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Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Re: Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Post by wmf »

danielnicollet wrote: post #32

So with all this great stuff (amazing new features, great market share, etc.), I wonder how Apple doesn't open the iPhone to non-ATT carriers. That's the single reason I have been staying on my good ol'RIM BB. Any ideas?

The reason is simple; AT&T is paying them.

Re: Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Post by gyardley »

enjo wrote: post #36
gyardley wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems right, but it's possibly because iPhone users are more likely to use the native-app version of popular websites.

Is that not true of Android users as well? Most of the sites I use on a regular basis have an Android presence as well (Facebook, Yelp, etc..) I think the probable reason is that the web-browsing data tends to be a few months ahead of those gartner market-share estimates.

Maybe. We have an analytics client for both platforms, though, and we just don't see the same level of application usage per user on Android. Why this is I'm not sure.

Re: Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Post by enjo »

joezydeco wrote: post #37
jodrellblank wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hurr Hurr but look at the pictures - it's on WiFi. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...

So the wifi is saturated because there are 500 people streaming photos and tweets from the hall. C'mon. Can't Apple just live stream these keynotes from here on out? Everyone on all sides knows these announcements are in the public sphere 250 milliseconds after Steve says it. For being so controlling of their media message, why let the bloggers run the final leg?

It's a really nice way to get a lot of really influential people on your side I'd think. By letting the media outlets have control over the dissemination of information it gives them a lot of incentive to stay on your good side (see: gizmodo not being invited to the keynote).

Re: Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Post by pavlov »

danielnicollet wrote: post #32

So with all this great stuff (amazing new features, great market share, etc.), I wonder how Apple doesn't open the iPhone to non-ATT carriers. That's the single reason I have been staying on my good ol'RIM BB. Any ideas?

Getting a device on Verizon's network is not a matter of the device vendor wishing it to happen.

Re: Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

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Post by unexpected »

danielnicollet wrote: post #32

So with all this great stuff (amazing new features, great market share, etc.), I wonder how Apple doesn't open the iPhone to non-ATT carriers. That's the single reason I have been staying on my good ol'RIM BB. Any ideas?

There's an AT&T exclusivity agreement in place. It was for 5 years, set to expire in 2012.

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Post by alain94040 »

gbhn wrote: post #38

I'm not sure I follow the "Retinal Display" name. Is this just branding on a 300dpi pixel resolution? Or is there something to do with multi-resolution support for apps (those coded in the old resolution will still get up-converted text resolution, it sounded like).

Let this be a lesson in marketing to all of you...

As geeks, we'd tend to say "New and improved screen resolution: 300 DPI!". Which doesn't mean anything to 99% of the general population. But "retinal display", withs its attached explanation, now that's really something.

Words matter.

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Post by crocowhile »

HD display and movies, 5MP camera, increased battery life, folders and multitasking, gyroscope... I have all this on the Nexus One and that is a 6 months old phone. I think this WWDC is signing the end of an era: jobs has lost his famous innovative advantage and now he is running behind. Android/HTC had these features in their last generation phones and with EVO coming out they are going to make the iPhone 4 obsolete already.

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Post by jokermatt999 »

This somewhat tangential, but I have to say that I've only seen one "live coverage" method that really worked well IMO: Lifehacker's LiveWaving of Google IO. I still haven't really used Wave at all, but that really seemed to work well for a live coverage event. It felt much less "hackish" than the auto-refresh and scroll down method.
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