“The new iPhone is currently the standout object on my desk, this thing that looks like a mere black rectangle from across the room but starts to look like something very different at the range it’s meant to be used at. Holding it, you understand at once why Apple has physical stores; while you can watch iPhone commercials or see print campaigns about its features, when you first hold this exquisitely-crafted object you have a different experience entirely, one that cannot be adequately conveyed in two dimensions,” hipstomp reports. “Having seen countless photos of the device in advance, I was still surprised by the real thing when I popped it out of the box and touched it.”
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone 4 is like a finely-crafted watch. You can see and feel the care than went into it when you hold it.
hipstomp continues, “‘A big part of the experience of a physical object has to do with the materials,'” says Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, during a brief chat with Core77. ‘[At Apple] we experiment with and explore materials, processing them, learning about the inherent properties of the material–and the process of transforming it from raw material to finished product; for example, understanding exactly how the processes of machining it or grinding it affect it. That understanding, that preoccupation with the materials and processes, is [very] essential to the way we work.'”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Tim B.” for the heads up.]
Comment from: breeze
“Now if only that was the approach most people took before spouting off their shit in utter ignorant arrogance, we might have some long lost civility restored agin.”
Sadly based on his non response, it would seem my faith that AjFromNj was not just a troll posting some rumor he heard on some applehater forum (that iPhones won’t sync to a machine running tiger) was misplaced.
Why do apple hater post here, what thrill does it give them? I actually believed that he was an real user with a problem, Having gotten an iPhone on day one (my daughters father’s day present) I took the time to restart an old Powermac G5 into the copy of tiger I use for computability checking and checking.
Time and effort wasted for what I now believe was just another stupid troll from another apple hating twit. You know breeze, I don’t condone the others shouting him down initially… but I understand it.
@ Uncle Fester’s cousin
Sadly I don’t have time to keep posting/answering all your responses, so my non-response should not be interpreted as trolling.
I assure you that my problem is genuine and already experienced my many PowerPc users. See following thread I came upon when I was googling for solutions. Its an Apple’s fourm BTW.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2475691&start=0&tstart=0
If you cared to read through first message it should be clear what the problem is. I will state my exact problem here just in case the link does not work. When I connect my iPhone4 to my Powerbook G4 (1.5 Ghz, 1+ G ram) running Tiger, this is the message I get (paraphrasing) on iTunes “Your iPhone ‘iPhone” cannot be used because it requires 10.5.8 or later”.
When I checked the system requirements on iPhone package, it indeed states that this is correct. Who’d have thunk!!
Also I seriously doubt you had success with iTunes on Tiger for iPhone4. The requirements are clear and my experience among many confirms that.
Rest assured I am not a troll, and I am keeping my lovely iPhone4 anyway, but this leaves a bad taste.
@Uncle Fester’s cousin
Please post your Mac OS X version details here, if you are indeed runnning Tiger (and not Leopard) then it is good news for me, I’d just have to figure out the possible workaround.
Thanks.
There appear to be several inconsistencies in your story, first most actual users don’t cite the apple forum as proof of their problem, they simply state “it does/doesn’t do this when I do that” Trolls normally do however (and tell us that it is the “official” apple forum just like you did)
Second, my attempt to switch boot my compatibility box (a R1 dual G5 Powermac which has leopard tiger,and panther on it) didn’t work (must of hit the wrong icon in the startup pane) so admittedly I was connecting to leopard not tiger, my bad, HOWEVER, -and this is where it gets interesting- I did switch-boot (and confirmed it did in fact reboot in 10.4 this time) and plugged in the phone and did not get a “Your iPhone ‘iPhone” cannot be used because it requires 10.5.8 or later” message like you claimed you did.
I have to wonder how would a real iPhone 4 owner not know what actually happens when you plug a iPhone 4 into tiger????
Lastly, I googled-shopped Leopard and found several vendors who have it available for about $100…. You are telling me that you spent $200 or 300 on an iPhone 4 and are paying 80-120 or so a month to AT&T;keep it online and you can’t find $100 for an OS upgrade that is better, smarter and faster than the one you are running and will allow you to sync your phone?
None of this makes sense…
I am sorry but If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….
You apparently were using Tiger, so either you are lucky or you don’t know what OS you are really running. I can reproduce my problem everytime I connect my iphone to my powerbook.
Your attempts to classify me as a troll are weak and tiring.
Secondly, now you are advising me to upgrade my OS for $100 (lets assume you have better google skills than me), just so that I can use my iPhone?
I’ve already said what I had to say about this matter, but _some_ Apple fans apparently can’t think straight when somebody has negative to say about Apple. I have been patient and polite while I’ve been accused of being disloyal (by Bobchr), using an “antique” OS, limping etc (by whoever it was, he also has either poor math skills or poor comprehension of how real world works).
Anyway this will be my last post on this topic. Have fun with your iPhone.
It didn’t work in 10.4, but it doesn’t do what you say, it simply refuses to even acknowledge the device…
Googled “OS X 10.5 leopard” in shopping between $50 and $150
http://protape.stores.yahoo.net/newaposx10l.htm
lhttp://www.lgeoo.com/index.php/default/apple-mac-os-x-leopard-v-10-5-retail-mb021z-a.html
in the first two pages, no skill required
AND no you haven’t been patent or polite to the forum percipients, even though my first post to you was…
Just to many unexplainable eccentricities in your story to be plausable- “But now I don’t want to do this or that- I have to grab my ankle while straightening my knee and connect it via a Parallel port to be happy with Apple, that bunch of slackers, Windows is SOOOOOO much better
All in all, it sounds suspiciously like a troll….