Earlier this week, Apple told Macworld editorial director Jason Snell that it doesn't want customers looking inside the iPhone's black box. Apple isn't publicly listing or discussing certain hardware details of the new iPhone 3G S, specifically the CPU and system RAM. Jason thinks that Apple is pushing the no-techie-nonsense "it just works" mantra that its products are polished with.
I don't buy it, and I worry that Apple is trying in vain to avoid an App Store backlash from consumers.
Spotlight search lets you find contacts, apps, and iPod tracks, just by typing their names.(click for image gallery) The Apple nerdosphere had a meltdown Wednesday, when Apple released Version 3.0 of its iPhone firmware.
To true believers, the iPhone is not just another phone. "It's a device that does everything in my life," said Vartan Nadjaryan, who already has an iPhone but still showed up at an AT&T store in Glendale at 3:30 a.m.
Here's what 3G S Day looks, sounds and smells like in the Inland Empire of Southern California. At 6:00 a.m., when you roll into Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga--it's a newish mall.
IPhone fans may be experiencing deja vu when trying to activate the newly-released iPhone 3G S, as Apple is struggling to handle the demand from hundreds of thousands of users.
Two iPhone features introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 are still awaiting activation by AT&T: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and tethering. Rumors suggesting that AT&T will surcharge its users $55 to activate the tethering capability are wrong.
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