Monday
Jun082009
Quick Comments on WWDC
Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:36AM
Lots of goodies at WWDC and lots of moaning from the interwebz. In short, business as usual.
Look folks. It's ones and zeroes zipping through melted sand and toxic trace metals. There are a lot of things to get torqued up about in the world. This maybe isn't one of them.
That said, it continually amazes me that Apple is able to add hardware and software that so intuitively does stuff we didn't maybe know needed doing.
EDIT 8 June 09 4:51---
Oh yeah. 30 other carriers will support iPhone's MMS service when it launches June 17. Conspicuously missing ... AT&T. Support will begin "later this summer." -- Carrier FAIL.
- 3 MP camera in the new iPhone ... 3 MP. Furreal? Isaac's little point and shoot digital camera that came from Walgreens in a clamshell has got twice that -- FAIL
- Area Focus ... point to an area in the photo that you want the camera to focus in on and it does. That's kind of kickass. -- WIN
- Video ... full-frame, 30 FPS. Now everyone can make teenie lo-rez video of themselves in less-than-flattering situations -- WIN
- New MacBooks and MacBook Pros ... bigger, better, faster, stronger our work is never over -- WIN
- iPhone OS 3.0 ... goodies galore, hardware/software interaction enabled through the Dock Connector -- WIN, EPIC
- Battery Life under 3.0 and on the new iPhone 3G S ... mo' better battery -- WIN
- Language Support -- 30 languages supported and localized -- WIN
- Language Support, part deux -- Esperanto, Klingon and ELvish STILL not among those 30. BANKROTI/baQa'/THAR
- Core Cool Enhancement -- still not included, this fabled add on is supposed to make the sheer act of holding a carrying an iPhone a singular statement of elan, eclat, cool, moxie and 16 other non-nerd qualities. Still not activated in iPhone OS 3.0 -- FAIL
Look folks. It's ones and zeroes zipping through melted sand and toxic trace metals. There are a lot of things to get torqued up about in the world. This maybe isn't one of them.
That said, it continually amazes me that Apple is able to add hardware and software that so intuitively does stuff we didn't maybe know needed doing.
EDIT 8 June 09 4:51---
Oh yeah. 30 other carriers will support iPhone's MMS service when it launches June 17. Conspicuously missing ... AT&T. Support will begin "later this summer." -- Carrier FAIL.


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