Rob Enderle, please call your office
Because the Macalope did a little research after reading this post on Daring Fireball and it looks like someone's trying to move in on your turf.
iPhone mania nears fever pitch
"It's a product of mythical proportions," says [Roger] Entner, senior vice president of IAG Research. "They're not saying the iPhone will cure cancer and bring world peace, but that it will do everything else. It's impossible to live up to these expectations."
iPhone a top-secret jewel for AT&T
Roger Entner, senior vice president-communications sector at IAG Research, called the attention unprecedented. "If this device doesn't cure cancer and solve world hunger, then it's a failure," he joked.
Hype Meets Reality At iPhone's Debut
"People act as if this can bring world peace and cure cancer -- yet it can't download songs over the air," said Roger Entner, senior vice president of the communications sector of IAG Research.
Is that all you've got? That one line? Where's the claim that the iPhone's actually going to kill people? Sir, the horned one has followed Rob Enderle. He's actively mocked Rob Enderle. You, sir, are no Rob Enderle.
Or is he?
Roger Entner?
Rob Enderle?
The Macalope's starting to think someone's pulling his shank.
In reference to Mr. Gruber's question about who was quoting the 1,000,000 iPhone sales figure before the launch, a search on "Roger Entner" and "1,000,000" turns up nothing about the iPhone.
Surprise! Well, perhaps he told his cat.
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According to more than one source, they are finally running out of phones at stores, and they are estimated to have sold around 700,000 of the things. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a7A4BDWusr2U&refer=news)
So, how could the possibly have a target of 1,000,000 phones when 300,000 of those like, you know, don't actually exist yet.
Or, is it all a big futile cover up to PRETEND not to have any phones, so that, uh.... They don't make any more money from them yet...
won't do.
"Cure cancer and solve world hunger"? Puh-leeze. That is just lame.
Besides not being able to remember names of people you meet at the grocery
store that you haven't seen in a few years, it also doesn't accurately handicap
horse races, correct nearsightedness beyond 20/50, or brew a decent cup of
french roast. What's worse, the rounded edges make it grossly ineffective as a
bottle opener.