Links for Tuesday June 29th, 2010
4: John Gruber on the iPhone 4:
"In fact, Apple seems very confident regarding everything it decided for the original 2007 iPhone. There are no new buttons, or even moved buttons. The Retina Display is emblematic of the iPhone 4 as a whole, both hardware and software: the same fundamental idea as the original iPhone, but clarified. It hasn’t really changed so much as improved — like the same picture in increasingly sharper focus."
I had noted this myself, in comparing the box for the original iPhone to that of the iPhone 4. They are remarkably similar. And more on the display:
" it’s more than just the pixel resolution — it’s that the LCD is so much closer to the surface of the glass. Like pixels on glass rather than pixels under glass. This is the result of a new manufacturing process Apple has pioneered. No other company gives a shit about things like this."
Apple's attention to detail continues to impress.
Dell lawsuit docs reveal it consciously sold defective PCs: Electronista:
"About 12 million OptiPlex desktops between 2003 and 2005 shipped with mainboards capacitors that, according to e-mail messages, Dell employees knew would fail within three years. Staff were told to avoid acknowledging the mainboards were bad and downplayed breakdowns, even when batches of 1,000 or more PCs (including those of its eventual legal defense) failed at the same time."
That's pretty funny.
The Spot on Vimeo: Cameron Hunt on the iPhone 4's curious reception issues. I'm not able to reproduce this problem at all while at work, but can reproduce it trivially at home. So, it seems like this can only be an issue when in areas of weaker 3G coverage. I haven't tried any sort of case on my iPhone 4 yet, to see if this resolved the issue in weak coverage areas.