Jim Dalrymple’s review of the new iPhone 4S
Great and to-the-point review of the new iPhone 4S, showcasing nicely how the improvements over the iPhone 4 will affect everyday usage.
If you only read one review of the device, make it this one.
I know this will sound stupid to some people, but it feels like a friend has died.
I’ve never met Steve Jobs, I don’t even work in an industry connected to Apple, I’m just a consumer who’s been using Apple products for a few years.
Still I feel connected to this man, through his legacy that is Apple Inc. and the products which have made my life more pleasant and my job easier.
Thanks Steve.
David Chartier: Apple’s fall from grace - BGR
Zach Epstein:
But an interesting takeaway from yesterday’s announcement may simply be that Apple has fallen from grace in some respects. Apple is fallible, even if the 4S ends up being a success. A company that could do no wrong in recent history just, well, did wrong in the eyes of pundits who had previously viewed every Apple product announcement as a gift from the heavens.
Oh no, not the poor, never-wrong-in-a-million-years pundits! Say it ain’t so, BGR.
Related: can anyone offer a rational explanation as to why BGR is worth reading? Its rumors are consistently wrong and, in the last year or two, it’s stooped to publishing baseless pre-event bullshit for pageviews.
I think Apple doesn’t give a shit what most of the pundits think and why should they. The disconnect between what pundits value and what consumers value is growing bigger and bigger and thus the irrelevance of pundits who equate their own needs with those of the average consumer.
These people will undoubtedly slam a feature like ‘Find my Friends’ because they don’t understand it or have no real use for it, and because of that it has to be worthless to everybody else. John Welch nicely paraphrased it in this tweet.
As to BGR: It, Gizmodo, Engadget and the likes mostly exist so the kind of person I was talking about in the first paragraph can still feel relevant.
The Topolsky Spin — The Angry Drunk
Another handy law to invoke when discussing tech news and articles written by New Media Douchebags and wannabe pundits.
The other one, of course, is Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
It hasn’t changed much since then, but after reading up on the iPhone 4S and all the improvements, I think it’s more than a worthy upgrade.
Most nerds, tech pundits and the likes won’t recognise this for what it is, but the consumer won’t care. The improved camera alone will sell this to millions of people. Bringing the iPhone on par with the iPad 2 in terms of raw processing power is another thing consumers will only realise when they pick up an older iPhone or any Android device and experience the sluggishness of the UI in general.
(via Dead Silence - Comixed - 4 panel comic strip (yonkoma or 4koma))
I followed the event on Twitter, Arstechnica.com and Macworld.com (as long as their live blogs were up).
I wasn’t overly impressed, but far from disappointed:
Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:
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Comprehensive post on how to improve the “back” buttons that exist in almost every iOS application. Worth a read.
“I never use anyone else’s products. I never do a competitive matrix, ever. My entire life, I’ve never done it. I could care less what other people make. I have no interest whatsoever. I mean, I literally don’t think there’s anything to be learned by other people’s stuff.”
— Color founder Bill Nguyen, Humbled, Color’s Bill Nguyen Friends Facebook | Fast Company
That explains so, so, so much about why Color was a
dizzying, runaway, spectacular successastounding failure straight out of the gate. (via chartier)
This is an amazingly stupid attitude for someone trying to enter one of today’s most competitive markets. My only question now is: How did this guy manage to revceive funding?
TUAW: Conan O’Brien parodies iPhone 5 “loss”
The bad thing is, this is what devoted Andorid fans, or people who simply hate Apple, probably imagine the imagined “Apple Police” to be.
In which we betray our gender – GABBY’S PLAYHOUSE
I really wish this wasn’t true
