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Re:Why the iPhone will fail (2007) by bbuffone on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:34AM (#1664073)
>As I expound in great detail in my book Why Software Sucks (Addison-Wesley, 2006, http://www.whysoftwaresucks.com/) your user is not you.

Seems that the author was really looking for a promotion vehicle for his book and looked to take a big product launch like the iphone and use it to his advantage.

Everyone that bought the book based on this ridiculous article should get their money back like everyone that bought a mini vanilli album (I might be dating myself).

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Re:Why the iPhone will fail (2007) by josephcooney on Sunday September 05, 2010 @07:16AM (#1664348)
A minor point - it's Milli Vanilli (although mini vanilli sounds interesting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
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Re:Why the iPhone will fail (2007) by nanairo on Sunday September 05, 2010 @10:07AM (#1664534)
Yep... to be honest I think it's useful to go back and mock wanna be experts who are recognised as experts, but if you start looking at random blogs on the net looking for people who made silly predictions, then I find it just arrogant.

So on the one side I don't know who this guy is, why I should have cared about his opinion back then... but at least now I know not to touch on of his books with a 10 foot pole... exactly because of the reason you explained.

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