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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Chiming in the iPhone 4 debacle

Tonight Bloomberg's Peter Burrows went on Charlie Rose and talked about how Apple has really become a victim of its own success.

No kidding.

I completely agree that the antenna issue has really been blown out of proportion. It's a design flaw but the product does not deserve that kind of bashing. At the same time though, it just shows how Steve Jobs doesn't understand how to play a sizable market. Putting up a slide that talks about < 0.55% (roughly 1 in 180) and being adamant about how that is a small percentage of users affected, that's just down right childish and disugusting. Think about this, the odds of picking 3 out of 5 in the California lottery is 1 in 300 (almost twice as unlikely) and the pay out is a meager $6 per winning ticket this week. Or how about this, if your Intel processor malfunctions once every trillion instructions, your computer breaks every 1/2 a second! Doesn't he understand 0.55% is alot of people who shlled out $400. Once again it proves that Steve Jobs is a big time jerk.

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At 7:39 PM, Anonymous Victor Wong said...

The real number of people representing 0.55% is a lot, but the number "0.55%" is really small. Steve Job is not dumb, he likes to downplay the significance. When you are a business owner, you will do the same thing.

 

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