I HATE APPLE

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'.

xp ...amazing

yep i really wanted all my app folders to disappear and then have my apps sorted in alphabetical order

verizon seems to have managed it
Verizon can suck it

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.

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"

do these things work on 1st-gen intels?

wondering if the trackpad will work with an ipad

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

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

It has a friggin mouse/trackpad, it's called "touching the screen and dragging." The iPad *is* a trackpad!

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.

you would if you're left handed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg

jailbreakme.com

anyone brave enough to try?

Did it. What now? I installed AdBlock.

- 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)

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.

i'm really liking lockinfo, but it seems kinda janky for 5 bux. also my battery seems to hate me lately and i dunno which of the jb apps is causing it

love the idea of bitesms, but the UI is almost unusable. are there any other quick reply sms apps out there with more 'elegant' interfaces?

tlert?

http://www.rockyourphone.com/index.php/tlert.html?feat=y

yeah that looks pretty tite, i'll have to give er a go

hrm is there any app that will show me the running processes? something is draining my battery pretty badly and the phone is always warm /: