Thread: New iPhone - It's Wonderful!

I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhlop 4 debacle:

Apple has named a new Senior Vice President of Operations who is tasked with ensuring that products meet “the highest standards of quality,”. Jeff Williams, who came from IBM to Apple over a decade ago, has been promoted to join the executive team, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook. Williams' total stake in Apple from employee compensation is worth nearly $27.4 million.

Before being named Vice President of Operations in 2004, Williams was Apple's head of worldwide procurement, where he was responsible with helping to manage the company's supply chain. Williams helped secure components for Apple’s iPods, and played a significant role in the company's entry into the mobile phone market - the launch of the iPhone, according to Apple.

And can you believe there are people insinuating here that Apple are deliberately delaying the white iPhlop just so they have time to fix the antenna problem?

How dare they!

Apple’s latest setback: the white iPhone 4 delay


Conspiracy theory suggests white iPhone 4 is being held back for Antennagate redesign
By David Cairns
LAST UPDATED 1:00 PM, JULY 26, 2010

Analysts are speculating about the latest setback to hit Apple’s new smartphone after the tech giant announced a further delay to the release of the white version of the iPhone 4. One theory suggests the Apple is buying time while it tries to fix the ‘Antennagate’ reception problem.

Apple’s latest statement on the delays is concise: “White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year.”

It addes: “The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.” It seems that, like purchasers of Henry Ford’s 1908 Model T car, iPhone users can have any colour they want, “so long as it is black”.

This is the second time the release has been put back – last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told press the phone would not be out until the end of July – and speculation is rife.

While geek website Engadget.com suggests a prosaic explanation for the original delay – essentially that the paint isn’t ready - a wilder claim is that Apple may be stalling for time while it redesigns the phone’s troublesome antenna.

Writing in Businessweek, Kevin Tofel asks why Apple has only agreed to give out free covers – its inelegant fix to the problem - until September 30. He claims Apple could be planning to release a re-engineered version of the phone at that time - white first, black later.

Sadly, there is one major objection to the exciting theory that the paint job problems are a smokescreen while Apple improves the antenna: it first announced it would be delaying the white phone some time before reception problems surfaced.

And Apple expert Tim Bajarin proposes a more innocent explanation: “My belief is that the demand for the white iPhone is much higher than they anticipated. They don’t want to ship them in dribs and drabs. They want to have a large number of units to satisfy customers’ needs all at once.”

Despite Stevie boy's attempts at pointing the finger at other phones, some proof that the iPhone is worse than the rest:

Study: Death-grip antenna problems unique to iPhone 4 | ZDNet



PA Consulting Group | PA Consulting Group iPhone antenna test results

I have iOS 4.01 on my iPhone 3G and I am sharing some of the problem that the iPhone 4 has, so some seems to be software related

I am downloading a ton of apps, great fun, some amazing shit to be downloaded, completely useless but fun to play with the guys at the office

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I have iOS 4.01 on my iPhone 3G and I am sharing some of the problem that the iPhone 4 has, so some seems to be software related

I am downloading a ton of apps, great fun, some amazing shit to be downloaded, completely useless but fun to play with the guys at the office

I don't think Stevie Boy has his antenna engineers writing new software by the end of September....

the problem I have are not related to the antenna, but to slow down and strange behaviors when you hold the phone

Originally Posted by Butterfly

the problem I have are not related to the antenna, but to slow down and strange behaviors when you hold the phone

You slow down and behave strangely when you hold the phone?

That's Tarditis that is.

^ stop your QuackQuackesque, this is not what I meant

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the iPhlop 4 debacle:

The Apple antenna debacle has taken another twist with the surprise departure of the senior executive responsible for engineering the iPhone and the iPod.

Mark Papermaster, Apple's senior vice-president of devices hardware engineering, is leaving the company less than two years after he was controversially lured from IBM. The company would not say whether he had resigned or been dismissed, but his details have already been removed from Apple's corporate website.

Papermaster's exit sparked speculation he was paying the price for "Antennagate". It comes just six weeks after the launch of Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4, which was marred by complaints that the handset's signal strength fell sharply when held a certain way.

Apple has now offered a free "bumper" case to all iPhone 4 users that fixes the antenna problem, and insists demand for the phone remains high. However, the episode has been labelled a rare PR blunder by the company, especially after chief executive Steve Jobs angered rival handset-makers by stating that the reception problem was common in the industry.

Apple iPhone 4 executive Mark Papermaster in shock exit | Technology | The Guardian

Oh dear, poor little Stevie boy is not going to like this.....

European regulators have teamed with the Federal Trade Commission in probing Apple's policies for mobile software developers, The Post has learned.
In June, the FTC opened an investigation into Apple's decision to ban developers from using other companies' tools to develop software for its mobile devices. Apple also shut out Adobe's Flash video technology from its iPhone and iPad.
According to a source, the European Commission recently joined the FTC probe into whether Apple's business practices harm competition.
The investigation could last another four to six months, the source said.
The European Union recently adopted a new Digital Agenda aimed at encouraging the interoperability of technology.
Apple has maintained that its policies, including its ban on Adobe's Flash technology, is within its rights and is necessary to maintain the quality of its applications.
Apple, the European Commission and the FTC declined comment.

Hmmmm, an Apple procurement manager takes bribes from Asian suppliers and the iPhone appears to have defective components.

Coincidence? I think not.....

In a civil lawsuit filed last Friday in a San Jose, Calif., federal court, Apple charged Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager in charge of procuring iPhone and iPod component parts, with taking more than $1 million in bribes and kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers over a three-year period.

Devine has also been indicted on 23 criminal counts by a federal grand jury, and is currently being held in custody. He now faces a bail hearing next Monday, Aug. 23, on those charges. Earlier this week, Devine pleaded not guilty to all counts.

I am still waiting for the iOS 4.1 that will improve the iPhone 3G

Why, Butters, Why?

^^^ sweet jesus that is funny.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Jobs's reply ended this meeting of minds: "Please leave us alone."

awesome !!! Steve jobs is really a complete nutter, eventually they will need to kick him out

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Jobs's reply ended this meeting of minds: "Please leave us alone."

awesome !!! Steve jobs is really a complete nutter, eventually they will need to kick him out

Who would dare take on a Ninja?! I always wondered why he wears black at his press conferences.

^ that's because he is an evil nutter, lord of the darkness, they always wear black

nice post...
i really like it..

I'm gonna email Steve.

Ask him if he knows how much harm Daffney Dork is doing to his company's image.

Well, it comes in periods for him, his hubris running out of control - he really needs someone to remind him about his roots.
Also remind him not to treat nice people badly while he is climbing the ladder because it will be the same people he will meet on his way down.

he is a bi-polar lunatic, it's well documented

I wonder if he takes pills for that,

doing those long public presentation completely high on Kool aid must be quite exhausting,

Looks like the specs are out...

September 30th has come and gone, no more free bumpers, and no sign that the antenna problem is fixed.

So it looks like the "fix" actually is the iPhone 5.

typical apple MO, when something doesn't work, just buy a new one