CrunchGear blogger Seth Porges thinks the iPhone will bomb, and he makes a good case for it, even if it seems counterintuitive at first.
"Will Bomb" is the exact quote from the
Disappointment in how expensive it is, coupled with the painful two-year commitment, is up 1000%.
So my initial thought is, the buzz enough to float it to a success, but the price of coolness will be a major deterrent.
But Porges delineates what else he thinks will go wrong on launch:
…when the iPhone comes, Digg will likely be full of horror stories from the poor saps who camped out at their local AT&T store, only to find their purchase was buggier than a camp cabin.
The bugs include cracked screens from back-pocketed carry, delayed texting, and short battery life.
But what was most interesting about the predictions, was a reminder about how rushed it all seems:
So they set the release date as June 29 — a Friday, and the last weekday of the month. This, coupled with the fact that Apple has never, in recent memory, released a product on a Friday, should make everybody say “Hmmmm,” and suggests they took a calculated risk of releasing a product that might be a little buggy (probably about as bad as the first run of screen-flickering, case-cracking, motherboard-busted MacBooks), rather than suffer the embarrassment of not keeping their word.
And then you think back to a couple of other instances. Apple CEO Steve Jobs pulled the curtain on the project, quite conveniently, a week before LG unveiled a quite similar
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