I wonder what Kevin's BAC was while he was obtaining and receiving this "HOT" information on the new iPhone. I can't think of anything Kevin had correct on his previous "HOT TIP" on the original phone was that it was a phone.
If Apple buys you out in court. Think Secret you're not, and I don't see Apple interested in throwing money at you so let me be the first to recommend: Don't give up your day jobs.
When we ban you once, it doesn't mean you should create a new username.
I remember the AOL IM demo. The AI forums seem to be home to Extreme Fanbois.
If a rumor doesn't start from here, then it is bogus and you must denigrate the source, whether or not the feature might be useful. A rumor is just a rumor. No need to get all worked up and flame on. As other phones have higher resolution cameras, it certainly would be nice if the iPhone had a higher resolution camera. *IF* video conferencing were to be supported it would make sense to add a second one on the front. Here's hoping we get a least a 5megapixel camera, like the nokia units have.
Yeah. Except this is total bullshit. All kinds of rumors get discussed here; some people succumb to wishful thinking and get excited about the far fetched, some people refuse to believe anything till they see it, some people are very analytical and informed about what seems plausible. It has nothing to with anyone being a "fanboi".
Personally, I think we should ban people just for using the term, not because some Apple enthusiasts aren't very enthusiastic indeed, but because the word has become the favorite of lazy jackasses trying to sound worldly and wised-up.
At this point all it means is "I'm better than the company I keep", AKA "I am a huge tool."
Right, except you obviously don't get it... the point of Digg is to tell other people about sites that others have found. Social bookmarking is what they call it... sure, I can go to the individual pages and comment on there, but I wouldn't have found that particular article in the first place of not for Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc... its a hell of a lot easier than going to 5000 websites a day looking for updates.
I guess you don't get it. So much of what's posted on Digg is meaningless, you have to read through 5000 posts to find anything worthwhile. So that means where's the time savings? All that Digg does is add another layer to the problem. And if you're using Digg so you can spend your time posting about and on bunches of other web forums, then that actually is supporting my original point about Digg.
I registered just because this annoyed me. The video oh so elegantly leaves out the parts where Kevin VERY specifically says, this is all rumor. He said that he had some different sources than last year. Also at the end when he said, "don't post this on Digg", he actually said, don't post this on digg because I don't want it to come back on me when all this sh** is wrong.
Just FYI
And you think that no one would post it because he said so? He's a public figure with a lot of influence on the rumor world and a distribution system that reaches many, many people with equivalent interests.
that was my first thought. how many people do you see doing video calls outside of telecom commercials and sales rooms? one thing apple does not suffer from is 'featuritis' and adding more hardware to the iphone to appeal to a small percent of potential users is not apple's style. i'm sure there are other features that are more important to a larger base that should be considered first.
I agree few people use it, but it's part of the whole '3G experience'. Telcos invested lots of money in 3G only to find pretty universally that people aren't using video conferences, aren't downloading a lot and aren't using more than voice and SMS. They have been pushing these services very hard and don't really want to sell 3G phones which don't even have the video call capabilty.
That said the iPhone could probably get away without it and still sell, but a 3G phone without the capability would be odd now.
It's a matter of time. They have this iChat that they're very proud of... that nobody uses. I think the majority uses MSN or Skype, mostly because they're available on multiple platforms. Now the new iPhone platform with 3G could make iChat a killer app, and make it famous. And if they also make it available for Windows like they did with Safari then hey.. it might be a runner up.
However that being the reason for Apple not to acknowledge background apps... I don't know. I think there are more serious concerns about memory management and performance etc and not so cynical reasons at all. But eventually I think there will be background apps, it's just a matter of Apple incorporating a safe strategy for these apps.
So it can do what every other fucking 3G phone on the planet can do...
Big fucking deal. Why is this newsworthy pray tell?
Just as a bit of a side note - I design and optimise 3G networks for a living. Video telephony in any form makes up about 1% of total carried traffic. Operators dont even use it as a selling point any more. Its data and voice only.
AppleInsider is a great rumour site, and certainly this thread is not a counter example in any way.
In this thread they make it quite clear what the rumour is, who said it, and what their past track record was. What more can you ask for?
AppleInsider may be a great rumour site, but you couldn't prove it by THIS article.
It's a joke, by a guy that's considered a joke.
You can't simply have someone make something up, then call it a rumour, and then have credibility by reporting it.
Let's get back to something REAL.
Please tell me today isn't going to be so slow we're going to make up more stuff like a nano-phone or a iNewton just to call it a rumour and pass the day.
Please tell me Appleinsider is going to have some NEWS or a REAL rumour.
Afterall.... it IS Tuesday and it's news day at Apple......
a 3G iphone with video chat/call capabilities, it wouldn't really be 3G without it, would it?
I guess they get away with a 2G iphone without MMS so anything's possible. \
I think the video calling feature was added to encourage people to use the data plan, to make more money. From all accounts, it looks like it's a failure, it's hardly used by anyone. As such, adding a second camera for that doesn't seem to make much sense.
AppleInsider may be a great rumour site, but you couldn't prove it by THIS article.
It's a joke, by a guy that's considered a joke.
You can't simply have someone make something up, then call it a rumour, and then have credibility by reporting it.
Let's get back to something REAL.
Please tell me today isn't going to be so slow we're going to make up more stuff like a nano-phone or a iNewton just to call it a rumour and pass the day.
Please tell me Appleinsider is going to have some NEWS or a REAL rumour.
Afterall.... it IS Tuesday and it's news day at Apple......
Shhh - they have thin enough skin around here they'd die in a strong rainstorm. You don't want to get the wrath of the admins and get banned like me. Take a tip from others and blow smoke up their asses. It seems to work for most people. I tend to skew into honest appraisals and of course - I'm banworthy as a result. Watch this one get banned too!
The iEye? If one person thinks of another parody on iShi*t, I might croak. Or better yet, call your device the isight...oh wait...
Good idea aside from the name. Oh yeah, and they've had this in Japan for like 5 yrs now. We in the US still get freaked out by flying robots too. Get with the program, the irobot is on its way....at the next WWDC according to digg[/QUOTE]
blingem
Thanks, the name was intended to be a little funny. macenstein.com published a great review on Pirate Day.
Shhh - they have thin enough skin around here they'd die in a strong rainstorm. You don't want to get the wrath of the admins and get banned like me. Take a tip from others and blow smoke up their asses. It seems to work for most people. I tend to skew into honest appraisals and of course - I'm banworthy as a result. Watch this one get banned too!
Y'know, eventually, I'll just have to ban entire IP blocks.
Hmm. Interesting idea - you could block all of North America and it'd be kinda dull around here. Bout as dull as an entire board of people blowing smoke up your ass and agreeing with you non-stop.
Might have to block Europe too. And Asia. Oh hell - pretty much all of earth really.
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If Apple buys you out in court. Think Secret you're not, and I don't see Apple interested in throwing money at you so let me be the first to recommend: Don't give up your day jobs.
When we ban you once, it doesn't mean you should create a new username.
Bye, again.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. So much truth and wisdom in on a few lines of text.
Yeah! Because we the phones we have in Europe have been larded up with features nobody uses for years! Ha!
I remember the AOL IM demo. The AI forums seem to be home to Extreme Fanbois.
If a rumor doesn't start from here, then it is bogus and you must denigrate the source, whether or not the feature might be useful. A rumor is just a rumor. No need to get all worked up and flame on. As other phones have higher resolution cameras, it certainly would be nice if the iPhone had a higher resolution camera. *IF* video conferencing were to be supported it would make sense to add a second one on the front. Here's hoping we get a least a 5megapixel camera, like the nokia units have.
Yeah. Except this is total bullshit. All kinds of rumors get discussed here; some people succumb to wishful thinking and get excited about the far fetched, some people refuse to believe anything till they see it, some people are very analytical and informed about what seems plausible. It has nothing to with anyone being a "fanboi".
Personally, I think we should ban people just for using the term, not because some Apple enthusiasts aren't very enthusiastic indeed, but because the word has become the favorite of lazy jackasses trying to sound worldly and wised-up.
At this point all it means is "I'm better than the company I keep", AKA "I am a huge tool."
Right, except you obviously don't get it... the point of Digg is to tell other people about sites that others have found. Social bookmarking is what they call it... sure, I can go to the individual pages and comment on there, but I wouldn't have found that particular article in the first place of not for Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc... its a hell of a lot easier than going to 5000 websites a day looking for updates.
I guess you don't get it. So much of what's posted on Digg is meaningless, you have to read through 5000 posts to find anything worthwhile. So that means where's the time savings? All that Digg does is add another layer to the problem. And if you're using Digg so you can spend your time posting about and on bunches of other web forums, then that actually is supporting my original point about Digg.
I registered just because this annoyed me. The video oh so elegantly leaves out the parts where Kevin VERY specifically says, this is all rumor. He said that he had some different sources than last year. Also at the end when he said, "don't post this on Digg", he actually said, don't post this on digg because I don't want it to come back on me when all this sh** is wrong.
Just FYI
And you think that no one would post it because he said so? He's a public figure with a lot of influence on the rumor world and a distribution system that reaches many, many people with equivalent interests.
Just FYI.
I guess they get away with a 2G iphone without MMS so anything's possible.
that was my first thought. how many people do you see doing video calls outside of telecom commercials and sales rooms? one thing apple does not suffer from is 'featuritis' and adding more hardware to the iphone to appeal to a small percent of potential users is not apple's style. i'm sure there are other features that are more important to a larger base that should be considered first.
I agree few people use it, but it's part of the whole '3G experience'. Telcos invested lots of money in 3G only to find pretty universally that people aren't using video conferences, aren't downloading a lot and aren't using more than voice and SMS. They have been pushing these services very hard and don't really want to sell 3G phones which don't even have the video call capabilty.
That said the iPhone could probably get away without it and still sell, but a 3G phone without the capability would be odd now.
i'd rather have video chat than GPS...do other 3g phones have both??
Nokia N82, N95, E90, just to name a few. It is actually becoming quite common.
However that being the reason for Apple not to acknowledge background apps... I don't know. I think there are more serious concerns about memory management and performance etc and not so cynical reasons at all. But eventually I think there will be background apps, it's just a matter of Apple incorporating a safe strategy for these apps.
Big fucking deal. Why is this newsworthy pray tell?
Just as a bit of a side note - I design and optimise 3G networks for a living. Video telephony in any form makes up about 1% of total carried traffic. Operators dont even use it as a selling point any more. Its data and voice only.
AppleInsider is a great rumour site, and certainly this thread is not a counter example in any way.
In this thread they make it quite clear what the rumour is, who said it, and what their past track record was. What more can you ask for?
AppleInsider may be a great rumour site, but you couldn't prove it by THIS article.
It's a joke, by a guy that's considered a joke.
You can't simply have someone make something up, then call it a rumour, and then have credibility by reporting it.
Let's get back to something REAL.
Please tell me today isn't going to be so slow we're going to make up more stuff like a nano-phone or a iNewton just to call it a rumour and pass the day.
Please tell me Appleinsider is going to have some NEWS or a REAL rumour.
Afterall.... it IS Tuesday and it's news day at Apple......
a 3G iphone with video chat/call capabilities, it wouldn't really be 3G without it, would it?
I guess they get away with a 2G iphone without MMS so anything's possible.
I think the video calling feature was added to encourage people to use the data plan, to make more money. From all accounts, it looks like it's a failure, it's hardly used by anyone. As such, adding a second camera for that doesn't seem to make much sense.
AppleInsider may be a great rumour site, but you couldn't prove it by THIS article.
It's a joke, by a guy that's considered a joke.
You can't simply have someone make something up, then call it a rumour, and then have credibility by reporting it.
Let's get back to something REAL.
Please tell me today isn't going to be so slow we're going to make up more stuff like a nano-phone or a iNewton just to call it a rumour and pass the day.
Please tell me Appleinsider is going to have some NEWS or a REAL rumour.
Afterall.... it IS Tuesday and it's news day at Apple......
Shhh - they have thin enough skin around here they'd die in a strong rainstorm. You don't want to get the wrath of the admins and get banned like me. Take a tip from others and blow smoke up their asses. It seems to work for most people. I tend to skew into honest appraisals and of course - I'm banworthy as a result. Watch this one get banned too!
S'fun!
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http://www.createthefuturecontest.co...ml?entryID=365
The iEye? If one person thinks of another parody on iShi*t, I might croak. Or better yet, call your device the isight...oh wait...
Good idea aside from the name. Oh yeah, and they've had this in Japan for like 5 yrs now. We in the US still get freaked out by flying robots too. Get with the program, the irobot is on its way....at the next WWDC according to digg[/QUOTE]
blingem
Thanks, the name was intended to be a little funny. macenstein.com published a great review on Pirate Day.
Shhh - they have thin enough skin around here they'd die in a strong rainstorm. You don't want to get the wrath of the admins and get banned like me. Take a tip from others and blow smoke up their asses. It seems to work for most people. I tend to skew into honest appraisals and of course - I'm banworthy as a result. Watch this one get banned too!
S'fun!
and you will, too.
like magic.
and you will, too.
like magic.
And like mmmaaaaagic - it's all bullshit! TA DA!
So anything interesting happen the whole 5 minutes I was banned? Or are you still working on that "day job" thing?
And like mmmaaaaagic - it's all bullshit! TA DA!
So anything interesting happen the whole 5 minutes I was banned? Or are you still working on that "day job" thing?
You really are acting idiotic. Either just go away, or apologize and get reinstated. You aren't proving anything.
No one is impressed.
And like mmmaaaaagic - it's all bullshit! TA DA!
So anything interesting happen the whole 5 minutes I was banned? Or are you still working on that "day job" thing?
Y'know, eventually, I'll just have to ban entire IP blocks.
Y'know, eventually, I'll just have to ban entire IP blocks.
Hmm. Interesting idea - you could block all of North America and it'd be kinda dull around here. Bout as dull as an entire board of people blowing smoke up your ass and agreeing with you non-stop.
Might have to block Europe too. And Asia. Oh hell - pretty much all of earth really.
Oh and Digg sucks balls.