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Indeed. You don't get to sell someone a magical life-changing device that will make you breakfast in bed on Tuesdays and then dismiss it as trivial when a bit o
by cheald 16y ago
Indeed. You don't get to sell someone a magical life-changing device that will make you breakfast in bed on Tuesdays and then dismiss it as trivial when a bit of user dissatisfaction comes along. Apple doesn't sell "just a phone" - they sell a brand, an experience, an identity. For Jobs to dismiss it as "just a phone" is somewhat disingenuous in light of his marketing approach.
- Timothee 16y agoTo be fair, the iPad is the magical and revolutionary product, not the iPhone. The iPhone just changes everything. Again.
- stcredzero 16y agoThis level of grumbling about the iPhone certainly is a change versus the last one.
- grellas 16y agoPerhaps the real attitude is summed up best by Fake Steve through satire (http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html): "So some guy says his iPhone 4 is having reception issues. I say there is no reception issue. Now it’s his reality against my reality. Which one of us is living in the real reality? There’s a two-part answer: 1, there is no real reality, and 2, it doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is which reality our customers will choose to adopt as their own. Of course most people would rather live in a reality where everything works and there are no problems. And now, thanks to me, that reality exists. Because I’ve created that reality for them."