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From: James Dore on 4 Aug 2010 05:15
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:28:49 +0100, Stimpy <stimpy1997uk(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:20:49 +0100, David Kennedy wrote
>> Ian McCall wrote:
>>> zoara<me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>>>> ...If RIM or Nokia or HTC had released a phone with the exact same
>>>> design, there wouldn't have been anywhere near as much attention paid
>>>> to
>>>> it. Apple seems constantly more newsworthy, whether beleaguered or
>>>> wildly successful.
>>>
>>> Well yes. That's because we expect better, and because they mostly
>>> deliver better. When they don't? News!
>>>
>> In part I think that's true. But, there is also a percentage of people
>> who are willing them to fail. I tried to think of an analogy but
>> couldn't - except for a friend of mine; her husband refuses to shop at
>> John Lewis or Waitrose as he perceives them as elitist.
>
> Elitist? Not at all, just priced to keep the riff-raff out :-)
>

Wasn't it Alan Coren who observed that Sainsburys only existed to keep the
riff-raff out of Waitrose?

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 4 Aug 2010 09:31
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> A lot of the anti-anti-Apple sentiment out there inresponse to the
> iPhone's antenna situation is to just get a bumper and stop whinging.

Alternatively, don't buy an iPhone until Apple comes up with one that
doesn't suffer this way.

[snip]

> Oh, and while I'm here; the most sensible article on the situation that
> I've seen: http://j.mp/9WISrz

That links to:

<http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/861778478/the-emperors-new-antenna>

for those who consider the risks of following links provided by
re-direction services.

Rowland.

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From: zoara on 5 Aug 2010 13:02
Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote:
> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> It is. If RIM or Nokia or HTC had released a phone with the exact
> > same
>> design, there wouldn't have been anywhere near as much attention paid
> > to
>> it. Apple seems constantly more newsworthy, whether beleaguered or
>> wildly successful.
>
> Indeed, I used to have a blackberry pearl and when I was in certain
> parts of the city it was VERY sensetive to how I held it. I used to
> have
> to hold it with only two fingers to get it to keep connected. It was
> common knowledge and no one made a fuss.

I would have - by the sound of it, it would have irritated me enough to
take it back.

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