Sensationalist Headlines Swarm Apple Blogs

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From Apple Insider:

Every week Apple doesn't act on iPhone 4 antenna could cost $200M

A new analysis has found that resolving the much publicized iPhone 4 antenna issues could cost Apple up to $900 million, and each additional week that Apple takes to resolve the issue could add another $200 million as sales increase.

And every hour that goes by for the next few weeks increases the likelihood that an analyst will pull some outlandish number out of their ass. These are the same analysts that consistently, incorrectly, make predictions about Apple's financial or sales figures. When they do get these predictions wrong, all of the Mac/Apple Tech Blogs poke fun at them. Yet, those same writers (who presumably all have Alzheimers) are so eager to hold up this bullshit as actual news. Pathetic.

First Legitimate Facetime Use

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My wife and I just used FaceTime on our iPhones for the first time, for a legitimate purpose. We recently moved into a new apartment and my parents who live 5 hours away have not been to visit yet. I fired up iChat tonight to call and talk to them from my 27" iMac to their 24" iMac using our webcams/microphones. On the call, they were asking how well our unpacking was proceeding, and I tried to tilt my iMac downward a bit so that they could see all of the boxes stacked up behind us still. Then I had an idea.

I snatched my iPhone 4 from my desk, called my wife's iPhone 4 and handed the phone to my wife. Telling her to stay put, I ran into the other room and grabbed her phone, answering the facetime call. My wife proceeded to hold the iPhone up to the webcam on my iMac, which my parents said they could see O.K., well enough to make out what was on the screen with reasonable detail. I then walked around the apartment with my wife's iPhone 4 giving them a mini-tour. iChat to iChat over the internet, analog from webcam to iPhone 4 screen to another iPhone 4 over wifi, from the other iPhone's rear-facing camera. And it worked.

They like the new apartment by the way.

Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4s in first three days

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From Apple

CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2010—Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24.

Previously, Apple sold just over one million iPhone 3GS units in 2009 (in the same 3 day period) and the same amount in 2008 (again, in the same 3 day period).

Is Google far too much in love with engineering?

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Great article by Chris Matyszczyk at CNET:

Google does many interesting and clever things. But, at this stage of its development, its office does seem to be full of too many people with the emotional maturity of Dwight Schrute.

At a time when the company needs to create more products that become an essential part of real people's lives, it often seems incapable of communicating the worth and, dare one suggest, the magic of such products to those very people.

I think he hits some very good points with this piece. Also, read the article above and with that knowledge, read the piece by Jon Lech Johansen discussing Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market

Sometimes I get frustrated with Apple's iTunes App Store due to difficulties I have in finding new and interest apps. I've never owned an Android phone. I've never even seen the Android Market. After reading these articles I am even more grateful for the efforts Apple expends to curate their own app store.