Edwards and Hesseldahl report, “The new iPhone is built not just to compete with other phones but to keep pushing the boundaries of the Apple universe. It’s Apple at its most creative—and its most aggressive, as it attempts to divert revenue from advertisers, book publishers, and content providers.”
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Aldebaran: I stand corrected on that one point, however it still remains that AT&T;was a horsedung company when Apple made it’s deal with them, and they remain a horse-dung company. Either way it baffles the mind what factors actually led to Apple saying, OK AT&T;have at it . . . were going with you.
Oh, and if something is available for download on a public server that requires little or no authentication, then it’s pretty difficult to label that stealing. Sort of like the iPhone 4 prototype being left behind at the bar.
As they have said for eons . . . possession is 9/10ths of the law.
Yves,
Wow I can’t *wait* to get a phone with all those horridly geeky sounding chips and circuit boards! Yum!
What kind of retard are you? Have you ever actually *used* any technology that you didn’t have to put down your protractor and pick up a soldering iron to use?
How lame can you really possibly be?
JBL(troll) “Sort of like the iPhone 4 prototype being left behind at the bar. As they have said for eons . . . possession is 9/10ths of the law.”
Stolen. Felony theft by California law. This isn’t just my opinion, there is an actual criminal investigation going on right now. You simply cannot walk away with someone else’s property, nor can you “find” someone else’s phone in a bar, that’s called theft. It’s against the law, and the dollar value attached makes this a felony case.
Learn some facts, retard.
Let me tell you about fandroids….
I’m sitting at a bar right now, having a few beers. (no, I will not leave my iPhone here).
3 people came up to me and litterally shoved their f**king droids in my face and proceeded to talk sh** about iPhone.
This is the mentality.
I was just minding my business, not talking to anyone, just playing A game. They saw I had an iPhone and NEEDED to come over and trash it.
Lowest common denominator. I’m shocked at the hatred.
Then the bartender tells me that she and her bf are going to get roids because there cooler and iPhone is old news.
Apple needs to start marketing agressively. The mindshare IS turning.
And it’s not pretty.
Ken,
You take a very simplistic approach to your view of Android and Google. For one, the primary relationship an Android user has is with their cellular phone company – not Google.
For another, if users suspected that Google was truly sinister in its approach, not only would the OS never have gotten off the ground, but Android devices wouldn’t be rapidly expanding their market share. The truth is, the vast majority of what Google collects and pushes back to it’s users is done anonymously. Sure they track IP’s, hundreds of millions of them, in fact. Far too many for any one user to be overly concerned with, unless they are criminals and using Google or an Android device for criminal activity. The very nature of open source is that it allows the public to be active watchdogs.
I’ll take open source and it’s ability to rapidly adapt and innovate over a closed trickle system any day.
That’s not to mention the alignment against net neutrality that AT&T;has taken in axing unlimited data from new customers. And yet the sheep still flock and even make rationalizations why data download limits are good.
Again bizarre, cult like.
“It’s Apple at its most creative—and its most aggressive, as it attempts to divert revenue from advertisers, book publishers, and content providers.”
Divert is such an ugly word. Apple choses to use redistribute instead. Why should Google have all the fun.
Twilight Moon:
as if your chosen nickname doesn’t say it all already.
Do you really believe that anything will come of that investigation? And let’s think back to the period of time that the iPhone4 mysteriously got left behind . . . the tech blog world was all abuzz over the HTC Evo. Oh but Apple makes iPhone announcements the 1st week of June . . . so how can we generate buzz . . . hmmmm. . .
“Oh, and if something is available for download on a public server that requires little or no authentication, then it’s pretty difficult to label that stealing. Sort of like the iPhone 4 prototype being left behind at the bar.”
So when someone comes into your house through an unlocked door and steals all your junk, that’s not theft? What society are you living in? It makes you an idiot (like AT&T;) and the intruders felons.
jbl
you’re joking right? i want whatever you’re smoking
so is it overkill? or not enough?
i actually read most of the article, and its not much i didn’t know already. human eyesight is not the same as the technical limits of the cones and rods in the eye. shocker. for most people the screen will appear flawless.
oh, and congratulations on your vision
hahahaha, please keep posting here!
@JBL
Regarding the increased pixel density: have you handled the iPhone 4? Wait – you didn’t? And yet you’re still talking? Amazing.
Go run and tell the rest of your freetard buddies that the jig is up. You had 6 months to beat off to your spec comparisons to the year-old 3GS. You could probably almost *taste* being competitive with the iPhone.
Alas, Cupertino knocked your dicks back into the dirt. Pick your buddies up by the bootstraps, try real hard and maybe in another year you’ll get that taste again.
Aldebaran:
1) The phone was left behind in a bar. Hardly someone’s unlocked home.
2) There hasn’t been a development in the investigation since April. And why is that the case?:
Wagstaffe said the investigation is on hold until it’s determined whether those protections apply in this case.
( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/police-id-person-found-iphone/story?id=10497861&page=3 )
If this was a simple case of theft and sale of stolen property, then the kid who found it would have already been arrested. And why did Apple reps visit the kid at home?
The larger issue is the one involving Gizmodo and Chen. And that may take years to play out.
cwfrederick:
How’s this . . . any reasonable person will concede the iPhone 4 screen resolution one upped the rest of the field, Android unit’s included.
BUT, there are Android units which meet or exceed virtually every other spec on the iPhone 4 (iPhone4 has more built in storage, but no expansion slots, great display, but no HDMI interface, battery life reportedly improved, but users can’t keep a spare and change it themselves, etc . . .)
Because of the ability to innovate quicker, we all know that an Android-based phone will be released within the next 6-8 months with resolution that matches or exceeds the specs of the iPhone4.
By the time Apple releases iPhone5, they will be playing catch-up once again.
Most people prefer choice and that’s something that apple struggles to offer.
@JBL
Dude, can you even follow your own comments? The analogy to the unlocked home was in reference to the theft of iPad data from AT&T;’s web server (not a public server either). I even quoted you. You said that that’s not stealing if it was so easy to get in.
Utter bullsh*t.
OOOOPPPSSY!
Can’t wait to see how Apple and the Mactards spin this one . . .
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177978/Antitrust_probe_into_Apple_s_iPhone_ad_ban_likely_says_expert?taxonomyId=17
@JBL
Sorry JBL but your logic is flawed. If your taking the phrase “pushing the boundaries of the Apple universe” to mean Apple has reached the end of their innovation, then you must believe that the competition has technology that trumps Apple’s but they’re just not showing it for some reason. Perhaps when Ballmer gets his wish and some postal Dowd eliminates all Apple everywhere that’ll happen. Until then the competition will have to enjoy the view from behind the lead sled dog. Apple innovates. Others can only copy.
JBL: “That’s not to mention the alignment against net neutrality that AT&T;has taken in axing unlimited data from new customers. And yet the sheep still flock and even make rationalizations why data download limits are good.
Again bizarre, cult like.”
Cult like?
Please explain why it’s “cult like” to follow a company that goes out of its way to pay attention to the very last detail to make products that their customers love.
And not “cult like” to defend a giant advertising company that spies on it’s customers, and treats your personal private data like a gold mine?
And you’re really okay with Google Android’s marketplace where spam, spyware, and malware can run rampant, unchecked?
Weird.
If you’re paid by Google or one of the handset makers to spread FUD, let us know since non-disclosure is a lie. If not you don’t make any sense.
Aldebaran:
Do you think that perhaps, you’re a tad reactionary? I’m having fun replying to an onslaught of hyperbole and hype, personal attacks, etc . . . and because you lack a world view of the technology world you call my response to you bullspit?! Funny stuff, kid. What are you 16? 17?
So to respond to you . . . using the “someone’s home” analogy is weak to say the least. The information that was “stolen” was left on a public server and by all accounts unsecured. Because an outsider realizes this, and executes a proof of concept – but doesn’t (by any report I’ve read) look to extort or sell the info they were able to extract is not the same as if I walked onto your property, opened your unlocked front door, entered your home, took your phone directory and walked out.
Goatse is in Europe. The unsecured AT&T;servers are in North America. AT&T;was negligent, but ultimately Apple bears the responsibility because they CHOSE to partner with AT&T;. Why didn’t Apple know about this vulnerability through their own testing?
Because AT&T;would have ceased to exist if not for the God-given relationship with Apple (how else could it have happened, if not for divine intervention), Apple has them bent over the bench. And once again Apple slips through unscathed . . .
That is, until the Feds go after them for anti-trust violations (bwaahahahaaha!)
Twilight moon,
There is almost zero truth to the statement that Google spies on it’s customers. Please enlighten us on this groundbreaking charge that you make.
“Can’t wait to see how Apple and the Mactards spin this one . . .”
Just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks? What is your angle here? Just to be an annoying troll on every available topic? You are aware that Apple is a very large and successful company and others like Google and Adobe and Microsoft are jealous? And at least Google and Microsoft have tons of paid lobbyists in Wash DC, far more than Apple. Just follow the money, it’s not hard to see what is going on.
@jbl
it’s ok sweethart. Just give yourself a big hug knowing that everything in your universe centers around your opinions and small ego.
It’s all good.
Apple will do fine with or without Google.
And in the big picture, you, and your sad hatred will amount to nothing. Never to have created something that people will remember after the worms get you. No billion dollar company, no mark in history.
But at least you told us what for, and it will be on an Apple forum. Ironic.
Twilightmoon, you fag!
You completely miss the point. It was a comparison to show how iPhone 4 is light years ahead of HTC Evo. Peace…
LOL@Me
Tell me . . . which smartphone OS had multi-tasking first?
Which smartphone OS and hardware allowed for wireless internet tethering first?
Which smartphone OS and hardware first included noise cancelling microphones?
Which smartphone hardware is offering an HDMI out?
Which smartphone OS allows widgets and icons on your phone desktop without launching an application?
Which smartphone OS allows you to CHOOSE your hardware?
And the hot rumor breaking today is the Motorola G2 will have a 2 Ghz processor. When will that be made available in an iPhone? Oh yeah, next June.
Shall I keep going? Because there are more. Better browsers, ability to be a hotspot, and yes Flash (what was the language in the original iPhone commercials? Oh yeah . . .”this isn’t a watered down version of the internet. Or the mobile version of the internet. Or the kinda sorta looks like the internet, internet. It’s just the internet.” And yet – three years later and soon to be the 4th Generation iPhone – you’re getting a watered down version of the internet.)
Check Mate.
JBL
it really seems like you believe what you say. for almost every one of your points i would make a counterpoint in the iphones favor that i believe is preferable for almost anybody.
android – iphone
better specs – does not compare to custom designed SOC with layered ram, hardware acceleration, close ties to OS etc
non-user-replaceable battery – i think most people would prefer much better battery life of an integrated unit then have to worry about replacing the battery, not to mention external battery packs and increasing breakage of device
smaller but switchable storage – similar arguments as battery
the most obvious weakness, “quicker innovation” – bumping up specs and making the UI less buggy should not qualify as innovation, and even if it does, the user does not have ‘choice’ because they are locked in for two years anyway.
and so on. the reason i like apple is that they don’t always make the popular decision, but they almost always make the best decision. the few minor compromises that come with it pale in comparison to the benefits of apple products.
if you have any google shares id suggest jumping ship and dumping them. we will throw you a lifeline and welcome you aboard!
i used to be weirded out by the mac cult-like following but its not really that strange. it’s really just about enjoying the products.
RiverSong,
Oh I’m sorry is this blog only for Apple cheerleaders and Android and Windows Mobile bashers? I mean I can understand the Windows Mobile bashing, but seriously Obi Wan had a point when he warned Luke about the dangers of succumbing to the Dark Side.