15 Replies to “iPhone 5 — Size does matter [Darleen Click]”

1. dicentra says:

   September 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm

   How’d they make that device? Those weren’t CGI screens, were they?

2. cranky-d says:

   September 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm

   Making that for real would have been very expensive.

3. EBL says:

   September 22, 2012 at 6:13 pm

   The guitar app looked pretty wild!

4. BigBangHunter says:

   September 22, 2012 at 7:03 pm

   Size does matter

   – When you know how to push the right buttons.

5. Blake says:

   September 22, 2012 at 7:24 pm

   I hate Apple with the white hot hate of a thousand super novas.

   Apple may build a great marketing plan, I mean, a great consumer device, but Apple doesn’t play well in an enterprise environment.

   And did I mention I hate Apple?

6. dicentra says:

   September 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm

   Apple doesn’t play well in an enterprise environment.

   The IT guy at work says the same thing. We’re a company of software engineers who run Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, Apple, CentOS, and who knows what else.

7. Blake says:

   September 22, 2012 at 8:36 pm

   Dicentra, I won’t go into any details, suffice to say, the powers that be have decreed that I Pads Shall Work in our Windows shop.

   It requires third party hardware and software to handle authentication and the I Pads still are not secure. We found out the hard way that an I Pad name that matches a DC (It’s possible to add an I Pad with a duplicate name to a domain) it causes issues with the domain.

   Primarily we’re a Windows shop, but we run all of our data on an AS400. The AS400 is arcane and archaic and it works better with our stuff than Apple.

8. @PurpAv says:

   September 22, 2012 at 11:26 pm

   Apple doesn’t play well in an enterprise environment.

   Never has. I’ve never been impressed by their mechanical designs, physical robustness, or TCO considerations. They have a cultist market and pimp the heck out of it. If Apple were to incorporate interop and expandability like the PC platform and other products have, their development/test costs would skyrocket. Designing a closed system dramatically reduces the amount of code path variability you have to test for.

   Apple was mentioned as one of the cult brands in B. J. Bueno’s book on cult branding

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Cult-Branding-Customers/dp/0761536949

9. John Bradley says:

   September 23, 2012 at 2:20 am

   I don’t understand how anybody could use one of those 1-button mice that they were packaging with their systems up until very recently. I mean, seriously, how does anyone live without, at minimum, 2 buttons and a scroll wheel?

   The new “Magic Mouse” is nice I suppose — if you don’t like tactile feedback of any sort. For a company that so prides itself on design, it’s as if nobody there ever read “The Design of Everyday Things” — which should be required reading for any programmer/engineer/designer.

10. John Bradley says:

    September 23, 2012 at 2:21 am

    …but then again, I don’t see how anyone can use an iPhone either. Bleah.

11. @PurpAv says:

    September 23, 2012 at 3:15 am

    The new “Magic Mouse” is nice I suppose — if you don’t like tactile feedback of any sort

    Hey man…its “cool”. All the cool kids are gonna have one.

12. @PurpAv says:

    September 23, 2012 at 3:18 am

    I have a friend with an iPhone…it drops the connection at least once every time he calls me. EVERY. TIME.

    My cheap ass low/no-tech Go Phone never drops a connection.

13. McGehee says:

    September 23, 2012 at 7:05 am

    I have a friend with an iPhone…it drops the connection at least once every time he calls me. EVERY. TIME.

    AT&T?

    My wife and I used to have fine AT&T signal at our old house until this last summer, then suddenly we couldn’t make or receive calls in the house. Had to buy a $200 gizmo that gives us a 40-foot radius femtocell and makes the connex with AT&T’s network by way of our home internet connection. And now that we’ve moved we still need the damned gizmo.

    I’ve floated the idea of switching carriers but my wife is resistant, and now that we’ve bought this femtocell thing we’re not likely to jump ship anytime soon.

14. serr8d says:

    September 23, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    I walked in a Best Buy a month ago fully prepared to purchase an iThing, just because of that awesome retina display. There was an Apple rep on hand; I’d already picked out accessories and the pad. But the deal died suddenly: I pulled out my keychain, with the ubiquitous USB memory stick, and asked the guy what was Apple’s file management utility.

15. McGehee says:

    September 23, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    But the deal died suddenly: I pulled out my keychain, with the ubiquitous USB memory stick, and asked the guy what was Apple’s file management utility.

    LOL.

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