Stan Schroeder:
This is now true, but just barely; according to the latest stats from Android Developers, 50% of active devices are now running Android 2.1, while 25% of devices are based on Android 1.6, and 24.6% of devices are still running the ancient Android 1.5.
This is the fragmentation that I have been talking about.
David Pogue:
If you charge this phone all night long, then leave the house at 8 a.m., you’ll find its battery charge at 50 percent by early afternoon, even if you don’t make a single call or send a single e-mail message. By quitting time, or dinner time if you’re lucky, it’s completely dead. On this phone, the battery gauge practically shrivels as you’re looking at it.
His review all around is not good – read it before you buy. I have been seeing this over and over again on the web with regards to the EVO – wait for another 4G phone, because the EVO is not it.
Jay Yarow:
We’re not sure if it means Verizon will sell the iPhone by the end of the year, but we’ve be stunned if there’s no iPhone on Verizon by end of the first quarter in 2011.
I am going to go with: prepare to be stunned Business Insider.
Also:
So, if you’re sick of AT&T botching all things Apple, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
The two references Yarow lists for AT&T “botching all things Apple” are the last two security breaches AT&T had (iPad email addresses being exposed and iPhone 4 pre-order data being shown to the wrong people). Here’s the thing though these aren’t AT&T screwing up Apple’s life, they are AT&T screwing up security. Yes, AT&T sucks in a lot of ways, but when it comes to the relationship with Apple I am here to tell you: Verizon could not do better.
Put aside the network differences, we are talking about millions of customers – we are talking about 600,000 pre-orders in one day. Be it AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint – it is going to be messed up. Security will be breached as these companies rush to try and meet demand. This of course does not make it OK by any means, but I don’t think a move to another carrier will eliminate the woes that many people think it will. Of course I have no evidence to the contrary either – the point is: no one has any evidence as to what the iPhone on any other carrier would be like (in the U.S. that is).
Jolie O’Dell:
Of course, Twitter COO Dick Costolo insists these promoted tweets aren’t ads. But after checking out these tweets and their content, including links, an ad by any other name still smells like an ad to us.
Agreed.
Yesterday John Gruber started a firestorm of sorts with yet another post on Daring Fireball talking about why Gruber does not have a comment system. A lot of very popular and smart bloggers have responded, of them I think Shawn Blanc hits the nail on the head.
Blanc:
In a way, the DF Linked List is the comments. And it’s extremely moderated and painstakingly curated.
Of course those of us who post linked lists (like this blog does) does not allow comments from other users, but rather we are commenting on other people’s works, good or bad.
Marco Arment chimes in with:
Those who truly want to start a discussion usually have their own blogs, so they can write their commentary to their audience. If it’s a Tumblr reblog, I’ll see it and read it. If it’s an external link and they email me with the link, or they make a corresponding Twitter post mentioning “marcoarment” or “Marco Arment” or a URL containing “marco.org” or any short URL resolving to something that contains “marco.org”, I’ll see it and read it.
Of course you can always just go by what the original linked list king Gruber has to say on the matter:
What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site.
Yay, now maybe I won’t have to wait for 1:42 minutes to get to the funny part.
I noticed this when I made my pre-sale orders yesterday – AT&T allowed me to keep the unlimited data, which for $5 more why not?
I am glad this is out as it is a very interesting concept – takes me back to Graffiti for Palm and T9 entry. Any Android users in the Seattle area have this that would mind letting me play with your phone for a few minutes?
Drop me an email if so.
Wow who picked the pink?
Nick Saint:
Customers logged in to AT&T’s website during the hectic rush to preorder the newest iPhone were accidentally allowed access to each others’ accounts, according to multiple reports.
Android is very much becoming to platform of choice for those that used to build their own PCs instead of buying a new one. That is not meant to be derogatory at all – I used to do that. This is just not something that you will see from iPhone hackers.
I had about 3 snarky comments on just how good yesterday’s pre-sales were, even with the terrible AT&T slowing everyone down, then I read Gruber’s thoughts and well his puts my snarkiness to shame:
According to AT&T, that’s 10 times higher than the first-day pre-orders for the iPhone 3GS last year.
This is very good news for Android, because Vic Gundotra told us at I/O that Android is ahead of the iPhone in U.S. sales.
Boom.
Priya Ganapati:
The device has a 7-inch OLED screen, runs a 1.2 GHz processor, and includes 16 GB of internal memory that can be boosted to 48 GB, according to a Vietnamese site Tinhte.
Looks a lot like an iPad. Though at 13 ounces it is very light compared to the iPad.
Matt Drance:
Finally, the free iOS 4 upgrade should give Apple some high ground on Android among developers. This is the first time iPod touch users have not had to pay for a major OS upgrade, thanks in part to looser accounting rules. But too much is at stake, and Android’s fragmented installed base will become a louder talking point. Apple wants every customer on 4.0 as soon as possible, and wants every developer to know that it’s safe to move forward without looking back. Don’t be surprised if Apple becomes unusually vocal about the number of users running 4.0.
In other words use your Windows 7 machine as little as possible – barebones software. Oh and make it look and sound like Windows 95.
Here is a tip to speed up your Mac: don’t use Microsoft Office on it.
I can’t believe these are acceptable trade offs for Windows users.
Escher Auernheimer:
I released a semantic integer overflow exploit for Safari through Goatse Security in March– it was patched on Apple’s desktop Safari but has yet to be patched on the iPad. This bug we crafted allows the viewer of a webpage to become a proxy behind corporate and government firewalls! for spamming, exploit payloads, password bruteforce attacks and other undesirables. The kicker is that this attack cannot be detected by any current IDS/IPS system. We released this in March, mind you, and Apple still hasn’t got around to patching this on the iPad! I know through personal experience that the patch time for an iPad vulnerability is over two months and counting. Given that, the number of parties which probably have active iPad exploits likely numbers in the hundreds, if not the thousands. The iPad simply is not a safe platform for those that require a secure environment.
A.K.A. a list of 20 phones not quite as good as the iPhone 4.
Even this can’t buy you a new iPhone 4 just yet – damn you AT&T.
I want this in the worst way – HDMI, 320m graphics, beautiful enclosure. The old G4 Mac mini that I have currently hooked to my living room TV is looking pretty dated – honey can I buy a new one?