DISQUS

May C · 2 years ago

I hope I don't get flamed for this, but I consider any company to be just like any other. Google, Apple and other big companies that we know are very similar to the other enemies that we like to label like Microsoft, etc. The only difference is that they are likely not at the very top and fighting to be.

I have long stopped being loyal to any one company since they aren't loyal to their customers either so we're even. So no, I don't think of Google as any better than Microsoft or other company.

Louis Wheeler · 2 years ago

This is just a three day wonder, Matthew; no one is going to care if some hackers got hosed for acting stupid. It wasn't as though you weren't warned. So what if they turned their iphones into iPod Touches?

This won't affect iPhone sales, at all, over the Christmas quarter. I expect to see three to four million iPhones sold to common, ordinary people who would never dream of hacking their phones.

I'm just amused at the hysteria. And at the double standard. The hackers can violate Apple's rights with impunity, but Apple can't void their warranties, write over their apps or brick their phones. Not so.

Brett · 2 years ago

You write " I think people have grown used to the idea of Apple as a different kind of company — the company that makes things easier to use, not harder; ...".

One of the ways Apple has traditionally made things easier to use is by limiting options. They have done this, for example, by selling relatively few different computer hardware configurations, and in the case of the iPhone by bundling a limited set of software. Apple is not prepared to support users with problems stemming from third party hacks. Apple products have NEVER been geared for tinkerers.

All the whining is coming from people who are trying to make the iPhone something that it is currently not: an open platform. Maybe someday it will get there but Apple doesn't owe it to anyone.

When Apple says Think Different they mean: products for non-geeks-- a simple streamlined, controlled environment with no hacking required or desired.

The iPhone remains consistant with this philosphy. I have no sympathy for people judging the iPhone for not meeting expectations that were never promised by Apple.

Free Ipod Touch · 2 years ago

"Think different" is total baloney :( Apple wants to be the same as all the other phone companies. If I knew they would brick my phone, i would have never bought it.

Dan · 2 years ago

Brett hit the nail on the head. Absolutely accurate. Good job!

UserX · 2 years ago

It's nothing more than just marketing. And no one knows marketing better than Apple. Though the fervent believers want to believe otherwise, it's just another company.

Apple is a corporation, and corporations act in their own self-interests first and foremost. If satisfying the customer can help them sell more products they'll do that, but don't mistake that for some kind of benevolence. If for some reason it stops making sense for Apple to stop giving its customers what they want, it'll do that in a heartbeat. As it had done in the past.

Free iPhone · 1 year ago

The iPhone is now the second best selling mobile in the US. You cannot really argue with those figures.

John

talktalk1 · 1 month ago

nice