iLounge

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Apparently in the absence of “can do it all” Jobs as front man, we’re getting the Abbot and Costello team of Shiller and Cook. Cook plays the straight man and Shiller just comes out and says whatever the heck he feels like no matter how insane it is.

No light sensor in the iPod touch, that’s because those crazy Apple engineers made it too freakin thin for a single layer light diode! Just released a device that is the same or worse on all technical specs than the Kindle Fire HD but are charging nearly double? Pshaw, a lot of people are going to be thrilled to pay the price because it’s an APPLE product, see, says so right on that beautiful aluminum back, the very same material Milwaukee’s Best cans are made from!

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on October 24, 2012 at 10:46 AM (PST)

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Isn’t it the potential customers that are complaing about the price?

Posted by Cereal in Japan on October 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM (PST)

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@2: Shh…. don’t tell Phil that!

Of course this thing is going to sell well enough - Apple could put their logo on a brick, call it a “revolutionary support stand of novel stability”, charge $50, and there would be some sizable number of people who would buy it. However, it’s clear that Apple is turning in on itself in regards to their iOS products, only asking customers to choose which APPLE product they want, seemingly ignoring that most people don’t start from that premise, and with the perception being that this is basically last year’s tech at next year’s prices, it’s not going to do much more than capture sales from the pre-existing iOS consumer base.

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on October 25, 2012 at 7:59 AM (PST)