Finally! Someone finally has figured out why it's not a disadvantage for iPhone not to run on 3G networks. See here. Money quote: "Companies that use limited bandwidth in smarter ways to deliver a better user experience -- like Apple -- are going to have a leg up on their competitors." Amen, brother.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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Woz is now advocating helping homeless cats. To do his part, he took in griffin :-)
Google maps, yo!
Best net-enabled app on iPhone. Scenario: 10pm, Saturday night, middle of nowhere Connecticut, pharmacy needed -- Google Maps and iPhone to the rescue over a "slow" 2.5G EDGE link.
full disclosure, I meant to buy APPL at $67 but it was 12:10 pm, late for lunch, and then I forgot to get back to it.
Warning - limited technical discussion ahead. The chipset and battery technology to provide a decent 3G experience is too expensive. period. Add the limited coverage, cost, channels and content and you get to this: "let's get this friggin (just wanted to say friggin) thing out there and we'll release 3G version in eight months after we've started to pay for our initial R&D and recouped some costs and shown those ericson's of a be-atches what a phone can do". Executive at Apple's secret lair speaking who can hold his breath for like three minutes.
Uno more ting. Though sorta kinda correct that browsing experience is not enhanced try thinking entertainment where it's all about the throughput once the pipe has been set up. See what I mean. Pun totally intended.
Reminds me of the original Mac intro, when Jobso was spinning the Mac's serial ports as "virtual expansion slots" that make up for the lack of "real" expansion slots.
Apple actually produced a serial hard disk that ran at the full 115Kbits/sec bandwidth of those RS-422 serial ports. It was so slow that you could watch each bit go across the wire, like Morse code, and it was often quicker to do that than wait for the information to show up on the 512x384 pixel monochrome screen.
This author, Carl Howe, has a good blog at http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/. Recommended reading for straightforward analysis of much of Apple's actions. It's a nice counterpoint to the majority of the tech industry "analysts" who are largely concerned with making as much noise as possible to just hype themselves (hello, dvorakdotorgslashblog...).
I guess it wouldn't be so bad if you did command line stuff. I remember old VAXes. Did everything I needed them to do. Does anyone know if you can go all commando and do command line on the iPhone?
Actually it was an interesting discussion, especially the issues of latency vs. bandwidth.
Go steve! The friggin' phone won't run in my country if it's 3G....
So we can expect the 56k dial-up soon?
Whatever you need to tell yourself so you can sleep at night.
Hmm... perhaps this same principle could explain why my Mac Plus starts up three times quicker than my G4?
i can't believe this old saw about at&t's EDGE network still exists.
first, the EDGE network was beefed up, from a formerly, painfully slow 40 kbps to 200 kbps about 2 days before the release of the iPhone.
from my experience and use with it and my iPhone, tho' a bit slower, i've found the EDGE network just fine for web surfing, getting mail, doing things like google maps or stock market quotes. notice i say, a bit slower. there are times with some wifi networks, where even tho' they are broadcasting 802.11g signal, the safari browser is painfully slow on wifi but goes just fine with EDGE. i think (tho' i have no data to back this up, just theory), this is due to how certain people set up their dsl/cable modems and access points, making it do unexpected things for which the iPhone is not compensating. also, another theory, i suspect the iPhone is actually optimized for apple's interpretation of the draft of 802.11n, and other wifi speeds do not connect as well (not just slower, but trouble connecting at all). why do i think this? in apple stores, where they are running , the connection on my iPhone for wifi works just fine and is downright zippy. elsewhere on regular 802.11g or less? chancey connections at best. yet EDGE works everytime (at least every time i can get AT&T bars, which in my area of portland, oregon is really good).
anyhoozle, per AT&T and the wall street hounds, it appears you're releasing a 3G model come q1 of next year.
and tho' i agree with most of what this article said, especially about power consumption ... 3G would be nice. but it looks like you're actually shooting for something much faster, like setting the HSPA standard and LTE, which would be more like 4 or 5G.
oh, and while you're at it ——>> GPS. and cut/copy/paste. and iPhone "notes" syncing with "stickies" on the mac. and the ability to "send" web pages found in the iPhone safari to friends via the mail app. (like it already does on the full mac os x). and a pony.
vaxtard — actually, the folks at had several apps that did all sorts of programming & command line stuff, but that was all nixed with the update 1.1.1 "brick my iPhone" release.
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