9 to 5 Mac has screenshots from ABC’s report on the iPhone 4 antenna press conference.
Several reports from sources allowed into these labs after Apple’s press conference said that they were not allowed to take photos on the tour, so ABC’s coverage is unique, and frankly, pretty suprising.
But that’s just it: the iPhone does mean something, and it’s the type of meaning that transcends rational optimizing about features and raw performance. “Apple weathered the storm because there is such brand loyalty through the religious narrative,” Campbell maintained. “When you’re buying into Mac, you’re buying into an ideology. You’re buying into a community.”
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Know why the iPhone 4’s antenna grip got tons of attention but there aren’t stories about the same sorts of minor flaws on other phones?
Because if there’s a minor flaw with whichever Droid Xtreme Edition or HTC Whatever is being hyped by the gadget blogs this month, who cares?
Apple is on a pedestal, and people love knocking pedestals down.
White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.
How could Apple have not foreseen the manufacturing nightmare they are now in?
In other news, I’m pretty sure this is how vaporware starts.
Impressive showing by the iPad.
$15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. Hot damn.
Update: I’ll be live-tweeting the call.
The gist of the company’s 12-page response to Congress is that every iPhone “checks in” with its zip code once every 24 hours. (Of course, location-based services can be turned off in iOS by customers.)
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.
For those who want to see how it worked “under the hood”, we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.
Ten years ago today, Apple announced the G4 Cube at Macworld New York.
The G4 Cube was an interesting machine. It was a powerful G4, packed into a 8-inch cube, suspended in clear molded plastic. It ran silently, without a fan. It featured some of the most impressive industrial design Apple has ever shipped — the entire “core” of the computer came out with a single click, giving quick access to internal components.
Indeed, Jobs actively considered splitting with AT&T early in the partnership. Just months after the iPhone launched, and not long after Rinne asked Apple to limit YouTube usage, Jobs was investigating another possible solution: dropping AT&T and striking a deal with Verizon. But because Verizon’s network ran on a different transmission technology, making the move would require an entirely new chipset.
The whole piece is fascinating.
I got this email from a friend tonight:
So I swapped my iPhone 4 for another at an Apple store due to a proximity sensor issue. New phone has a smooth matte-like coating around band and over antennas. Can no longer run finger over antennas and feel gaps. Looks like they have silently fixed this in the newer production runs can’t replicate signal loss any more.
During the press conference, Jobs said that they company would “revisit” the topic at the end of September. If Apple is handing out replacement phones with this “matte-like coating,” it may be that the company is testing this as a long-term solution they will announce in the fall.
Apparently, these are the droids consumers have been looking for: Early numbers indicate that the new Motorola Droid X, carried by Verizon Wireless, has been a big hit, selling out online and in many stores since its debut on Thursday. Time to get scared, iPhone 4.
The success of this smart phone compared to its biggest competitor, Apple’s problem-ridden, antenna malfunctioning iPhone 4, has got to be rankling Steve Jobs just a little bit.