execution. It is interesting to see who did it before (if not for computer archeology), but if they did it better, it will fly.
- saturdaysaint 11y ago
  Criticism is fine, but I think it's fair to set a high bar (there've been some good and worthwhile technical criticisms in recent months that pass IMO). So much Apple keynote criticism is just lazy snark. Last year, the song and dance was a constant stream of "eh, it's just bigger". Which was fair in a sense, and it scored a pedantic point for those that argued the screen was too small, but it really missed the mark in giving the sense that the iPhone 6 was (a) a great phone and (b) basically about to upend the last vestiges of Android from the high-end (profitable) marketplace.
kzhahou 11y ago
> good luck finding an article predicting that podcasts would change everything Wait... are you saying podcasts changed everything? I don't see any large impact on content consumption.

danieldk 11y ago

Really, find an Apple keynote ever where this wasn't said. The problem of this line of reasoning is that it can be used to bin any criticism levelled at Apple. Some criticism has merit other criticism does not. Judge criticism by that. (E.g., many of the criticisms of Ping or the 5c were pretty much on the mark.) To be honest, I recognize some of the criticism of the article. On the other hand, Good artists copy; great artists steal. In the end it is all about execution. It is interesting to see who did it before (if not for computer archeology), but if they did it better, it will fly.

saturdaysaint 11y ago
Criticism is fine, but I think it's fair to set a high bar (there've been some good and worthwhile technical criticisms in recent months that pass IMO). So much Apple keynote criticism is just lazy snark. Last year, the song and dance was a constant stream of "eh, it's just bigger". Which was fair in a sense, and it scored a pedantic point for those that argued the screen was too small, but it really missed the mark in giving the sense that the iPhone 6 was (a) a great phone and (b) basically about to upend the last vestiges of Android from the high-end (profitable) marketplace.

kzhahou 11y ago

> good luck finding an article predicting that podcasts would change everything Wait... are you saying podcasts changed everything? I don't see any large impact on content consumption.