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Google Voice Debacle Causes Arrington to Ditch the iPhone, and With Good Reason [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... Normally, I'd say that TechCrunch's Michael Arrington's public quitting of the iPhone was a shrill, disingenuous ploy for attention and pageviews. It's Michael Arrington, after all. But you know what? It's totally legit, and Apple should pay attention. ...
The No-Google-Voice-on-iPhone Uprising Continues
Technologizer —
... TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington says (in a post that’s loading only sporadically for me) that he’s dumping his iPhone for a T-Mobile myTouch 3G over ...
Apple, the App Store just isn't you
Macworld —
... . Tech pundit and blowhard Michael Arrington has likewise decided to give up his iPhone , also pointing to the Google Voice issue. Not everybody agrees: tech analysts ...
Ditching the iPhone? I’ll Bet WinMo Has What You Want
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
As of late, we have three prominent names publicly ditching the iPhone. Om Malik, from GigaOm, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch, and one person who’s inspired me for ages, macintosh developer Steven Frank from Panic, inc. here in Portland, Oregon. While I have no qualms with their decisions to ditch the iPhone, I’m having a tough time understanding what the hell they’re talking about.
The iPhone is a big deal… Period. It radically changed the entire mobile industry. Since its launch in 2007, Apple has ...
Is It Time for an Open Letter from Steve Jobs on the App Store?
The iPhone Blog —
... issue like DRM-music threatened to be (Apple is hardly a monopoly in the smartphone space) or Jobs’ health might have been to investors, it is and will continue to cause Apple pain in one very important area: tech savvy, power users (and media) who typically influence friends (and readers) and generally presage public perception.
Jason Calacanis, who’s frustration at this point clearly overcame his reason (see Marco Arment’s retort), and Mike Arrington, who might again garner Leo Laporte-esque responses himself, are easy to dismiss ...
Deposit checks with your iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... I think it's a fantastic experiment and look forward to seeing how it goes. This further confirms my conviction that the iPhone is an amazing portable computer that affects our lives in tremendous ways. Some may chose to ditch their iPhones, but mine isn't going anywhere. ...
Mobile Marketers Must Look Past The iPhone
Silicon Alley Insider —
tmobile mytouch 3g SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- First TechCrunch's Michael Arrington quit the iPhone , now the FCC is targeting Apple's App Store . With all the negative press, should marketers question their own love affair with the device and its app platform? Probably not, considering the numbers: The iPhone platform has 10 times the number of mobile applications of its nearest competitor, and, according to Nielsen, iPhone users are five times more likely than the average mobile subscriber to download an application. And the device's user experience and built-in ...
Schiller Continues Running Point for Apple PR
Cult of Mac —
... on the chain of events surrounding the iPhone dictionary app Ninjawords’ path to App Store approval. And while Schiller did not — so far as we know — personally respond to Tech Crunch writer Michael Arrington’s very public abandonment of the iPhone, he did ...
Jobs’ Focused on the Tablet, Despite ‘Distractions’ at Apple HQ
TheAppleBlog —
... First and foremost there’s an impending formal investigation by the FCC to contend with. That’s serious business, and can see Apple in a lot of hot water. For a company that is so committed to its culture of secrecy, an investigation will expose much of Apple’s inner workings to the world. Oh, and not to mention all the legal wrangling that will ensue. And all those predictably-dramatic commentaries from Arrington and ...
How quickly some forget the pre-iPhone days
MacDailyNews —
... Kontra writes. "There are several leitmotivs," Kontra writes. "One is that the iPhone fell short of their ideal of what a smartphone has to be. Another is their perception that Apple’s recent growth and profitability necessarily make it evil much the way Google is also considered as such, because all large companies must be, like Microsoft, evil. Of course, Apple is controlled by a single person named Steve Jobs, who, if you’re wondering, is evil." MacDailyNews Take: Cough - Michael Arrington - cough. Kontra writes, "For a more reasoned perspective, let us take a breath ...
Apple Has Some Important Lessons to Learn
TheAppleBlog —
... on everything they think is wrong with the company. The Arrington’s of this world declare they are “quitting” the iPhone in protest (but really, does anyone care all that much if Arrington uses an iPhone?) ...
Android Still Can’t Touch the iPhone
TheAppleBlog —
... integrated into my life. With its various apps I’m constantly on top of Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and RSS feeds. It would definitely be a challenge to switch. However, I’m also a gadget geek who always wants to switch to the latest and greatest. In my opinion that’s Android right now.
While bored and curious, I walked over to my local Palo Alto T-Mobile store to try out the myTouch 3G (a.k.a. HTC Magic and Google Ion). I have also been recently motivated by the compelling concept of porting my number to Google Voice, and letting that ...
AT&T & Apple Should Halt US iPhone Sales
Zatz Not Funny! —
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Based on my personal experiences, and tales of the blogger elite, from where I’m sitting it appears that AT&T’s inferior 3G data network is oversold and oversaturated. When airlines are oversold, impacted customers are compensated. But when it comes to mobile access, we’re all locked into two year contracts and there is no recourse for crap coverage or performance. So I’m calling on AT&T and Apple to halt iPhone sales until AT&T increases network capacity and coverage.
First, I take issue with ...
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