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.
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, especially given that iOS4.01 or whatever just arrived, with the reworked "look, your signal's fine really honest" graphs.
― JimD, Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
iPhone 4 has consistently better reception than 3G or 3GS imo so wtf with the bellyaching
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
or kenya. i got better reception in rural kenya than i do in los angeles.
― we will all be able to tell which is the best (lukas), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
leapfrogging, innit
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
aren't the only two major countries in the world with cdma networks the us and iraq?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― post class A nasal drip (sunny successor), Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, but the iphone problems are in san francisco and new york, not west texas
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
verizon seems to have managed it
― we will all be able to tell which is the best (lukas), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
just updated to 4.0.1 - now have 3 bars when I used to have 5 bars. bars seem fatter too.
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Friday, 16 July 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― turtles all the way down (mh), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
fnar
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 16 July 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
high fat low energy bars. tasty.
― post class A nasal drip (sunny successor), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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?)
― caek, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Andale MonoCourierCourier NewMonaco
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!
― caek, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
guess how this collection got deleted
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/c.jpg
― caek, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lil cupcaek?
― ampersand (remy bean), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
effin bro
he thought zapfino was hilarious btw.
― caek, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
elfin bro
― max, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a pretty creepy tiny ghost hand top left.
― JimD, Sunday, 18 July 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 July 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
have you restored as new iPhone?
― post class A nasal drip (sunny successor), Sunday, 18 July 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
john gruber needs to take a vacation
― we will all be able to tell which is the best (lukas), Monday, 19 July 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 19 July 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Attenuation is such a beautiful, simple and magical word. I bet Windows phones only get 'signal loss'.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ...amazing
― Nhex, Monday, 19 July 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yep i really wanted all my app folders to disappear and then have my apps sorted in alphabetical order
― ▼__▼ (LOLK), Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
verizon seems to have managed itVerizon can suck it
― sunny successor, Monday, 26 July 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
gah i just bought a new magic mouse and ever since i did i've been thinking "i wish i could just get an external trackpad"
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
do these things work on 1st-gen intels?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
wondering if the trackpad will work with an ipad
― You’re going off of her word that the farmer’s wife is the farmer’s wife? (dyao), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
How could it? iPad has no pointer, and there'd be no way to give feedback on what area you were zooming and dragging etc.. Would be like mousing with the screen off
― stet, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
true, if you could use a mouse/trackpad with it then you'd go a long way towards it being a laptop/desktop replacement.
calling an apple store right now, hold music is killers - human, lolz
― You’re going off of her word that the farmer’s wife is the farmer’s wife? (dyao), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It has a friggin mouse/trackpad, it's called "touching the screen and dragging." The iPad *is* a trackpad!
― turtles all the way down (mh), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have generally hated trackpads, but find the one on my macbookpro to be the least offensive, and I wonder if I would hate it as much if it was to the right of my keyboard instead of below it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
you would if you're left handed.
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg
― Clay, Thursday, 29 July 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
jailbreakme.com
anyone brave enough to try?
― ␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆ (LOLK), Monday, 2 August 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Did it. What now? I installed AdBlock.
― schwantz, Monday, 2 August 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
- biteSMS (quick reply to texts w/o leaving whatever app you're in!) - SBSettings (get access to a control panel allowing you to turn settings like wifi/3g/bluetooth on/off without having to dick around in the settings menu)- LockInfo (puts info like new emails, weather, calendar events on your lockscreen)- 3G Unrestrictor (trick the device into thinking it's on a wifi connection so you can DL bigger files over the air/use Facetime)- SBLight (if you have an iphone 4 this maps flashlight functionality to a gesture on the phone of yr choice)
― TOM SHITTYBISSELL (jamescobo), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
new JB app called InfiniFolders lets you put as many items in a folder as you want
also there's a free Ouendan clone w/ community tracks called Osu on Cydia. most of the tracks are desperately shitty jpop/kpop bullshit for ultra pros but you can't beat the price or the idea.
― TOM SHITTYBISSELL (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 August 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link