The 'design issue,' and it's mentioned right in the RIM response, is Apples singular decision to use an external metal antenna that comes into contact with the user. Not just one antenna, but also a second antenna in very close proximity so that the user would bridge the two.
That's just nuts. It's shit-grade RF design. None of the other vendors do that in their current lineup, and the RIM response specifically points to it as the reason for Apple's problems.
Other effects that cause signals to reduce are known and exist throughout the industry. The stinker design by Apple is uniquely theirs.
Also, those people now already have theirs. With the stench that iszrising because of this (remember, Apple's whole branding is based on image) I wonder if many more people will buy. Will the White iPhone 4 be an exceedingly valuable collectable on eBay in 20 years? We won't know yet for awhile.
(if I am an Apple hater why am I posting this comment on my iPod Touch?)
If you throw enough money at a thing you can revive even a dead hunk of clay.
To be technical, you actually use a kiln to brick a dead hunk of clay.
I suppose you could 'unbrick' it by pulverizing it fine enough and turning the brick back into clay. Although thinking about it, probably not. The 'bricking' process does some dramatic things to the structure of the clay.
I have a bricked Silicon Graphics 02 workstation. It 'just quit working' one day when I powered it on. Those things are just exotic enough and the docs are just obscure enough that I wasn't able to get it working. The cats like to sit on it, it's the right height to raise them up off the floor to the height they prefer.
So what you're saying is the term has a meaning relative to the technical adeptness of the device's owner.
I know a heck of a lot of brick owners, in that case. But I wouldn't want to change that. Tards who leave a nice PC out on the curb for me to scoop up and salvage need their ignorance coddled and encouraged.
The 870 local people in the crowd are dispersed by the cops and unhurt. Of the 130 bused-in 'anarchists' who remain to 'fight the pig' maybe 10-20% are hurt. Unfortunately, not hurt enough that they won't bus off to the next 'demo' the next week to break more windows and create gratuitous mayhem.
At a Saturn dealership they were all ready to charge me $120 for changing the spark plug cables. And $90 for the cables. It wasn't the problem I went in for them to fix, and I had a set of cables in the trunk that I just hadn't gotten around to spending the 5 minutes it takes to put them in.
This was post 2000 Saturn, though. That outfit sure went to shit as soon as the GM hierarchy got out the long knives....
If we could see the internal expense account records, I would bet that two or three of those pointy-hairs went out on the first day of 'the crisis' and bought one of every other smartphone on the market. Then went back to the lab, and directed the guys actually working on the problem to 'check all of these out in the anechoic chamber.' They've probably spent more time cherrypicking the competition for Jobs' show and tell than they have on the iPhone.
I think what you meant to say was that you can't install RPGs on Blackberries. Not good ones, anyway. And there's a native FarmVille iPhone App. Blackberry? No, just a regular business-oriented smart phone.
Is there even a single fart app for blackberry, for petes sake?
The fact that dude-in-turtleneck actually had to come out and say 'sorry' is a sign of what a big deal it is.
Apple has already sold the iPhone 4's to every member of 'the faithful' and they won't sell many more if the public perception of their product sours badly.
It might even be time to short Apple stock. Certainly it's still okay to buy Apple PCs. You can install Windows on them no matter what happens to Apple down the road.
There's a native FarmVille app for the iPhone OS now. Many customers probably don't even notice now whether they have cell reception or not. As long as their wifi connection is working.
The 'coding error' made it look like the signal was stronger than it really was. Which is fine, and good marketing, as long as calls aren't dropped. In fact, the 'error' probably was one that the marketing guys would try to get removed from the bug-list because 'the coders have better things to work on than that.' However, now that calls are getting dropped a lot, they can roll it out as a 'whoops' to blame dropped calls on. Also, it provides a 'the software update will fix it' that allows them to keep selling the existing stock to anybody who they can find who will buy one of these things now.
Except in every independent test the iPhone 4 signal drop is significantly higher than any other smartphone tested; often in the range of 3 or 4 times as much signal loss.
Be careful, because decibels are logarithmic. '3 or 4 times' isn't a fair way to evaluate it. It's significantly more lossy, if the shown figures are correct.
Any RF product with an antenna that must come into contact with the user's skin to be used without aftermarket doo-dads is defective by design.
But Steve liked the design. I remember him carrying on about it at the keynote. I doubt if any other cellphone vendors will be laying a turkey of this sort anytime soon now.
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The 'design issue,' and it's mentioned right in the RIM response, is Apples singular decision to use an external metal antenna that comes into contact with the user. Not just one antenna, but also a second antenna in very close proximity so that the user would bridge the two.
That's just nuts. It's shit-grade RF design. None of the other vendors do that in their current lineup, and the RIM response specifically points to it as the reason for Apple's problems.
Other effects that cause signals to reduce are known and exist throughout the industry. The stinker design by Apple is uniquely theirs.
Also, those people now already have theirs. With the stench that iszrising because of this (remember, Apple's whole branding is based on image) I wonder if many more people will buy. Will the White iPhone 4 be an exceedingly valuable collectable on eBay in 20 years? We won't know yet for awhile.
(if I am an Apple hater why am I posting this comment on my iPod Touch?)
All that demonstrates is what a gracious and forgiving sort of man Steve Wozniak is. It says almost noting at all about Steve Jobs character.
"CSS has been the bane of every information-loving web user for years."
Just give us the content! You're not an 'artist' and you're certainly not a 'programmer.'
A lot of (all?) newer iPhones can't be jailbroken.
If you throw enough money at a thing you can revive even a dead hunk of clay.
To be technical, you actually use a kiln to brick a dead hunk of clay.
I suppose you could 'unbrick' it by pulverizing it fine enough and turning the brick back into clay. Although thinking about it, probably not. The 'bricking' process does some dramatic things to the structure of the clay.
Hotplugging is dangerous though, and any self-respecting hacker is going to have a ROM burner on his bench.
That said, I've hot-plugged NVRAM modules in UltraSparc boxes to break past firmware passwords.
Indeed. I have several Model 2500 desk phones. Even one model 500 that has the rotary dial.
I have a bricked Silicon Graphics 02 workstation. It 'just quit working' one day when I powered it on. Those things are just exotic enough and the docs are just obscure enough that I wasn't able to get it working. The cats like to sit on it, it's the right height to raise them up off the floor to the height they prefer.
So what you're saying is the term has a meaning relative to the technical adeptness of the device's owner.
I know a heck of a lot of brick owners, in that case. But I wouldn't want to change that. Tards who leave a nice PC out on the curb for me to scoop up and salvage need their ignorance coddled and encouraged.
The 870 local people in the crowd are dispersed by the cops and unhurt. Of the 130 bused-in 'anarchists' who remain to 'fight the pig' maybe 10-20% are hurt. Unfortunately, not hurt enough that they won't bus off to the next 'demo' the next week to break more windows and create gratuitous mayhem.
It could be construed that Apple caved to pressure from various organizations and offered the cases only for that reason.
Golly. You're right.
I wonder if the stock collapse got anyone's attention at HQ?
He broke the stairs last time. The cinder blocks are kinda wobbly.
At a Saturn dealership they were all ready to charge me $120 for changing the spark plug cables. And $90 for the cables. It wasn't the problem I went in for them to fix, and I had a set of cables in the trunk that I just hadn't gotten around to spending the 5 minutes it takes to put them in.
This was post 2000 Saturn, though. That outfit sure went to shit as soon as the GM hierarchy got out the long knives....
You feel mighty comfortable here on apple.slashdot.org, don't you?
You're good at it, though. Tell your boss we said you deserve a raise.
If we could see the internal expense account records, I would bet that two or three of those pointy-hairs went out on the first day of 'the crisis' and bought one of every other smartphone on the market. Then went back to the lab, and directed the guys actually working on the problem to 'check all of these out in the anechoic chamber.' They've probably spent more time cherrypicking the competition for Jobs' show and tell than they have on the iPhone.
I think what you meant to say was that you can't install RPGs on Blackberries. Not good ones, anyway. And there's a native FarmVille iPhone App. Blackberry? No, just a regular business-oriented smart phone.
Is there even a single fart app for blackberry, for petes sake?
This could take Apple down badly, you know.
The fact that dude-in-turtleneck actually had to come out and say 'sorry' is a sign of what a big deal it is.
Apple has already sold the iPhone 4's to every member of 'the faithful' and they won't sell many more if the public perception of their product sours badly.
It might even be time to short Apple stock. Certainly it's still okay to buy Apple PCs. You can install Windows on them no matter what happens to Apple down the road.
There's a native FarmVille app for the iPhone OS now. Many customers probably don't even notice now whether they have cell reception or not. As long as their wifi connection is working.
The 'coding error' made it look like the signal was stronger than it really was. Which is fine, and good marketing, as long as calls aren't dropped. In fact, the 'error' probably was one that the marketing guys would try to get removed from the bug-list because 'the coders have better things to work on than that.' However, now that calls are getting dropped a lot, they can roll it out as a 'whoops' to blame dropped calls on. Also, it provides a 'the software update will fix it' that allows them to keep selling the existing stock to anybody who they can find who will buy one of these things now.
Be careful, because decibels are logarithmic. '3 or 4 times' isn't a fair way to evaluate it. It's significantly more lossy, if the shown figures are correct.
This is apple.slashdot.org, not the regular site. I'm just trying to fit in.
(damn! did it again)
Can you rewrite that and somehow merge in mention of 'Industrial Design'?
Also, pepper in some adjectives: fabulous. incredibly great. that kind of thing.
Don't worry about using 'Altivec' that's last decade's buzzword.
No, it's about pointing out media sensationalism.
Apple's entire corporate image is based on media sensationalism.
Any RF product with an antenna that must come into contact with the user's skin to be used without aftermarket doo-dads is defective by design.
But Steve liked the design. I remember him carrying on about it at the keynote. I doubt if any other cellphone vendors will be laying a turkey of this sort anytime soon now.