Jul 2
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.
Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4
Apple speaks out on the antenna issue.
Update Jul 2nd, 2010 10:23am
Daring Fireball has a good breakdown of the letter.
Jul 1
Earlier today, Boy Genius Report published an exclusive “conversation” in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs allegedly told an iPhone 4 customer upset by the phone’s antenna issues to “Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it.” That response and the rest of the email thread predictably sent the tech press into a tizzy, spawning dozens of articles and blog posts. Thing is, Jobs apparently never said it.
Report: Latest Jobs iPhone 4 Email Exchange Is Fake
To set the record straight regarding a post from earlier today.
Jul 1
Despite flashy special effects, The Last Airbender squanders the potential of its popular source material on an incomprehensible plot, laughable dialogue, and a joyless sense of detachment.
The Last Airbender - 7% on Rotten Tomatoes
Too bad, I was hoping Shyamalan would get his act together with this one.
Jul 1
This enables a light-weight, easy to use, database option that now works great for ASP.NET web development.
New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET - ScottGu’s Blog
They need to get this into Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 to offset the lack of local database support.
Jul 1
Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it.
Exclusive: Conversation with Steve Jobs on the iPhone 4 antenna problems « Boy Genius Report
Just a phone? my bad, I thought it was suppose to change everything (again).
Jun 30
We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does - there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video. The <video> tag certainly addresses the basic requirements and is making good progress on meeting others, but the <video> tag does not currently meet all the needs of a site like YouTube:
YouTube API Blog: Flash and the HTML5
Interesting read on why the video tag is not (yet?) enough, to be a replacement for flash video across the board.
Jun 29
http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/4 One of the most comprehensive iPhone 4 reviews I’ve read.
Jun 29
http://dotnetref.blogspot.com/2010/06/windows-phone-7-haves-and-have-nots.html What’s not available to developers in Window’s Phone 7, most importantly…no database support, no bluetooth support, no video capture support. Hopefully they are working on this for (not so distant) future releases.
