Iphone 4.0 official video
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#172They just might have killed the Flip device with the HD video. Now I do not need to carry a device to do HD video.
everyone must have seen this coming though
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#173You 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.
When you combine old inventions in new novel ways, that create a better product, your are inventing something new. And this results in not necessarily a small or insignificant inovation. In my opinion Apple innovates in a big way. 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 m…
I've read that when he used that phrase it was intended as a pointed insult to the recipient of the letter, Robert Hooke, who had claimed priority on some of Newton's ideas and was famously short.
While many believe that was the sentiment being expressed by Newton in his letter to Hooke, some researchers have suggested that he was actually using the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" as a veiled insult of Robert Hooke, who was a rather short man. Newton had a reputation as somewhat of a petty and vindictive man whose ego clashed with those of his rivals in the scientific and mathematical communities. One of these rivals was Robert Hooke, who had been involved in a long-running fued with Newton over which one had discovered the inverse square law. Although Newton's letter to Hooke appeared courteous on the surface, some historians have concluded that he cleverly employed the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" to ridicule Hooke's lack of physical stature and imply that he lacked intellectual stature as well.
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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 note Jobs' discourse on Apple being at the intersection of engineering and liberal arts, with an emphasis on industrial design. This is very unusual in the computer business, and I think it's a key indicator as to where Jobs wants to see his company going after he leaves the helm.
Ives is clearly the Chief Designer. And he's being called out for something.
My guess is that in the absence of Jobs 2.0, Jobs 1.0 is trying to inculcate a design-led culture within Apple, and sees Ives as the most likely successor to keep his particular design aesthetic front-and-centre. In this scenario, it doesn't matter too much who handles the business of marketing, manufacturing, and developing the products -- as long as they continue to be design-led and follow the same basic aesthetic goals. Which is not simply to make high-end PCs or smartphones, but to make stuff that is pretty and pleasant to use.
(Here on HN, we're mostly technophiles. It's important to remember that most of the public are not -- and they prefer beautiful objects to ugly but functional ones. Beauty is an important market, as Apple's market cap demonstrates ...)
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How many phones have a display with better than 800:1 contrast ratio[1]? All the resolution in the world doesn't matter if you can't actually see it. The Nexus One, in comparison, has a 100,000:1 contrast ratio[2]. 1. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
And yet, the Nexus One is the one that has visibility issues outdoors.
Funny story: I'm typing this reply on my nexus one in direct sunlight.
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anybody else think its hilarious that this comment gets downvoted to oblivion?
Oh yeah, hilarious... In a very troubling kind of way.
Ah the Irony: a sarcastic comment about downvoting gets downvoted.
Is there an algorithm to figure out what will get downvoted? Or is it totally random?
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They don't mention the frequency at any point, only that it's an A4. Notice that they don't say anything about RAM either.
Have Apple ever revealed those specifics publicly, for any revision of the iPhone? I'm not sure if they even revealed the previous iPhones were ARM-based in their marketing materials.
On the tech specs page, it says that the A4 in the iPad runs at 1GHz.