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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. He also predicted before the apple press conference where they gave away free bumpers for antenna problems that apple
by andrewtbham 15y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. He also predicted before the apple press conference where they gave away free bumpers for antenna problems that apple had halted production of iphones.
http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/missing-in-action/ http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/missing-in-action/
- Apocryphon 15y agoWhat's Cringely's reputation? Why would be considered a broken clock?
- avree 15y agoCringely prides himself on his predictions. He makes many of them. Sometimes they are extremely accurate—sometimes they are extremely off (like predicting that Apple would buy Time Warner Cable, or predicting that Apple would halt production of iPhone 4s to 'fix the antenna issue [http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/missing-in-action/] http://www.cringely.com/2010/07/missing-in-action/])
- Uhhrrr 15y agoHe at least used to make an annual list and score himself later: 2011: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.cringely.com/tag/2011-predictions/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... 2009: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081216_005509.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081216_0055... 2006: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070105_001440.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070105_0014... For 2009 he scores himself 4 right and 11 wrong, which is certainly broken clock territory, but he's usually decent for a pundit.