"These people also said Apple's antenna woes go back years, through multiple versions of the iPhone and with repeated instances of design clashing with functionality. The first version had a back made of metal, which hampered the ability of wireless signals to penetrate to the antenna inside, engineers said.
Later versions, including the iPhone 3G that was launched in 2008 and the iPhone 3GS last year, also didn't hold a signal as well as other phones and experienced more dropped calls, people familiar with the matter said.
For at least two years, multiple iPhone carriers lodged complaints with the company that its phone doesn't work well in making calls and doesn't hold a wireless signal for a voice call as well as other devices, these people say."
Maybe after all these years, it wasn't the NETWORK but the PHONE!
It's a positive, thorough review by someone who develops on the Apple platform. Do you comment on Silverlight developers glowing posts as well? Or do you just dislike it when Apple developers do it?
BBColors, CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler, Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit, bbdiff and the Tiger (i.e. Mac OS X 10.4) Details Report are all Mac-specific.
What? Every single one of those is Apple-related -- one is a low-level review of differences in 10.4, and all the rest were originally written as itch-scratching extensions for BBEdit, which is an ancient Mac-only commercial text editor, and his last day job was for the company that produced it as some sort of tech-support / help-writer.
I would say that they are BBEdit-specific, except for the review of differences on Tiger. That's only tangentially related to Apple. It's not like he wrote something for the iPhone and/or Mac.
The author's suggestion for Apple to add an alarm-like service is exactly what Android has. Most of the iOS multi-tasking which Steve Job claims is better than everyone else, is also a direct copy of Android's but in a more severe limited manner. But of course everyone thinks Apple invented this.
Indeed, the alarm service does exist, but the API call you'd use (android.app.AlarmManager.setInexactRepeating()) doesn't go nearly as far as he is suggesting about being smart with power/bandwidth/CPU usage. Although it is clever how it will "adjust alarms' phase to cause them to fire simultaneously, avoiding waking the device from sleep more than necessary".
Later versions, including the iPhone 3G that was launched in 2008 and the iPhone 3GS last year, also didn't hold a signal as well as other phones and experienced more dropped calls, people familiar with the matter said.
For at least two years, multiple iPhone carriers lodged complaints with the company that its phone doesn't work well in making calls and doesn't hold a wireless signal for a voice call as well as other devices, these people say."
Maybe after all these years, it wasn't the NETWORK but the PHONE!