Scoble Wrong About Iphone

What are people saying?

1. Vince Williams said on January 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

   I like the beard–that and the beret give you that
   Che-just-in-from-the-jungle look.

   But really, you can’t go around hopping in bed with people like you were Paris Hilton or something. What do expect from these media whores?

   Life is simple–just ask yourself what Paris would do, and then do the opposite.

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2. Jim Turner said on January 10th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

   Okay, while you are there, pick me up a new keyboard, this one has diet soda all over it now from being snorted out my nose!!! That is priceless use of the nickname “Scoby”!!

   Robert needs to call his link blog Scoby Snacks!

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3. Tris Hussey said on January 10th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

   I dunno Loren. Yeah he might be off on those points, but I think iPhone is going to disappoint … when it first launches. Version 2, now that will rock.

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4. Allen Stern said on January 10th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

   Hey Loren - go check out my post about 3 reasons why the iPhone won’t be as big as some expect:
   http://www.centernetworks.com/three-reasons-why-the-iphone

   (also your “website” field on this form is too short - can you extend it by at least another 100 characters?– thanks)

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5. Loren Feldman said on January 11th, 2007 at 9:01 am

   Vince

   Do you care about my mind at all?

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6. jvon said on January 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

   I’m with Scobie on this one. I think the iphone will flop. The ipod was brilliant, but the only reason it was so successful is that they beat everyone else to market. They think they can do it again with a phone for some reason, but guess what? We all have phones. Lots of them play mp3s. Mine does, I don’t use it for that. My ipod works better for that. My phone takes pictures and video also, but I don’t use it for that either; my Canon digicam works better.

   The only people who will be interested in this product are Apple fanatics, and the half-dozen people who don’t own a digicam or an ipod.

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7. jvon said on January 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

   Oh and Cisco is suing them for using the name. Oops.

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8. jvon said on January 11th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

   Oh and one other thing: I own a video ipod. I don’t watch video on it. The one time I tried to watch something longer than a few minutes I had to visit the chiropractor the next day to put my head on straight again. So for video, sorry, that’s not going to work either.

   The way that video will come to handheld devices is when someone comes up with a workable pair of goggles (or whatever) that you can plug into a device and see a reasonable sized image in front of you. I’ll sure as hell buy one of those. Even better if it will take VGA input off a laptop.

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9. Vince Williams said on January 11th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

   Loren, nah, I don’t care about your mind at all. I was wondering about your dongles, though.

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10. Loren Feldman said on January 11th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    They are dongling.

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11. Vince Williams said on January 11th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    Loren, I’ve never told you this before, but I’m psychic.

    i knew that already.

    We could still go to Barbados.

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12. PodTech.net: Blog » Blog Archive » Would you download a movie to buy or rent? said on January 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    [...] Granted, this has nothing to do with Netflix’s business model, or does it?  People get renting movies.  They understand going to the store and renting.  They understand going to Wal-Mart or Costco and buying the "must have" DVD. I think people are even getting Netflix.  I don’t think people will get downloading a movie.  Not yet anyway.  Not only that, but I don’t think each a fraction of people have the bandwidth or machines capable of making downloading a movie a positive experience.  Not offence to Robert (unlike Loren, I don’t think he’s wrong all the time), but he is ahead of the curve on lots of things.  I think he’s ahead on this one to. [...]