AR
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Re: [OT] Botched iPhone Demo on Today
Well, that's the target market and eventually they'll figure it out- there won't be many people who'd be making a switch from Symbian or BB operating sets. |
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nccycle
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Re: [OT] Botched iPhone Demo on Today
On the CNBC On The Money show they did a full hour of iPhone coverage starting with live shots of the first person into an ATT store in Chicago. Towards the end of the hours they showed the screw up on the Today show. I think the CNBC folks were a bit bent out of shape that they couldn't get an iPhone to play with on the air today. |
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aliasrlz
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Geeze Meredith, what a dumbass!  |
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said by The Dv8or  :said by BellBoy :Edit: THEN to add insult to injury, they show a 5-min segement on what MS is doing to complete with iPhone. What else would you expect from MSNBC I guess? I noticed that the tape didn't break while they were playing that clip.  You do realize that Apple has done majoe product placement deals with NBC shows including Saturday Night Live, right? Or did you not realize that Nick Burns preferred Apple? Seen Studio 60? Although in last week's episode, they had a flashback to 2001, and showed a lamp iMac and when they showed a close-up of the screen, you can see the blue Spotlight icon at the top-right. Hmm... they must have had an advanced Beta of 10.4.
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said by BellBoy :Whatever...I watched it happen and the phone she was holding was not a prop since the screen changed on it. It's a prop call. It is also only a phone, not a cure for cancer. It's also a stupid host on a brainless show. Who cares?
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said by BellBoy :Edit: THEN to add insult to injury, they show a 5-min segement on what MS is doing to complete with iPhone. What else would you expect from MSNBC I guess? I noticed that the tape didn't break while they were playing that clip. You do realize that Apple has done majoe product placement deals with NBC shows including Saturday Night Live, right? Or did you not realize that Nick Burns preferred Apple?
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said by SK :Non-tech savvy people have a hard time figuring these things out. From what I have seen, they use computers and devices basically by mentally recording coordinates of buttons. They are completely incapable of figuring things out by analogy. Oh my gosh, I agree with you 100%. I am simply amazed at how many people I see at work using their computers and they are so unorganized in how they use the programs, I mean it's like they're completely lost all the time. What really gets me is watching people use the right click to copy, then right clicking again to paste something. I just want to smack them in the back of their head and tell them to use the freakin' keyboard for something as easy as copy/paste. I think this is why I'm so much faster at work than others...because I can use the mouse in combination with the keyboard. Maybe this skill comes from my Marathon Playing days... 
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said by Bell System :Anyone see what happened on FoxNews this morning. The lady was interviewing some guy from Newsweek that had gotten an iPhone early and some punk kid walked up behind them and grabbed her microphone! He tried to run away but was gang tackled by a bunch of dudes. Even the anchors were like "why didn't he try to grab the iPhone?" Friggin' strange. Makes sense to me..
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Anyone see what happened on FoxNews this morning. The lady was interviewing some guy from Newsweek that had gotten an iPhone early and some punk kid walked up behind them and grabbed her microphone! He tried to run away but was gang tackled by a bunch of dudes. Even the anchors were like "why didn't he try to grab the iPhone?" Friggin' strange. |
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RadioDoc
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A prop call. A skit. A joke. A bit. Pretty funny that you are all bent out of shape over it. Where is your sense of humor?
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BellBoy
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Whatever...I watched it happen and the phone she was holding was not a prop since the screen changed on it. |
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LOL, this was a prop call set up for the show. There was no "phone call placed" and even if there was one, she answered the phone using the correct Answer button. The problem is the show tech didn't turn off the fake ring noise.
It was a skit, an act, a piece of flummery for TV. The iPhone was not receiving a call from London, by someone that just magically found a desk style phone sitting on a park bench. It was just a stage cue that was missed.
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ColorBASIC
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Maybe she went to publik skewl and is looking for the "Where you at?!?" button. |
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There is your market. |
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said by SK :Non-tech savvy people have a hard time figuring these things out. From what I have seen, they use computers and devices basically by mentally recording coordinates of buttons. They are completely incapable of figuring things out by analogy. Bingo. It's like my grandmother. She doesn't understand that the "Power" button her TV remote turns the TV on and off... she understands that the Top-Left circular green button turns the TV on and off, which she then applies to all remotes and ends up not knowing WTF to do. |
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SK
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Non-tech savvy people have a hard time figuring these things out. From what I have seen, they use computers and devices basically by mentally recording coordinates of buttons. They are completely incapable of figuring things out by analogy. |
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Johnny
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Pretty hard to not know how to answer a call.. the big green button labeled "Answer" might have helped her figure it out.
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said by BellBoy :…Meredith Vieira… Who wants to piss off a billionaire? |
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said by BellBoy : I noticed that the tape didn't break while they were playing that clip. They probably edited that clip on a Mac and that's why it went so flawlessly.
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