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iPhone 4 News Roundup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-we-go-again dept.

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.

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  1. Here's your roundup by Pojut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Goatse.

    But seriously folks...the new iPhone hardware and many of the additions they are making to the OS are really great...but I'm sorry, I still can't get past the walled garden. Again, I know the app store would have everything I would likely need, but I just can't accept being told that an application would be inappropriate for me to use. And yes, I know I could just jailbreak it...but that's not the point. I don't care that I can get around it, I care that the walled garden exists in the first place. As a consumer, the best I can do is vote with my wallet.

    This is only my opinion, I don't speak for others, YMMV, etc applies.

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    1. Re:Here's your roundup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The App Store is a public marketplace. You don't see people complaining they can't buy the latest pr0n titles at your local BB or Radio Shack.

      It's a phone! It's not the second coming, they're not taking your desktop away, and....chances are they won't try mind-control with it. Personally, I just want my phone to work, so that I can get things done and not troubleshoot why my phone is crashing.

    2. Re:Here's your roundup by bonch · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Life is really too short to be idealistic about freaking phone apps.

  2. Multitasking complaint is kind of bogus by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The multitasking complaint seems kind of off to me - he complains about the tray being "cluttered" after you go through a few apps because they are automatically added to the tray. But the tray is just four apps wide - how can you have clutter in only four items? And he complains he needs to press and hold to quit an app - but also complains most apps are just suspended. So then why quit an app? It's not doing anything and will be removed if you are low on memory.

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  3. Re:makes little technical sense by beelsebob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From other platforms, we know that is not a major battery drain

    The people who make those platforms would beg to differ, Larry Page himself said that poor battery life in android is usually down to multitasking.