Oh yeah, fast enough. A network substrate that can support a blistering 20K/sec. MMmmm. HD on that would be well, a frame per fortnight. There's also WiFi. I think Apple's betting that WiFi will proliferate pretty quickly. I know I rarely have trouble finding an open access point nowadays...
Can't get at the battery??!!??? Who are these guys fooling??? I'd suspect that "can't" is actually "somewhat difficult to", if it's anything like the iPod. I know I replaced the battery in my girlfriend's 3rd Gen iPod without much difficulty. The batteries in my 5th gen has yet to fail, while the battery *connection* in my current cell phone is flakey as hell. The main compelling reason I can think of for having easily replaceable batteries like most phones is so you can swap batteries if one dies at an inopportune moment, but there are a whole host of products for the iPod dock connector that'll give you some extra emergency juice.
The "non-replaceable" battery of the iPod hasn't hurt its sales, I don't think that it'll hurt the iPhone much. Especially for companies, who generally have IT guys on staff who can replace batteries if they seriously die.
Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train! Go rewatch Job's iPhone keynote. In one diagram, it shows a little slot for the SIM card easily accessible at the top of the phone. I'm sure it galled The Steve to put a hole in his beautiful iPhone, but he apparently accepted its necessity.
Man, if you thought it was difficult to find a Wii in the store before...
1. This Christian group is planning to provide free advertisement for the Wii. "There's No Such Thing As Bad Publicity" 2. This Christian group is planning to provide free advertisements that inform people that they can use the Wii to look at porn on their bigscreen TV.
I'm waiting for the novelization of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game.
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Okay, look at it this way:
1. OSX is a derivative of NeXTstep, originally written for the Motorola 68000 line of processors. It was ported to the PowerPC architecture and the x86 architectures. Why's it so hard to believe they couldn't port it to ARM? Yeah, binaries from "real" OSX won't work, but since the plan is to only have Apple binaries running on the thing, they can just recompile for the new platform. Porting userland is trivial.
2. OSX is an operating system built on a microkernal derivative of UNIX. Unix--especially unix running on a uKernal--is pretty much the most modular thing out there. All they have to do is drop the stuff they don't need for a phone.
3. Again, maybe the full-on desktop version of OSX is power and graphics hungry, but there's nothing that says they can't scale that down.
I'm guessing that the iPhone OSX is very similar, especially in terms of high-level APIs (given that Steve mentioned a lot of OSX APIs by name during the keynote), to quote-unquote-real OSX.
1. Iran's working on developing nuclear technology. 2. North Korea already has nuclear technology and is working on a delivery mechanism. And their leader is batshit insane. 3. The collapse of Russia is not the sort of thing that moves us farther from doomsday. The central government of the old USSR understood MAD and that they shouldn't bomb us back to the stone age because we'd do the same thing right back to them. Now we have a bunch of independant Soviet states with a bunch of poorly secured and not-centrally-managed nukes laying around. 4. You can fit a nuke in a suitcase nowadays. What do you want to bet the US has some sort of system set up right now leftover from the cold war that will detect a nuke going off in a major US city and interpret it as a time-to-blow-up-Russia scenario? A terrorist blowing up one city might end up in more than just that one city going up.
I was also born in '79. I'm more afraid now than I was in the 80s.
This doesn't really apply to the iPhone, but as a Prius owner, I'd like to note that most of the controls on the screen are also available from physical buttons on the steering wheel (all of the more important ones anyway. I.e., volume up/down, heat up/down/off, front/rear defrost). After the touchscreen novelty wears out, you mostly just leave it on the mileage monitor screen.
Thing is, it doesn't really make sense to add up the prices of all of the different "functions" of the device. The thing that costs the most money in an iPod, cell phone, digital camera, or PDA is the screen. Probably followed by the CPU... and this has just one each of those. There are certainly a few bits in there unique to each functional part (cell phone radio, lens for the camera, possibly an iPod's brain for playing the music, though it's also likely that they just have one CPU to handle all of that), but the big costs are all shared.
In addition, I've already *got* an iPod ($300 model), cell phone (~$100, as I recall. Fuckin' rebate never showed up), digital camera ($800. Nice digital SLR. Oh, and a 5MP compact that I spent about $300 on a year or so ago), and PDA ($75. It was cheap). I'm willing to pay to combine all of those features into one box, but the "If you were going to buy each of these things separately..." argument only really sways me if I *hadn't* already bought all of these things separately. And I'm guessing the vast majority of the target demographic already has an MP3 player, a phone, and a digital camera.
Also, if you're buying a 2MP camera for $200 in this day and age, I've got this bridge I'm willing to let go for extremely cheap...
Steve Jobs is fanatical about not wanting to ruin the lines of his products. That's why the iPod doesn't have a user-replacable battery--Steve wanted a nice smooth back on the iPod, so no externally-accessible battery compartment.
So the SIM slot on top might have been a compromise with that.
From the keynote:
9:53am - "We have a 2 megapixel camera built right in, let's take a look at the top. A headset jack, 3.5mm, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch. Let's look at the bottom, we've got a speaker, mic input, and an iPod connector."
When they say it's $499 with two year contract, that means it's $499 when you agree to pay $40/month (and probably an extra $20/month for data service, based on the other comments I've read) for the cell phone service for two years. Oh, and also the actual calling charges in addition to that.
I'm guessing you've never bought a cell phone. That's how 90% of the cell phones in the world are sold nowadays--discounted when you sign up for an X-year commitment to stick with the given cell provider. If Jobs had meant that you got 2 years free when you bought an iPhone, it would basically mean that the iPhone pays for itself in about a year and starts earning you money in the second year, and would have been a *much* bigger part of the keynote.
I just realized, if we make entire generations of young children in developing nations into computer geeks who can't get laid, we'll also solve the developing world's problems with: 1. Overpopulation 2. Teen pregnancy 3. AIDS and other STDs
Like the anonymous coward said, the thing I love most about my iPod is that I can pull up anything at all from my music collection on a whim. I could deal with 4gb or 8gb by making playlists, but that one time out of a hundred when I want to listen to some specific song that I didn't think to sync over would piss me the hell off.
Not to mention the time I'd have to spend picking the preferred 4gb out of the 13gb to go along with me.
Also not to mention the fact that it's really nice sometimes to have a 30gb hard drive on hand if you need to bulk-transfer some data or backup a girlfriend's hard drive before a fresh Windows install or what have you.
Oh man, I was totally with them up until the prices. I was preparing to pull out my credit card and spend an extra few months in debt. But... $500 for a 4gig and $600 for an 8gig? My MP3 collection is 13gigs. I'd have to shell out $500 and I'd *still* have to carry around my iPod. Oh, and also, I'd probably also have to switch from T-Mobile to Cingular.
Man, I love Unix. Translation was as simple as: echo D dddd dD D ddd dDD dddd dD D DdDD DDD ddD dDd DD DDD DD ddd dD dd Ddd dDdDdD | sed 's/D/-/g;s/d/./g'|morse -d
Heh. Want to talk about wasteful? I found myself once out of town with my cell phone's battery going low. I didn't have my cell phone charger with me, but it can charge from a USB port. I *did* have my laptop with me, but it was a bit low on battery power as well.
But I was in my car, and I've got an inverter for my cigarette lighter.
So, here's the energy flow: 1. Chemical energy in the form of gasoline in my Prius. 2. Converted to mechanical energy by the internal combustion in the engine 3. Converted to electrical energy by the Prius' alternator. 4. Converted to chemical energy again to charge the Prius' battery (it's a hybrid, and for most of the time I was charging my phone, it wasn't actually running the engine, just powering things from the battery) 5. Converted to DC current, sent through the cigarette lighter outlet 6. Converted to AC current by the inverter 7. Converted *back* to DC by my laptop's AC adapter 8. Sent out through the USB port into my phone.
Somewhere in the future, the heat death of the universe is happening a little bit faster 'cause I needed to talk to my girlfriend and was too dumb to charge my phone beforehand.
Were these machines Macs? If so, sounds like LocalTalk (although they're connected to RS422 serial ports, not parallel ports. Though I do recall there were some vendors who sold little boxes to connect PCs up to a LocalTalk network that plugged into the parallel port, so that might have been that)
See, you're going about it all wrong. You should get onto the channel and say something along the lines of: "Linux sux becuz its elevators are always getting stuck and trapping passengers. You should all switch to Windows."
Then you'll get scores of Linux fanboys clamoring to prove to you how easy it is to fix Linux elevator problems.
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The "non-replaceable" battery of the iPod hasn't hurt its sales, I don't think that it'll hurt the iPhone much. Especially for companies, who generally have IT guys on staff who can replace batteries if they seriously die. Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train! Go rewatch Job's iPhone keynote. In one diagram, it shows a little slot for the SIM card easily accessible at the top of the phone. I'm sure it galled The Steve to put a hole in his beautiful iPhone, but he apparently accepted its necessity.
The implication being that the Blackberry has done so well because of all of the corporate PCs and servers running the Blackberry OS?
The Glow is also what you need to defeat Sho'Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem.
(It's very useful)
But what about the FBB? Is the FBB cool with them?
... Until someone finds a root exploit for computers controlling the mines, lasers, and battlemechs. Then you're fucked again.
Pfft. Facts get in the way of my joke. Anyway, reading articles is for n00bs.
Man, if you thought it was difficult to find a Wii in the store before...
1. This Christian group is planning to provide free advertisement for the Wii. "There's No Such Thing As Bad Publicity"
2. This Christian group is planning to provide free advertisements that inform people that they can use the Wii to look at porn on their bigscreen TV.
I'm waiting for the novelization of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game.
Okay, look at it this way:
1. OSX is a derivative of NeXTstep, originally written for the Motorola 68000 line of processors. It was ported to the PowerPC architecture and the x86 architectures. Why's it so hard to believe they couldn't port it to ARM? Yeah, binaries from "real" OSX won't work, but since the plan is to only have Apple binaries running on the thing, they can just recompile for the new platform. Porting userland is trivial.
2. OSX is an operating system built on a microkernal derivative of UNIX. Unix--especially unix running on a uKernal--is pretty much the most modular thing out there. All they have to do is drop the stuff they don't need for a phone.
3. Again, maybe the full-on desktop version of OSX is power and graphics hungry, but there's nothing that says they can't scale that down.
I'm guessing that the iPhone OSX is very similar, especially in terms of high-level APIs (given that Steve mentioned a lot of OSX APIs by name during the keynote), to quote-unquote-real OSX.
1. Iran's working on developing nuclear technology.
2. North Korea already has nuclear technology and is working on a delivery mechanism. And their leader is batshit insane.
3. The collapse of Russia is not the sort of thing that moves us farther from doomsday. The central government of the old USSR understood MAD and that they shouldn't bomb us back to the stone age because we'd do the same thing right back to them. Now we have a bunch of independant Soviet states with a bunch of poorly secured and not-centrally-managed nukes laying around.
4. You can fit a nuke in a suitcase nowadays. What do you want to bet the US has some sort of system set up right now leftover from the cold war that will detect a nuke going off in a major US city and interpret it as a time-to-blow-up-Russia scenario? A terrorist blowing up one city might end up in more than just that one city going up.
I was also born in '79. I'm more afraid now than I was in the 80s.
This doesn't really apply to the iPhone, but as a Prius owner, I'd like to note that most of the controls on the screen are also available from physical buttons on the steering wheel (all of the more important ones anyway. I.e., volume up/down, heat up/down/off, front/rear defrost). After the touchscreen novelty wears out, you mostly just leave it on the mileage monitor screen.
Thing is, it doesn't really make sense to add up the prices of all of the different "functions" of the device. The thing that costs the most money in an iPod, cell phone, digital camera, or PDA is the screen. Probably followed by the CPU... and this has just one each of those. There are certainly a few bits in there unique to each functional part (cell phone radio, lens for the camera, possibly an iPod's brain for playing the music, though it's also likely that they just have one CPU to handle all of that), but the big costs are all shared.
In addition, I've already *got* an iPod ($300 model), cell phone (~$100, as I recall. Fuckin' rebate never showed up), digital camera ($800. Nice digital SLR. Oh, and a 5MP compact that I spent about $300 on a year or so ago), and PDA ($75. It was cheap). I'm willing to pay to combine all of those features into one box, but the "If you were going to buy each of these things separately..." argument only really sways me if I *hadn't* already bought all of these things separately. And I'm guessing the vast majority of the target demographic already has an MP3 player, a phone, and a digital camera.
Also, if you're buying a 2MP camera for $200 in this day and age, I've got this bridge I'm willing to let go for extremely cheap...
Steve Jobs is fanatical about not wanting to ruin the lines of his products. That's why the iPod doesn't have a user-replacable battery--Steve wanted a nice smooth back on the iPod, so no externally-accessible battery compartment.
So the SIM slot on top might have been a compromise with that.
From the keynote:
9:53am - "We have a 2 megapixel camera built right in, let's take a look at the top. A headset jack, 3.5mm, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch. Let's look at the bottom, we've got a speaker, mic input, and an iPod connector."
Yeah... that's not how it works.
When they say it's $499 with two year contract, that means it's $499 when you agree to pay $40/month (and probably an extra $20/month for data service, based on the other comments I've read) for the cell phone service for two years. Oh, and also the actual calling charges in addition to that.
I'm guessing you've never bought a cell phone. That's how 90% of the cell phones in the world are sold nowadays--discounted when you sign up for an X-year commitment to stick with the given cell provider. If Jobs had meant that you got 2 years free when you bought an iPhone, it would basically mean that the iPhone pays for itself in about a year and starts earning you money in the second year, and would have been a *much* bigger part of the keynote.
I just realized, if we make entire generations of young children in developing nations into computer geeks who can't get laid, we'll also solve the developing world's problems with:
1. Overpopulation
2. Teen pregnancy
3. AIDS and other STDs
Now I'm even more in favor of the OLPC project!
Like the anonymous coward said, the thing I love most about my iPod is that I can pull up anything at all from my music collection on a whim. I could deal with 4gb or 8gb by making playlists, but that one time out of a hundred when I want to listen to some specific song that I didn't think to sync over would piss me the hell off.
Not to mention the time I'd have to spend picking the preferred 4gb out of the 13gb to go along with me.
Also not to mention the fact that it's really nice sometimes to have a 30gb hard drive on hand if you need to bulk-transfer some data or backup a girlfriend's hard drive before a fresh Windows install or what have you.
Oh man, I was totally with them up until the prices. I was preparing to pull out my credit card and spend an extra few months in debt. But... $500 for a 4gig and $600 for an 8gig? My MP3 collection is 13gigs. I'd have to shell out $500 and I'd *still* have to carry around my iPod. Oh, and also, I'd probably also have to switch from T-Mobile to Cingular.
I'll wait for the next iteration.
Man, I love Unix. Translation was as simple as:
echo D dddd dD D ddd dDD dddd dD D DdDD DDD ddD dDd DD DDD DD ddd dD dd Ddd dDdDdD | sed 's/D/-/g;s/d/./g'|morse -d
Heh. Want to talk about wasteful? I found myself once out of town with my cell phone's battery going low. I didn't have my cell phone charger with me, but it can charge from a USB port. I *did* have my laptop with me, but it was a bit low on battery power as well.
But I was in my car, and I've got an inverter for my cigarette lighter.
So, here's the energy flow:
1. Chemical energy in the form of gasoline in my Prius.
2. Converted to mechanical energy by the internal combustion in the engine
3. Converted to electrical energy by the Prius' alternator.
4. Converted to chemical energy again to charge the Prius' battery (it's a hybrid, and for most of the time I was charging my phone, it wasn't actually running the engine, just powering things from the battery)
5. Converted to DC current, sent through the cigarette lighter outlet
6. Converted to AC current by the inverter
7. Converted *back* to DC by my laptop's AC adapter
8. Sent out through the USB port into my phone.
Somewhere in the future, the heat death of the universe is happening a little bit faster 'cause I needed to talk to my girlfriend and was too dumb to charge my phone beforehand.
Were these machines Macs? If so, sounds like LocalTalk (although they're connected to RS422 serial ports, not parallel ports. Though I do recall there were some vendors who sold little boxes to connect PCs up to a LocalTalk network that plugged into the parallel port, so that might have been that)
Wait, what? The Nikon D70 will make a hot chick look like a national park?
After this, they're just going to have to find some *bigger* predator to take out the Army. It's a neverending cycle.
See, you're going about it all wrong. You should get onto the channel and say something along the lines of:
"Linux sux becuz its elevators are always getting stuck and trapping passengers. You should all switch to Windows."
Then you'll get scores of Linux fanboys clamoring to prove to you how easy it is to fix Linux elevator problems.
Oh man, I am so damn tempted to edit the Wikipedia article on Hubris...
Given that the guy they're attempting to blow the whistle on is the Commander in Chief, how do you propose they do it through "proper channels"?