Quit cribbing
Sidin Vadukut -
Friday, April 04, 2008 1:08 PM
Finally I've done it. I've succumbed to all the Apple iMarketing pressure and bought myself an iPod. Both the missus and I still hold great love for Creative and all their products, but spending just a few moments with a shiny new iPod makes you wonder how you lived without it in the first place.
Podcasts! My life is so much more meaningful with them!
But I know loads of people who refuse to lust after any of those Apple products. "Over-priced!", "All shine, no substance!", "Too rigid and close-courced..." and "Too popular to be cool anymore" are some of the cribs I get to hear. This also means that a lot of people LURVE to crib about Apple products as soon as they are launched.
Pogue, that NYTimes tech blogger of extreme fundooness, has a great post on the product-bitching tendencies of tech naysayers:
It was that way with the iPhone, in the time after it was announced but before it was available. “This will be the biggest flop since the Cube,” went the critics. “No removable battery? Nobody will touch this thing.” Etc.
The blogs were full of this stuff.
As it turns out, they were massively, humiliatingly wrong. Four million iPhones were sold in the first 200 days. Its sales surpassed Treos, Windows Mobile phones — everybody but BlackBerry.
Check his blog here -> Can Blogger-Bashers Predict the Success of a Product? Unlikely.
Scrolling down through the comments I came through this gem of a link. Its an online forum, seven years old, with reactions to the initial launch of the iPod. The messages are, in hindisight, pathetically hilarious.