Service Part packaging

Apple's eco-friendly service part boxes.

     Looks like the Apple isn't getting any greener, so says Greenpeace anyway, and so says me, 'cos I see it on a daily fucking basis. Apple are always gloating about how much smaller the packaging is for their products, but for service parts it's a whole different story. Take for example an Airport card, Apple insist on using a huge box where a matchbox would suffice.

So next time you want to get your MacBook fixed and are told the part isn't in stock, consider the size of the truck that can only fit so many AirPort cards on it at once.

[iPhone jokes] He made eye contact with me the whole time

Training and Morale

    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.

Popout

Apple disappoints again: grave signal issues in iPhone 4!

    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.

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...