I HATE APPLE

comprehensive article about 4G today in the Reg.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/24/wtf_is_4g

The single most important characteristic of true 4G is that it doesn't exist yet. What will become the 4G mobile standard for the whole world is 3GPP Release 10: LTE Advanced. It's a compatible enhancement of LTE to bring it up to the ITU stipulations, with upgrades in several areas in the pursuit of greater speed.

...

But not until 2015, some analysts believe, at which point the operators hope to have reached the limits of 3G technology - especially now Ofcom has allowed the use of 2G spectrum for 3G applications - and for 4G equipment to be rather cheaper than it is now.

The best part is that if you read new ITU publications, they backslid and say that carriers can advertise "near-4g" shit as 4g because hey, marketing is awesome, guys.

Just like they marketed Vista part 2 as "Windows 7"

Look. I just want 1GBps OKAY????

was that gigabit or gigabyte because gigabyte is pretty fucking insane

I wrote a small document in Mac Pages and opened it in ipad Pages and it's fucking all over the place.

Also it complained about one of the two standard fonts I use instead of just, you know, fetching it.

right, hi.

i want to extend the warranty on my macbook, because it expired last year and if it dies again, which it's done regularly, i'm fucked. on the apple website though it seems as though an applecare agreement costs $249 - i'm SURE the last time i was in an apple store purchasing insurance was a lot cheaper than that???

it's a moot point since you can't buy an extended warranty if your original one's already expired

uhhh ok. so...what do i do to get insurance on this thing?

don't think you can buy warranties on used products, or if you can, it'd have to be through a third party. not sure what companies in the UK do this.

fwiw you can see if you're eligible here

https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

click the apple icon on your computer, go to 'about this mac', click 'more info', serial # should be listed in the column of info

the only way to nto get mad at apples is to be so rich you dont care

My iphone is barely 6 months old and the battery seems to be about to die. Usually, if I don't make lengthy calls or use the GPS the battery can get through a day and still be around 90% full. Over the last few days it's been dropping much further, to 50% or so. This morning I woke up and my phone was completely dead. After plugging it in and charging it up for about 10 minutes it finally started to come to life. I'm pretty sure the battery needs replacing and I assume this shouldn't cost me anything (surely the battery is expected to last longer than this? I've never had to replace a battery on any other phone before). Do I just go direct to the Apple Store in central London, or do I contact 02 who my contract is with, or go to Carphone Warehouse (who the phone was bought from, except I bought it online not from a shop), or do I have to contact my insurer?

Here I've known people who have gone into an Apple Store and had it sorted on the spot. I also remember a similar sort of thing happening to an ilxor (not ilxor) in the UK last year, can't remember what happened there though.

That might have been me. The first phone I got was faulty (you couldn't hear any calls unless you used the headphones) so I went into an Apple Store and got it replaced.

Ahhh. Do that.

ok so i'm interested in trying out reeder.

but it's app store only.

and there's no way to demo an app store app (correct me if i'm wrong).

RIP me and reeder.

are all the betas expired? I've been "trying it out" (read: beta testing) it for what seems like half a year now.

If you need a news reader just buy it, it's immense. Makes NNW look like some ancient OS 9 piece of shit.

I am not buying it without using it first.

man r screenshots not enough for you WHAT DO U WANT

on the other hand ive been lead to believe their may be a thriving online blackmarket for such things as macintosh applications, i hear the prices are quite resonable

yes i have just "found" it

i really hope this is a 1.0 thing with apple store rather than a trend

If you need a news reader just buy it, it's immense. Makes NNW look like some ancient OS 9 piece of shit.

Agreed. I switched to Reeder once the 1.0 release came out and am very glad I did.

stet, if you mean nnw looks like a desktop app and reeder looks like an ipad app then yeah, i guess. i like how the "reeder/ios" appearance is the default, and if you select standard it looks like a blue ipad app instead of a brown one.

I'm kind of scared "ios appearance" is going to get overused in a lot of Mac OS apps now :/

i would just like to say that having scroll bars fade out after a few tenths of a second is possibly the stupidest UI decision i have ever seen in a mac app (apart from using helvetica obv.) seriously, this guy must have spent literally days breaking scrollbars rather than using the cocoa toolkit.

there is no way to rename subscriptions

Until extremely late in the beta cycle, there was no way to add subscriptions

line spacing in the reader panel looks like it's at about 200% (which is lol stupid)

the default font is at 16pt (thank you but my mac is in the same room as me, so 12pt will be fine)

I don't mine the font size too much since I have one of those 15" MBPs with the high resolution screen

everything looks awesome, though

i jack up the font size on just about everything if i can.

the line spacing is far too big. this is a reading app. dude should go and look at a book some time.

scrolling is hilarious. he's taken the trouble to break scrolling itself as well as the scrollbars (highlighted stays in the middle of the column as you move down so you have no sense of where you are in the list.

tbf, it is extremely snappy.

is reeder better than newsfire?

what if you don't use google reader?

why would you choose to use google reader, if you don't already use it?

google reader is just a data store for reeder. you don't need to use it after you've set up the account.

if newsfire works for you then it's probably fine, but the developer is kind of a legendary weirdo asshole.

why would you choose to use google reader, if you don't already use it?

Because it provides syncing between devices in a fairly reasonable way and if you're ever stuck at a computer anywhere you can use it!

Also, it has some somewhat flakey but useful social interaction

Lion has the ios toolbars too. We're going to go through a huge apple-led iosification now. Starting with iCal.

Still, survived brushed metal, can survive this..

sure, i'm not bothered about the chrome too much. that's not what i'm talking about.

i'm talking about the way the UI works, not the way it looks.

The not-slider sliders

i'm counting setting your display defaults so you can view 10 lines on a 15" screen as "the way the UI works"

I can get way more than 10 lines on my 11".

Also: the no-demo thing is definitely not a 1.0 thing. They've had years to do it on the ios app store and haven't.. At least on Mac devs can offer separate downloadable demos. On the plus side: way lower prices.

I can get way more than 10 lines on my 11".

^^^ braggin'

ok, i just counted. you get 17 lines of text with the defaults font and window size. if you maximize the window like people do on windows ca. 1994, or on an ipad, you get 24.

I think it's based on readability, which tbh I am loving more and more as my eyes get old. Years ago I wld have set this to monaco 10 straight off.

Full-screen in lion is actually p. nice, but only on small screen. Pointless on big monitors.

the reeder website doesn't publicly offer a demo fwiw. it offers six screenshots and the explanation "reeder is a google reader client", which doesn't really tell you what it's like to use. that hardly matters less on iphone where most apps are like 99p.

16pt fonts are big but at least you can change that. massive line spacing like this _impairs_ readability and wastes space. and you can't change it.

the scrollbars and scroll behaviour are pretty much indefensible.

if newsfire works for you then it's probably fine, but the developer is kind of a legendary weirdo asshole

i know, right? you can't delete the "david watanabe products newsfeed" on newsfire!!

still, i keep buying his stuff (see also: xtorrent)

ok, it's not reeder's fault: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/21/apple_leaks_new_scroll_bar_ui_details_in_mac_os_x_10_7_lion.html

just wow.