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iPhone 3G

Gizmodo: iPhone 3G available July 11th

$199 for 8GB
$299 for 16GB

iPhone SDK: Free Download

So, Apple made the SDK (Software Developer's Kit) for the iPhone and iPod Touch available to everyone for free. The only catch is that to use the SDK you need OSX and then, you know, to lower your standards to the point where you can tolerate using OSX. But the program itself is free. That's something.

It's up on apple.com or at least the link is. When I go there it says "Internet Explorer cannot display this page". But I am not on OSX. Because OSX sucks.

While I think it is keen that the SDK is available for free I am a bit upset that it can only be used on OSX. Not because I want to use it, mind you. Rather I'm upset that the only people who can write programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch are the effete fucks still belaboring their grudges about Windows ME while sitting in yuppie coffee shops being shitheads.

Admitedly, though, the majority of people who actually own iPhones and iPod Touches are those same effete yuppies.

And me.

Cause I like being able to browse the internet while I'm shitting.

32 Gig iPhone

When one buys a computer, cell phone, car, etc. they do so with the knowledge that it will one day be outdated. If one buys an 800 processor one accepts the fact that eventually there will be a 900. This is simply how technological development functions and most people accept this.

Apple, it seems, has decided to utilize this mentality to fuck over its customers.

Apple recently announced that it is offering new versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch with double the memory of previous versions. This news pissed people off. And rightly so.

Remember three paragraphs ago when I said that technology is forever progressing and one buys a device with the knowledge that it will one day be outdated? One of the assumptions therein is that discovery is what brings forth new technological advances and developments; one buys the 800 because the 900 does not yet exist.

There was no discovery involved in the new iPhone or Ipod Touch; Apple simply added more memory. In all ways they could have initially released the Ipod Touch with 32 gigs of storage. They could have initially released the iPhone with 16 gigs of storage.

But they didn't.

And that's what makes Steve Jobs a douche. Apple is not progressing along a technological curve releasing the best products at any given time for their customers. Apple is trying to milk its customers.

Ask yourself this: Why didn't Apple release a 32 gig iPhone?

The answer is not that Apple is unable to do so, that it is technologically impossible at this point in time. Rather, they choose not to because if they release a 32 gig iPhone now they'll have nothing to release in 4 months after people buy the 16 gig iPhone.

Ask yourself this: Why didn't Apple release a 3G iPhone?

The answer is not that Apple is unable to do so, that is is technologically impossible at this point in time. Rather, they choose not to because if they release a 3G iPhone they'll miss out on all the profits they can make from people buying the current version of the iPhone. When people stop buying the current version after a few memory upgrades? They'll release a 3G version.

Apple is not concerned about its customers. Apple is concerned about its profits and market share. Apple is trying to milk you for all it possibly can. Apple is limiting your options and abilities from a desire for increased profits rather than any physical or technological limitation.

Which, just to remind you, is the sort of shit that Microsoft pulled which made you go to Apple/Linux in the first place.

3G iPhone next year.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that a 3G iPhone will be available next year.

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YATTA!

Apple : Sony :: iPhone : PSP

So this pissed me off.

Before the iPhone came out Apple played up the ability to write 3rd party applications for the iPhone. Remember that Press Release in which they said, "Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhone’s capabilities without compromising its reliability or security."

Yeah.

Apparently 3rd Party Apps void the iPhone Warranty (2nd Source).

Because when you make a product and laud it's ability to do X it's often best to later state that doing X voids the warranty. And when, exactly, did Apple become Sony? Who thought that was a good idea?

Greg #5 says incorrect things.

Greg #5 was over last night and said that AT&T doesn't have 3G, so the iPhone could never have 3G.

Here is a link to AT&T's page explaining their 3G Service.

That's quite white of you.

Steve Jobs is so nice:
Responding to a backlash from angry consumers, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs announced on Thursday that Apple will issue a $100 in-store credit to all iPhone users who paid full price for the product.

Apparently he didn't need that money.

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apple did a press thing today

cut the price of the 8gig iphone by 200$
as well as announed a phoneless iphone
news is everywhere there is apple news

Because MACs are more secure...

Some teen in New Jersey haxxed the iPhone to unlock it from using only AT&T's service so that it can run on T-Mobile. You can read his super awesome blog here.

So that whole, "MACs are super-secure and they don't get viruses or haxxed because they are super-secure and it's not because they only have a miserably weak market share" argument for MAC security?

Yeah. Not so much. Turns out that when Apple makes something human beings buy they're just as susceptible to teh haxin'.

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for those interested in getting an iPhone, apple is now offering Refurbs for $100 less.

iPhone: Moer Liek iPWNED!!!!

Joor iPhone r bein teh haxxed.


As an aside, this site used the "ipwned" joke as well, cept they spelled it differently.

iPhone? Moer Liek iSdumb!!!!

The Newsweek Review

You can't download songs directly to your iPhone? Man, if only it had wireless capabilities...

You can't set mp3s as ringtones? How will I ever know that I'm getting a call from nirvanafan431 if I can't play Smells Like Teen Spirit?

It gets warm after using it for a while? BAH! Add some fans, APPLE!

Can't access e-mail if port 25 is blocked? What the crap? I ALWAYS block port 25! Everyone always blocks port 25!

Safari? SAFARI?!

No flash support for web browsing? What, was this phone built in 1992?

No support for instant messenger clients? Yeah, we'd hate to cut into your profits from SMS messaging, Asshats.

A 2 Megapixel camera? Apple users have to have at least a 5 Megapixel camera for taking pictures of their smug. Smug won't fit into 2 Megapixels!

Only 8 Gigs of storage? How will I fit my 10 gigs of videos of myself with my iPhone onto it?!