Perhaps it isn't in Apple's corporate culture, or interest to dominate the desktop computing world? Perhaps this is why they make great products that cost more money; because they (Steve Jobs) want to make cool stuff that people want to use, whatever the cost, and not boring business stuff that only people forced to use will use (then like lemmings, buy the stuff for home, for all the "work" they do at home).
What a freakin' moron. I guess he doesn't know ANYBODY in the world that has a Mac or a PC that isn't Win64 that he could, you know, borrow for 5 minutes, to log into iTunes and activate his phone?
Considering the current LCD isn't the thickest part of my MacBook, I would guess that making the screen thinner would NOT make the entire MacBook twice as thin. I'm thinking new motherboard/cpu/video/hard drive configuration. It would be sweet for flash hard drives to start hitting the market too. Considering my 1st gen MacBook only has a 60Gb harddrive, I would think they could make flash drives that big, and I'd be happy.
??? I would suggest that the trackpad is the single most important user interface design of mobile computing. After the keyboard and mouse, the trackpad is one of the most important input devices in computing history. Why wouldn't multi-touch need a trackpad? Would you just wave your fingers in the air? Multi-touch requires some sort of surface, so why NOT use the standard input device found on 95% of all laptop computers?
It takes more work to actually access the story then it does to just scroll right past. I would say 75% of/. story headlines don't mean a thing to me. Maybe you can pretend you don't know what an iPhone is, and not care, kinda like I do with any Linux article?
But wait, where is all the obligatory slashdot anecdotal evidence? I don't believe any stats until somebody on slashdot tells us they know at least 3 people who have had problems with their iPhone.
Nice bait. I won't take it. Plus, you save $75 buying an iPhone over an N95, and you don't get a Phugly Phone....(oops, see I can troll too).
The "Easy Fix" is to just wait a weekend before buying an iPhone. The real story here is all the idiots who stood in line--just desserts, if you ask me.
From TFA: "It's good enough, but you wish it were faster."
Steve Jobs didn't say it isn't fast enough, as the title infers. I believe there is a huge difference between "not fast enough" and "it is good enough". God, stop with the iHate already lazy journalists.
Yeah, I'm surprised more of us Mac users don't pipe up and at least give credit to MS for a more Mac-like OS. I wish we would use Vista at work, but none of our hardware is fast enough. As much ridicule that Vista is getting, the early reports (at least my perception) is that it IS more stable, and things do "just work" better than the past 10 years of frustration....as long as your hardware is ultra-modern. I think a lot of the Vista venom is geared towards the fact that it looks nice and is "different" than XP. It is probably the same phenomena that makes XP lovers vitriolic against Mac OS X.
With this said, though, I STILL can't find anyone who uses Vista, and all the stores password their computers...arghhh...Anyone want to send me theirs so I can install it on my Intel Mac?
As for the Mac-mini price comment, I'm not sure how it is 2x as much as the $700 Dell machine. For $1400, you'd have a maxed-out mini with a pretty big screen to boot. Personally, I'd rather have a full-form PC than a Mac mini, even as hardcore Mac that I am.
I want to see a faulty powerstrip that can kill two Xboxes that are on their way in the mail. Two of the 11 were DOA so you can hardly blame that on this dudes environment.
Well, instead of replacing it under the person who has the warranty (the ill-placed warrantee in my above post), of course I meant to say "under warranty".
if a customer bought something, then brought it back broken, 11 FREAKING TIMES in a row, do you really think most retailers would keep accepting it back, over and over again?
Not only would I think retailers would take it back, the would be legally obligated to do so. You can't keep selling someone a lemon replacement, then finally just stop. If something is replaced under warrantee, and the same part breaks again, the product is generally covered under lemon laws, and must continue to be replaced for the reasonable lifetime of the product.
No kidding! And people scream and yell about the Cult of Mac and Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field...it all pales in comparison to the consumers' undying love for Microsoft crap. Lemmings, I tell ya.
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Don't forget, AT THE TIME, it was so technically superior to everything else on the market, it wasn't even funny. What made it a "flop" was tacky people who shop at Wal-Mart couldn't afford one. Let's not confuse "good product" with "product that sells well", please.
Come on now...I presume if they are receiving MMS on a cell phone, said cell phone could also receive AHV (a human voice). What ever happened to calling the person with whom you wish to communicate?
i don't care much about the interface, i want to use the device.
It seems whatever interface you currently don't care about is preventing you from using the shift key.
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I'm curious. If your Treo 700p was faulty "right out of the box" then why didn't you return it for a replacement right away?
Why would he want to replace something that is poorly designed with the same thing? It isn't a defective product, it is just a horrible product. He could have returned it for a refund I suppose, but he gave it the benefit of the doubt and kept adding stuff to make it better.
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SD cards do have a file system just like Windows XP has a good digital video editor (snicker). Just because a "feature" is on the box, doesn't mean it works well and in the case of SD cards, I hope they all simultaneously combust soon. And it is people who like these arcane file systems (//music452.eng/42.pdx/;akljf/830a/384sljkdf.mp3) that love to hate Apple. Good on you.
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Please explain your source for these 6 clicks. I'll give you a source where it takes one push to call somebody (apple.com). Having only seen demos and the commercials, I can only think of 4 clicks to call somebody, if the phone is completely in the off configuration. 1-turn the switch on the top to "on", 2-slide your finger to unlock the screen, 3-choose phone, 4-dial.
What you won't see ANYWHERE on the iPhone is confusing drop-down menus, deeply rooted sub-menus, and the hierarchal, linear constraints of nearly all current cell phone offerings. If you can't figure out the iPhone with a few exploratory clicks, or if you get lost in the interface (which is common on every other phone), then you can say it isn't anything new. But having watched all the demos and commercials, it is blatantly obvious that this thing is a no-brainer with the interface.
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If you are worried about "ringtones" then you probably aren't on Apple's demographic radar anyway. Besides, do you honestly think there won't be an easy way to implement your own sound files? Have you used an iPhone yet? I'm just asking, because of all the rediculous points made about why the iPhone will suck, this has to top my list.
I'm not sure about the iPod jack, but you could use the aux line. The iPhone demo clearly shows that when using the aux line for the iPod portion, incoming phone calls duck the music low enough for you to hear the ringing, and then you can answer the phone. The iPod stops when you answer, and starts where it left off when you hang up. Maybe an inconvenience, in the fact you can't be charging your phone if you are expecting to use your phone, but still, it is a reasonable work-around. In my ghetto setup, I could charge the phone with my lighter and use the iPod and phone simultaneously through the aux in line on my stereo. Somebody (Alpine, probably) will make an in dash or behind the dash adapter that will circumvent this issue.
Why would anyone buy a $600 phone with no GPS and an EDGE data connection?
Did you not notice the Wifi? Perhaps for anyone interested in a nicely designed phone/iPod/camera/internet device won't mind spending $500+ for such a device, especially when Wifi is prevalent in the area where they live?
It is a shame about all these "losers" and their inability to be as intelligent as you obviously are. Heres a clue--if you don't like it, don't buy it. Why do you feel compelled to go tell everyone else NOT to buy one?
Hehe, that made my day! Maybe you can change your joke to , "No 3G, less memory than the guy in the other thread claims to have in his removable flash memory card phone". Let's not forget "Too expensive".
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Perhaps it isn't in Apple's corporate culture, or interest to dominate the desktop computing world? Perhaps this is why they make great products that cost more money; because they (Steve Jobs) want to make cool stuff that people want to use, whatever the cost, and not boring business stuff that only people forced to use will use (then like lemmings, buy the stuff for home, for all the "work" they do at home).
What a freakin' moron. I guess he doesn't know ANYBODY in the world that has a Mac or a PC that isn't Win64 that he could, you know, borrow for 5 minutes, to log into iTunes and activate his phone?
Considering the current LCD isn't the thickest part of my MacBook, I would guess that making the screen thinner would NOT make the entire MacBook twice as thin. I'm thinking new motherboard/cpu/video/hard drive configuration. It would be sweet for flash hard drives to start hitting the market too. Considering my 1st gen MacBook only has a 60Gb harddrive, I would think they could make flash drives that big, and I'd be happy.
??? I would suggest that the trackpad is the single most important user interface design of mobile computing. After the keyboard and mouse, the trackpad is one of the most important input devices in computing history. Why wouldn't multi-touch need a trackpad? Would you just wave your fingers in the air? Multi-touch requires some sort of surface, so why NOT use the standard input device found on 95% of all laptop computers?
It takes more work to actually access the story then it does to just scroll right past. I would say 75% of /. story headlines don't mean a thing to me. Maybe you can pretend you don't know what an iPhone is, and not care, kinda like I do with any Linux article?
But wait, where is all the obligatory slashdot anecdotal evidence? I don't believe any stats until somebody on slashdot tells us they know at least 3 people who have had problems with their iPhone.
The "Easy Fix" is to just wait a weekend before buying an iPhone. The real story here is all the idiots who stood in line--just desserts, if you ask me.
Steve Jobs didn't say it isn't fast enough, as the title infers. I believe there is a huge difference between "not fast enough" and "it is good enough". God, stop with the iHate already lazy journalists.
As for the Mac-mini price comment, I'm not sure how it is 2x as much as the $700 Dell machine. For $1400, you'd have a maxed-out mini with a pretty big screen to boot. Personally, I'd rather have a full-form PC than a Mac mini, even as hardcore Mac that I am.
I want to see a faulty powerstrip that can kill two Xboxes that are on their way in the mail. Two of the 11 were DOA so you can hardly blame that on this dudes environment.
Well, instead of replacing it under the person who has the warranty (the ill-placed warrantee in my above post), of course I meant to say "under warranty".
Not a flame, just setting your logic straight ;-)
No kidding! And people scream and yell about the Cult of Mac and Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field...it all pales in comparison to the consumers' undying love for Microsoft crap. Lemmings, I tell ya.
Don't forget, AT THE TIME, it was so technically superior to everything else on the market, it wasn't even funny. What made it a "flop" was tacky people who shop at Wal-Mart couldn't afford one. Let's not confuse "good product" with "product that sells well", please.
Come on now...I presume if they are receiving MMS on a cell phone, said cell phone could also receive AHV (a human voice). What ever happened to calling the person with whom you wish to communicate?
SD cards do have a file system just like Windows XP has a good digital video editor (snicker). Just because a "feature" is on the box, doesn't mean it works well and in the case of SD cards, I hope they all simultaneously combust soon. And it is people who like these arcane file systems (//music452.eng/42.pdx/;akljf/830a/384sljkdf.mp3) that love to hate Apple. Good on you.
What you won't see ANYWHERE on the iPhone is confusing drop-down menus, deeply rooted sub-menus, and the hierarchal, linear constraints of nearly all current cell phone offerings. If you can't figure out the iPhone with a few exploratory clicks, or if you get lost in the interface (which is common on every other phone), then you can say it isn't anything new. But having watched all the demos and commercials, it is blatantly obvious that this thing is a no-brainer with the interface.
If you are worried about "ringtones" then you probably aren't on Apple's demographic radar anyway. Besides, do you honestly think there won't be an easy way to implement your own sound files? Have you used an iPhone yet? I'm just asking, because of all the rediculous points made about why the iPhone will suck, this has to top my list.
It is actually a ploy by the hat industry. With every prediction of Apple failure, many hats are eaten.
I'm not sure about the iPod jack, but you could use the aux line. The iPhone demo clearly shows that when using the aux line for the iPod portion, incoming phone calls duck the music low enough for you to hear the ringing, and then you can answer the phone. The iPod stops when you answer, and starts where it left off when you hang up. Maybe an inconvenience, in the fact you can't be charging your phone if you are expecting to use your phone, but still, it is a reasonable work-around. In my ghetto setup, I could charge the phone with my lighter and use the iPod and phone simultaneously through the aux in line on my stereo. Somebody (Alpine, probably) will make an in dash or behind the dash adapter that will circumvent this issue.
It is a shame about all these "losers" and their inability to be as intelligent as you obviously are. Heres a clue--if you don't like it, don't buy it. Why do you feel compelled to go tell everyone else NOT to buy one?
Hehe, that made my day! Maybe you can change your joke to , "No 3G, less memory than the guy in the other thread claims to have in his removable flash memory card phone". Let's not forget "Too expensive".