Posts by jai

But now that these machines are beginning to shuffle back to their maker?

the article seems to suggest that a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of iPhones that were sold are being returned - but the proof offered is another poorly written ElReg article that was also trying to be sensational that describes how one of the Reg's own writers and they tech guy weren't impressed with it (hardly unbiased journalism) and the vauge comment from an Apple store employee that "several" other people had returned their iPhones.

so that's maybe, what, 10 that have been returned?

video out port?

shouldn't that diagram also show where the video out port is?

odd

i've been using my MacBook almost every day since i bought it the week they were released last year - it's never had a problem and has so far failed to burn me alive. maybe i should take it back to Apple and complain so they can replace it with a dodgey one that i can then use to swizzle a free MacBook Pro out of them

so what went wrong?

so only four of those have happened since 2000, of which YouTube and Broadband penetration are the only ones that you can consider recent. Does it just take 8 years for such things to become established enough to be considered influencial? or has everyone just stopped innovating and are content to make use of what's already available?

early promo pic?

the red PS button was on the early controllers that were used when they were first previewing the PS3 last year if i remember correctly. there was lots of talk when the PS3 first came out with people asking why their PS button didn't light up red like we'd seen in the pictures

here's a forum posts from last november:

http://www.gamer411.com/blog/26

i've heard someone suggest that it's the early japanese controllers that have the light up red button - which would make sense as I'm sure when Suzi Perry was first previewing the PS3 on the Gadget show last year, the PS button on her controller lit up red too.

so use your ipod instead at parties

it's not like anyone that bought and iPhone doesn't already own an iPod is it? so if you want to play music on someone else's computer, load it onto your old iPod - shame to see the poor thing become unused and covered in dust

finally a realistic article

nice to finally see an article that admits that no one, at the moment, knows anything about the Uk/EU release.

to be honest, i'm not going to believe anything until i read the press release on the apple website

it IS magical and revolutionary cos Steve Jobs told us so!!

the best toaster i ever had was the one that flew across the screen of my old MacPlus as a screensaver, chasing monochrome bits of toast

lack of MS exchange connectivity?

did you guys actually read the WSJ review before you wrote this article?

because you say they sight "lack of MS exchange connectivity... prevented it from being a perfect product"

But if you actually read the words on the WSJ website, you'll see it says MS Exchange is supported:

"Email: The iPhone can connect with most popular consumer email services, including Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, EarthLink and others. It can also handle corporate email using Microsoft's Exchange system"

scheduled downloads

things like Skype and console gaming and so on are probably only really going to be affected if your also downloading large files at the same time. if you're using a download manager to speed the process up, several of those allow you to schedule when the download starts. so you can happily game or chat away during the evening and then at one minute past midnight, everyone can start downloading their ripped off dvds, illegal warez, unpaid for mp3s, p0rn and so on, while they sleep.