I HATE APPLE

loooooooool caek

lol ned

Even endgadget is saying many of their users aren't having the death grip problem, but the other day I met a woman from san francisco, visiting NY, who said even with the bumper, if she holds it with her left hand, signal goes way down.

that woman needs to stop eating nails

the one person I know with an iphone 4, who is not a big tech-head or anything, says it's pretty annoying and the calls drop all the time.

I am getting tired of all the people who always gnash their teeth about how they wouldn't buy an iPhone are using these issues as an excuse to... talk about why they wouldn't buy an iPhone.

I just have this image of a podium surrounded by microphones with an iPhone 4 at the center, and on the screen is Facetime w/ Steve Jobs

I have yet to have problems with mine

you are a liar

ooh, you got me; mine actually molested my wife and emptied my bank accounts

it told me I wouldn't tell if I knew what was good for me but I can't live under this umbrella of fear anym- oh shit, it's coming

SO LIKE I WAS SAYING MY IPHONE 4 IS AMAZING AND I CAN'T EVEN FATHOM HOW I WAS ABLE TO BREATHE BEFORE I GOT IT... okay it's gone

plz notify the police

akm did you fix your firefox prob? i had a weird one where whenever i tried to look at gmail it would refresh the page to the calendar after maybe 3 seconds. turns out its a bug in one of the addons so maybe uninstall any recent ones?

and Dan <3

i was reading about 4G the other day (the one reason i didnt get the iphone 4 because its not 4G compatible) and the article was saying sprints 4G isnt actually 4G but an enhanced 3G and real 4G is going to take replacing every transmitter in the country so ATT wont be in full 4G swing until 2011. I was all "2011?!?!?!.........oh wait. its 2010!". I lost a few years somewhere.

Also after spending 3+ hours removing malware from father-in-laws pc last night i kind of love apple right now.

i actually never did fix that. I just did what we needed to do with chrome. but what was weird was that about half an hour later, the 'last import' thing was up to date. I'm not sure why it would be days behind in one browser and up to date in another. I kind of hate how osx makes navigating directly to photos in iphoto impossible in any manner except using those shortcuts.

is there any way this thing is just going to be them announcing the usa is finally getting iphone on a functional carrier like the ROW? seems suspiciously shortly after the signal bars statement to be them revising those comments.

Yeah, especially given that iOS4.01 or whatever just arrived, with the reworked "look, your signal's fine really honest" graphs.

iPhone 4 has consistently better reception than 3G or 3GS imo so wtf with the bellyaching

Mine has been completely trouble free. I haven't been able to reproduce the death grip thing. I wonder if 4.1 will show the effect more?

and real 4G is going to take replacing every transmitter in the country so ATT wont be in full 4G swing until 2011. I was all "2011?!?!?!.........oh wait. its 2010!". I lost a few years somewhere.

Seriously though, if you want good mobile reception then move to Europe or Israel.

or kenya. i got better reception in rural kenya than i do in los angeles.

i had amazing reception in rural uganda!

africa def a total case study in cell phone infrastructure. gonna produce a lot of econ dissertations imo

leapfrogging, innit

aren't the only two major countries in the world with cdma networks the us and iraq?

vodaphone is the same co as verizon and they are in a bunch of countries. australia and germany for sure. maybe UK too? dont know if theyre all cdma though

last vzw webcast i had to watch was a huge shocker because for years they were mostly an hour of corp heads saying 'oh the iphone is nothing! its certainly not the reason we are losing 1000s customers per day' 'who needs that kind of gimmick?....LOOK AT OUR MAP!! ITS GOT LOTS OF RED! NOT LITLE BITS OF BLUE. NO, SIR! Here let me overlay the blue map and red map. WOAH, GUYS, LOOK AT ALL THAT RED!' but in the last webcast some upper corp guy proudly declared that they had approached apple and informed them that they would love to carry their phone on THE NATIONS LARGEST NETWORK just as soon as they could get around to making a cdma version.

california lolz heard all the way to jersey im sure

vodafone is uk-based. going by http://b2b.vzw.com/international/Roaming/rates_coverage.html, no commercial cdma networks anywhere in europe except ukraine. none in africa. shut off in australia ~5 years ago. understandable then that apple went with a gsm carrier even if at&t apparently the worst mobile phone network in the world in the biggest apple market in the world. i don't know how much it would cost to develop/maintain a second version of the iphone, but it would only ever be sold in the u.s., which is admittedly like 50% of their market, but is much more iphone-saturated by now than, e.g. europe or asia. i think i was reading someone speculating that apple probably has a cdma prototype to beat at&t with in negotiations/performance review meetings.

yeah I have no doubt that apple has a cdma version (ffs they kept an intel version of osx for how many years?)

I feel cell phone carriers in America are sort of given a raw deal* in that America is a really, really, really big country, and you need a TON more infrastructure to cover the entire US than almost anywhere else in the world

*lest I be construed as an AT&T apologist, here I will say AT&T enjoys molesting goats for spare change

sure, but the iphone problems are in san francisco and new york, not west texas

yeah from what I gather, in san francisco at least the problem lies in really restrictive laws about where you can/cannot put towers. not sure about NYC. it seems like the kind of problem where if you threw money at it it would go away (more toweeerss) but it hasn't since the original iPhone so there must be something else at work.

verizon seems to have managed it

feel that if verizon were handling the same amount of 3G traffic as AT&T they'd crash pretty quickly too ... and people would complain about not being able to make a call/check their e-mail at the same time.

just updated to 4.0.1 - now have 3 bars when I used to have 5 bars. bars seem fatter too.

Is 4.0.1 an update for all iPhones, and if so, does it change the reception indicator on the 3gs as well? I'm looking forward to these "chubby bars"

fnar

high fat low energy bars. tasty.

Can someone tell me what fonts are in the "Fixed Width" collection which is set up in your fonts palette on a default 10.6 install?

(i.e. open Textedit, hit cmd-T and select Fixed Width and then what fonts are listed?)

Andale Mono
Courier
Courier New
Monaco

thanks!

guess how this collection got deleted

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/c.jpg

lil cupcaek?

effin bro

he thought zapfino was hilarious btw.

elfin bro

That's a pretty creepy tiny ghost hand top left.

I hate Apple! My iPhone 3G cannot get any 3G signal! I can't seem to get any 3G service on my iPhone, and haven't for about a week now. I know that we have 3G service in this area, because I'm holding another iPhone in my hand, and that one gets 3G service just fine. I know that 3G is enabled, because I go to Settings -> General -> Network, and "Enable 3G" is turned on, and just says "No Signal." When I turn off "Enable 3G" I can get on the Edge network just fine. I don't get it. I already tried reseting the iPhone (holding down the home sceen button and the power button), and that didn't work. I tried upgrading to OS 4.0 and that didn't work. I even tried going to Settings -> Reset -> Erase All Settings, and even that didn't work. I am completely and totally stumped, and I am out of ideas. FUCK YOU APPLE I'M GETTING AN EVO!

have you restored as new iPhone?

john gruber needs to take a vacation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk

Attenuation is such a beautiful, simple and magical word. I bet Windows phones only get 'signal loss'.