That's true. The iPhone 4 has a pretty good design in the first place so I'm not surprised Apple wanted to keep using it for a while longer.
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That's true. The iPhone 4 has a pretty good design in the first place so I'm not surprised Apple wanted to keep using it for a while longer.
My current iPhone has the curve design that the new one also has so I never experienced the square edge one. Mark, big difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I've never used the curvy one so I couldn't honestly say! My wife has a 3GS and they look quite similar; if you'd only seen an iPhone 4 and your were told the 3GS was the new model you'd believe it!
Nice (minor) upgrades. But like a lot of other people, I don't understand why those additional features took 16 months to accomplish. Pretty underwhelming, IMO. Say, where's Daniel?! Here's a day when he and I would have probably agreed on something related to Apple! :D
They had to milk the 3GS for a worthwhile time before bringing us this new upgrade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
It's all for the money, two for the show . . .
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Steven Paul Jobs; Rest in Peace.
RIP Steve
Like all people he had good and bad aspects, apparently he was difficult to approach and a control freak but from where I'm standing he's made a strong positive impact in my life, making computers something to do things with rather than do things to.
He will be missed.
Sad day. The man who made computers simple again and popularised personal digital media has brought a lot to the world. As my friend pointed out on Facebook 'I wonder how many people heard of his death on a device that bears the Apple logo?' Quite a few I would imagine.
Sad indeed - though expected. And it's interesting that you mentioned how many people first heard this sad news on an Apple device. When I woke up, my iPod Touch had this as a news alert on every app that I have set up for alerts. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrewmcm
Well, I'd say Walt Disney just turned to Henry Ford and said, "Hey, make room at the table. Jobs is finally here!" :)
RIP Steve Jobs - the true Mac Daddy and the daddy of the Mac
While I was initially disappointed, but not exactly surprised, that a separate thread of condolence could not be respected although perhaps it's more suitable that people can pay respects here. After all, Jobs fought all his life to realise a vision which became a defining brand and much more than the mere technology.
The accolades on here are testament to the success he achieved and the support for his creations a fitting obituary.
Rest in peace Mr Jobs and thanks.
I suspect that the passing of Steve Jobs is something close to maybe that of Edison. Although there are the iDevices, there's also his influence in bringing personal computers to the home and desktop publishing, both of which have surely changed the world more than the iDevices have.
I'm interested to see how the markets will react to this. Apple's shares on Frankfurt's Börse have lost more than 5%, and I suppose once Wall St wakes up we'll probably similar falls there. Of course then there is the rest of the NASDAQ which might suffer losses by association.
Not even close. He refined a lot of things for sexy/mass market appeal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
Argh, my fingers, I'm about to turn into a troll! *grabs coat*
Or in other words:Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
How Steve Jobs put the seduction into technology | Technology | guardian.co.ukQuote:
George Stephenson did not invent the steam railway locomotive, but when he and his son, Robert, shaped Rocket in 1829 they made this revolutionary machine aesthetically and emotionally acceptable to a largely suspicious and sceptical public. Jobs has done much the same thing with Apple and the personal computer...Not everything under the digital sun is new, but Jobs knew how to make it shine into our offices, our homes and our private lives.
he wasn't like Edison, that description might be more apt for Bill Gates and that was his strength.he could see geeky thing like computers and mp3 players from a non-geek perspective and design products for normal people, making them accessible. What made him special was that he had the vision and strength to make sure each part of the puzzle fit together seamlessly and reliably.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
R.I.P.
I've never owned and will never own Apple devices but I realize he was fundamental in making gadgets easy to use for normal people.
^ This.Quote:
Originally Posted by DexDexter
I won't buy an Apple product either, unless it actually made sense, but it would be foolish of me to undermine the guy's talent and brilliance as a creative innovator. He definitely made basic things very interesting, and complicated things, simple.
May he rest in peace.
A friend of mine who works for Microsoft seems to be enjoying some 'Windows Phone...put people first' iced cupcakes today from the pictures I've just seen. The corporate message was reinforced by sending pictures of said cupcakes out using his Windows Phone. They looked quite good actually. Gotta love a bit of self marketing. :)
That's not the excuse for not doing the laundry, dishwasher, setting PVR, playing with factory ICE and assorted functions found on cars these days; etc, etc.Quote:
George Stephenson did not invent the steam railway locomotive, but when he and his son, Robert, shaped Rocket in 1829 they made this revolutionary machine aesthetically and emotionally acceptable to a largely suspicious and sceptical public. Jobs has done much the same thing with Apple and the personal computer...Not everything under the digital sun is new, but Jobs knew how to make it shine into our offices, our homes and our private lives.
The key word is intuitive. It's what a lot of electrical goods are judged on these days.
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You say like a gay boyQuote:
Originally Posted by wedge
call me bender chopping
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Hope they got all the bugs out of the cake! (Nerd joke)
I was wondering whether they were mango flavoured! (More nerd jokes) :p
I don't know how serious my friend was being but apparently the IE team at Microsoft send Firefox Microsoft branded cupcakes whenever Firefox release an update. ;) :D I want my employer to make cupcakes. We dont get much more than branded pens. How old skool.
Seems that the BlackBerry network crashed today although I didnt notice any problems myself.
BBC News - Blackberry services down in Europe, Middle East and Africa
That would never happen on a BlackBerry???? You dont have to be ashamed to say that Henners. :p ;)
Didn't have any problems on mine, emails kept arriving all day long.Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
^ This! :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by DexDexter
My emails kept arriving all day too although I could have done with some not getting through. The article said that not many business users were affected as they use a different server. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Let us know how it goes! I'm planning to upgrade at the weekend.
It's always worth waiting a few days before updating iOS software to check user reaction. I mistakenly put iOS4 on my former iPhone 3G immediately upon release, and the new operating system slowed the phone to a crawl.
And before you update to iOS5:
iTunes 10.5 Lands Ahead of iOS 5
Well, I think this heralds the beginning of the end for RIM and if the information I have heard is correct, then they need shooting
As a business continuity expert, I was horrified to learn that this issue was caused by excess data buffering due to a system failure. This is totally unacceptable for a business critical communication platform. You would imagine that a company whose whole reputation and business hinges on the resilience of it's service would ensure that not only has it sufficient capacity in place in it's primary and secondary data centers to automatically fail-over live service but that these are replicated on at least a 3rd party, network and geographically independent site.
This is not rocket engineering but basic good practice. I don't know what the specific situation is but suspect that this failure was caused by the outage of what they consider a non-primary system and therefore not in their top tier critical recovery strategy. Whatever the cause, it exposes a flawed and unproven Business Continuity Plan which will petrify it's corporate clients. How many other holes are there and why did their BCP stress testing not identify such a fundamental failing.
Could it possibly be that RIM try to do everything in-house?
If this was a Financial organisation, RIM would have had strict regulatory policies that demand a proven BCP is in place to cover it's exposure and most major financial organistions go way beyond this requirement because the threat to their reputation of any outage is too much of a risk. We are not talking about the revenue loss of any downtime although this could run into many millions but the PR disaster can easily crush a company that investors lose faith in. RIM may well be caught in a crippling PR trap of their own making.
Basically, RIM may be in the crap.
Agree with all of that! RIM was in trouble anyway as Blackberry is old news now. This is the last thing they needed.
It's also intresting that the Blackberry phone has such a loyal fan base.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I used to own one and I was confortable with it and it had a cool simple brick game included in it that I loved :) but the option for the iPhone just took over.
Nonetheless, I know of many friends that still have their Blackberry and have not gone to the other side (iPhones, Androids, etc.)
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