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Humor is a defense of the weak.
I do live in a box.
Humor is a defense of the weak.
The only way to run anything on the Iphone is via Safari on the Iphone itself. If you want to run those same programs on your PC, you need one that has Safari on it, until recently that meant Apple. To support the cross-platform apps Apple is building, they could either make them work with the other 97% of computers out there, or use the Iphone as a lever.
Guess what? It is trying to use the Iphone as a lever to push a new app dev platform onto PCs. Remember that little company that tried to do this last time? It was called Netscape or something if memory serves.
In any case, the launch of Safari is nothing more than a support platform to lessen the blow of a DRM infected and locked down Iphone platform. I think it will still blow, but that is just me, DRM is never a good thing, but fanbois being fanbois, they are too dumb to notice.
If you were thinking that Apple was trying to win people over with a third rate browser, think again, this is nothing more than saving the cost of a software CD in the Iphone box while spreading the disease.
I would say thats most certainly FUD being spread by "fanbois". Not sure I would take any article that references "fanbois" with a grain of salt.http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40476
How accurate is this?
Is the only way to use an iPhone (i.e. upload new content) exclusively through Safari? I know there was a discussion on this but I thought it was a kneejerk reaction.
Is this definitely the case? The crappy ol Safari is the only medium to communicate with the iPhone?
Wow. Any lawyers here who wish to assist me in formulating a lawsuit?
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40476
How accurate is this?
Is the only way to use an iPhone (i.e. upload new content) exclusively through Safari? I know there was a discussion on this but I thought it was a kneejerk reaction.
Is this definitely the case? The crappy ol Safari is the only medium to communicate with the iPhone?
Wow. Any lawyers here who wish to assist me in formulating a lawsuit?
The USA Today article we had previously referenced also contains an interesting sidebar interviewing Balsu Thandu, one of the individuals who has been field testing the iPhone over the past two months.
Approximately 200 field technicians have been secretly testing the iPhone for 10 weeks, logging over 10,000 hours on the phone, including over 5,000 hours of voice calls and 5 gigabytes of data usage. This is reportedly twice as much testing as other phones.
Users worried about durability can rest easier that testing included dousing the iPhone in water, dropping it onto concrete and bouncing it off sidewalks. Real life usage testing was also a big focus:
"Many people don't realize it, but walking gives you the worst channel conditions," Thandu says. Cell signals tend to bounce off buildings, causing interference, and background noise is a constant problem in cities.
Apple reportedly made ongoing adjustments based on the feedback, including improving audio quality which was originally "not loud or clear enough".
According to the article, Thandu feels comfortable that the iPhone is ready for launch.
Remember the winning Engadget commercial, "The Long Arm of Steve Jobs"? We posted it after the break, but finding someone who's spent some serious time with a pre-launch iPhone and getting them to talk is basically a lot like that. Still, we managed to smuggle out some freshly leaked details from a very trusted inside source who's been fooling around with a unit. Here's what they had to say:
- The keyboard was simply described as "disappointing". Keyboarding with two thumbs often registers multiple key presses (two or three at a time) resulting in a lot of mistakes. The best way to type is with a single finger (as shown in most of Apple's demos), but two thumbs is supposedly very difficult. After trying it for a number of days our source gave up using their thumbs.
- The text auto-correction only works well for simple words, but doesn't work for proper names. We can only assume this bit will get better with time as Apple fills out its predictive text dictionary.
- "It won't replace a BlackBerry. It's not good for text input. It's just not a business product."
- The touchscreen was said to, in general, require somewhat hard presses to register input, and needs some getting used to.
- In addition to its dock, the iPhone comes packaged with a polishing cloth (the thing's supposedly a fingerprint magnet, no surprise) and the usual smallish power adapter.
- The Bluetooth headset will debut in the $120 range, and will come with its own dock for charging both the phone and the headset. The headset will feature a miniature magnetic charging interface á la MagSafe.
Click on for more impressions on the headset, browser, YouTube, and more.
- The Bluetooth headset has a hidden LED and is supposedly a very small and elegant device. Sound quality is said to be "typical". There is no clip; like many headsets you're expected to just let it hang out of your ear, as previously shown.
- The browser "worked well" but page load speeds on EDGE were just as slow as expected. It sounds like 3G users will have a tough run with this.
- Users must scroll through the address book (or use the alphabet-drag on the side) -- one cannot bring up the keyboard and type in a name, as many of us are used to.
- Shocker: YouTube over EDGE didn't work well at all, and will basically necessitate use of WiFi.
Ok, that's all we've got for now. At this point we're just really looking forward to putting the spurs to this thing -- Apple is hyping this product like nothing we've ever seen before, and we're ready to bring every detail to light. In the mean time, here's that commercial again.
Test how your website will look on an iPhone with iPhoney.
Mine looks like arsé but mainly because of its width
Wonder what will happen to that guy mentioned in the USA Today article that is most likely breaking his NDA, which Apple takes VERY seriously.
As for what madmatt, linked it's basically a block of stuff with little information and then repeated again at the bottom with nothing new. Kinda sad how much FUD people are trying to spread simply because it's Apple's. I haven't read anything yet that would deter me from getting one if I could afford it. I believe the same is probably true for anyone else that was thinking about the purchase of one also.
http://forum.osnn.net/showpost.php?p=796498&postcount=88Don't know if this was posted before, but apparently some tried this gadget out. Details are here.
Sounds kinda disappointing, if true.
Great, now we'll have to make sure our sites work with an iPhone?