Why I use Safari as mt primary browser instead of Firefox:
1. More elegant UI (I admit, this is mostly preference. Firefox isn't bad, and *much* better on Windows at this point. Safari needs a lot of UI work on Windows.) 2. The Google search bar (now the Google or Yahoo! search bar). Yes, Firefox has a search bar that supports more browsers, but it doesn't have a drop down list with my previous searches. 3. Close buttons for each tab in each tab (yes, I know Firefox finally got on board with this in v2.0) 4. Integrates with Apple's Keychain, so I only have to set up my encryption certificates once for both Mail.app and Safari. 5. Safari is better at resuming stalled downloads. 6. Private Browsing. 7. iSync support for syncing bookmarks across multiple Macs. 8. Better history feature. No sidebar required.
This said, I still use Firefox and Thunderbird on both Mac OS X and Windows. Sometimes, a site won't render properly in Safari because of bad coding, and sometimes that same site will work in Firefox. On Windows, sometimes I even have to fall all the way back to IE, because Firefox doesn't work, either. Thunderbird I mainly only use for secondary accounts, because Thunderbird has a long, long way to go to catch up to Mail.app, but it's the only mail client I will use on Windows.
But don't tell me there's no good reasons to use Safari over Firefox. I'm sure there's things about Firefox that some people like better than Safari, but for me Safari works much better.
That's pretty funny, because when I went shopping for new phone just as the W810i hit the market, I couldn't figure out how to operate many of the functions while looking at the screen.
So sticking 8GB on iPhone is paltry compared to the 80GB iPod
No, the better comparison is that the iPhone (and the new Sony Ericsson) has exactly the same amount of memory as top end iPod nano, which doesn't play movies. Flash memory SSD's are a lot more expensive than regular HDD's. Eventually 2.5" and 1.8" SSD's will take over for mobile devices (love to have that new SanDisk in my MacBook and iPod), but we're a few years from that.
So, if Nokia's offering is *so* superior to the iPhone, why are you defending it? Doesn't the product speak for itself?
Compared to the iPhone, the N95 looks like an amateurish effort to stuff as many gew-gaws into a box as possible without any thought whatsoever to how the device is actually going to be used.
...is that the only one of the big four carriers in the US who offers Sony Ericsson phones is AT&T, who just conicidentally just happens to be the exclusive carrier of the competing product that's the *eighth* word in TFA. The iPhone.
They couldn't even get out of the first line without comparing the new Sony Ericsson model to the iPhone. How many potential customers are going to go to an AT&T Wireless store for a Sony Ericsson, and come out with an iPhone?
of why the iPhone has every other manufacturer of cell phones shitting their pants right now. Every time news of a new cell phone comes out, the discussion inevitably turns to the iPhone almost immediately. Every time another cell phone manufacturer starts spending money on a new ad campaign, they will be inadvertently providing Apple with free advertising.
Just to make sure you were paying attention, here's a quote from Emmy Huang, the Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player, from her own blog:...now that the player is up to v9 all devs are responsible for implementing new features *cross-platform* moving forward.
Adobe clearly has interest in providing useful technologies for the mobile and device market. I don't have anything useful to add to the iPhone rumors -- it's Apple's product and it would be inappropriate for me to make a guesstimate of their plans there. Best person to ask? Apple.:-)
Meaning, of course that Apple hasn't mentioned Flash for the iPhone yet, and Adobe knows better than to scoop Steve Jobs...if Adobe and Apple didn't have Flash for the iPhone in the works, why would Emmy need to defer?
To stoop to a lame personal attack that has no basis in fact shows that you still have yet to develop the ability to have a reasonable adult conversation, but I will spell things out to you anyway...
Get over yourself.
IMAP access to exchange for corporate users is not enough. It's not push.
Not every corporate user in the world uses Exchange. Exchange doesn't push, anyway. Push is overrrated, as well.
The calendar on the iphone does NOT have exchange calendar support. Hate to break it to you, but the corporate world does (with VERY VERY few exceptions) does not use iCal Server.
I never said it had Exchange support, and iCal Server is only available as Darwin Calendar Server at the moment. Apple isn't releasing the iPhone to support Microsoft, who doesn't need the help because small-minded fools keep sucking at the Microsoft appendage.
For the iphone to be viable for business it has to have a true open SDK that allows native offline apps to be written.
Bullshit. You obviously have very little experience in the business world.
One thing to note about all the iPhone demos... I STRONGLY suspect that they have been using wifi and not Edge.
No shit, Sherlock. It's a demo. Time is of the essence when you're advertising. Nobody with more than a quarter of a brain thinks it's going to be that fast over the EDGE network.
I fully expect other phone manufacturers are already working on adding better screens, improving the UI, and adding decent browsers, and doing so with open SDK phones at 2/3rds to 1/2 the price.
Yes, because they've done such a good job of it already. And price? Go take a look at the prices of other smartphones, *none* of which have specs that come within the same solar system as the iPhone.
Now *that* is disturbing. If it's reported by Macworld, there's a better chance that it's actually true than if it's reported by a rumors site. That doesn't make any sense at all. Why would Apple or AT&T restrict the iPhone from doing something that is acceptable on any other Bluetooth phone? I don't use my m610 with my MacBook much, but I *do* use it, and I use it with my Nokia 770 fairly often.
Of course, with the iPhone, I'd ditch the Nokia, and I would have to use the MacBook even less, but still, why, if I'm paying just as much as any other customer for network access would I not be allowed to do this?
Please provide the quote, then, from the WWDC Keynote. It's online, we've all seen it. You will not find such a quote. The closest you can come is Steve saying "No SDK Required". This is not the same thing as saying "No SDK Available, No development possible". FFS, try actually reading the developer documentation from Apple that's been available for years already about all the specific technologies that are going in the iPhone.
It runs OS X. It runs WebKit/Safari. It runs Widgets.
All those things you're looking for will be there, maybe just not on June 29. For what it's worth, ssh and VNC on a Palm suck. They're only slightly more tolerable on my Nokia 770.
In reply to an earlier post of mine on/., I was shown where Apple very plainly stated that no 'tethering', or allowances for you iPhone to be used as a bluetooth modem for another computer would be allowed.
Citation, please. This is a very important point. I looked through your past posts for the last six weeks, and the replies, for anything that looks like it might relate to the iPhone, but I don't see what you're talking about.
Rrrright. Because Flash doesn't work with WebKit...for the last fscking time, it's the same damn browser. Only the interface wrapper is different. Jobs cannot get up on stage and release materials containing materialy false statements about Apple products. The SEC would hang his ass out to dry--they'd love to get him on something after his whistle past the cemetary bypassing of the options backdating scandal.
Difference between the Newton and the iPhone? Steve Jobs and fifteen plus years of history. Love my MP2100. Have all the Newton books and dev tools. Never use it. Hell, I even have an Ethernet card and an ISDN card for it!
iPhone not a business/enterprise PDA phone? WTF, are you smoking dope?
iPhone supports:
1. Standards compliant web browser. Find me one on any other PDA platform, please. Seriously. 2. IMAP email (supported by every serious email server out there, including Exchange). Show me a nice IMAP client for any other PDA. Go ahead, make my day. 3. Calendaring (which Apple would be absolutely nuts not to have working with iCal Server/Darwin Calendar Server), but at least we know for damn sure it will work on a Mac like a damn Mac application should, which is better than I can say for any other PDA I've seen. 4. Custom Google Maps application that blows the J2ME version out of the water, never mind trying to use the regular browser version on *any* handheld device.
What exactly do you think it is that the iPhone would so desparately need to be a biz/ent PDA phone in your eyes? Palm, RIM, and Microsoft are about to get their asses handed to them, and they know it better than you do...
Oh, but maybe you just didn't realize that there are an awful lot of people that get paid a hell of a lot of money working for large enterprises that actually use Macs as their primary computers?
If you think Palm Desktop for Mac "works fine", then I'd say you don't have very high standards for software.
Of course, I might be biased because I've never actually owned a Palm-branded PDA. I've had a Kyocera 6035 (I couldn't find a use for a Palm until it had a phone in it), a Sony Clie NX60 (got tired of no upgrades for the 6035 and no Wi-Fi), and a Samsung SPH-i500 (my current Palm device and primary cellphone, but I'm still pissed because it doesn't send SMS and doesn't have Bluetooth, but I'll keep it for now because I despise thumboards). None of these actually works 100% with Palm Desktop for Mac. Only the most basic sync features work. Based on my experiences with Palm devices, I have a very low opinion of Palm, and I will likely not buy another Palm device...unless of course I end up getting another one through my equipment insurance on the i500.
Hopefully, somebody will port Graffiti I to the iPhone...which is the only application I've ever found for the Palm OS that was actually compelling. Of course, that was a Newton app first...
I will say, though, that the Foleo looks interesting. I can't wait to see a real one. I've been saying that we need this sort of "in-between" class of portable device for a long time already, years, even.
The next version of the iPhone will probably not be cheaper. It will be the same price, just with better features, like more memory, a faster processor, longer battery life, faster networking, and a camera on the front for video conferencing. How long did it take Apple to drop the price of the iPod from $399? I sincerely doubt we'll see a cheaper iPhone until at least the third generation design.
Yes and no. It's more about Apple providing an option to Mac users so that they won't be left out in the cold like they are with Palm, RIM, and Microsoft. The fact that the iPhone clearly is going to work more seamlessly than any of the other platforms, especially for Mac users, is just gravy. That right there is the most compelling reason for me to buy an iPhone. Finally, a smartphone that works with my Mac just the way the Mac itself works--and it'll work great with my Windows machines, to boot, since of course as a Mac person, all my Windows machines get all of Apple's Windows software installed immediately.
Exchange support? Fsck that. Why would Apple want to support the one product that should have the entire technology industry outside of Microsoft uniting to kill? Besides, Apple has the iCal Server out/coming out--do you really think Apple is going to make the iPhone not work with iCal Server?
Oh, get over it, already. Every carrier requires a data plan with every Internet-capable smartphone they sell. Besides, you'd be limiting yourself if you *didn't* have one. Free Wi-Fi isn't everywhere.
Look, there's going to be some restrictions on the iPhone, just like there's restrictions on every other cell phone ever released. Why does AT&T want to tie the Wi-Fi to the existence of a data contract? To prevent people from buying an iPhone, and canceling their contracts the next day (even with the early termination fee, this would be very useful for a lot of people). See, the nifty thing about the iPhone is that although it has restrictions, it's going to be a whole lot more open than any other device that's come along before, and stuff like that scares the crap out of the cellular carriers--this is why AT&T insisted on (or Apple offered) an exclusive contract and why every other carrier turned Apple down.
Photos, music, movies, widgets/apps, etc. All of these things will get on your iPhone through iTunes, not through the cell network. This means no extra mon(k)ey business for AT&T. All of the other crap is just AT&T hedging their bet.
Now will somebody answer me this...how is this going to work with generic Wi-Fi v. AT&T hotspot subscriptions?
Fortunately for the rest of us, this is the way of the future, and no amount of silliness from carriers is going to prevent it from becoming the norm in the near future. The iPhone is just going to suffer from a transition stage that will still be better than the experience of every other phone out there.
I wonder about that. After all, Dashboard is pretty simple when you come right down to it. Assuming that there will be a newer rev of WebKit that underlies Leopard (and by extension, the iPhone and Safari 3) what's the point of releasing the Safari 3 Public Beta if it's not built on this new version? Assuming it is built on the new version, then shouldn't everything that Dashboard really needs to work already be in there?
Perhaps there's more to this than meets the eye and the new Dashboard requires some new Cocoa hooks that are only present in Leopard for some of the more flashy features, but I rather doubt it. There's nothing really all that complex about the way Dashboard operates. My bet is that the Webclip feature was really removed from the Public Beta for marketing reasons more than any other reasons.
My other bet is that there will be a Dashboard of Windows, because my third bet is that the new Dashboard will allow for Webclips and other widgets to be sync'd to your iPhone and other computers (at least partially covered at WWDC). This may mean a release of iSync for Windows as well (though I think SyncServices is part of iTunes as well?). Plus, I'm hoping for a release of iChat AV for Windows, and I've actually spoken to people at Apple about this.
The bottom line is that for the iPhone to be successful, it has to offer the same features to Windows users as it does to Mac users. This is the key to the iPod's success, as well. Given the specs and demos we've already seen, it seems clear that the potential for the iPhone is utterly mind-boggling compared to what's already been done in the smartphone space, and conclusions can be drawn logically from the info Apple's giving out already. If we can see it, you can be sure that Apple sees it, too.
And of course, the next question is, when do we get the sixth-gen iPod? Apple will probably run true to form and wait until after the Christmas season, leaving this year for the iPhone.
I'm a native-born US Citizen of Philippine decent, and I stayed in the Manila Hotel and the hotel that's right across the street from the US Embassy (I've forgotten the name) during the ASEAN conference (and resulting demonstrations where demonstrators were hit with water cannon) in 1999. My brother and I made a big joke of making sure the security cameras at the embassy got a good look at us in the hotel windows since we didn't bother formally checking in at the embassy (I don't think that's really necessary in the Philippines, anyway, is it?). Unfortunately, we missed the actual demonstration with the water cannon because I think we were down in Calamba for the day visiting family, or you can be sure we'd have been in the thick of it trying to get pictures. This particular demonstration took place in front of the Manila Hotel, which you will know is just across the park from the US Embassy.
You didn't mention what you were photographing, and in which direction. Let's face it, the Philippines isn't the most stable country in the world (my dad was a classmate of Joseph Estrada, also many members of my family were denied travel privileges under Marcos' regime because my grandfather was a known dissident), and there's quite a lot of terrorism that happens there, not to mention the frequent incidence of domestic unrest. Even back in 1999, we'd already stopped an Al-Qaeda plot that was based in the Philippines (The Bojinka Plot).
As a professional photographer who clearly has world travel experience, you should know better than to ask officials if taking pictures is OK, unless its absolutely necessary to get the shot. Sure, what the security personnel told you is a civil rights violation, but that's not going to do you much good. Presumably it wasn't an actual US Marine who told you this (the Marines probably know better than to answer such a question--they'd kick it up to a commander), so its entirely possible that the person who told you this simply didn't know what the hell they were talking about and was just jerking your chain. Notwithstanding that, as a professional photographer who clearly spent a lot of money to get to the other side of the globe to get some good pictures, maybe you want to avoid doing things that prevent you from getting the pictures in the first place.
The freedom of the press is a natural right. It cannot be taken away, only infringed upon.
I do not believe it is illegal to videotape police from a lawful position, while the police are engaged in police activity (if you're in an unlawful position - e.g. committing a crime - your rights are always different to some degree).
This is an extremely dangerous and erroneous viewpoint. Even if you are committing a crime of some sort, the illegality of the documentation of police activity would not necessarily follow.
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Why I use Safari as mt primary browser instead of Firefox:
1. More elegant UI (I admit, this is mostly preference. Firefox isn't bad, and *much* better on Windows at this point. Safari needs a lot of UI work on Windows.)
2. The Google search bar (now the Google or Yahoo! search bar). Yes, Firefox has a search bar that supports more browsers, but it doesn't have a drop down list with my previous searches.
3. Close buttons for each tab in each tab (yes, I know Firefox finally got on board with this in v2.0)
4. Integrates with Apple's Keychain, so I only have to set up my encryption certificates once for both Mail.app and Safari.
5. Safari is better at resuming stalled downloads.
6. Private Browsing.
7. iSync support for syncing bookmarks across multiple Macs.
8. Better history feature. No sidebar required.
This said, I still use Firefox and Thunderbird on both Mac OS X and Windows. Sometimes, a site won't render properly in Safari because of bad coding, and sometimes that same site will work in Firefox. On Windows, sometimes I even have to fall all the way back to IE, because Firefox doesn't work, either. Thunderbird I mainly only use for secondary accounts, because Thunderbird has a long, long way to go to catch up to Mail.app, but it's the only mail client I will use on Windows.
But don't tell me there's no good reasons to use Safari over Firefox. I'm sure there's things about Firefox that some people like better than Safari, but for me Safari works much better.
That's pretty funny, because when I went shopping for new phone just as the W810i hit the market, I couldn't figure out how to operate many of the functions while looking at the screen.
So sticking 8GB on iPhone is paltry compared to the 80GB iPod
No, the better comparison is that the iPhone (and the new Sony Ericsson) has exactly the same amount of memory as top end iPod nano, which doesn't play movies. Flash memory SSD's are a lot more expensive than regular HDD's. Eventually 2.5" and 1.8" SSD's will take over for mobile devices (love to have that new SanDisk in my MacBook and iPod), but we're a few years from that.
business people, most of whole will be using Blackberrys anyway (sic)
Wow, you really don't know a whole lot of "business people", do you?
So, if Nokia's offering is *so* superior to the iPhone, why are you defending it? Doesn't the product speak for itself?
Compared to the iPhone, the N95 looks like an amateurish effort to stuff as many gew-gaws into a box as possible without any thought whatsoever to how the device is actually going to be used.
...is that the only one of the big four carriers in the US who offers Sony Ericsson phones is AT&T, who just conicidentally just happens to be the exclusive carrier of the competing product that's the *eighth* word in TFA. The iPhone.
They couldn't even get out of the first line without comparing the new Sony Ericsson model to the iPhone. How many potential customers are going to go to an AT&T Wireless store for a Sony Ericsson, and come out with an iPhone?
of why the iPhone has every other manufacturer of cell phones shitting their pants right now. Every time news of a new cell phone comes out, the discussion inevitably turns to the iPhone almost immediately. Every time another cell phone manufacturer starts spending money on a new ad campaign, they will be inadvertently providing Apple with free advertising.
Just to make sure you were paying attention, here's a quote from Emmy Huang, the Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player, from her own blog: ...now that the player is up to v9 all devs are responsible for implementing new features *cross-platform* moving forward.
:-)
Adobe clearly has interest in providing useful technologies for the mobile and device market. I don't have anything useful to add to the iPhone rumors -- it's Apple's product and it would be inappropriate for me to make a guesstimate of their plans there. Best person to ask? Apple.
Meaning, of course that Apple hasn't mentioned Flash for the iPhone yet, and Adobe knows better than to scoop Steve Jobs...if Adobe and Apple didn't have Flash for the iPhone in the works, why would Emmy need to defer?
You might have noticed that Flash runs just fine on ARM, but I suppose not...
To stoop to a lame personal attack that has no basis in fact shows that you still have yet to develop the ability to have a reasonable adult conversation, but I will spell things out to you anyway...
Get over yourself.
IMAP access to exchange for corporate users is not enough. It's not push.
Not every corporate user in the world uses Exchange. Exchange doesn't push, anyway. Push is overrrated, as well.
The calendar on the iphone does NOT have exchange calendar support. Hate to break it to you, but the corporate world does (with VERY VERY few exceptions) does not use iCal Server.
I never said it had Exchange support, and iCal Server is only available as Darwin Calendar Server at the moment. Apple isn't releasing the iPhone to support Microsoft, who doesn't need the help because small-minded fools keep sucking at the Microsoft appendage.
For the iphone to be viable for business it has to have a true open SDK that allows native offline apps to be written.
Bullshit. You obviously have very little experience in the business world.
One thing to note about all the iPhone demos... I STRONGLY suspect that they have been using wifi and not Edge.
No shit, Sherlock. It's a demo. Time is of the essence when you're advertising. Nobody with more than a quarter of a brain thinks it's going to be that fast over the EDGE network.
I fully expect other phone manufacturers are already working on adding better screens, improving the UI, and adding decent browsers, and doing so with open SDK phones at 2/3rds to 1/2 the price.
Yes, because they've done such a good job of it already. And price? Go take a look at the prices of other smartphones, *none* of which have specs that come within the same solar system as the iPhone.
Now *that* is disturbing. If it's reported by Macworld, there's a better chance that it's actually true than if it's reported by a rumors site. That doesn't make any sense at all. Why would Apple or AT&T restrict the iPhone from doing something that is acceptable on any other Bluetooth phone? I don't use my m610 with my MacBook much, but I *do* use it, and I use it with my Nokia 770 fairly often.
Of course, with the iPhone, I'd ditch the Nokia, and I would have to use the MacBook even less, but still, why, if I'm paying just as much as any other customer for network access would I not be allowed to do this?
Please provide the quote, then, from the WWDC Keynote. It's online, we've all seen it. You will not find such a quote. The closest you can come is Steve saying "No SDK Required". This is not the same thing as saying "No SDK Available, No development possible". FFS, try actually reading the developer documentation from Apple that's been available for years already about all the specific technologies that are going in the iPhone.
It runs OS X. It runs WebKit/Safari. It runs Widgets.
All those things you're looking for will be there, maybe just not on June 29. For what it's worth, ssh and VNC on a Palm suck. They're only slightly more tolerable on my Nokia 770.
In reply to an earlier post of mine on /., I was shown where Apple very plainly stated that no 'tethering', or allowances for you iPhone to be used as a bluetooth modem for another computer would be allowed.
Citation, please. This is a very important point. I looked through your past posts for the last six weeks, and the replies, for anything that looks like it might relate to the iPhone, but I don't see what you're talking about.
Rrrright. Because Flash doesn't work with WebKit...for the last fscking time, it's the same damn browser. Only the interface wrapper is different. Jobs cannot get up on stage and release materials containing materialy false statements about Apple products. The SEC would hang his ass out to dry--they'd love to get him on something after his whistle past the cemetary bypassing of the options backdating scandal.
Yeah, OK...because Apple has already made the official annoucements that there will be no capability for VNC, ssh, etc., on the iPhone. :rolleyes:
Difference between the Newton and the iPhone? Steve Jobs and fifteen plus years of history. Love my MP2100. Have all the Newton books and dev tools. Never use it. Hell, I even have an Ethernet card and an ISDN card for it!
iPhone not a business/enterprise PDA phone? WTF, are you smoking dope?
iPhone supports:
1. Standards compliant web browser. Find me one on any other PDA platform, please. Seriously.
2. IMAP email (supported by every serious email server out there, including Exchange). Show me a nice IMAP client for any other PDA. Go ahead, make my day.
3. Calendaring (which Apple would be absolutely nuts not to have working with iCal Server/Darwin Calendar Server), but at least we know for damn sure it will work on a Mac like a damn Mac application should, which is better than I can say for any other PDA I've seen.
4. Custom Google Maps application that blows the J2ME version out of the water, never mind trying to use the regular browser version on *any* handheld device.
What exactly do you think it is that the iPhone would so desparately need to be a biz/ent PDA phone in your eyes? Palm, RIM, and Microsoft are about to get their asses handed to them, and they know it better than you do...
Oh, but maybe you just didn't realize that there are an awful lot of people that get paid a hell of a lot of money working for large enterprises that actually use Macs as their primary computers?
Oh, and the Bluetooth 2.0+EDR capable Samsung SPH-m610 I bought to go with my Nokia 770? Not supported by iSync.
If you think Palm Desktop for Mac "works fine", then I'd say you don't have very high standards for software.
Of course, I might be biased because I've never actually owned a Palm-branded PDA. I've had a Kyocera 6035 (I couldn't find a use for a Palm until it had a phone in it), a Sony Clie NX60 (got tired of no upgrades for the 6035 and no Wi-Fi), and a Samsung SPH-i500 (my current Palm device and primary cellphone, but I'm still pissed because it doesn't send SMS and doesn't have Bluetooth, but I'll keep it for now because I despise thumboards). None of these actually works 100% with Palm Desktop for Mac. Only the most basic sync features work. Based on my experiences with Palm devices, I have a very low opinion of Palm, and I will likely not buy another Palm device...unless of course I end up getting another one through my equipment insurance on the i500.
Hopefully, somebody will port Graffiti I to the iPhone...which is the only application I've ever found for the Palm OS that was actually compelling. Of course, that was a Newton app first...
I will say, though, that the Foleo looks interesting. I can't wait to see a real one. I've been saying that we need this sort of "in-between" class of portable device for a long time already, years, even.
The next version of the iPhone will probably not be cheaper. It will be the same price, just with better features, like more memory, a faster processor, longer battery life, faster networking, and a camera on the front for video conferencing. How long did it take Apple to drop the price of the iPod from $399? I sincerely doubt we'll see a cheaper iPhone until at least the third generation design.
Yes and no. It's more about Apple providing an option to Mac users so that they won't be left out in the cold like they are with Palm, RIM, and Microsoft. The fact that the iPhone clearly is going to work more seamlessly than any of the other platforms, especially for Mac users, is just gravy. That right there is the most compelling reason for me to buy an iPhone. Finally, a smartphone that works with my Mac just the way the Mac itself works--and it'll work great with my Windows machines, to boot, since of course as a Mac person, all my Windows machines get all of Apple's Windows software installed immediately.
Exchange support? Fsck that. Why would Apple want to support the one product that should have the entire technology industry outside of Microsoft uniting to kill? Besides, Apple has the iCal Server out/coming out--do you really think Apple is going to make the iPhone not work with iCal Server?
Oh, get over it, already. Every carrier requires a data plan with every Internet-capable smartphone they sell. Besides, you'd be limiting yourself if you *didn't* have one. Free Wi-Fi isn't everywhere.
Look, there's going to be some restrictions on the iPhone, just like there's restrictions on every other cell phone ever released. Why does AT&T want to tie the Wi-Fi to the existence of a data contract? To prevent people from buying an iPhone, and canceling their contracts the next day (even with the early termination fee, this would be very useful for a lot of people). See, the nifty thing about the iPhone is that although it has restrictions, it's going to be a whole lot more open than any other device that's come along before, and stuff like that scares the crap out of the cellular carriers--this is why AT&T insisted on (or Apple offered) an exclusive contract and why every other carrier turned Apple down.
Photos, music, movies, widgets/apps, etc. All of these things will get on your iPhone through iTunes, not through the cell network. This means no extra mon(k)ey business for AT&T. All of the other crap is just AT&T hedging their bet.
Now will somebody answer me this...how is this going to work with generic Wi-Fi v. AT&T hotspot subscriptions?
Fortunately for the rest of us, this is the way of the future, and no amount of silliness from carriers is going to prevent it from becoming the norm in the near future. The iPhone is just going to suffer from a transition stage that will still be better than the experience of every other phone out there.
I wonder about that. After all, Dashboard is pretty simple when you come right down to it. Assuming that there will be a newer rev of WebKit that underlies Leopard (and by extension, the iPhone and Safari 3) what's the point of releasing the Safari 3 Public Beta if it's not built on this new version? Assuming it is built on the new version, then shouldn't everything that Dashboard really needs to work already be in there?
Perhaps there's more to this than meets the eye and the new Dashboard requires some new Cocoa hooks that are only present in Leopard for some of the more flashy features, but I rather doubt it. There's nothing really all that complex about the way Dashboard operates. My bet is that the Webclip feature was really removed from the Public Beta for marketing reasons more than any other reasons.
My other bet is that there will be a Dashboard of Windows, because my third bet is that the new Dashboard will allow for Webclips and other widgets to be sync'd to your iPhone and other computers (at least partially covered at WWDC). This may mean a release of iSync for Windows as well (though I think SyncServices is part of iTunes as well?). Plus, I'm hoping for a release of iChat AV for Windows, and I've actually spoken to people at Apple about this.
The bottom line is that for the iPhone to be successful, it has to offer the same features to Windows users as it does to Mac users. This is the key to the iPod's success, as well. Given the specs and demos we've already seen, it seems clear that the potential for the iPhone is utterly mind-boggling compared to what's already been done in the smartphone space, and conclusions can be drawn logically from the info Apple's giving out already. If we can see it, you can be sure that Apple sees it, too.
And of course, the next question is, when do we get the sixth-gen iPod? Apple will probably run true to form and wait until after the Christmas season, leaving this year for the iPhone.
If you want to be taken more seriously, you might want to consider not citing crackpots as evidence.
I'm a native-born US Citizen of Philippine decent, and I stayed in the Manila Hotel and the hotel that's right across the street from the US Embassy (I've forgotten the name) during the ASEAN conference (and resulting demonstrations where demonstrators were hit with water cannon) in 1999. My brother and I made a big joke of making sure the security cameras at the embassy got a good look at us in the hotel windows since we didn't bother formally checking in at the embassy (I don't think that's really necessary in the Philippines, anyway, is it?). Unfortunately, we missed the actual demonstration with the water cannon because I think we were down in Calamba for the day visiting family, or you can be sure we'd have been in the thick of it trying to get pictures. This particular demonstration took place in front of the Manila Hotel, which you will know is just across the park from the US Embassy.
You didn't mention what you were photographing, and in which direction. Let's face it, the Philippines isn't the most stable country in the world (my dad was a classmate of Joseph Estrada, also many members of my family were denied travel privileges under Marcos' regime because my grandfather was a known dissident), and there's quite a lot of terrorism that happens there, not to mention the frequent incidence of domestic unrest. Even back in 1999, we'd already stopped an Al-Qaeda plot that was based in the Philippines (The Bojinka Plot).
As a professional photographer who clearly has world travel experience, you should know better than to ask officials if taking pictures is OK, unless its absolutely necessary to get the shot. Sure, what the security personnel told you is a civil rights violation, but that's not going to do you much good. Presumably it wasn't an actual US Marine who told you this (the Marines probably know better than to answer such a question--they'd kick it up to a commander), so its entirely possible that the person who told you this simply didn't know what the hell they were talking about and was just jerking your chain. Notwithstanding that, as a professional photographer who clearly spent a lot of money to get to the other side of the globe to get some good pictures, maybe you want to avoid doing things that prevent you from getting the pictures in the first place.
The freedom of the press is a natural right. It cannot be taken away, only infringed upon.
I do not believe it is illegal to videotape police from a lawful position, while the police are engaged in police activity (if you're in an unlawful position - e.g. committing a crime - your rights are always different to some degree).
This is an extremely dangerous and erroneous viewpoint. Even if you are committing a crime of some sort, the illegality of the documentation of police activity would not necessarily follow.