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The June 29th launch of Apple’s song-playing, web-browsing, call-making iPhone both met demand and the expectations of the Apple fanbase.
Tech pundit Robert X. Cringely claimed Apple and AT&T would rollout full 3G iPhone service sometime this fall.
It’s not just choosing the dreadful EDGE network AT&T operates over an alternative like Verizon that is a harbinger of discontent. Apple’s well-hyped and eagerly-sought iPhone will be missing a number of features that may be desired by those who buy the new gadget.
The iPhone’s on its way, and Sprint is preparing for battle. Actually, that’s a bad analogy - preparing for the SATs is more like it, as the company has provided its employees with more talking points than I care to count.
MAC.BLORGE.com’s Triston McIntyre lists those points, then adds, “Though this plan might sound sad in sections, this is the strongest visible defense against the iPhone layed [sic] out by any competing service yet. The truth of the matter is that all providers will lose users to the iPhone . . .”
Mac users have long viewed their machines as relatively “safe,” but new data indicates that the Vista operating system might be even more secure.
Jeff Jones, who works within Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, “published a report claiming that in the first six months of the Vista life cycle fewer serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft’s newest OS, compared not only to Windows XP, but also all major enterprise Linux distributions and Apple’s MacOS X,” reports TechSpot’s Jose Vilches.
For a sort of rebuttal, I’ll direct you to an article by Robert McMillan. I imagine a few of you will have comments of your own, as well.
Sun’s Charlie Hunt has a little screed posted about his experience with a shiny new MacBook Pro. It’s not going to replace Solaris for him when it comes to Java development, but then what would you expect a NetBeans evangelist to say? Besides illustrating his travails with his Christmas present:
But, my experience has been much less than what I would call good. During the first 3 months I had the MacBook Pro, the OS would crash (complete machine reboot) on average about once every 8 hours of usage. And, it would lock up on average about every 4 times coming out of a hibernate. And, I had several web sites that I visited frequently which would not open with Safari, (I even tried using Opera and FireFox too). Not what most of you reading this would have expected from Mac?
Sounds like Charlie needs to spend some time with Dear Leader and have his outlook on the MacBook Pro adjusted.