Working at Apple you will very quickly notice the lack of training and morale. I have never worked in a place before where almost all the employees want to leave, and from the emails and feedback this blog recieves I guess it's pretty common. Who knows, maybe some of the anonymous emails came from some of this lot, although from the Kool-Aid that's being drunk in the unedited version. I guess not.
This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception. Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.
We're not sure if he's doing something particularly weird, like holding the metal antenna in such a way that it's shorting out. But it is strange. Or, it could be just a bug in the software, showing no bars and no reception even when you do have reception. But, he does hold the phone with the glass, and it doesn't have this reception issue.
If you've got an iPhone 4, we'd like to have you test this out too, and contribute to YOUR iPhone 4 review. Test holding it in various ways, like one finger on the glass and one on the metal, or any combination that you think might produce different results. Let us know what you find.
Update: Make sure to test this while you're IN a call too, to see if the call drops. This way we can determine if it's just displaying bars incorrectly, or if it really does impact your reception.
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...
"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."
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.
"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."
But now they've changed it so you have to sign in with your AppleConnect. Bum.