Press Conference on Friday at Apple as Company Tries to Recover fromiPhone 4 Antenna Debacle

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fas...ce_friday.html

They will likely be resolving the antenna issue at that time by
providing cases to all purchasers at no cost and apologizing for the
way they handled the problem.

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Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 15 Jul 2010 01:59:44 -0700 Jessie K Chou wrote:
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fas..._iphone_4_pres
> s_conference_friday.html
>> They will likely be resolving the antenna issue at that time by
>> providing cases to all purchasers at no cost and apologizing for the
>> way they handled the problem.
>
>
> Or, alternatively, they'll just announce that they've sold x million units,
> tell us their customers love them, announce the release date of the
> software "fix," claim Consumer Reports used faulty testing methodology,
> and tell anyone who wants to return their iPhone 4 to return it,
> otherwise just "don't hold it like that!"

....or use a condom, er, raincoat, er, bumper -- at your own cost.

>
> "Apologize?" This is Apple we're talking about...

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:40:18 -0600, in
<D4O%[email protected]>, Todd Allcock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>At 15 Jul 2010 01:59:44 -0700 Jessie K Chou wrote:
>>
>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fas..._iphone_4_pres
>s_conference_friday.html
>>
>> They will likely be resolving the antenna issue at that time by
>> providing cases to all purchasers at no cost and apologizing for the
>> way they handled the problem.
>
>Or, alternatively, they'll just announce that they've sold x million units,
>tell us their customers love them, announce the release date of the
>software "fix," claim Consumer Reports used faulty testing methodology,
>and tell anyone who wants to return their iPhone 4 to return it,
>otherwise just "don't hold it like that!"
>
>"Apologize?" This is Apple we're talking about...

This is actually Steve Jobs we're talking about...
Apple without Jobs was much less arrogant,
but also much less successful.
The problem with the arrogant superstar business model is that while it
can often be amazingly right, it can also be amazingly wrong, as in the
case of NeXT, and the business model doesn't work at all after the
superstar is gone.

--
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]

In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
<[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem with the arrogant superstar business model is that while it
> can often be amazingly right, it can also be amazingly wrong, as in the
> case of NeXT, and the business model doesn't work at all after the
> superstar is gone.

next was hardly 'amazingly wrong.' they created a very nice development
platform that later became os x. their mistake was pricing it, along
with the obstacles from microsoft. nextstep/openstep was not cheap, but
those who used it loved it, including dell.

John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:

> it can also be amazingly wrong, as in the
> case of NeXT

the invention of the world wide web was amazingly wrong? sorry, but
NeXT's contributions to the world is pretty much the apex of any device
of the last 100 years.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:29:26 -0600, in
<[email protected]>, Mike Hofman
<[email protected]> wrote:

>John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> it can also be amazingly wrong, as in the
>> case of NeXT
>
>the invention of the world wide web was amazingly wrong? sorry, but
>NeXT's contributions to the world is pretty much the apex of any device
>of the last 100 years.

NeXT had nothing to do with the explosive growth of the Web.

--
John

"Facts? We ain't got no facts. We don't need no facts. I don't have
to show you any stinking facts!" [with apologies to John Huston]

In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
<[email protected]> wrote:

> >> it can also be amazingly wrong, as in the
> >> case of NeXT
> >
> >the invention of the world wide web was amazingly wrong? sorry, but
> >NeXT's contributions to the world is pretty much the apex of any device
> >of the last 100 years.
>
> NeXT had nothing to do with the explosive growth of the Web.

actually it did.

<http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html>

I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage
that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing
environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months
what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the
NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application
builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up.
there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is
what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen
as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to
add hypertext, (by subclassing the Text object)