Reader's Digest Puts iPhone on Cover, Fails to Mention It in Article

Reader's Digest put devil's horns on the iPhone and placed it on its cover. Inside is a feature article about the evils of technology, but the article has no mention of the iPhone itself. I guess the image of the iPhone is there simply to sell the magazine. Via Macenstein:

"But imagine my surprise when after reading through all 6 pages of the featured article “Get A Grip”, (a fluff article about the intrusiveness of technology in our lives) I found not ONE mention of the iPhone. Not even an iPod. I DID, however, count 5 mentions of the Blackberry, one of the Sidekick, and one more of the xBox."

I blame Google's Zeitgest.

Stupid Article Title of the Day

"Will Google Crush the iPhone?" at Forbes.com. The Google phone and the iPhone are at opposite ends of the phone spectrum. Now the real question is "Will Google Crush Symbian?"

When You Don't Get All 8 GBs

A Montreal law student is suing Apple because the box on his iPod says 8 GB, and there is only 7.6 GB of usable memory on it because of the OS. Sometimes these ridiculous lawsuits make good points, if having no precedent in law. The fact that the OS takes up memory is known by most people and is on par with “smoking is bad for you,” but just how bad for you, or how much memory, is still relevant. I'd like to see it more clearly marked on the box.

16% of ChangeWave Members Say They Will Buy an iPhone

In a new low of online news, PC World has an iPhone article concerning a poll by ChangeWave concerning potential iPhone buyers. ChangeWave is an investment research company that "identifies and quantifies changes in industries...through surveys of a network of thousands of business executives and professionals working in more than 20 industries," according to their website. So, basically it sounds like the people polled were a bunch of rich people with various business interests.

So what does this survey say then? A group of around 3,000 rich people said that approximately 450 of them will buy an iPhone. And from that data , PC World extrapolates that the iPhone "seems set to disrupt the mobile phone industry." Wow, I know some people of this world are out of touch, but this seems ludicrous to the point of an advertisment.

First of all, the iPhone has already disrupted the mobile phone industry. Second of all, things won't get really crazy until 16% of everyone who is not a rich person say they will buy an iPhone, since most of the people in this world aren't rich business executives.