Perhaps Steve Jobs will wish he’d used a Taiwanese production company rather than Chinese Foxconn for the iPhone4 after this piece of CGI genius.
The blue halo is Steve’s ‘Reality Distortion Field’
Plus! Watch how Steve cures the grip of death with a Light Sabre.
With all the scrutiny Apple have received over the last three weeks, I thought it apt to highlight one of the many reasons that consumers will continue to use Apple products once the dark clouds of ‘Antennagate’ clear.
Jonathan "Jony" Paul Ive, CBE (born February 1967) is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
In short: One cool dude.
I’d like to add that Apple have always been at the forefront of technology and design, and that one small antenna issue should not be allowed to harm a company which has pioneered not only home computing, personal media access, and cellular phone possibilities; but also CGI animation (namely ensuring the survival and success of Pixar).
People are fickle, the media love a witch hunt, and humans are naturally attracted to highlighting the failures of others. But they all get over it!
If you’re following the iPhone 4, you’ve probably heard about its issues with left hand calling. Since the antenna is built into the edge of the phone, it’s a seemingly tough problem to tackle. But as one Photoshopper shows, the solution is actually pretty simple.
So iPhone 4 was announced on 7th June and we only have to wait until the 24th in the UK to get hold of one! The fastest handset roll-out by Apple yet!
All 5 UK networks will be stocking the iPhone 4 meaning the biggest competition yet. Interestingly though, O2 have reduced the data allowance from Unlimited to as low as 500mb depending on your tariff. With networks like ‘3’ in the fray, surely this isn’t a good idea? We’ll have to wait and see what the other networks offer…
Ronan Dunn, CEO of O2 in the UK, has released a statement announcing that even 500mb is 2.5 times more than the average iPhone user uses per month. Nothing to be too worried about then. Unless you watch a lot of YouTube, that is.
O2 will be upgrading all customers who want an iPhone 4 early – as long as you pay £20 for every month you have left on your minimum term contract. Much better than last year and cheaper than AT&T in the States – Bravo for that move, O2.
Something I just threw together. Enjoy.
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Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world’s biggest technology company.
Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday’s choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).
Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.
However, Microsoft still enjoys higher profits than Apple. Its most recent annual net profit was $14.6bn (£10bn), compared with $5.7bn for Apple.
Microsoft also reported bigger full-year revenues of $58.4bn, with Apple on $36.5bn.
The value of a listed company, known as market capitalisation, is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in a company by the current share price.
Apple’s shares closed Wednesday trading down 0.4%, while Microsoft fell by 4%.
Apple, which makes computers, iPods, iPhones and now iPads, almost went out of business in the 1990s.
Its growth is partly owing to the launch of the iPod in 2001.
Although the iPod works with computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, it encouraged more people to to buy one of Apple’s computers.
The big popularity of the iPhone, which has become a big seller since it was first released in 2007, has further boosted Apple’s profits and revenues.
The handset has brought internet access on the move to the mass market, and led to an explosion in downloadable mobile "apps" – applications that enable a huge range of activities, from map reading to booking restaurants.
A new version of the iPhone is expected to be unveiled next month.
Meanwhile, this week sees the launch in the UK and eight other countries of Apple’s iPad tablet computer.
This has already proven to be a big seller in the US, so much so that the UK launch was postponed to enable Apple to keep up with demand in the US.
Apple has to look back to late 1989 to see the last time it was a bigger company than Microsoft.
Microsoft, whose operating system runs on more than 90% of the world’s personal computers, has not been able to match growth rates from its heyday of the 1990s.
While its profits remain much higher than Apple, its earnings per share are substantially less, totalling $1.62 for its latest financial year, compared with $6.29 for Apple.
Microsoft continues to make the majority of its earnings from its software and operating systems, and has struggled to successfully diversify into other products.
However, Microsoft has achieved success with its X-Box games console.
Questioned on the news that Apple was now a bigger company, Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer said his firm would continue to follow a long-term strategy.
"It’s a long game, we have good competitors… we too are a very good competitor," he said.
"We are executing very well and that is going to lead to great products and great success."
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference has been announced today for the 7th June 2010. You know what that means 
NEW iPhone! Whoop!
Full Press Release after the break…
The fourth-generation iPhone prototype that leaked its way out into the world over the weekend has found its way to Gizmodo, and they’ve examined it exhaustively enough to prove that it’s the real thing. Not only does it show up in iTunes, Xcode, and System Profiler, but it has different product identifiers than the 3G or 3GS, and it’s packed with Apple-labeled components inside. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get it to boot out of recovery mode, but a number of new features and changes are evident just by looking at it. Obviously, it’s thinner than the 3GS, with smaller internal components and a larger battery inside the metal frame. There’s also a front-facing camera, a larger and better camera with a flash on the back, a higher-res display that’s slightly smaller than the current models, a second mic for noise cancellation, and that new back, which Gizmodo seems a bit confused about but is possibly glass or ceramic. It’s also three grams heavier than a 3GS, with a 16 percent larger battery and the same new MicroSIM slot used in the iPad.
It was also told the phone was found running iPhone OS 4.0 but that it was remotely killed before Gizmodo could actually see it, and that they can’t get it to boot because it requires a bespoke build of the OS.
Apple will be surely after this, although there is some speculation as to weather this is a viral campaign to muster a lot of interest in the product again after the much-hyped iPad. It’s probably working.
O2 will be offering dedicated tariffs for the iPad when it launches in the UK at the end of May. More details in the coming weeks.
UPDATE – Aim your browser here for tariffs.
Source – O2 Twitter
Wow! Apple finally relinquished its dominance as the only web browser on the iPhone today as the Opera App was approved and made available to download FREE worldwide.
What makes this even more amazing is that any information you request goes through Opera’s servers first to make your browsing experience as fast as possible – which in this case is faster than with Safari.
Down sides I’ve noticed so far are:
Of course these problems are easily fixed and I’m sure there will be plenty of updates as Opera secure their place as No. 1 browser for the iPhone and iPad. In the meanwhile I’ll stick with Safari…
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