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Well, not if you drop it on the pavement; though how it actually behaves in that situation remains to be seen.
I have to bet that broken glass is the #1 cause of iPhone failure... I've seen it probably 10-15 times in various places.
I love how Apple focuses on emotion -- those family FaceTime videos were so moving. Intersection of Liberal Arts & Technology, indeed. Well done, Apple.
They did that back in 2004 when iChat AV was introduced, and AV didn't disrupt or shift habits away from traditional audio and text. I think video conferencing is a great feature no doubt, but it's largely too intrusive for most people. Certainly making it more accessible and standardized will help some however, even amongst the most savvy early adopters (and MM+ of college students with MacBooks), video chatting has…
Old people are slow to change and sometimes never do. As we get old, we've got to remember that the failure of a product to change our ways of behaving is not proof that it will not, over the long run, change everything. Our resistance to change will be solved actuarially.
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Jeez. Why do you think that ultra-durability is to make it easy to change the batteries? Ultra-durability is for the situations when I drop my phone by accident and instead of breaking it, it survives the drop. And I don't understand certain folks' obsession with changeable batteries. You need to have those stupid opening compartment for batteries which always breaks down. I also remember that when my Blackberry used…
> Why do you think that ultra-durability is to make it easy to change the batteries? What? Why do you think I think that?
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Why is it still a moot point? Are you implying that the battery will go bad before the average users expected lifetime of the phone is reached?
Yep. Their statement implies that with this glass the phone is going to stay usable longer than its existing revision. However Jobs himself said that the battery in the current iPhone is non-removable, because he expects everyone to upgrade before it reaches the end of its life.
Just read what Apple says - "and more scratch resistant than ever" - meaning that this glass is meant to protect against casual scratches, and not against the glass breakage during accidental drops.
The point being that the time it takes to scratch the heck out of 3GS glass is more than a lifetime of its battery. I've been carrying my iPhone in the same pocket with keys, coins and god knows what else for several months now and it still has NO scratches. Hence the original comment - the lack of ultradurable glass is not exactly a problem with existing generation of the iPhone.
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They did that back in 2004 when iChat AV was introduced, and AV didn't disrupt or shift habits away from traditional audio and text. I think video conferencing is a great feature no doubt, but it's largely too intrusive for most people. Certainly making it more accessible and standardized will help some however, even amongst the most savvy early adopters (and MM+ of college students with MacBooks), video chatting has…
Maybe not for most people. But there is a large segment of people (primarily younger than the readership of this site) who use iChat AV _all_ the time, and they wouldn't do so if they didn't all have Macs with iSight cameras and iChat AV. Old people are slow to change and sometimes never do. As we get old, we've got to remember that the failure of a product to change our ways of behaving is not proof that it will not…
I do agree about age and change.
just wondering why video is not in HTML-5, or am i missing something?
HTML5 is a documentation spec, not a video encoder. I think you knew that, but language is surprisingly precise, so before commenting I wanted to ensure that we were talking about the same thing. Having got that out of the way, the HTML5 spec for the VIDEO tag is a bit tenuous at the moment. Though the API is laid out in full, there are essentially three competing encodings vying for the default: Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG-4,…
Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.
Don’t know what’s going on with QuickTime – maybe a fallback if your browser won’t play h.264? Does it work on Chrome without QuickTime?
(– edit: Three people [who downvoted me] seem to think that formulating a reasonable hypothesis and asking reasonable questions because of conflicting information is already too much Apple love. Or maybe they just think I’m lazy for not doing the research myself? Oh, well. Check out my other grandkid comment in this thread to see how testing my hypothesis worked out.)
Apple's videos always look so good, and yet don't seem to take much more bandwidth.. Wish everybody encoded videos online this carefully.
That video is 122 MB. Not exactly small for a 6 minute video. Your average dvdrip is ~3-7 MB/minute and this is ~20 MB/minute. I think you're noticing their production quality more than anything to do with encoding.
