The new trackpad

That trackpad: a fine piece of engineering?

    What's next on the list of things I fucking hate I hear you ask? This beauty:

   Just a quick note to anyone buying any new MacBook, I would strongly recommend a cheap USB mouse to go along with your computer. Either that or learn how to use VoiceOver. No particular reason obviously...

iPhone4 - cheap materials confirmed

      "Well, this is not encouraging. The photo you're seeing above is our leader Joshua's iPhone 4 review unit, snapped by Ryan Block just moments ago. Ryan pointed out that there are some nasty scratches on the back of the phone. While we don't have any better photos of it at the moment, Josh told us that they're hard to see unless in bright light, but they look pretty notable to us for a five day-old unit made of Gorilla Glass. We'll get some better photos for you as soon as humanly possible."

Here’s how the material was described by Apple’s Jony Ive:

"We’ve also developed a custom glass that’s comparable in strength to sapphire crystal, but about 30 times harder than plastic. This glass is not only used on the front of the phone but also on the back."

EPP - Employee Purchase Programme

It's bullshit that the friends and family discount can be so close to that of a student. And if they want AppleCare then EPP2 offers pretty much nothing at all. That's why I used to get EVERYTHING on EPP1. My mum used to work with this guy who got his cat off his former roommate's cousin, well this cousin's ex-girlfriend had a brother that needed a MacBook for his mate, and that dude got EPP1.

But now they've changed it so you have to sign in with your AppleConnect. Bum.

iPhone`s "ultra durable" screen shatters before launch

   The A third-party solutions provider catering to customers of Apple's mobile devices, iFixYouri has recently acquired an authentic iPhone 4 enclosure whose glass panel failed to withstand a fall from just a few feet, creating an opportunity for the firm to question Apple's heightened durability claims.

    They dropped it on "the sidewalk" - probably cement, but without any internal components. This makes us wonder, if the glass breaks this bad with less than 10% of the original weight, how easy will the actual device break? How much stress will there be applied on the internal components? We complained before about capacitative screens cracking, but this is actually the worst we've seen so far. Looks like Apple neglected quality control (again) in favor of of pushing the device on the market as soon as possible.

    Nevertheless, iFix  is using this experiment to generate attention and challenge Apple's stated claim that the iPhone 4's all-new design and build quality are "like no other mobile device." The iPhone maker said earlier this week that the device's aluminosilcate glass front and back are "chemically strengthened to be 30 times harder than plastic, more scratch resistant and more durable than ever."

    iFixYouri contends that while the glass may be 30 times stronger than plastic and able to withstand bending, its durability still falls short on sudden impact, which is "what causes 95% of glass shattering. Not because you bent the glass in your pocket, not because you dropped it and it bent, but really because of sudden impact."

BOH

"Three cheers for the BOH team! They've just had their audit and they're 99.05% good at counting boxes!!"

Amazing, a result I could have delivered at 11 years old. They should get off their arses and spend 20 mins on the shop floor and actually do some fucking work. In my store, the BOH team are particularly good at watching YouTube, leaving shit on the floor and not answering the phone.

For any external people reading this wanting a job as an 'Inventory Specialist' at Apple, you may have already seen the video on the recruitment part of the Apple site. For those that haven't seen it, it's a bit long so I've just cut the most important bits out and presented it here.

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N.B. Worth noting that the '99.05%' figure is not an actual statistic, I made that up and it's not true.