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Gustav 07/08/2010 07:50 PM Report
cmon... the greatness of america? please dont be like that.
iphone is awesome, yes, but many of these new things arent so new. in sweden, and i guess many other places, we have enjoyed "facetime" calls with a 2nd camera on the cellphone since at least 2005, and not over internet but over 3g.
And we have already had 4G in stockholm for quite some time.
robdverity 06/28/2010 02:45 PM Report
Another long-range largely useless, distracting techno-pointlessness. The national IQ appears to be plummeting with the advent of each new 'techno-social' (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter etc) functionality. This latest will devolve into mutual I'll-show-you-mine-if-you'll-show-me-yours mindlessness. Techno-degeneracy on a national then world-wide scale. Maybe we'll (by rampant networking?) get to see what's under those burqas someday. And jury duty will doubtless become more prurient with "exposure" (pun intended). Has a nice glitzy charm to it, but I don't want to talk to anyone that has one. (Too minimalistic for reciprocal socialization to begin with.)
REMant 06/28/2010 01:41 PM Report
I can shed a little light on some of this. I had a Leica of the type Jobs was probably referring to. Developed pre-WWII, its compactness derived from the fact that it used 35mm movie film in age of much larger formats, but it was also not a reflex, and its lenses therefore also smaller than what we are accustomed to seeing on a 35mm camera. Still it was used professionally well into the SLR age. Many news photographers would carry it with the wide-angle lens for close-ups that did not require accurate focus along with one or two (usually) Nikons mounted with longer lenses, and this saved some weight. It is still being made, but was converted to digital last year. AT&T uses a standard diff from Verizon's, but convergence in this area is possible in the next generation of phones. According to the Wash Post "Apple seems resolutely uninterested in making multiple models of the iPhone: one built on the GSM (Global System for Mobile) wireless standard, which AT&T employs and which dominates most markets worldwide, and another for the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology used by Verizon and Sprint but absent in most other countries. The one thing that could change this is Verizon's move to switch its network to a newer, faster standard called LTE (Long Term Evolution). Since many GSM carriers plan to make the same upgrade, Apple wouldn't have to ship two iPhones with different innards." see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061200225.html And last, you will probably have found out by now that the new iPhone reportedly has a problem where holding the phone with a finger over a joint in its metal rim can degrade its reception, which can be fixed by inelegantly taping over the gap, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062505430.html On the issue again of whether phones become the way we access the web, it, of course, depends on the degree to which entrepreneurs can make services of the products we now use, because obviously a phone is never going to have the computing power of a larger machine. This business seems to go in cycles, somewhat like the "wheel of retailing" in which retailers are forced by competition to always return to core businesses. Products replace services, for example, a vacuum cleaner replaces a maid, and vice versa. This is undoubtedly a variety of the Polybian cycle of virtue and corruption, and analogous to the republican idea of a return to first principles. Clearly we are at the moment in the virtue or product phase, or we'd better be.