iPhone 4 and WWDC thread

[StrontiumDog]

Live blog with pics

Live WWDC 2010 keynote coverage – gdgt live

[Butterfly]

what a show, it's like watching those Church Gospels in the South

he is really a rock star,

words from the messiah himself

and to me it represents what Apple is all about. It’s not just a technology company, even though we have and invent some of the highest tech in this industry. It’s more than that. It’s the marriage of that and humanity.

[StrontiumDog]

Yes, he is the showman and talks candy covered bullshit at times.

But that new phone looks nice....

[Travelmate]

Very nice phone.
Added to my list of things to buy for myself.

[DaffyDuck]

Live blog with pics

Live WWDC 2010 keynote coverage – gdgt live

It was not just a nice presentation (including a lovely glitch - which will now make sure that a similar glitch in the iPad will be addressed for sure, before release), but it was a indicative of things to come over the next 12-18 months, which escaped most luddites, again.

Also nice to see that Apple is making more and more of the entire hardware themselves, thus making sure no other manufacturers can just use the same commodity hardware in a look-alike product. The Retina Display was most amazing, in terms of sporting the highest resolution in the industry, and not soon to be matched or beaten, either.

FaceTime, their video chatting technology will be really interesting once it gets integrated into iChat, and you can chat between Mac and iPhones. It also seems like the first time video chatting is bound to actually be useful.

We've all had phones with front facing cameras, and the usual pundits will be quick to jump in about how they have all had front facing cameras years and years ago.

Of course, if they actually used them, is another matter all together.

"Ha, my Nokia, LG, Samsung had a front facing camera for video chats 5 years ago.!"

How often have you used it to video chat?

"Well, never really. Maybe, once. Not sure. What's your point?"

So you complained about the iPhone not having video chat and front facing cameras for years, only to admit that you never used it anyway?

"Yeah, because video chat sucks mostly anyway!"

How would you know, never having used it?

"Huh?"

And if it sucked, why have you kept insisting that Apple should have had it for the past few years?

"Huh? What are you, some kind of imperialist? I bet you love Abhisit, too, and endorse his murderous slaughter of innocents....Blah Blah Blah"

(puts user on ignore)

[Butterfly]

But that new phone looks nice....

they do, thank god, if they didn't, what else could apple sell them on

actually I think they look better than the current one, I am thinking of buying it as a jewelry, like a watch, will look nice around my neck

[Gipsy]

Time for a 'front page' picture....



From Apple - iPhone 4 - View photos and images of iPhone 4

[Butterfly]

nice to see it has finally a camera like most phones

[slackula]

I am thinking of buying it as a jewelry, like a watch, will look nice around my neck

You wear a watch around your neck??

[harrybarracuda]

Also nice to see that Apple is making more and more of the entire hardware themselves

There's an awful lot of Foxconn workers that wish they did.

[harrybarracuda]

Truly a Bill Gates moment! (Well he is putting Bing on it):

[Butterfly]

^ Macs have an infamous issue with WiFi, not surprised it blew off live, just more unreliable hardware from apple,

Macs are very fragile, they break down quickly and run out of fashion every year

[DaffyDuck]

Looks like the 'sour grapes' brigade is out in their usual weak representation.

iPhone 4 was certainly the biggest news of the day, and with Apple building more of their own components (CPU, display, battery), and making them of a quality that the cheap competition can't meet (who use off the shelf commodity items), they are further establishing themselves as a premium brand -- and affordable premium brand.

While I think it's amusing to have read earlier comments about the great features of Android phones, after the 24th, quality wise and spec wise, those same phones will be also-rans.

[harrybarracuda]

While I think it's amusing to have read earlier comments about the great features of Android phones, after the 24th, quality wise and spec wise, those same phones will be also-rans.

Yeah, well at least they'll work at their big launches.

Interesting comments post launch, since others don't share the mighty duckhead's cult-like obedience to Steve Jobs.

Despite Apple's position in the smartphone market, analysts warn of stiffer competition especially from nearby neighbours Google.
"The rise of Google Android over the last two years has been phenomenal and is allowing manufacturers to create appealing alternatives to the iPhone; critically at cheaper prices," said Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum.
"These handsets are more than just iPhone clones," he said.
"The risk to Apple is that these devices offer greater freedom with available content and may prove more appealing if it offers the right user and developer experience, than a device with Apple approved content only."

Hey, no shit. I agree with him.

[DaffyDuck]

Interesting piece from Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch:

I don’t mean to say I found the iPhone 4 to be disappointing — it will be incredibly successful, and many of my friends are champing at the bit to get one. But I expected to walk out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center yesterday longing for the next iPhone despite my current allegiance to Android. That didn’t happen.

One thing that I’ve been thinking about today is that yesterday’s announcements really showed how different Apple’s priorities are from Google’s. What Apple has focused on is making the iPhone feel and look better. It’s about how it feels in your hand, about how amazing the new Retina Display looks. It’s about even better battery life.

People who prefer Android over the iPhone value different things. I’ll bet Android users were more likely to expect that Apple would announce a new UI for notifications, for example. I think Apple probably will create a richer UI for notifications in iOS at some point — but their immediate priorities lie elsewhere.

Put another way, I think there are Android users like Kincaid who hoped to see Apple play catch-up to Android in certain areas, but I don’t think Apple sees any areas where they need to make iOS more Android-like at all.

[Butterfly]

that looks more practical than the iPad

[Butterfly]

[Butterfly]

even run on the iPod touch

[DaffyDuck]

Is Butterfly having a spazz attack?

[Wallalai]

EXCLUSIVE: Skype welcomes Apple FaceTime, wants in - Pocket-lint

[Wallalai]

View a collection of unretouched photographs taken using iPhone 4.

Apple - iPhone 4 - Learn about the 5-megapixel camera with LED flash

Very impressive.

[harrybarracuda]

Here's something for Daffy's bedroom ceiling.

iGIZMO 44 : Apple iPhone 4

[harrybarracuda]

Here's something for Daffy's bedroom ceiling.

iGIZMO 44 : Apple iPhone 4

[slackula]

Here's something for Daffy's bedroom ceiling.

That entire website is Flash you dolt!

[harrybarracuda]

That entire website is Flash you dolt!