http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2010/07/iphone-has-apple-in-a-fix.html
Ignore the bottom half of the article (it’s just a rehash of the alleged iPhone4 bugs that have already been in the news ad nauseum).
The top half of the article (the numerological focus on “4″) is actually pretty funny though…
rastard 2:37 pm on July 26, 2010 559 days ago Reply
(oh, and apologies in advance if I’ve offended anyone who actually believes in numerology)
conshmillo 3:16 pm on July 26, 2010 559 days ago Reply
Yesterday I read article on MarketWatch about how Month of July is jinxed because of the stars alignment. Now, I don’t deny that things such as weather have influence on people’s mood. They do, but I wouldn’t base my trading activity on them.
Words have no inherent meaning. That includes numbers. I can sell to Chinese guy product called iPhone Styri and he is going to have perfectly good experience with it for months until he finds out that Styri means in the slavic languages four. Superstition is widely spread and marketing folks should be aware of it, but it doesn’t mean those things have any inherent meaning. When we assign to something increased importance, mind will be subconsciously scanning for those events in our environment. In other words if you keep looking for what’s wrong because it’s Friday 13th, you will be finding all day what’s wrong. If on the other hand number 13 is your lucky number, your focus on 13th will be on what’s right. Nothing really changed in reality, just in what we focus on.
conshmillo 3:44 pm on July 26, 2010 559 days ago Reply
There is nothing wrong with iPhone 4, there is small antenna problem, that doesn’t cause any more problems than rest of the smart phones. All this hoopla is caused by marketing smear campaign of competing companies, Google in particular and their geek bloggers that keep thinking they are fighting bad closed system capitalist – Apple, and supporting good open source socialist – Google, not realizing that Google is no less capitalist, no less closed and in a way more evil because it is pretending it is open. I could be saying boo, Google is evil, they sell advertising for money in their close AdWords/AdSense advertising system. I want open Goggle. I want no overpriced advertisements on their site! Google is exploiting people with their overpriced advertising in their closed advertising system. blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc.
I don’t know if any of you seen interview with Schmidt in Davos, Switzerland. He explicitly said there that Google considered using their software algorithms to enter into the trading business (markets), but they decided against it because of the possible hassles with SEC. Now that doesn’t mean they are not actually doing it unofficially. Aside from the product war, there is ongoing battle in stock market between these companies. There are hedge fund stacked one against the other, some probably hired by companies themselves trying to outmaneuver the other in order to improve or destroy the standing of the competing company.
GotWake 5:34 pm on July 26, 2010 559 days ago Reply
That is a funny read. I think I’ll have to order an iPhone 4 when I get back from vacation just because of all of the BS stories. I think it’s funny how Apple is having major problems……. keeping up with demand.