{"id":6622,"date":"2010-07-11T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2010-07-17T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:50:35","slug":"newsletter-issue-554-is-the-public-turning-against-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2010\/07\/newsletter-issue-554-is-the-public-turning-against-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #554: Is the Public Turning Against Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I talked to a local hair stylist the other day, someone whom I regard as reasonably tech savvy, and he told me why he would never buy an iPhone 4. \u201cToo many problems,\u201d he said, although he wasn\u2019t able to name anything specific.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t alone in expressing that viewpoint. My wife said she\u2019d heard the same thing a number of times on 24\/7 cable TV, and wondered why I\u2019d consider upgrading. \u201cIsn\u2019t your old iPhone working all right? Why cause trouble for yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is smart and practical. Even though she knows that I can sell off my current iPhone for essentially the same amount of money that I paid for it originally, she was thinking about my comfort and convenience.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have never had serious trouble with an Apple product. The closest I came was the cursed PowerBook 5300ce that I bought in 1995. Apple was in the doldrums then, and they made some really foolish decisions that I won\u2019t bother to list. The 5300 series was also late to market, because the original batteries began to smoke in lab tests, and I had to return mine several times for various and sundry repairs.\u00a0But for small things, mostly cosmetic.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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