Think about it, there where 1.7 Million sales within 3 days of the launch. 1.7 Million. Think about it for a minute … Yeah, that’s a lot of devices. Of course there are going to be problems with anything new, especially electronic devices, and the people you are going to hear from most are the ones that have problems. What people fail to realize are there are many many many more people, such as my wife and myself, who have Zero (0, nill, none, nada, no) problems what-so-ever with their phone. We have no new software problems, no hardware problems. And neither of us are affected by the antenna issue.

I think some , if not most of it, are bloggers trying to ‘ride the wave’. They are playing on the ‘fears’ of consumers to drive people to their blog’s and follow them on twitter. WAKE UP. Follow someone who can write something relevant and original. I’m not saying I’m that person, I’m far from it. But stop spreading the FUD.

The iPhone4, in my eyes, is revolutionary. The build quality of the phone is outstanding. It feels solid when holding it. Performance is amazing, both with software and web access. And, most importantly, it works as a phone. If you haven’t seen the display on this thing, you are doing yourself a dis-service. The ‘retina’ display is simply amazing. Apple wasn’t first to market with a 320 pixel-per-inch display. But they where the first to put it in a quality phone, with a quality os, and market the hell out of it.

Stop crying, stop complaining. The iPhone 4 wasn’t a failure, it isn’t going to cripple Apple, and it wasn’t a bundle of mistakes.

There is no doubt that both of these topics are on the top of the discussion boards. They have been proven to save energy and most of the time cut costs. But you know a topic has reach stardom when ‘big’ time news and blog sources right about it, but the 3 page article doesn’t even make a single point.

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19485/1154/1/2/

It goes in a complete circle, and after reading it I walking away learning nothing. Not be enlightened, and felling great disappointment. The article title “Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?” sounds like it would be a great article. But it isn’t. It is filled full of buzzwords to generate traffic.

What worries me, is the same most have said and seen, IT is becoming political. This article is a prime example. There is no point, they ask a question, give a single word answer, but don’t explain it. It is blog spam. On most sites (like mine) this might not matter, but on a company / news site, we should be expected/given/demand more.

What shows even more they are going after buzz words, is they taking about Linux failing. How it “might” not make it. They don’t talk about windows failing as an OS if Hypervisors take over. What else is funny, they don’t even mention the fact the Virtual Machines still need an OS to run … kind of ironic. Bah, this article has pissed me off and wasted enough of my time

We should be demanding more out of our news sources, both Online and Off

Some seem to think so, other are hoping they will last until through 2009 to release new products and survive the economic downturn.

After reading an article at The Var Guy and another at The Register things are not looking all the great for the company financially. Which in the corporate world, sadly, is all that matters.

Personally I love Sun Microsystems. I think they produce The top x86 hardware in the market, and the some of the best servers period. Their CEO’s stance on open source is a fresh breath and their portfolio is jusy shy of amazing. But yet they still continue to falter, reaching a low on the stock market they haven’t seen in years. In 2000 they hit a high of nearly $250 per share at nearly 64 million shares. Fast foward to now and they are currently at $9.73 a share with just under 1 million. They already hit a low of $9.68 today.

On top of all of this, their are now rumours floating around the internet of Johnathan Schwartz, CEO Sun Microsystems, being at the end of his reign. I sure hope not, this man has done more in his 2 years at Sun then most CEO’s have influence on any single company. While in charge he has open sourced Java, seen Solaris grow into an open source distribution that is going to contend with the best. Sun now has a storage line that is based on open source foundations. Sun has acquired MySQL and continue it’s ongoing Support of Star/Open Office. Yet despite all of these developments the share is falling and the earnings are have problems keeping up. August 1, Sun will be announcing their quarterly results. Can Sun keep for burning out? Can, or even Will, another company save Sun? Only time will tell, but I sure hope so.