iOS 4 runs really, really slow on the iPhone 3G

This is kind of a joke, but kind of not. I’ve had more than one person tell me about issues with iOS 4 on a 3G. One person I see a couple times a week keeps showing me / letting me know about it. I was going to tell him to upgrade to an iPhone 4, but…well you know.

(via Daring Fireball)

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Apple vs ?, Humor, iOS 4, iPhone

Another iPhone 4 banned promo video: The Antenna

Another great video by these guys.

Check out the other banned iPhone 4 promo video they produced before this one.

(via 9to5Mac)

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Antenna Issue, Humor, iPhone 4

How to turn your iPhone 4 into a flashlight

This is a When Will Apple public service announcement: Do not buy a iPhone 4 LED flashlight app, it’s already included free of charge. If the app is free, have at it, but please don’t spend even 99 cents on any of these apps.

UPDATE Ok, if they add in a strobe light that might be worth 99 cents, I mean who doesn’t like a strobe light?

Today MacRumors reports:

D’Ulisse contacted Apple about the delay and was told that such apps would be rejected as “inappropriate use of hardware”. The developer then reached out to Apple’s Phil Schiller who promised to meet with the App Review department to review their policy. D’Ulisse’s arguments must have been convincing as after some consideration, Apple has approved MoreBluSky’s Flashlight – For iPhone 4 app as well as the many other iPhone 4 flashlight apps in their approval queue.

To access your free LED flashlight app, just open the camera app and toggle to video mode. Then turn on the LED by tapping the lighting bolt icon in the top left and selecting “on”.

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Humor, iPhone 4, iPhone apps, Tips

Apple introduces the friend bar, shortens wait times for the genius bar

“Genius bars across the country are reporting shorter wait times, as customer that just want to impress Apple employees with their ironic desktop image, or their impeccability organized iTunes library are redirected to the Friend Bar.”

Classic, I love The Onion.

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Apple Store, Humor

BGR’s Steve Jobs email to “Tom” was fake

UPDATE Engadget confirmed this was a hoax

UPDATE 2 And BGR is still trying to defend this one with updates, laughable

Apple 2.0:

Asked on the record whether Steve Jobs was the author of any or all of these statements, a top Apple spokesman emphatically denied it. The spokesman points out that AppleInsider is reporting that a similar exchange was shopped to them two days earlier by a Virginia man who offered to sell it to them for an unspecified amount of money.

Oops!

Looks like the comment I left on page 2 of the BGR post was right:

If this is really Steve or Apple (I have my doubts) then what bugs me more is…

Step 1) There is no problem
Step 2) We are working on the problem

Which one is it? How can you fix a problem that you claim doesn’t exist?

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Apples & Oranges, Humor, iPhone 4

This is how Apple will fix the antenna issue

Apple, just make that check out to Justin Horn…thanks!

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Antenna Issue, Humor, iPhone 4