Even critics give Apple a pass on iPhone 3G woes

August 28, 2008 By JESSICA MINTZ , AP Technology Writer
Even critics give Apple a pass on iPhone 3G woes (AP)

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The entrance to the Apple store is shown on New York's Fifth Ave. Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Even as iPhone griping rages online, it's looking like Apple's reputation will come out unscathed. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks. Now the new iPhone 3G has been marred by bugs, spotty service, disappearing programs for the device and a veil of secrecy over software developers trying to broaden its appeal.


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The art of selling a more expensive, yet inferior product on the basis of arguable aesthetics and the buyer becoming part of some sort of 'in-crowd', is as old as trade itself. Not that that makes buying into the iPhone craze inherently bad. But it should (would, could) make you wonder.
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