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Comment by coliveira | Hacker News Reader

This is just noise created by the media. 2 months from now everybody will be happily using the iPhone without changes, as I do now. For example, about consumer reports... What was the last time you read that publication to decide what phone to buy? Most people wouldn't care less.

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I think the magazine is more widely read than you think. Their mobile phone coverage is actually quite good, and very in-depth - including quite a bit of consumer polling along with their own testing.

Consumer Reports is a non-profit that has a long record of relative objectivity. Consumer's Union is non-profit founded in 1936

"Consumer Reports does not print outside advertising, accept free product samples, or permit the commercial use of its reviews for selling products. Its publisher states that this policy allows the magazine to 'maintain our independence and impartiality... [so that] CU has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.'

"Consumer Reports states that all tested products are purchased at retail prices by its staff, that no free samples are accepted from manufacturers, and that this avoids the possibility of bias from bribery or from being given "better than average" samples."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports

I am not questioning the quality of the magazine, just saying that only a small number of people read it. 99% of the customers just look at the phone, think it is cool, and buy it.

Moreover, even if you read the magazine and see the negative recommendation, I doubt you wouldn't buy the iPhone just because of that.

A lot of people that aren't tech-savy live-and-die by Consumer Reports reviews. They've been around forever, so are trusted by the "old-school" folks.

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