After falling behind the evolving technology, Apple has finally announced a phone that gives current devices a run for their money. Yes, this phone is exactly what Gizmodo revealed in the leak but Apple still had some tricks up its sleeve. Sure, I’m not going to buy the phone, but it’s really interesting to see how HTC or Motorola is going to combat this new phone. But what is exactly to make of all this Apple hype? In short, it’s all bullshit.

One thing is insanely awesome that can’t be matched: the screen, oh yes the resolution is fucking beautiful. This is the biggest improvement in the iPhone 4 in my opinion. Though, that’s mostly because the previous iPhones had horrible resolutions. Needless to say, this resolution can’t even be matched by the HTC Evo. However, Apple is marketing this as being 4 times better than the 3GS, which is true. However I can easily say my phone is 4 times better than the iPhone as well. Hell, my XPERIA has over 300 DPI as well, thoughthats because the screen and resolution are smaller.

Apple finally jumped onto the video conferencing bandwagon as well. They’re not the first, though they are trying to act like they are. Followers of Apple were quick to say that Apple is the first company to do it correctly. I’m sorry, but how is restricting it over WiFi “doing it correctly?” Say you want to make a video call, you have to notify the person you are calling “hey man, I’m gonna videocall you, can you get on your WiFi?” That is just one inconvenient step, adding to the fact that you can only call iPhone to iPhone using the FaceTime software. Back on my XPERIA, I’m able to make a video call to anyone else that has a video camera on their phone. Asians and Europeans have been doing this for ages, why is America falling behind on this?

Apple also introduced a LED flash on the back of the camera, giving some reason that it’s awesome for low lighting. Newsflash Apple, phones have had this for ages. Just because you finally have it doesn’t make it a revolutionary new feature. Want something revolutionary? The Nokia N8 has a fucking 12 megapixel camera with a Xeon flash. It’s really something. Apple demoed how you can edit the video taken by the camera using an app called iMovie (which is not actually included with the iPhone and you have to pay $5 to get it. Apparently this is supposed to give you a rich experience in editing movies. What I say is, just plug the phone in and edit the videos with the desktop version of iMovie. The mouse will really help.

Apple had some problems with Cisco before for using their name for “iPhone” and now Apple borrowed from Cisco again by using iOS. That’s not the only problem Apple had with naming issues. Apple had to purchase “FaceTime” as well. In my opinion, the name FaceTime is stupid. Why would Apple go out of their way to acquire the name? Would a simple name like “Video Call” be good enough? It seems pretty inconsistent to have FaceTime as the video call but not have AudioTime as the regular calling name.

There were some laughs to be had during the press conference. During the keynote Steve Jobs had problems connecting to the WiFi on the new phone. He asked everyone to turn off the WiFi in their laptops. I found it pretty funny. When he still couldn’t get it to work, he asked for suggestions and some guy yelled out “VERIZON!” This was a very awesome moment in the press conference.

But I’m going to admit, this is a pretty fancy phone and it’s bound to bring in some great competition. It just frustrates me how Macfags try to ignore how the iPhone didn’t have the features for the last couple of years while other phones did and now that they do then the phone is the greatest thing ever. But whether you love or hate Apple we can come to the conclusion that Farmville sucks.

Also, fuck MicroSIM.

Today is the day Macfags were waiting for. Apple finally announcing what their secret new product is. It’s called the iPad.

iPad, more important than Haiti

iPad, funny name isn’t it. Kind of makes you think of a pad, you know for periods. In fact, MadTV did a sketch about this already. So getting around the horrible name we can move on to the design of it. Apple clearly didn’t spend a lot of time on this one. It looks like they just stretched an iPhone. Also, please note the large black frame. How large is it? Let’s do some calculations.

 Area of whole phone: 7.47 x 9.56 = 71.4132
Area of screen: 5.67 x 7.86= 44.5662
Area of phone – area of screen = 25.842 / area of whole phone
~ 35% of the phone is the black frame.

My eyes, I’m seeing doubles.

Before announcing the iPad, Apple showed a picture of a missing gap between the phone and the laptop. What could fill this gap? Maybe a regular fucking tablet computer? How about the Newton you guys forgot about? Could the missing link be a netbook? No those things are slow with a poor display, and PC software. When Apple went into announcing the specs of the iPad, I couldn’t help but laugh. “The slow netbook” was facing off against a fucking 1ghz A4 processor. Great job there Apple, my 1.8ghz Atom is so much slower than your 1ghz. Furthermore the aspect ratio on it is a 4:3 1024×768. So much for playing YoutubeHD in 720 (1280×720).

Netbooks are slow. iPad is slower.
Image from Engadget

Apple claimed to be the number 1 mobile company in the world. According to Apple, China must be on another fucking planet. They claimed to have beat Sony and Samsung in the mobile industry. For some reason I find that hard to believe. In cellphone sales alone I would agree, but Apple decided to include laptops, mp3 players in there too. Sony has what? Phones, PSP, ebook readers, mp3 players, laptops… Apple also said “And by revenue… it’s even bigger than Nokia.” Which translates into one thing: Apple crap is fucking expensive.

As soon as Apple showed off the book store I quickly went over to Amazon to compare prices. A book called “True Compass: A Memoir” sells for $11.99 on the Amazon store while on the iBook store, it sells for $14.99. Personally I don’t get why Apple doesn’t release a iBook app on the iPhone and not make people buy a brand new device to do that.

It’s a large improvement over the iPhone in some places, I can give it that much. A faster processor and larger screen res can really help out with functionality. You really saw it with the pop-up menus which looked good actually. The best thing about the iPad is the fact that it can support a physical keyboard. Dear god what an age we live in. However Apple still has its huge flaws. No Flash support and no multitasking. You think it’s new fucking 1ghz processor can handle that.

One huge problem I have with the thing is that it runs a modified version of the iPhone OS. On a screen that large and processor that good they could have done something a lot better. The home screen looks terrible, the icons are oddly spaced out. Running the old iPhone apps on the iPad look horrible. Either it’s stretched like mad, or you have an even larger black border. Something in the 85% area.

Check out that fucking icon spacing.

iPhone’s resolution compared to the iPad.
Image from Engadget

That’s when they showed the rip off of Halo. Apple, you used to have Bungie creating games for you. But then you decided LOL GAMES AREN’T IMPORTANT. And now Apple is really trying with the gaming market. They seem to be doing good…

No this game doesn’t look familiar at all…
Image from Engadget

Now with all this technology, you would assume Apple would put a massive price tag on it The iPhone 3GS without contract costs about $780CND here with Rogers so the iPad must be more right? Well to be honest, it’s a pretty fair price. $499 for the base model. $830 for the highest end. While the price point isn’t low like a netbook, it is affordable. But I guess price doesn’t matter to Macfags, they’ll buy anything with the Apple logo on it.

Don’t give me bullshit how it costs $299

I’ve recently read an article on CNN talking about Macfags. Below are some excerpts:

 Xavier Yaffar says he will buy it. Whatever the cost.
Big surprise there…

“I don’t even have to look at it,” the 48-year-old said.
I’m sure the design team at Apple will be thrilled to hear that they don’t have to work hard for you to buy their crap.

“I bought the iPod when it was announced. I didn’t know what it was going to do when I bought it,”
You bought something without knowing what it does?

Greenbaum met his husband at an Apple fan group in the mid-90s. When they started dating, the couple hung out in Mac computer labs together
Now that’s what I call a Macfag!

“It’s a part of your identity,” he said. “People are going to recognize you more by the computer you use and the phone you carry than by the car you drive.”
So you will isolate everyone that doesn’t have a Mac right?

So that’s about it for this week. Be sure to click all the links in the article for more lols.

And gaymen.

So yesterday Apple announced that they are going to be having a press conference on the 27th. So Engadget was flooded with stupid ass comments (as with any Apple post)

“The Motorola Driod or the Nexus One wouldn’t exist without the iPhone”
Now this can be true. But I see it another way. Back in 2003, Sony released a shitty phone called the P900. However, it was revolutionary for the time. It had it all, a touch screen, keyboard, calendar. You name it. The iPhone didn’t introduce anything new to the world, but it did do a lot correctly (eventually.)

“After this thing comes out the market is going to be flooded with the ‘iTablet’ killers which will never kill the iPhone”
Oh yeah, definitely gonna be flooded with “copycats” (which came out before the iTablet). The reason they won’t sell as well because everyone already fucking bought an iTablet so they’re not going to be buying another fucking tablet.

“The reason we saw all those tablets at CES as because those companies were scared of Apple”
Yeah, bullshit. I guess companies back in 2003 were scared of Apple as well.

Even more stupidity is the rumour that the new iTablet will run the iPhone OS. What the fuck is the point of it. According to the same source, the iTablet has a 1.8ghz dualcore processor. Just fucking run Snow Leopard. It’s so much more productive.

Anyways, I can’t really complain about the device itself until it’s out, next Wednesday. Perfect timing for my blog.

So I was sitting around at the Devry Institute of Technology and I was minding my own business and pulled out my laptop. This Macfag beside me started trash talking Microsoft after he saw that I was running Windows 7. The conversation went something like this:

Macfag: “Oh Windows 7 sucks, all it does is crash faster now”
Me: “And what do you use?”
Macfag: “I have a Mac, it never fails”
Me: “And what’s so good about it?”
Macfag: “I never get the ‘Blue Screen of Death’”
-This is when some other guy joins me on my argument -
Me & Guy: “Yes, but the Macs also have kernel panics.”
- I then proceed to Google for “OS X Kernel Panic” and I show him the result-
Macfag: “Yeah, but at least it’s not the blue screen of death!”
Guy: “So the colour of the error makes a difference?”
-This is when the Macfag shuts up and goes off to a corner to blog about how beautiful the Mac design is -

And here I am blogging about how retarded the Macfag was, I guess I am not that much different. Anyways this post is dedicated to you Macfag, enjoy!

It has been a while since I’ve talked about Apple on here, and to be honest it is because I’ve been running out of topics. Recently I was arguing with this one Macfag saying who stated “Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company.” This is the biggest bullshit I’ve heard. Since when does Apple make hardware? Last time I checked, they have an Intel processor and a Nvdia graphics card. The only thing Apple makes is the operating system and maybe the plastic case that goes around the computer. One could argue that Apple makes the iPod so that makes them a hardware company, but the same goes with Microsoft they have the Zune after all. The only reason OS X is locked to Apple is so they can charge you extra for selling you hardware that you can get for 40 dollars less. No joke, the same hardware. Apple is not a hardware company, but they are a hardware reseller at ridiculous prices.