Comments on: Aussie telco Telstra slams Apple iPhone: "people over reacted to it"

By: a/c

a/c — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:43:28 +0000

The spin on this is terrible. Winn was not “slamming” the iPhone. He was giving his analysis of the iPhone in rather even-handed manner. I encourage everyone to read the original article from the AAP, linked on the bottom.

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:29:54 +0000

It really does sound like one of those quotes that will come back again and again over the years to haunt the speaker. Suffice it to say that I am a moderately satisfied Telstra customer for my mobile service. When the iPhone comes out, it seems I will be an ex-Telstra customer – and I won’t be alone in that!

By: robin hood

robin hood — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:10:06 +0000

Tesltra is a boring non-innovating dull company that suffers from over-bloated management. Its middle-managers (who this guy is) are reknowned for there short sighted ignorance and lack of imagination. Methinks this guy will never be heard of again and once the iPhone becomes PERVASIVE Telstra will eat their words…not that there is a ‘their’, it is a mindless beached whale. Actually Sol Truhijo (spelling) escaped the US to now run it…he might have a thing or two to say to Mr. Winn.

By: hasapi

hasapi — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:28:27 +0000

Id say Jay is probably right – Apple may have already selected Optus as their partner for iphone, (they have had a long relationship with Optus), and Telstra is a strictly only Microsoft partner. Very odd thing to say about the iphone, considering Apple’s ipod success – he basically saying building phones is strictly for phone specialists?, how hard is it to build a GSM handset?

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:30:04 +0000

Apple probably has already picked an Australian partner or is in talks with would be partners – obviously Telstra wasn’t selected. LMAO :PPP And BTW while Cingular isn’t a global company today – just wait now that they are AT&T I do believe things will change. The company has deep pockets.

By: Lantz

Lantz — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:29:40 +0000

Yeah Apple should stick to their knitting, just like they did when they decided to build a better MP3 player. They should have also stuck with the command line interface of the Apple II. This guy is scared.

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:03:52 +0000

The guy is right, the iPhone is an overhyped turd.

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:59:26 +0000

It does sound like sour grapes – what’s worse, why go out of your way to berate Apple – who has a LONG MEMORY about this sort of thing. If they had just stuck to positive about their ongoing relationships with moto, nokia, samsubng, etc, that would’ve been fine but to publically call out Apple seems like business suicide – if nothing else, it alerts consumers once again that something more must be up because after all, who are you going to trust – a bunch of yokels at a cell pone company who keep trying to sell you lowfi music at high rates or slow bandwidth and shoddy service or Apple, the ipod company? (to most average consumers).

By: thomas Barta

thomas Barta — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:29:10 +0000

““There’s an old saying – stick to your knitting – and Apple is not a mobile phone manufacturer, that’s not their knitting,”” Let’s all remember this one. It will look very foolish in 10 years. It puzzles me that Mr. Winn should look to Nokia, MOT, Ericsson and etc, when these are the VERY companies who been unable to deliver compelling products in the past. Like Creative Zen discovered 5 years ago, sometimes the world changes and your ecological niche shrinks or simply disappears. Ask the next dinosaur you see.

By: Bryan TO CA

Bryan TO CA — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:56:01 +0000

Sounds like sour grapes to me.