Second-gen iPhone Confirmed?

gadgetopia writes "ITWire is reporting that the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta has seemingly confirmed a second generation of the Apple iPhone. Another report referenced by the article suggests the new model could come with a different case design. 'Quanta and Apple already enjoy a strong relationship, with Quanta building both MacBooks and iPods for Apple to sell worldwide, although Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reported to be building the first batch of iPhones due to arrive in the US market by the end of June. Reports suggest Quanta has received an order for 5 million iPhones which are to be shipped in September ... Presumably this could entail a 3G or even 3.5G HSDPA iPhone for European markets due to get the iPhone by the end of the year, or even the addition of more memory - imagine a 16Gb or even 32Gb iPhone, unlikely though those will be this year mainly due to the high cost of 16 or 32Gb of flash memory.'"

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Re:Can we please get out the next OS first!

[drinkypoo]

I have a question. If you actually _need_ a standard Unix system as your primary desktop, why the hell would you buy a Mac in the first place?

Who said anything about need? Doesn't "want" count for anything any more? And why did you assume that it was a "need" situation?

What possible attraction could there be? You pay a premium for the hardware and get a system that, though it actually _is_ really Unix, despite what you seem to think, differs in some very important ways from most Unix systems.

Yes, it really is Unix. It's just a fucked over version, that's all. And it's fucked over in ways that reduce functionality.

It's also amazingly slower than the original. NeXTStep was peppy on a 25 MHz 68020, for example, in a way that even System 7 couldn't manage on the same amount of machine.

It works great as a desktop that "just works"

My experience has been very different.

And if you just don't like Macs, that's fine, too. But your reasons for insulting OS X and its users are specious at best.

Specious? Apple has destroyed almost everything good about NeXTStep (except Obj-C) in the process of making their candy-coated farce. The system is substantially less reliable than NeXTStep was. So I think it's very reasonable to criticize Apple for what they have done. And I don't think it's unreasonable to criticize people for being sheep. It's the biggest problem we face today (although the Apple-related results are pretty low on the chart of importance.)