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This is, to me, a way to convey to the public that Apple's core is not dead with Jobs, after years of attributing him all the miracles.
Apple's brand is made of heroes and epics. Ive could well be the next one. The picture they used for the article tells a lot.
Good luck Apple ! You deserve it as a team
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I used one for 2 years and now my wife uses it every day. What's supposed to be wrong with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4#Antenna
The antenna thing was a non-issue. Steve Jobs arrogant replies on the topic ("you're holding it wrong") certainly helped it blow up in the media.
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Exaggeration perhaps, but hardly desperation. The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. Anyone remember the first generation Google TV boxes with unusable UIs in which vital controls would be completely hidden by other UI elements, rendering the whole thing essentially unusable? Ev…
iPhone 4 was pretty terrible at being a cell phone.
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That camera is rather ugly indeed, but as an (non digital) M owner: > Recessed dials? A photographer wouldn't be caught dead without quick access to ISO, aperture values, shutter speed, and exposure metering/bracketing. Plenty of cameras that photographers use don’t have direct access to many of those settings. > Fumbling around with fingernails inside a recessed dial is the last thing you want to do when a child is…
I'm sorry micampe, but that's total crap. As the parent comment said, Leica cameras are very much designed to be used, they were the photojournalist's top choice for decades. Recessed dials is moronic. If Ive can't design a Leica that can actually be functional then it doesn't speak very highly for his product design skills. If you had used a Leica M you wouldn't be spouting such nonsense about f/8 and hyperfocal. th…
Such anger. Wow.
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On the other hand, my ASUS tablet I bought over two years ago, the first generation of its kind, still works as well as it did then, which is pretty damn good, while the macbook pro I was inflicted with for work crashes regularly (as in "spinning rainbow/beachball of doom my screen is frozen I have to hard-reset" crashes). But that sleek aluminum case sure looks nice (to some--to me it looks a bit like its trying too…
Uh, that's not a crash. That's a sign you need to either do your spring cleaning better, or take it to your IT guy and find out what's hanging. My first guess: your disk is nearly full. This will choke any machine.
Disk being nearly full choking any machine? No. Stopping some things from working properly if they want to write new files maybe, but it shouldn't make your operating system unresponsive. If a writable drive was required to run a responsive OS, you wouldn't be able to do neat tricks like read-only mounted linux desktops.
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I've seen many complaints about the charge cables, but never had an issue myself. Are there just some bad batches running around, or is it a particular model that's had issues?
It's a problem with people who think they can wind a power cable tightly around something hundreds of times, pay no attention to strain on it or to abusing the weak point where it enters the charger, and then are mystified when it finally fails. Apple's chargers are in fact much, much tougher than the competition's; this is obvious if you just look at the construction for five seconds and even more obvious if you go…
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By design I mean their physcial look and feel, the industrial design. They are starting to look stale.
What the hell? Fingers off my beloved MacBook! They spent so much time perfecting it (and continue doing so). I want Apple to do that, not flashy fashion bullshit.
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Exaggeration perhaps, but hardly desperation. The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. Anyone remember the first generation Google TV boxes with unusable UIs in which vital controls would be completely hidden by other UI elements, rendering the whole thing essentially unusable? Ev…
iPhone 4 was pretty terrible at being a cell phone.
This was a silly, overblown issue.
Let us not forget, he designed the "Puck Mouse" that came with the iMac and G3 towers...
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Honestly, I think Apple makes stellar products (I won't use them because of IP issues, but they're still incredible produts) but talk like that - claiming your competition doesn't give a crap and is just throwing shoddy goods out the door? It reeks of desperation. Android has its faults, but it would be absurd to say that Google doesn't care about the platform. The Nexus line itself demonstrates that they want these…
Exaggeration perhaps, but hardly desperation. The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. Anyone remember the first generation Google TV boxes with unusable UIs in which vital controls would be completely hidden by other UI elements, rendering the whole thing essentially unusable? Ev…
Or we could talk about the random reboots (worse than any of the many Android devices or Windows PCs I've used in the last several years) and other serious bugs that plagued iOS 7 (not all of which have been fixed). For instance, this music syncing bug:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398?start=0&tstart=...
which, if you are unlucky enough to encounter it, can render a previously-working iPod almost completely unfit for purpose. When my wife's iPod got trapped in this issue the only reason we didn't get rid of it is that we also kept our music at Amazon, so she was able to successfully switch to Amazon Cloud Player. Or we could talk about the stubborn persistence of Wi-Fi gremlins with some device/OS combinations or ...
Apple may have a better batting average than most, but they have their share of strikeouts as well.