Poll: Who do you hate more?

   When the love fades and the hate starts to set in (I think the average is 3 weeks), if you are on the Family Room team and are anything like me, you may come across this shameful dichotomy. When you are handed a broken iPhone that's maybe just a bit out of warranty, or just battered a bit too hard, you'll ask yourself this question: Who do I hate more?

It probably stems down to, 'who do I want to disappoint more?'. Do you think

"Fuck the customer, he looks like a prick that doesn't know how to look after his phone. Maybe if he treated it with respect it would actually work properly. Also he didn't buy AppleCare, and I did, so fuck him and fuck his broken phone."

or

"Fuck Apple for making this piece of shit hardware that breaks all the time. I never had any of this shit with my old cheap handset. I don't care about how much it costs Apple, and fuck AppleCare. I can't be arsed to wait for him to kick off, I'm just gonna swap it."

So which one are you? Hard choice I know, but that's what the job brings out in you, pretty sad actually.

Vote now! Votes so far: 2051 

iPhone 5 wishlists are already showing up

     For some reason people have already started thinking about the iPhone 5 but the iPhone 4 has just started selling, and by just I mean a little over two months ago, if my memory serves right. Is the Death Grip to blame? Is it the fact that Verizon is going to get it? Is it the slim design of the iPod touch 4G?
We’ve already seen some iPhone 5 rumors in the recent weeks and today we have a couple of iPhone 5 interesting designs.
     The first one shows the next-gen iPhone 5 as a very thin device, a lot thinner than the current iPod touch 4G. We’re probably years away before Apple will launch such a device, and when they do, it will surely be magical. Until that time we’ll remember the iPhone 5 and quickly move to the next thing.
     The second iPhone 5 design shows an iPhone 4-like design and the outer antenna is still there. What’s interesting about it are the apps, which are totally new, and they’d definitely convince you to buy the phone. And here’s what regular apps will be able to do on this iPhone 5, as there will be an app that:

Moving your days off

Just what you should be worrying about..

If you ever have reason to be off work, upon your return you may well find that Apple will try and swap your shifts that week so they can get more phone swapping for their money. I'm pretty sure that breaks employment law somewhere, but I've been a victim before, as have many readers. I've read stories of car accidents, close family funerals and even when the store has been closed due to weather conditions!

What they'll say is:

"Well OK, Wednesday you were at the funeral, so we'll take that as one of your days off and that means you're free to come in on Friday. Thanks"
That's what they said to me anyway. Cunts.

And you thought you were "cool" because your iPhone has a Mercedes app...

     Well you're wrong! Unfortunately our beloved iPhone doesn't support Remote SIM Access Profile (rSAP) and it looks like rich people really like rSAP. Steve Jobs apologizes for not making you feel socially elevated enough.

     rSAP is a Bluetooth service present in all smartphones (hint: not iPhone) and on-board computers, depending on what options you chose for your car, that allows the following:

• devices such as car phones with built in GSM transceivers can connect to a SIM card in a phone with Bluetooth, thus the car phone itself doesn't require a separate SIM card 
• keeps on that pesky connection, that turns off all the time
• works seamlessly with built in hands-free kits
• media streaming
• displaying the GPS program from your mobile device on the on-board screen
• integrates GSM controls on-board or with the touch screen (of the car of course)

Mercedes-Benz's mbrace iPhone app allows:

Tutorial: How to call in sick on boxing day.

I found this excellent page that should be read by every Apple employee. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Call-in-Sick-when-You-Just-Need-a-Day-Off

Or just fucking do it anyway. You know you'll get a solid anyway, so don't worry about it. And what's the percentage difference in Need's Improvement and Solid Contributor anyway? Pull a few sickies a year and it will more than cover that 2%. And seriously they can't say shit in the UK.

Do it.

Do it, don't be scared.