OT:Dell computers

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>This public service announcement was brought to you by Bill Campbell:
>> This today from infoworld:
>> 
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-ignominious-death-dell-882
>
>I'll see your sleazy vendor and raise you an idiotic, derisive "innovator".
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/30/leaked.apple.docs.mashable/index.html
>
>The funniest thing is that it should have been patently obvious that there
>would be an attenuation issue.  You don't even need half a degree in
>electrical engineering to know how this should play out.
>
>At least Dell just bought and used bad stock.  Apple designed the thing
>horribly.  The other difference between them is that Apple has enough
>fanboys to weather the bad PR relatively unscathed, unfortunately.

Actually, from the detailled analysis I've seen on this, the
design is far from horrible, and, in fact, the iPhone 4 has far
better reception than previous iPhones.  There was an in-depth
review of this on the Ars Technica site yesterday, a site noted
for its excellent, unbiased reviews.  There are two links, the
primary arstechnia one, and the one sited in it.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/putting-hard-numbers-to-the-iphone-4-antenna-issue.ars

This is the one with numbers and stuff:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2

Essentially the problem is that the metal border of the iPhone
contains the antennae, and touching it in the wrong place with
an ugly bag of water (the human) degrades RF signal.  Touch any
antenna, and similar effects will be seen.

I don't have an iPhone yet, but I would never have any device
like this without some kind of case to protect it when (not if) I
drop it.

So far I've avoided the iPhone largely because it requires AT&T,
but it looks like Verizon may have them shortly.  Until then, I'll
have to use my ancient Motorola flip phone or my iPod Touch with
Skype and my Verizon MiFi 2200 3G wireless access point.  The
seamless synchronization with my laptop, desktop, and iTouch of
contacts, calendar, and OmniFocus Getting Things Done makes the
iTouch the first truly usable PDA device I've seen since first
trying the Palm years ago.

Bill
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