| > "This is the kind of drivel that was shared around the internet at the time of the iPhone's release : http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone* Consider the following headlines: "Love your kids? Prove it by beating them."* http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=beat "Green Peace blows, pave the rain forests!" http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=green_peace "When is the last time a whale did anything for you?"
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=whales_suck "My neighbor's kids were pissing me off, so I ate them." http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_ate_my_nei... "I hope SOPA passes" http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pass_sopa He also has an entire website devoted to making fun of childrens' drawings. Point being, Maddox should never, ever, ever, be taken even remotely seriously. Why criticize his "full keyboard" line and not his "I ate the neighbor's kids" article? |
Point is, most people in 2007 were criticizing the iPhone for not having a keyboard. That funny maddox link had an opportunity to be taken seriously. Make a google search for things posted in 2007 and you'll see by yourself what people who never handled an iPhone at the time thought of the idea of a phone 100% operated with a touchscreen. How many predicted the iPhone would fail way before anyone even had the opportunity to test one ? sounds like the iPhone and what it does wasn't that obvious.