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Norway's largest paper: iPhone 4 Antennagate is a US problem
After testing Apple's iPhone 4 against competing HTC and Nokia models in a remote area on the edge of Norwegian carrier Telenor's mobile coverage, the county's largest paper has concluded that its antenna design is "just as good and bad as competitors," rather than suffering any defect.
The iPhone Antenna Song
Nokia pokes at iPhone 4 death grip, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
I'm not defending the iPhone 4's issues with reception when held in certain ways - I'm certainly hoping that the rumours of a firmware fix to improve matters are true. But Nokia may really have shot themselves in the foot by posting a blog on their official website mocking the iPhone 4. They say you can hold a Nokia any way you like; "you’re free to hold your Nokia device any way you like. And you won’t suffer any signal loss. Cool, huh?".
Yeah, that does sound pretty cool! So why is it that the E71 (the device pictured in their blog post) comes with instructions saying, "avoid touching the antenna area... [this] affects the communication quality". Hmmm... sound familiar? How about the scores of videos on YouTube showing exactly the same issues have existed with Nokias (and other phones) for years?
I'll re-iterate, I'm not saying the iPhone 4 is perfect, but seriously Nokia, people in glass houses should not throw stones!
2010's iPhone 4 vs 2000's iMac
| iMac (2000) | iPhone 4 (2010) | |
| CPU Speed | 500MHz | 1GHz |
| RAM | 128MB | 512MB |
| Graphics | ATI Rage 128 Pro (8 million triangles) |
PowerVR SGX 535 (28 milltion triangles) |
| Display | 786,000 pixels | 614,000 pixels |
| Storage | 30GB Hard disk | 32GB solid state |
| Weight | 15.7Kg | 137g |
An interesting comparison! Specs from this blog.
The banned iPhone 4 promo video
Tee hee.
Twitter for iPhone: May Tweetie 2 Rest in Peace
Tweetie 3.0, or as Twitter would like you to call it, Twitter for iPhone is the worst software update I can ever remember downloading. Generally, updates make things better, not worse. Twitter for iPhone adds nothing useful to Tweetie’s base. It actually breaks Tweetie. And I feel fine calling it an “upgrade” because this “new” iPhone app overwrites your exisiting Tweetie 2. I can forgive poor design choices because the corporate overlords who bought your soul told you that you had to include their featured tweets and suggested users, but when you force your shiny new free turd on people and overwrite better software that they actually paid money for, you are taking your credibility and stomping all over it. Cause that’s what gets me more than anything. I’m going to run down some specific interface stuff that doesn’t benefit anyone but Twitter, but it’s this forced upgrade that kills me.
Full article here. It's a bit full on, but I totally agree... I want Tweetie back! Twitter for iPhone is worse than what came before, which is especially a shame as it's still better than anything else out there, meaning we're stuck with a worse selection of Twitter apps than we had a month ago. Boo!
Google Has A Problem: VP8 Is Not As Good As H.264
Frankly, the way Google has handled the On2 acquisition and the release of VP8 simply has me puzzled. Google's not a bunch of dumb folks and I don't see why they would rush an inferior product out to the market, make it open-source and then hope it would unseat H.264 all while not getting any input from developers before the initial first release, even if it is beta. If Google permits changes to the spec and allows the developer community to help fix some of the glaring issues with VP8, I could see that approach. But at no time during Google's presentation yesterday did they frame the release of VP8 that way or ask for help from the development community to fix issues that they must know exist.
Will I Develop For Android? at Malcolm Barclay
Whilst the Google Android OS is growing rapidly, the market for paid apps is just not there yet. In the paid apps space it’s 1/10th the size of the iPhone market and there are problems with fragmentation, payment systems & even multiple stores. This makes it cumbersome for users to purchase applications & makes it really difficult for developers to be rewarded for their efforts.
The amount of people prepared to pay for an application on Android pales in comparison to the iPhone. I don’t blame the consumer, just take a look at the Android Market website.
You can not:
- Search it
- See the price
- Read any reviews
- Download applications
Yes, I know that the Android way is to download on the phone directly (and this is what many do on the iPhone) but don’t you think as a potential customer I am going look at the Android Market website to see what my app options are?
Based on some of the email exchanges I have had, it’s very interesting to note that some people are buying Android phones (even switching from iPhone to Android) based purely on philosophical grounds. They certainly aren’t doing it for the games titles, because the choice & quality on Android compared to the iPhone platform is abysmal.
One person comments as to why they switched to Android…
“Unlike apple is giving what they want, rather than what people want”
People don’t have to buy Apple products, no one is forcing them too. People are buying Apple products because it is what they want. They like the ease of use, ease of app purchasing & many other things about the platform. Apple are not infallible, one may argue they over step the line with what they allow or don’t allow; but it’s their platform and they can do whatever they like with it. Just as SkyTV can decide what sports they will or won’t show, it’s their channel.
The article continues at mbarclay.net and is an interesting discussion from a developer's point of view on the differences between platforms.
It's official: iPad is the new Newton.
How similar are these ads?!
Obama Says iPad Makes Information a "Distraction"
With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
So said President Obama. I'm not going to comment on whether what he says is true or false, but what I will say is this - if you don't know how to use these devices, then how can you comment on the information experience they provide? You're as unqualified to make this statement as the endless number of people who won't try Twitter because it's "just full of people saying what they had for breakfast" or someone who derides a book they've never read.
Try these devices, learn them. Then you have a right to complain about them. Then your opinion will be valid. They're not so different from the Blackberry that you're famously so attached to, anyway.
That is all.
