Knowhere to hold an iPhone 4
I am one of those people who are not so keen on iPhones. My loathing started at a young age, when I heard about the meaning behind the "i" in iMac:
iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the Internet with the simplicity of Macintosh..."i" also means some other things to us. We are a personal computer company, and although this product is born to network, it also is a beautiful stand-alone product...And we hope as you see the product it will inspire us all to make even better products in the future.
Buy a computer and you also get individuality and inspiration for free...whatever. Since the launch of iMac, I’ve been against iBook, iDisk, iPod, iPad, iTunes, iRobot and any other nouns prefixed with a lowercase ‘i’.
This is why I love this post on iPhone4. In case you haven’t heard, the problem with the new iPhone is that you have to hold it in a certain way so you are not touching the antenna. Since iPhone4’s antenna is built into the metal strip that runs around the edge of the handset, perhaps you need an app that plays this song whenever you’re holding it wrong.
So what does all this have to do with Knowhere? Well, people have already been raving about how iPhone4 is going to be awesome for location-based services. As far as I can see, we can afford to wait a little for Apple to iron out the issues. It’s not just the untouchable antenna – there are also issues with iOS4.
Anyway, for iPhone fans, please don’t take this post personally. Some of my best friends are iStuff owners and I hardly ever look down at them.