Word on TheStreet is that you shouldn’t buy an iPhone 4

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments »

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Two things are for certain: the iPhone 4 will be a huge success and there will be plenty of places that look to cash in by writing link bait headlines.

Yahoo (remember them? They’re the search engine you used before Google) jumps right in with 5 reasons not to buy the iPhone 4. Well, that’s what it’s called on their front page where it is prominently linked. When you click through it’s actually titled: “5 Big Blemishes for the Apple iPhone 4″ so you can see they’re ramping up the hyperbole machine.

The story is actually syndicated from TheStreet.com (home of Jim “didn’t see the economic crisis coming” Cramer), and is written by Scott Moritz, whose track record is so poor someone has compiled a list of his bad calls.

The article doesn’t say that you shouldn’t buy one, it says “[t]here are, however, a few shortcomings.” Really, Sherlock? Here’s a clue for you: every device has a few shortcomings, but let’s see what shortcomings Scott found.

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