Macsales.com:
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This is on my to-do list.
Hard to argue with any of those points.
Bare Feats:
We ran SunSpider on the Sprint EVO 4G. The iPhone 4 is 27% faster overall.
The iPhone 4 as expected was faster than the 3G S in all tests, most likely due to the new A4 processor.
Electronista:
An early estimate by Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner suggests Apple may have sold as many as 1.5 million iPhone 4s on just its first day of sales. Assuming that Apple sold about 750,000 phones in the US, including 600,000 pre-orders, 100,000 walk-in purchases, and 50,000 Best Buy units, he believes that the number roughly doubled when including international sales in the few countries that also had the iPhone 4 in its first-wave launch
It was funny standing in line yesterday there was a huge consensus with the people I was standing next to (I was not in agreement) that Apple was purposely making the sales process slow so that they could create an illusion of demand. This of course I knew to be absurd, but people kept pointing out that it would be great free advertising as the news outlets were sure to be covering the lines. While I can’t disagree that any PR is good PR, I think Apple was doing the best job they could do yesterday.
For starters Apple had tons of employees on hand, along with AT&T reps to solve any AT&T related problems. They had food/water/coffee free for all people in line. The slow down was the activation process. When the original iPhone launched they verified you could get the upgrade price and sold you the phone. You went home and activated (this of course caused AT&T servers to crash). This time around you bought the phone (after they checked your eligibility) and then you had them open it, plug it into a Mac and activate it. This is what was taking so damn long (about 2 minutes to do this).
So no this was not an evil ploy. If you still don’t buy it – think of it this way: If Apple was able to sell 1.5 million phones on day one, and had kept the line waits to an hour or less – imagine how much better that would be for Apple and AT&T from a PR stand point. Now do you get why it is in everyones best interests to keep lines short?
Andrew Kameka:
Google has announced that the company has used its little-known remote kill function that allows it to uninstall apps from Android devices. On the Google developer blog, Rich Cannings explained that Google has removed two applications by a research team that “intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads.” The app was not malicious and did not have access to private user data.
This was great for them to do, but you better believe that if Apple did this they would be slaughtered by bloggers.
I have been in line since 5:30a looks like we are getting close probably another hour or two. Oh god.
As of an hour ago.
Simon Mackie:
File sharing and syncing service Dropbox has just released a great new feature: The ability to create a link to any file or folder in your Dropbox account. People following the link will be taken to a specially designed landing page that allows them to view or play your shared files right from their browser, and the links are ready-shortened; perfect for sharing via Twitter — here’s an example: http://db.tt/6LZQjh.
Sweet.
Store just opened i am in spot 130 in the non-reserved line. Not feeling too confident I will get one.
Ryan Paul:
It’s clear that smartphone makers still haven’t found the sweet spot for large form-factor handheld devices. Simply increasing the size of the screen is not a recipe for building a better phone. The handset makers need to adopt higher resolutions for large displays so that the additional physical space consumed by the screen will actually translate into extra viewable area.
Battery life still sucks – FYI.
I will be downloading that shortly.
Got here at 5:30a line is long. Don’t think I’ll get the phone for my wife. Going rate for front of the line spots is $100 right now.
This is pretty funny. I don’t blame them for stopping the direct comparison, but they could atleast give a clear explanation. Instead of coming up with random stuff off the top of her head she could have just said, “Given the event that we are at we would like the focus to remain on the Droid X and not on the iPhone – we would appreciate it if you did not do a side by side comparison here. You are welcome to do that once you get a Droid X from your office.” Instead of the crap lines that were given.
Just look at the size difference, then tell me which one you want in your pocket.
John Gruber:
More importantly, you don’t need to initiate a FaceTime call using a voice call. You can start the call using FaceTime directly, in which case the entire process takes place over IP networking. The advantage to starting with a voice call is that you’ll get a voice connection even if the recipient isn’t on Wi-Fi at the moment.
Read the whole piece, this is really interesting.
Check – see you guys there tomorrow.
Wow, that is awesome.
After a lot of waiting this morning I came back to my office and found a new iPhone 4 sitting on my desk. I have it all setup and expect more thoughts tomorrow.
Also I will be waiting in the Bellevue, WA Apple Store line tomorrow starting around 5:30a to try and get one for my wife – be sure to stop by and say hi.
John Biggs:
The Kindle App has made the Kindle “device” a obsolete for many early adopters.
I can tell you that for me, if there was no Kindle app for the iPad I would not have given my Wife my Kindle. It is not the device for me, I just don’t want to lose the books I already purchased.
Dan Frommer:
Is this Apple’s way of messing with Verizon Wireless’s, Motorola’s, and Google’s new Droid launch event, scheduled for Wednesday in New York?
It is uncharacteristic move on Apple’s part to let people get the iPhone’s a day early. I am not saying this is the reason why they are doing it, but I can hope.