Meredith Vieira stumped by complicated iPhone

by Paul Miller posted Jun 29th 2007 at 12:34PM

The Today Show's Meredith Vieira doesn't seem quite prepared for Steve Jobs' revolutionary device -- sure she'll agree it's slim and shiny, but that whole "answering calls" thing seems to be a bit out of her field of expertise. We couldn't get the video to play on a Mac, but we'll keep an eye out for a YouTube version, let us know if you see anything.

Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: apple, iphone, meredith vieira, MeredithVieira, the today show, TheTodayShow

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matt @ Jun 29th 2007 12:57PM

works fine in firefox on my mac

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Keymaster @ Jun 29th 2007 1:56PM

fink install mplayer

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Mark @ Jun 29th 2007 1:38PM

hmm another person who can't seem to get it working... uh oh apple...

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gquaglia @ Jun 29th 2007 1:41PM

Just another clueless, Woman TV personality. I imagine Ms Vieira has trouble with the coffee maker as well.

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keithwwalker @ Jun 29th 2007 3:21PM

You'll hear lots of stories in the coming days of upper middle class idiots who don't have the brains to operate the device. These are the same people who never bothered to program the time into their DVD or VCR.

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maikel andre @ Jun 29th 2007 1:57PM

I actually saw it live this morning on tv.She is just dumb like the other woman that sat next to her.They thought the "menu" button is used as a D-pad (how dumb is that!)
Also,Matt Lauer was calling and she rejected the phone call.Just plain Stupid.

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Patrick Horne @ Jul 2nd 2007 12:20AM

Just another braindead MSM Socialist.

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Brandon @ Jun 29th 2007 2:07PM

Wow that was hilarious...seemed like a screw up with the phone, though. Looked like she was pressing the button as far as I could see..

Lol..."It's conrtolled by this one little button (referring to the Home button)."

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Aaron @ Jun 29th 2007 4:03PM

Yeah, it did look like she was trying to press the right button to answer the call. Maybe she just wasn't pressing hard enough. And I don't think the other woman was trying to use the home button as a d-pad, I think she was just moving her finger around it to point it out.

By the way Engadget..."We couldn't get the video to play on a Mac"? Are you telling me you don't have a single PC around there? Come on, now. What's that about?

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Brian Abbott @ Jun 29th 2007 9:10PM

Well, given the fact that she's an *MS*-NBC employee (as in Microsoft-NBC)... I think it's possible her 'attempt' to answer a call on the iPhone might not have been purely genuine.

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Dan @ Jun 29th 2007 10:10PM

I hope you don't really think this. For one, Microsoft sold their majority stake years ago and according to the plan are supposed to be totally divested by now.

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Brian Abbott @ Jun 29th 2007 10:53PM

Call me a cinic but, I think it's a possibility worth mentioning, yeah, absolutely. There's definately some degree of ownership as everytime a Microsoft related story is reported or presented on MSNBC they always disclose affiliation.

Another way to look at it is to ask what might be more likely

1) Apple shipped iPhones that arent able to receive a call, perhaps in haste to meet their deadline which would consequently flush their reputation and the goodwill behind this launch down the drain.

2) A newswoman who is able to read prompters and queues all day long in real time well enough to consistently deliver a polished presentation is unable to find the giant green button with the phone on it and press gently (although it did somewhat look as if she had pressed below it).

3) In the bitter throws of heated competition between two rivaling giants who stand to lose or gain many multiple billions of dollars and dominance over new and contested markets that will utimately yield unknown sums of money decided to pull a string or two between contacts from one organization to another, ultimatley making a phone call asking a journalist or two to throw some cold water on the competition's red hot hype, which unfortunately is six to twelve months ahead of any response you might be able to deliver....

Yeah... I think that's possible and ultimately the most probable. I'm not saying I feel that it's wrong for a side, when engaged competitively, to take such an action. If they have the option, they should. It's business.

Perhaps I'm completely off base in my line of thought, I dont know however, I'm always willing to voluteer that. But, why does it strike you so severely that someone would have that outlook?

-Brian A.