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Of Fords and Ferraris
Dave Chartier, on Louis Gray’s “I’m turning in my iPhone” piece:
Because if anything is crucial to the decision of picking a platform and two-year indenturing contract, it’s that a platform dependent on the sales “free” handsets to customers who are interested in the lowest common denominator of products will probably overtake its only competition which is obsessed with quality, details, and experience.
There’s been talk of Android overtaking iOS for some time - it’s inevitable - and iOS vs Android is perpetually pitched as a battle of iPhone vs Android smartphones. But it’s no such thing. As I said just last month:
[iOS vs Android is] like comparing the sales of Ferrari to Ford, whilst complaining that Ferrari doesn’t sell anywhere near as many cars.
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➶ iPhone 4: The Perception
This short piece pretty much sums up my experience mentioning that I have an iPhone 4 to non-technical users. Even though there may not be that big an issue with the iPhone 4, the damage to Apple’s image is being done by the mainstream perception that the device is fundamentally flawed.
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➶ Talking of the iPhone 4 Camera...
Boy Genius Report pits the iPhone 4 against the new Droid X camera. The Droid does a fine job of proving that Megapixels aren’t the Be-All and End-All - to quote MG Siegler:
The iPhone 4 camera destroys the Droid X camera.
There’s such vast differences between the iPhone 4 and Droid X that it’s easy to think that the Droid X is Just Another Shitty Low Megapixel Mobile Phone Camera.
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This is the first photo of mine to hit Flickr from the iPhone 4, straight off the phone with no editing of any kind.
It looks freakin’ incredibly in the Flickr Lightbox, if I do say so myself.
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➶ Macworld reviews the iPhone 4 camera
Macworld’s group test, which includes the likes of two point-and-shoot cameras alongside the Droid et al, shows just how much engineering has gone into the (excellent) new camera system. Video performance seems pretty incredible too.
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The iPhone 4 is an object of rare beauty. Noticeably slimmer but a trifle heavier than predecessors, its new heft only adds to the profound feeling of quality and precision that the device exudes. Sharper edged, it is girt by a stainless steel band which cleverly houses all the antennae required by a modern smartphone. Jobs himself made a comparison between iPhone 4 and a classic Leica. With this device in my hand, I feel that I am holding its designer Jonathan Ive’s personal prototype, hand-machined as a proof-of-concept model. Ive is surely one of the most influential and gifted designers Britain has ever produced and the iPhone 4 may well be his masterpiece.
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Calamari? It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since the original iPhone. Here’s one of the ads that kicked it all off.
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➶ Boing Boing's Field Test of the iPhone 4 Camera
The new camera system in the iPhone 4 remains one of the biggest draws for me (upgrading as I am from an iPhone 3G). These photos from Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin make me incredibly excited about tomorrow’s purchase.
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➶ Engadget reviews the iPhone 4
In short, they love it. On the new screen:
Steve made a huge point about the science behind this [screen] technology during his keynote, claiming that the resolution of the screen essentially tops what is perceivable by the human eye. There have been some debates as to whether or not this argument holds water, but we can tell you this: to our eyes, there has never been a more detailed, clear, or viewable screen on any mobile device.
On FaceTime:
But what is [FaceTime] like? Well in truth, it’s actually a teensy bit amazing. Yes, we’re a little numb to the PR speak about how game changing it is, but there’s still something deeply sci-fi about dialing up a friend and being able to hold this thing in your hand and have a video chat. We did a call with Apple’s Greg Joswiak while he was in Paris and when he walked outside and flipped the camera to show us the Eiffel Tower, it was a legitimately weird experience — a “you are there” moment.
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Stop fucking calling it an “iTouch”.
Justin Williams, via Twitter
Amen to that.
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