Will Apple’s latest iPhone be sharing the same fate as Tiger Woods?
Reading today’s story in The Daily Telegraph about an Apple engineer who has come forward to claim he warned Steve Jobs about the antenna problems that have overshadowed the launch of the Apple iphone 4, I was reminded of the recent plight of golfer, Tiger Woods.
In the same way that Apple was built up, in part by the media, over the years as the antidote to boring, technology; and as purveyors of iconic, cool, must-have gadgets of the 21st century, Tiger was seen as personifying the very essence of golfing professionalism and ability; and as someone who made a sport, mainly associated with white,…