Cellphone harder than a computer

Reading Daring Fireball this week, and I came across this quote from a New York Times story:

““Implementing a cellphone is absolutely more difficult than anything Apple’s done to date,” he said, noting that, in particular, the phones might have trouble delivering consistently good voice communications and that the devices could suffer overall reliability problems.”

That was said by an Edward Snyder, an equity analyst with Charter Equity Research, talking about the iPhone.

A cell phone is absolutely more difficult than anything Apple’s done to date? Uhh… Perhaps he does not realize that Apple created the Macintosh? The Laser Writer? At least two wildly successful Operating Systems? The Newton? And a CELL PHONE is harder to implement than those things?

Uh-hu…