Flighty Whitey

July 23rd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

If you haven’t heard the news, Apple has delayed the white iPhone yet again; this time to “later this year” which, as we all know is Apple-talk for December 31’st.

All jok­ing aside, if the media is look­ing for a story to play up the “Apple is run by incom­pe­tent design­tards” there you go. Announcing a prod­uct and not being able to ship it for upwards of six months is pathetic. Where’s my press con­fer­ence mother-fuckers?

I’m going to buy a Droid X out of spite.

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  • http://mangochut.net/ man­gochut­ney

    I feel your pain, brother.
    (Why do I feel like such a tard hav­ing used that phrase?)

    This is way more embar­rass­ing than the stu­pid NOT-Antennagate.

  • http://twitter.com/torkelh Torkel

    There’s already peo­ple try­ing to float the idea it’s been delayed because the phone is being re-designed to fix the antenna: http://​www​.reghard​ware​.com/​2​0​1​0​/​0​7​/​2​3​/​a​p​p​l​e​_​whi…

    Oh boy.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    There’s a word for those peo­ple. That word is “moron.”

  • bkhar­mony

    I am so fuck­ing pissed off about this. In fact, this is the first thing I’ve been legit­i­mately furi­ous at Apple over since… well, prob­a­bly OS8. Or maybe the hockey puck.

    And you know, I would be fine buy­ing a black one now, then replac­ing it with a white model later, except we all know that sec­ond one would cost me full price.

  • http://mangochut.net/ man­gochut­ney

    Hey, I like the hockey puck!

    But I agree with you on the white iPhone 4. I just bought the black 32GB iPhone 4 at full price in the UK and I’m will­ing to sell it and pay for the white iPhone 4 in full again, once it’s out, were it not for this bad gut feel­ing (I feel so very Gibbs-ish right now).

    I’ve had the white iPhone 3G and con­stantly had prob­lems with the micro frac­tures in the poly­car­bon­ate back panel. After four exchanges by Apple, I’ve had it with the device and they gave me a black 3GS.

    Believing the rumour posted on Engadget a few days ago for a sec­ond (http://​www​.engad​get​.com/​2​0​1​0​/​0​7​/​1​8​/​w​h​i​t​e​-​i​p​h​one…
    Will I have prob­lems with the white one, too? Will the com­po­nents shine through? Should I get a melon, how often will I have to send it back before I get a fault­less one.

  • cthellis

    Good idea. I hear Droid X screens dis­play ONLY white!

  • Sigivald

    Going off what Mangochutney says, and Gruber’s asser­tion (which I believe) that every­one has a prob­lem mak­ing white phones, it sounds like Apple’s only prob­lem with the White iPhone 4 was announc­ing that they’d make one in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    Going off what Mangochutney says, and Gruber’s asser­tion (which I believe) that every­one has a prob­lem mak­ing white phones, it sounds like Apple’s only prob­lem with the White iPhone 4 was announc­ing that they’d make one in the first place.

  • Andy Lee

    And it’s not just “[a]nnouncing a prod­uct and not being able to ship it for upwards of six months”; it’s announc­ing the same damn prod­uct they just sold 3 mil­lion of, except in a dif­fer­ent color.

  • Andy Lee

    Yup. And you’d think to bal­ance the stu­pid­ity they’d be singing Apple’s praises for find­ing a prob­lem and hav­ing the integrity to delay ship­ping the prod­uct, because God for­bid there’s some­thing off about the white and they have to issue a recall.

  • Andy Lee

    I was more pissed when Jobs told us they had a super-terrific app devel­op­ment solu­tion for the iPhone that we were all gonna love, and guess what, it was… wait for it… drum roll… web apps!

    I think web apps are ter­rific. They are also not what the devel­oper com­mu­nity meant when they wanted dev tools for the iPhone. That pissed me off because it was insulting.

  • Andy Lee

    And it’s not just “[a]nnouncing a prod­uct and not being able to ship it for upwards of six months”; it’s announc­ing the same damn prod­uct they just sold 3 mil­lion of, except in a dif­fer­ent color.

  • Andy Lee

    Yup. And you’d think to bal­ance the stu­pid­ity they’d be singing Apple’s praises for find­ing a prob­lem and hav­ing the integrity to delay ship­ping the prod­uct, because God for­bid there’s some­thing off about the white and they have to issue a recall.

  • Andy Lee

    I was more pissed when Jobs told us they had a super-terrific app devel­op­ment solu­tion for the iPhone that we were all gonna love, and guess what, it was… wait for it… drum roll… web apps!

    I think web apps are ter­rific. They are also not what the devel­oper com­mu­nity meant when they wanted dev tools for the iPhone. That pissed me off because it was insulting.