Thanks for your insight, but I'm pretty sure everyone has seen that link before. If you study the URL really carefully, you can see it's actually more than two and a half years old.
Shouldn't front-line support people actually know if it's actual bad malware or not? If it is, this is remarkably stupid to neither confirm nor deny that it even exists. That seems like it came from marketing, not tech support. sigh.
You should probably read the article. Apple is not telling its staff to deny that the malware exists, it is directing that the support staff should not confirm or deny that the software is installed on a specific Mac and should not try to remove it. Instead Apple is directing the customer to a specified documentation providing general information about malware. Apple is declining to remove software, which the customer has installed and subsequently changed their mind about. Sigh.
Magic mouse, a flop? I'm not sure I understand that conclusion. Actually I think it's the best mouse I've ever used. Although it does require a third-party plugin to enable the two finger vertical swipe gestures that I use to navigate my open windows, which is a little bit stupid.
Vodafone UK offer an additional 500MB allowance for tethered usage for £5 a month. It's automatically added to your bill when you tether with an iPhone.
The culprit was traced to a Chinese origin. I highly doubt any US authorities will bother to run over there, hog-tie the guy and drag him back over to the US.
What does "app" even mean?
We're talking about small software programs, right?
Minature Software... Micro Software... Micro Soft...
Micro Soft Store!
No?
On one hand, something does need to be done about the corrosive, depraved, negative sexual imagery that pervades large parts of the internet - it's definitely not something I want my children exposed to.
On the other hand... er, let's just say the other hand is busy right now.
Scalp? No one is forcing you to spend your money just because you like the game.
Oh behave. I rarely watch video game movies and I can't remember ever seeing one at the cinema. Like most of the Slashdot crowd, I'm very selective about all my spending and research everything from films to games to washing mashines before parting with my money.
But let's not kid ourselves that all consumers will ever be like that. Or that those who don't research a film before going to see it deserve to be ripped off by a film that solely relies on a name borrowed from a previously successful video game.
Uncharted is the perfect candidate for a popcorn movie, but from all the revelations/rumours it sounds like the movie studio is determined to dump everything that is good about the character and plot while adding unnecessary father/son (and Uncle???) dynamics.
At which point you have to ask: "Why bother?"
Oh yes, it's the money you can scalp from disappointed fans. Great.
Buried in the penultimate paragraph is the somewhat alarming note that "77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone."
It's a throw away comment at the end of the story, but I don't believe that 'statistic' for a second.
The only way I can make sense of it, is perhaps the idea that only 20% would buy another Android phone from the same manufacturer. Due to the number of options, the grass always being greener and the effective 'arms race' between Android manufacturers etc that sounds vaguely plausible. But 80% ready to abandon the platform? That has to be nonsense. Apart from anything else, where are they gonna go?
FWIW I have an iPhone, never owned an Android, blah, blah...
iPhone 4 is out. Some people have signal issues due to a design decision. Many people think it's the best phone they've had. Many people think it's the spawn of Satan. Apple held a press conference to give away a fix to the problem. Some people think the fix is ugly and doesn't do anything about the Satan problem. The End.
This flamewar has been pounding Slashdot for a long time, but since the lost/recovered prototype iPhone 4, it's been ridiculous. Every . Single . Day on Slashdot there has to be an Apple flamewar, and the Anti-Apple jokes now begin to bleed into other stories. Too much coverage, Slashdot. More physics, less phones. Leave the intensive, by-the-minute coverage of mobile phones to Gizmodo and Engadget.
Sorry, but your post really doesn't make it clear whether you are for or against the iPhone... How the hell are the Slashdot crowd supposed to mod that?
Just pick a side and start whining - you'll get the hang of it soon enough. They'll be another iPhone 4 submission tomorrow, so you can try again then.
And you don't see people complaining about it on other platforms. The only people bringing this point up are the iphone owners who are trying to justify this obvious design defect.
You seem to be ignoring the numerous posts pointing out that the Nexus 1 does have a very similar issue that has been reported by significant number of users. I've quoted the Anonymous Coward who previously responded to you, because you may have him filtered out. Check the links out. No thanks required - you're welcome.
Actually, this design flaw affects 100% of the phones. If you have an iPhone and hold it in your left hand, bridging the millimeter gap in the metal band that goes around the perimeter of the phone, then it will lose it's connection. 100% of the time this will happen.
That's not being universally reported. Did you read all of the articles? Read through the PCMag (second link) - that's not what is being reported there. Yes, the problem could be affecting all iPhone 4 handsets, but it's certainly not affecting all iPhone 4 users. Theories are flying around about hand sweat, local signal strength and even GSM bandwidth as contributing to the size of the problem.
All of the YouTube fault demonstrations I have seen have shown users holding the phone unusually firmly, with the ball of the hand coming right around to the front of the phone (even to the point of partially obstructing the screen). This isn't how most people hold their phone - although I accept that some might. Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/new-iphone-4-antenna-causing-potential-reception-issues.ars posted some preliminary investigation claiming no issues when holding the phone "normally", but proving the issue when dampening their hand and adopting the "death grip".
So yes, there is an issue, but your mileage may vary. It may not require the level of hysteria that has been reached in certain media outlets.
I don't want to dismiss anyone's fears. I'm still uncertain as to whether I'll purchase an iPhone 4 myself, but I doubt the scenario that you describe is being experienced by the majority of IPhone 4 users.
Not the greatest example as this specific trojan is detected by the OS in 10.6. While the known genuine threats can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, it's easy for Apple to keep up.
Not against the idea of AV, but running an on-access AV scanner with no actual definitions for active OSX malware is a bit stupid (despite what AV vendors would have you believe).
The time for something more than http://www.clamxav.com/ may be coming, but it's not here yet. Retailers pushing AV solutions should be avoided.
Without meaning to upset anyone, the article and a lot of the posts in this thread show an incredible lack of imagination.
FaceTime is one of the biggest selling points of the iPhone 4 for me. The feature isn't ready for me yet, but I've no doubt it will be before too long. I want to see my children when I'm away from home. I want to show them the stuff that I see (well, some of it). Right now, I have an iPhone; my wife doesn't and needless to say my little boys don't either, but when the feature is opened up to a desktop client I'll use it a lot. Hell, this is the kind of functionality that would convince me to buy the next generation iPad.
I don't think that anyone is claiming that video calls will overtake or replace voice calls - picture messages haven't overtaken or replaced text messages, but they're a great addition to communication. A picture paints a thousand words or something...
And no, Apple haven't invented video calling, but it does look like a simple implementation and they've made it clear that they will build on what they have right now. If they can keep it to existing data contracts without incurring the traditional 50p/min+ charges, it will be the most successful implementation of the technology so far. My last phone had video calling, but network and handset compatibility issues prevented me from even trying out the technology with the limited pool of people I knew who also had the feature.
I've had a phone with a web browser for about five years. I've only started browsing the web on my phone since I got an iPhone 3G. Just look at the quality of web experience you get on an iPhone or any one of the Android phones - it's all about the implementation and it looks like Apple may get it right again with FaceTime.
And if the idea of spending 'FaceTime' with you kids doesn't excite you, think about the first time you manage to persuade your missus to flash you some 'BoobTime'... Can't wait.
I didn't know anyone who felt that they needed Flash on their mobile phone until Apple made it clear that the iPhone wouldn't support it.
Flash is still mainly used for adverts, right? (Even the article in question comes with a Flash banner ad...)
I like my iPhone (3G), but in truth it's started to struggle under recent updates. Apple seem to be pushing the device harder, I'm encoding my music at higher bit-rates and websites seem to want to do more. The net result is that the iPod now often skips when I browse 'heavy' websites (including this one). I genuinely don't think that the poor thing would handle Flash with any grace at all.
So maybe Apple's reasoning is motivated by revenue streams, but I'm not missing Flash on the iPhone.
(And Flash games...? Really? I've obviously never played the right ones. The Flash games I've played have been very limited.)
I took a similar route and convinced my father, mother and both my brothers to buy Apple Macs.
And before anyone starts bleating "but Macs can have problems too..." I'll tell you what I tell my family now when they call me with problems: "So what? I don't support Macs."
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Thanks for your insight, but I'm pretty sure everyone has seen that link before. If you study the URL really carefully, you can see it's actually more than two and a half years old.
Shouldn't front-line support people actually know if it's actual bad malware or not? If it is, this is remarkably stupid to neither confirm nor deny that it even exists. That seems like it came from marketing, not tech support. sigh.
You should probably read the article. Apple is not telling its staff to deny that the malware exists, it is directing that the support staff should not confirm or deny that the software is installed on a specific Mac and should not try to remove it. Instead Apple is directing the customer to a specified documentation providing general information about malware. Apple is declining to remove software, which the customer has installed and subsequently changed their mind about. Sigh.
Ok, they still (re)released it last week
I'm pretty confident Apple had nothing to do with the "re-release" of the statement. Dude, quit punishing that equine corpse...
Magic mouse, a flop? I'm not sure I understand that conclusion. Actually I think it's the best mouse I've ever used. Although it does require a third-party plugin to enable the two finger vertical swipe gestures that I use to navigate my open windows, which is a little bit stupid.
Vodafone UK offer an additional 500MB allowance for tethered usage for £5 a month. It's automatically added to your bill when you tether with an iPhone.
The culprit was traced to a Chinese origin. I highly doubt any US authorities will bother to run over there, hog-tie the guy and drag him back over to the US.
Damn. I miss Jack Bauer.
What does "app" even mean?
We're talking about small software programs, right?
Minature Software... Micro Software... Micro Soft...
Micro Soft Store!
No?
Yeah, something needs to be done... What needs to be done, is YOU need to pay more attention to your children...
The government is NOT your nanny...
FFS - it was a joke. Do I have to spell it out to you? Do you really think that I'm too busy wanking to look after my own children?
Anyway the wife can look after them for 10 minutes, surely?
In any event, I'm responsible enough to delete my internet history after every session.
On one hand, something does need to be done about the corrosive, depraved, negative sexual imagery that pervades large parts of the internet - it's definitely not something I want my children exposed to.
On the other hand... er, let's just say the other hand is busy right now.
"I wouldn't trust a single thing he says, even this."
With all due respect :
who the fuck are YOU ?
In fairness, he's oodaloop. It says so at the top of his post.
I'm IrrepressibleMonkey. You're posting anonymously. I'd ask; "who the fuck are you?" But frankly I don't care.
Scalp? No one is forcing you to spend your money just because you like the game.
Oh behave. I rarely watch video game movies and I can't remember ever seeing one at the cinema. Like most of the Slashdot crowd, I'm very selective about all my spending and research everything from films to games to washing mashines before parting with my money.
But let's not kid ourselves that all consumers will ever be like that. Or that those who don't research a film before going to see it deserve to be ripped off by a film that solely relies on a name borrowed from a previously successful video game.
Uncharted is the perfect candidate for a popcorn movie, but from all the revelations/rumours it sounds like the movie studio is determined to dump everything that is good about the character and plot while adding unnecessary father/son (and Uncle???) dynamics.
At which point you have to ask: "Why bother?"
Oh yes, it's the money you can scalp from disappointed fans. Great.
Not sure, but experience shows that most Flash sites will stop working when you deny storage rights.
For me the best new feature will be Find My iPhone
You clearly haven't found the Choo Choo text tone yet...
If you don't want to see shear ignorance on slashdot, just start ignoring timothy and kdawson
Sure, those guys have repeatedly demonstrated that they have little or no knowledge of hair removal methodology or technique.
I guess you could say that their 'shear ignorance' was sheer ignorance.
Sorry.
Buried in the penultimate paragraph is the somewhat alarming note that "77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone."
It's a throw away comment at the end of the story, but I don't believe that 'statistic' for a second.
The only way I can make sense of it, is perhaps the idea that only 20% would buy another Android phone from the same manufacturer. Due to the number of options, the grass always being greener and the effective 'arms race' between Android manufacturers etc that sounds vaguely plausible. But 80% ready to abandon the platform? That has to be nonsense. Apart from anything else, where are they gonna go?
FWIW I have an iPhone, never owned an Android, blah, blah...
iPhone 4 is out. Some people have signal issues due to a design decision. Many people think it's the best phone they've had. Many people think it's the spawn of Satan. Apple held a press conference to give away a fix to the problem. Some people think the fix is ugly and doesn't do anything about the Satan problem. The End.
This flamewar has been pounding Slashdot for a long time, but since the lost/recovered prototype iPhone 4, it's been ridiculous. Every . Single . Day on Slashdot there has to be an Apple flamewar, and the Anti-Apple jokes now begin to bleed into other stories. Too much coverage, Slashdot. More physics, less phones. Leave the intensive, by-the-minute coverage of mobile phones to Gizmodo and Engadget.
Sorry, but your post really doesn't make it clear whether you are for or against the iPhone... How the hell are the Slashdot crowd supposed to mod that?
Just pick a side and start whining - you'll get the hang of it soon enough. They'll be another iPhone 4 submission tomorrow, so you can try again then.
And you don't see people complaining about it on other platforms. The only people bringing this point up are the iphone owners who are trying to justify this obvious design defect.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=34ae2c179184c33e&hl=en http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCkjeHYT-g
You seem to be ignoring the numerous posts pointing out that the Nexus 1 does have a very similar issue that has been reported by significant number of users. I've quoted the Anonymous Coward who previously responded to you, because you may have him filtered out. Check the links out. No thanks required - you're welcome.
I don't think I've seen anyone demonstrate the issue with the touch of a single finger.
But if you're genuinely interested in Nexus One issues, check out the support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=34ae2c179184c33e&hl=en
Does that one sound familiar?
Actually, this design flaw affects 100% of the phones. If you have an iPhone and hold it in your left hand, bridging the millimeter gap in the metal band that goes around the perimeter of the phone, then it will lose it's connection. 100% of the time this will happen.
That's not being universally reported. Did you read all of the articles? Read through the PCMag (second link) - that's not what is being reported there. Yes, the problem could be affecting all iPhone 4 handsets, but it's certainly not affecting all iPhone 4 users. Theories are flying around about hand sweat, local signal strength and even GSM bandwidth as contributing to the size of the problem.
All of the YouTube fault demonstrations I have seen have shown users holding the phone unusually firmly, with the ball of the hand coming right around to the front of the phone (even to the point of partially obstructing the screen). This isn't how most people hold their phone - although I accept that some might. Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/new-iphone-4-antenna-causing-potential-reception-issues.ars posted some preliminary investigation claiming no issues when holding the phone "normally", but proving the issue when dampening their hand and adopting the "death grip".
So yes, there is an issue, but your mileage may vary. It may not require the level of hysteria that has been reached in certain media outlets.
Interestingly, this may actually be a combination of issues as the same symptoms have been demonstrated on the 3G and 3GS in the "death grip" and neither has an external antenna. Similar issues have been reported on the Nexus 1 and Palm Pre - you can find some links off this article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-antenna-avoid-holding-it-in-this-way.ars
I don't want to dismiss anyone's fears. I'm still uncertain as to whether I'll purchase an iPhone 4 myself, but I doubt the scenario that you describe is being experienced by the majority of IPhone 4 users.
Not the greatest example as this specific trojan is detected by the OS in 10.6. While the known genuine threats can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, it's easy for Apple to keep up.
Not against the idea of AV, but running an on-access AV scanner with no actual definitions for active OSX malware is a bit stupid (despite what AV vendors would have you believe).
The time for something more than http://www.clamxav.com/ may be coming, but it's not here yet. Retailers pushing AV solutions should be avoided.
Without meaning to upset anyone, the article and a lot of the posts in this thread show an incredible lack of imagination.
FaceTime is one of the biggest selling points of the iPhone 4 for me. The feature isn't ready for me yet, but I've no doubt it will be before too long. I want to see my children when I'm away from home. I want to show them the stuff that I see (well, some of it). Right now, I have an iPhone; my wife doesn't and needless to say my little boys don't either, but when the feature is opened up to a desktop client I'll use it a lot. Hell, this is the kind of functionality that would convince me to buy the next generation iPad.
I don't think that anyone is claiming that video calls will overtake or replace voice calls - picture messages haven't overtaken or replaced text messages, but they're a great addition to communication. A picture paints a thousand words or something...
And no, Apple haven't invented video calling, but it does look like a simple implementation and they've made it clear that they will build on what they have right now. If they can keep it to existing data contracts without incurring the traditional 50p/min+ charges, it will be the most successful implementation of the technology so far. My last phone had video calling, but network and handset compatibility issues prevented me from even trying out the technology with the limited pool of people I knew who also had the feature.
I've had a phone with a web browser for about five years. I've only started browsing the web on my phone since I got an iPhone 3G. Just look at the quality of web experience you get on an iPhone or any one of the Android phones - it's all about the implementation and it looks like Apple may get it right again with FaceTime.
And if the idea of spending 'FaceTime' with you kids doesn't excite you, think about the first time you manage to persuade your missus to flash you some 'BoobTime'... Can't wait.
I'm not sure that's true...
...and check out my Website Storage Settings, I see a whole bunch of sites that I've never even visited.
When I go to this link...
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
(Or at least I don't want to admit too...)
I didn't know anyone who felt that they needed Flash on their mobile phone until Apple made it clear that the iPhone wouldn't support it.
Flash is still mainly used for adverts, right? (Even the article in question comes with a Flash banner ad...)
I like my iPhone (3G), but in truth it's started to struggle under recent updates. Apple seem to be pushing the device harder, I'm encoding my music at higher bit-rates and websites seem to want to do more. The net result is that the iPod now often skips when I browse 'heavy' websites (including this one). I genuinely don't think that the poor thing would handle Flash with any grace at all.
So maybe Apple's reasoning is motivated by revenue streams, but I'm not missing Flash on the iPhone.
(And Flash games...? Really? I've obviously never played the right ones. The Flash games I've played have been very limited.)
I took a similar route and convinced my father, mother and both my brothers to buy Apple Macs.
And before anyone starts bleating "but Macs can have problems too..." I'll tell you what I tell my family now when they call me with problems: "So what? I don't support Macs."