09-10-2014, 07:46 PM
It took a lot more work than I thought, but I found the quote:
the context is re: the iphone4 connection problems from not holding it properly :-)
Q: Is there anything you could have said during the iPhone 4 launch keynote to lower expectations?
A: Steve: I've thought about that a lot. We didn't fully understand if there were problems. We might have set the expectations that all smartphones have weak spots. One of the things we've learned by being a leader in the smartphone world is that we have to educate. So we needed data, and we've got that now. You could make a really big smartphone that doesn't have this problem, so big you can't get your hand around it, but no one's going to buy that. We're not perfect, and we're working our asses off.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/16/cove...onference/
Looks to me like the context changes the message. He said that no one would buy a large phone if you couldn't get your hand around it to operate... but the iphone 6 is, they say, NOT so big that you can't operate it... they moved buttons... you no longer HAVE to wrap your hand all around it to operate it...
and don't hold all old quotes against steve - he DID change his mind on occasion. Even visionaries have to do that now and then...
the context is re: the iphone4 connection problems from not holding it properly :-)
Q: Is there anything you could have said during the iPhone 4 launch keynote to lower expectations?
A: Steve: I've thought about that a lot. We didn't fully understand if there were problems. We might have set the expectations that all smartphones have weak spots. One of the things we've learned by being a leader in the smartphone world is that we have to educate. So we needed data, and we've got that now. You could make a really big smartphone that doesn't have this problem, so big you can't get your hand around it, but no one's going to buy that. We're not perfect, and we're working our asses off.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/16/cove...onference/
Looks to me like the context changes the message. He said that no one would buy a large phone if you couldn't get your hand around it to operate... but the iphone 6 is, they say, NOT so big that you can't operate it... they moved buttons... you no longer HAVE to wrap your hand all around it to operate it...
and don't hold all old quotes against steve - he DID change his mind on occasion. Even visionaries have to do that now and then...