I’ll just come right out and say it: I was disappointed with Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna press conference. The outcome was exactly what I expected (after all, a complete recall is too expensive and damaging to Apple’s reputation, and having the people at the Apple stores apply some simple insulating tape would cost a fair [...]
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Why Signal Strength Isn’t Very Useful
There’s been a lot of talk about how signal strength and its representation by bars on cellphones, especially due to the iPhone 4 having a significant problem with attenuation when held the “wrong” way. I’ve also seen a lot of people posting responses to articles asking things like, “Why can’t they just represent the [...]
The Dreaded F-word
I have seen an increasing number of articles on the dreaded “F-word.” No, not the word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the F-dash-dash-dash word. I’m referring to “fragmentation.” Site after site claims that fragmentation is killing the Android platform, but I guess by “killing” they mean the same kind [...]
The New Apple iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 has been officially announced, and it is largely what most people expected after Gizmodo published info about a prototype they obtained. The single biggest improvement is the screen. It’s now 960×640, which is exactly twice as many pixels along each axis as the previous iPhones. This means that apps [...]
Apple iPhone OS 4
“We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” That’s a quote from Steve Jobs about their lawsuit against HTC (i.e., against Android, really), but I think it applies pretty well to iPhone OS4, as announced today. Innovation definitely wasn’t the focus of the event.
The majority [...]