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iPhone 4 News Roundup
We have a slew of iPhone 4-related stories this morning, so I'm lumping them together for easier consumption/ignoring, depending on your personal feelings on the subject.
Here is a blog entry proclaiming that iOS 4 multitasking sucks and why. Here is a sketchy summary of privacy violations by Apple and AT&T — apparently they are reporting back jailbroken phones. Skunkpost has a story about the lines and sales of the new phone. But the big news of the morning is the reception problems that apparently only affect people who hold the phone in their left hands.
This is Slashdot, which sucks Google's dick at every opportunity. Google has a competing phone platform, so Slashdot is going to put out as much FUD as possible about the phone, and Apple-haters will do their part in the comments to further the image that everything is going horribly wrong and that Apple is evil for regulating what runs on their platforms (just like Google, Microsoft, and every console manufacturer already does).
I'm 27, and you're still a dinosaur. The difference is you're young enough to adapt. The old-timers around here are going to have a really rough times in the years ahead. Their way of doing things is dead. They just don't know it.
"Battery life on iPhone sucks and Apple is totally to blame"? You must be new here.
Apple fans manage to excuse every single mistake Apple can make. If Steve came and dynamited someone's house just for the kicks, they'd manage to excuse it too. Something like hypnosis, brainwashing and disruption of the time-space continuum, all fused in one single fruity entity.
It's because consumers rule that walled gardens will fail in the long term. Otherwise, we'd all be using CompuServe or AOHell. And we'd all be using Macs. And we'd all be using closed standards for data transmission such as Alex teletext at 300 baud, and not http.
Microsoft knows not to tell people "You can't install non-Microsoft applications on your computer." Apple, on the other hand, appears to be trying to move away from "computers" to walled devices like iPhones and iPads.
Problem is they are now falling behind, as the competition is able to come out with better products quicker - look at the Droid X. One of those replaces both an iPhone and an iPad. The multi-touch on-screen keypad is a big thing for people who like to thumb-type, as is the 4.3" screen, 720p video, etc.
And a good thing it is. Ever since OS X became popular, you were guaranteed a +5 just for saying something positive about Apple. The influx of moron Apple fanboys is what destroyed Slashdot as a geek site.