- Hear about this problem and decide not to buy an iPhone 4 (if they don't have one already)
These are the people Apple is most worried over.
And it's not a small number of people. When the antenna design is so glaringly, obviously, fundamentally** flawed as is the case here (you should never have to be in direct electrical contact with the antenna element to use a product without some aftermarket rubber 'boot' in place) people just aren't gonna buy the thing. At this point in the product rollout they've basically sold to the fanboy market. Joe Regular is going to hold off for awhile, now.
(**It's so fun overusing adjectives. Aren't these Apple threads glorious for that?)
My smartphone is so fash! It used to be big and ugly, and it wouldn't sit on my desk prominently when co-workers came to my office to visit. So I had it sealed in a big block of lucite. I'm so glad it didn't have an ugly antenna for the week when I (tried) to use it as an actual cellphone. Now, when I want to make a call, I just sneak into the restroom and use my TracPhone.
You're right, in that customers of other cellphones generally just use their phone and take it for granted that it will work.
There isn't the 'whoop' and 'whee' and 'golly gee-whiz' that the Apple customer base lugs along like Linus (VanPelt) with his blanket.
The problem for Apple is that their fanbase has now bought the 2 million iPhone 4's that they could count on selling. With the public perception of the thing stinking up badly, they're going to be stuck with just that crowd as their customer base. And that's an albatross around their neck, just as the old Mac Zealot crowd became eventually.
In terms of human rights violations, are we that much better when (jibber jabber snipped)
Uh, yes. We don't have a cordon drawn around the entire Internet to prevent US citizens from reaching a sizeable percentage of the sites on the net that have info our government doesn't like.
We don't use capital punishment as a routine practice for crimes like corruption.
We don't operate a Gulag system filled with political prisoners and dissidents.
The US Army doesn't own a huge network of Commercial Enterprises, no US General is a business tychoon.
An automatic defibrillator is a pretty easy project, actually. Just an EKG monitoring circuit and a honking big capacitor. However, debug and testing is a real challenge. And who is going to use it when it's done?
Technically, you don't have the microcode listing for the Intersil 6120 processor, so it's not really open hardware.
I have a few tubes of HM6100 processors still in my stock. Cool chip. All CMOS with no dynamic registers. You can clock it down to.05 hertz if you want. The 12 bit data bus is a little awkward to work with, because ROMs and memory and I/O stuff is usually 8 bits wide.
It sounds to me like you spend so much time determining how other people will judge you for your actions that you spend no time at all just living, enjoying whatever interests you, and being yourself. Everything you say in your comment indicates your behavior is governed by how you think other people will view it.
For goodness sake. Stop worrying what other people think. It shouldn't matter.
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What will you do for encore?
It doesn't matter what we do. It matters what the public does.
Is it too late to short Apple stock?
- Hear about this problem and decide not to buy an iPhone 4 (if they don't have one already)
These are the people Apple is most worried over.
And it's not a small number of people. When the antenna design is so glaringly, obviously, fundamentally** flawed as is the case here (you should never have to be in direct electrical contact with the antenna element to use a product without some aftermarket rubber 'boot' in place) people just aren't gonna buy the thing. At this point in the product rollout they've basically sold to the fanboy market. Joe Regular is going to hold off for awhile, now.
(**It's so fun overusing adjectives. Aren't these Apple threads glorious for that?)
My smartphone is so fash! It used to be big and ugly, and it wouldn't sit on my desk prominently when co-workers came to my office to visit. So I had it sealed in a big block of lucite. I'm so glad it didn't have an ugly antenna for the week when I (tried) to use it as an actual cellphone. Now, when I want to make a call, I just sneak into the restroom and use my TracPhone.
Why would Obama care? There isn't a trade union member in sight at Apple.
You're right, in that customers of other cellphones generally just use their phone and take it for granted that it will work.
There isn't the 'whoop' and 'whee' and 'golly gee-whiz' that the Apple customer base lugs along like Linus (VanPelt) with his blanket.
The problem for Apple is that their fanbase has now bought the 2 million iPhone 4's that they could count on selling. With the public perception of the thing stinking up badly, they're going to be stuck with just that crowd as their customer base. And that's an albatross around their neck, just as the old Mac Zealot crowd became eventually.
They did plenty of hard marketing and artistic testing and research
It's called 'fabulous Industrial Design.' Though I probably should try to work a few more adjectives in there.
Okay. How about 'incredibly fabulous Industrial Design'? Will that one sail?
Er, what were we selling again??
Who on their right mind would make a phone designed with an antenna that you're going to directly touch in normal use?
A company driven by it's Marketing Division, not one driven by it's Engineering Division.
I know. I've worked in both types of companies.
You've said that several times now in the thread.
Well, it looks nice. Is there a lanyard ring on the iPhone somewhere? Maybe you can hang it on your Christmas Tree. It shines so.
Hasn't Oracle removed the keyboard interface code from Solaris yet? Larry probably needs to issue a bug report to get it expedited.
But ram it into a lovely rubber sleeve to make it usable.
But ram it into a condom to make it usable.
The Presenter withdrew under pressure.
I suppose the conference organizers could send out men with guns and frog march him up to the lectern. Anything less makes them pussies, eh?
Independent Trade Unions would never be allowed in China.
They have, you see, The People's Party to act in their interest. The vanguard of the fight for the rights of the people. *cough*
In terms of human rights violations, are we that much better when (jibber jabber snipped)
Uh, yes. We don't have a cordon drawn around the entire Internet to prevent US citizens from reaching a sizeable percentage of the sites on the net that have info our government doesn't like.
We don't use capital punishment as a routine practice for crimes like corruption.
We don't operate a Gulag system filled with political prisoners and dissidents.
The US Army doesn't own a huge network of Commercial Enterprises, no US General is a business tychoon.
It puts the lotion on it's skin...
Armor All?
So he's sort of an 'applied' Marvin Minsky, it appears.
Why a robot? A simple tape loop that plays 'cut the shit, you little creep' would work.
Coddling parents would have to be kept away with steel doors, of course.
Obviously, with 1 trillion little metal-foil tubes of superglue. Don't be daft.
They didn't support a community very well. The years and years of thumbing their nose at Linux with Java was just one example.
An automatic defibrillator is a pretty easy project, actually. Just an EKG monitoring circuit and a honking big capacitor. However, debug and testing is a real challenge. And who is going to use it when it's done?
Technically, you don't have the microcode listing for the Intersil 6120 processor, so it's not really open hardware.
I have a few tubes of HM6100 processors still in my stock. Cool chip. All CMOS with no dynamic registers. You can clock it down to .05 hertz if you want. The 12 bit data bus is a little awkward to work with, because ROMs and memory and I/O stuff is usually 8 bits wide.
Do you have the source code for the i8041 processor in your IBM keyboard?
I believe I have the source listings for the original IBM XT and AT keyboards, in the Technical Reference manual. But do you?
And the development software is free.
Where can I download a source tarball?
So are all the VHDL tools free and open source? How about the tools to program the parts?
Are the FPGA chips themselves unencumbered with patents and trade-secret processes used to produce them?
That's all important, too.
It sounds to me like you spend so much time determining how other people will judge you for your actions that you spend no time at all just living, enjoying whatever interests you, and being yourself. Everything you say in your comment indicates your behavior is governed by how you think other people will view it.
For goodness sake. Stop worrying what other people think. It shouldn't matter.