iphone os 4 is steve jobs way of making …
iphone os 4 is steve jobs’ way of making all the people who bought a 3GS feel better about that sucking feeling we get from iphone 4′s release.
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Ben
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Ben
Iphone and I
This damn iPhone has taken me so far since I first bought it. I think I spent 60 out of the first 72 hours from the time of purchase awake, trying to download apps and explore all the features. In short, when Leo Laporte said that it was a nice personal computer and a bad telephone he was right. At&t’s network is still delivers spotty call quality and some how I cant imagine it getting better magically when the end of the summer comes and they finally release MMS and tethering to gobble any bandwidth left in the US market.
iPhone?
Nonetheless, the sheer functionality of the device in such an elegant form has been executed perfectly by apple.
The raw power of the app community gives the iPhone’s hardware features steroids and really make it better as time goes on with more creative and functional apps being released.
It is really exciting to be out in public and have an idea, check it on the internet, and react to the social or personal graph accordingly. Suddenly, the things that we need to do and think about are easier and though we waste all of our time with the device it seems like we are being much more productive. The social media, communication, information, entertainment, and utility value are all 9 / 10 in my opinion.
Drawbacks (for the white version at least) include cracking shells. Yes that’s right, my white 3G S is barely a month old and it has the notorious cracks in the plastic other users have been reporting.
I also have been using a seidio innocase and happen to have dropped the phone twice with it on… nonetheless this would be very disturbing had I not signed up for Applecare.
I thought it seemed like a cool phone when I had never used it before. Now it has truly exceeded my expectations and I have to give it a generous recommendation to anyone who enjoys social media.
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Ben
iPhone Tethering is Conspicuously Missing on all At&t US Models
I met with isshu rakusai, founder of Nota, Inc. in Santa Monica today and he mentioned tethering to the iPhone to get a connection for our laptops (At&t WiFi at the Santa Monica Starbucks is garbage by the way).
After hitting a few quick google searches I found an article for iPhone tethering that revealed a very interesting detail (and the reason I was initially unsuccessful at tethering my iPhone to my windows computer).
“…AT&T was strangely absent from Apple’s list of carriers that will support tethering in iPhone OS 3.0. AT&T has since explained that it will support tethering later this summer…” Cnet iPhone tethering
My immediate reaction was: “Why is that?” and the answer has to be that there are just too damn many iPhone users and they cant (or won’t) roll out infrastructure fast enough to support the bandwidth needs.
Its so easy to imagine At&t engineers screaming when they see that begin to come across their network en masse… “user benfoden has the balls to surf like he is at home on his tethered laptop and watch youtube on his 3g S at the same time.”
Didnt catch that?
Did you know that you can tether your iPhone to your computer and surf the internet over the phone’s wireless 3G connection? There are several iPhone tethering shortcuts out there to accomplish this but no official support from Apple or At&t
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Ben
A Word On iPhones And Discipline
In the current macroeconomic and hole in pocket climate I feel the need to buy an iPhone 3g s. It is an alluring purchase, a lofty christmas before christmas.
When I think about all of the prevailing wisdom on america, and of the people who live there, I know that we have it in us to rise out of this and move on to new heights of productivity, happiness, and consumption. It is going to take an utter reorganization of american life around protecting the sanctity of nature, of respecting one another as human, and learning new ways to solve problems. Call it old fashioned american entrepreneurship, but whatever it is about the melting pot recipe that has worked in the past, we have to perfect it for global competition. I think it calls for discipline to accomplish this task, both in our work and in our lives– and yes that means impulse purchases like iPhones too.
It is the responsibility we shoulder as people to accomplish the goals we set before ourselves. Discipline is a habit that must be built systematically, and i’d love to hear any suggestions in the comments.
