Quote: Richard Cranium Hmmm, my -- intentions -- were honorable! hahah as you can see, I havent edited that post! I recommend you go back, and hight that post to see my hidden message! Yeah I got it mate, but you still got the spelling of intensions wrong! (Not to mention havent and hight.)
you starting to annoy me. your not perfect. Didn't your daddy ever make your scrub the floor with a toothbrush the first time you corrected HIS English? If he didn't I am sure he prolly wanted to and should have.
Quote: blizeH Why bother with competitive rates when morons like Wanderer will lap up whatever you put out anyway? If that was right I'd be lapping up Windows Vespa, ain't no way, no how that's happening.
You could call iPhone perfect
(http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/215441,CST-FIN-Andy18.article)
January 18, 2007
BY ANDY IHNATKO
I have used the Apple iPhone. I had a private briefing the day after Steve Jobs' keynote and spent about 45 minutes noodling around with the device.
You may touch the hem of my robe if you wish.
In response to a Beatlemania-scale pile of e-mails, here's what I can tell you so far, based on my hands-on impressions, my talks with Apple and general first-hand sniffing around:
1. The touch-interface works flawlessly, in terms of both technical function and user interface design. Whatever you want to do -- select an album to play, make or take a call, compose and send an e-mail -- your first impulse is almost always the correct one.
This is the simplest phone ever.
And there are no lags, no pauses, no waiting for the slickly animated UI to catch up with you, even when you're scrolling through a stack of album art that's flopping past your finger in 3D: It's liquid.
The bad news: It works only with direct, skin contact. You can't wear gloves, and I don't know if you can even put a screen protector on it. On the plus side, the screen is supposed to be more scratch-resistant than an iPod.
"So long as you don't have a pocket full of broken glass, it'll be OK in there," I was told.
2. I think the iPhone's virtual keyboard is a huge improvement over the mechanical thumbpads found on the Treo and any other smart phones of its size.
The buttons are significantly larger, you don't have to hit them dead-center, you lightly tap them instead of punching them down, and the software is smart enough to know that you meant to type "Tuesday" instead of "Tudsday."
After 30 seconds, I was already typing faster with the iPhone than I ever have with any other phone. I suspect that true e-mail demons will need to adapt to the lack of tactile feedback, though.
3. It's the most beautiful freakin' display I've ever seen on a phone or PDA, both in range of color and level of detail. Even microscopic browser text is credibly readable.
4. The apps that were functional at the time of the demo give the satisfying, protein-rich experience of "real" software. The mail client and browser make you feel like you're using a powerful desktop app, not a cell phone that can kind of send e-mail and browse the Web (depending on how you define "e-mail" and "the Web").
5. Apple will keep a very tight rein on software development.
I asked point-blank if third parties would be able to write and distribute iPhone apps and was told, point-blank, no.
However, it appears that there'll be some third-party opportunities. I'm going to take a guess that iPhone software will be distributed the same way as iPod games: no "unsigned" apps will install, but apps will start appearing on the iTunes Store after successfully passing through a mysterious process of Apple certification -- one that ensures that they meet a certain standard of quality and won't, you know, secretly send your credit-card info to Nigeria.
The lockdown on software is an area of ongoing suspicious interest. I noticed that the iPhone's pre-release browser was missing some plug-ins. I asked if Real and Macromedia et al. would be writing media plug-ins for the iPhone's Web browser, and was told that no, the browser would ship with plug-ins, but Apple would be writing them all in-house. Odd, that.
6. The iPhone runs the same OS as the Macintosh. And not in the way that Windows Mobile is, I suppose, technically, if you want to split hairs about it, classified somewhere in the Microsoft Windows phylum.
Nope, everything I've learned (both in official briefings and "you and I never spoke, all right?" sort of discussions) says that it truly does run Leopard, the upcoming 10.5 OS that will be released for the Macintosh late in the spring.
Those spiffy UI animations, for instance, come courtesy of Leopard's Core Animation suite.
So will it run Mac software? Nope. The iPhone runs OS X, but it's an iPhone, not a Macintosh. And it stands to reason that the OS on the iPhone doesn't include any bits that it doesn't need.
And no, the iPhone's Widgets aren't the same as the Mac's Dashboard widgets. But they do use DashCode and other desktop widget tech, so who knows? I'm really hoping that widgets will be more open to third-party developers than apps.
7. The iPhone is still under development and isn't feature-complete. I opened the "Notes" application and found myself tapping impotently at a JPEG of what the app is supposed to look like. And the camera app only had one button.
Any complaints about what the iPhone can't do are premature. Remember, it won't ship for six months.
I really, really like what I've seen so far. But true judgment won't come until June.
Andy Ihnatko writes on technical and computer issues for the Sun-Times.
It can be as perfect as they want but there's no way on earth I'll buy one knowing that there's a 50% profit margin. That's ridiculous. I'm still considering a MacBook Pro for my next computer but if I see the same sort of profit margin there then I'll be sticking with building my own computer and popping Windows on it.
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Sorry dad, he started it...
Posted: Thursday, 18 January 2007 at 9:26PM (AEDT)
Tsk!
Sorry dad, he started it...
Technically you did. I just said I didn't agree with Apple and you felt the need to say I was wrong. I defended my statements.
hahah as you can see, I havent edited that post! I recommend you go back, and hight that post to see my hidden message!
hahah as you can see, I havent edited that post! I recommend you go back, and hight that post to see my hidden message!
Yeah I got it mate, but you still got the spelling of intensions wrong!
(Not to mention havent and hight.)
Posted: Friday, 19 January 2007 at 7:27AM (AEDT)
50%?!
your... should be ...you are... or you're...!
Posted: Friday, 19 January 2007 at 2:59PM (AEDT)
If that was right I'd be lapping up Windows Vespa, ain't no way, no how that's happening.
Posted: Friday, 19 January 2007 at 5:30PM (AEDT)
Eeeeeeeep. Not such good news. I guess you could always use a keyboard with it via Bluetooth though no?
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