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iPhone batteries can be replaced, although at $80 it's probably wiser to just buy a new iPhone every two years. http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/battery/
A new iPhone 3GS costs about $1000 here in Sweden. So I'd personally rather take the $80 battery, but that's just me.
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Except you have to call first to verify that whoever you are calling is on wifi. In Europe where wifi is something you have to search for and 3G is something which is everywhere, this renders the feature absolutely useless.
You're absolutely right, but I think video calling is actually very tightly targeted. If you watch Apple's launch video, it's all about family members who love each other but are separated. (Eg. it's not 20-somethings video calling each other to find out where tonight's party is..) And on that admittedly narrow front I think it'll be a smash hit. Right now when my wife or I are away from home, we record videos on our…
I mean, yeah, it's cool that it's on a phone and everything but they are acting like Apple invented it.
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I had this strange idea today when I read that Jobs invited Ive to the stage at the end of the keynote when he introduced video chat. Is Ive a possible future CEO of Apple? Job’s successor? Is that at all plausible or possible? He doesn’t get much time on stage, in fact I can’t even remember when and if he ever was on stage last. Pretty much everyone else you see in those videos is on stage quite often. They are doin…
Yeah, I think everyone wonders that too. I have no idea what Ive's other skills are. Maybe he is best left as Apple's lead industrial designer, and maybe that's what he loves and wants to do more than anything else. Or maybe he also has the leadership skills, communication skills, vision, judgement, and business sense to succeed Jobs. I have no idea, and honestly don't ever expect to until years after the succession…
I won't put quicktime on this machine, so I haven't seen the video. Do they mention the speed of the processor in the video? I'm suspicious of the actual processor speed since it wasn't mentioned in the coverage I saw of the event, and it's not mentioned here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
I think the interesting thing is where they go from here. Apple being Apple, perhaps we'll have two years of iPhone 4 whilst they get the next OS X ready, plus probably a big rollout of iPhone 4 tech into the iPad next year.
Two years from now, it'd be nice to see displays on both sides of the phone, stereo cameras for free space gesture recognition and some kind of high bandwidth peripheral bus like Wireless USB3.
Now that would be the future!
You have to give it to Apple, they are the masters of marketing. It does not matter if all these functionalities existed long before before, they make it seem like a new invention. Just like Mac books, the iPhone will have a small market share but will be very profitable for Apple.
Apple's ideas may look obvious and their decisions my look easy to decide after the fact, however, the same can be said for a winning chess move after its made. This is an easy fallacy to make.
"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton
The way they have made this video it looks as if they had come up with the definite cure to cancer, aids, etc ... I don't like it.
anybody else think its hilarious that this comment gets downvoted to oblivion?
In this case "they are idiots for caring so much about something I don't care for ".
It's nothing more than a smug putdown. It's like anti-intellectualism but for anti-quality or anti-effort.
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On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, the video played fine.
Ok, now I’m really intrigued. My browser sniffing theory doesn’t seem to be the (complete) truth, either.
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I don't get it. Videoconferencing is insanely old and never took off. First there was ISDN video conferencing.. apart from the job at a telco i did once i've never actually seen one that was used. Second, the first UMTS mobile i got had video conferencing, that's really a long time ago (Motorola V980 btw.) and many UMTS phones shipped with the second camera for years now. Yet, noone ever used it. Atleast i've never s…
(tablet computers) are "insanely old and never took off". Same could of been said about mp3 players in 2001. Apple's pretty good at taking old good ideas that never took off because of poor execution and doing them right.
It had slots and you could turn it into anything you wanted (including a PC-compatible), something you couldn't do with later products but that's another story.