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Apple taking the position that theyre only as good as everyone else?
by dman 16y ago
Apple taking the position that theyre only as good as everyone else?
- sp332 16y agoApple's position is that they're educating people about RF & cell phones. You can't fix physics with a software update.
- stcredzero 16y agoFrom where I'm sitting, it seems like several large swathes of the American public do not understand what scientific laws are about. Many people seem to operate on the notion that if you feel strongly enough and shout enough, you can make whatever you want to be true, so long as enough others back you up.
- smokey_the_bear 16y agoWe get a large number of complaints that the compass in our iPhone app doesn't work when the user is in a car or on a bus.
- glhaynes 16y agoLots of people have a compass on their car's dash... what's different about those that they work? (Yeah, I'm a software guy for sure...)
- smokey_the_bear 16y agoProbably just that it's on the dash, as opposed to in their lap. I assume a dedicated compass is also higher quality than the one in the iPhone, but I don't have a good idea of how that would work.
- sachinag 16y agoMany people are rightfully pissed at BP for cutting corners and creating a huge clusterfuck in the Gulf. Many of these same people are totally off base being pissed at BP for not fixing the broken well faster. But, hey, the screaming makes them feel better. Also, smug and superior.
- stcredzero 16y agoI do think some of the preparation BP did after the disaster should be prepared ahead of time to be standing by for a future disaster.
- ukdm 16y agoThat depends on whether you think Apple is just getting more attention about this problem because they are Apple, or because the iPhone 4 problem is much worse than other handsets.
- dman 16y agoI dont own an iphone so I cant comment on the quality of the iphone 4, but all the other mac adds seem to be about how macs are better than pcs and about simplicity and about "think differrent". This ad is about "see were no worse than everyone else", while the underlying physics point is valid - why waste ad dollars on communicating your equality with other vendors ?
- pornel 16y ago> why waste ad dollars on communicating your equality with other vendors ? Because Consumer Reports singled out Apple's iPhone 4 as the only phone with such issue, and presented it as a dealbreaker. In that situation levelling with others is step up for Apple.