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The iPhone’s weird black plastic bottom is probably there to let wireless signal through. I don’t get why they wouldn’t just go and make the whole case plastic (à la Nano), and I don’t get why the antenna is in the bottom of the phone.

Besides, they recently patented using ceramics as a material transparent to wireless signals. Factory lines aren’t ready?

 

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Steve explains why the iPhone is a closed platform — yeah, he’s definitely going to be stubborn about that one:

These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them.

Hell yeah. Who needs software? Software causes bugs. Also, living causes death.

You don’t want your phone to be an open platform…. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.

And that’s how much faith he has in OS X’s security, I guess.

 

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The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions [via M.]:

Does the Web browser support Flash or Java? —No.

Wow, I didn’t realize that. I assumed from the start that you’d be able to overcome the inability to install software by using special Flash applets and special made-for-iPhone web apps — think Wiicade. No Flash in a 2007 smartphone? That’s really getting ridiculous.

Will it sync with Outlook? —No.

Geez. Well, there’s a precedent, though: the iPod initially shipped without Windows software, so they might as well sell the iPhone with incomplete Windows sync.

 

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You know, now that the iPhone’s UI has been introduced, I feel incredibly foolish for ever believing — along with everyone else — that a full-screen iPod would have a virtual click-wheel.

 

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Meanwhile, I find that the introduction of a browse-your-voicemail feature makes it all the more puzzling that Apple never thought / bothered to use the Mac’s integrated modem (when there was one) as a digital answering machine with similar functionality. I always thought it was obvious and exactly the kind of thing an Apple product should do.

 

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