Posts by chadbag

Report: Apple returned 8M shoddy iPhones to Foxconn

Re: Shows

I am getting tired of this bashing of Apple Maps. I've had more problems with Google Maps giving incorrect routes than any problems I have had with Apple Maps. And I've used both a lot since the time that Apple Maps has come out. I have had 0 incorrect routes with Apple Maps. I did have one where the endpoint was slightly off -- the store I was looking for was in a corner that had an offramp of the freeway on the bottom side of the lot, and the main road on the left side, and Apple Maps decided I was there while I was abutting the property on the offramp instead of while abutting the property on the main street. Google Maps has, on the other hand, tried to send me down non existent roads a few times, but where Apple Maps had it right.

Most of the problems with Apple Maps was with the 3D rendering, which could be awful, but was a feature that Google Maps that it replaced did not even have. And there were a bunch of isolated cases of geographic features or locations (town or crossroad or whatever) being placed incorrectly in their data feed, which translated to bad data on their map. That was a problem, but was one that Google Maps has suffered with as well. And it was pretty isolated. I've yet to encounter it personally and only know it from the humorous examples listed on the internet.

I've used Apple Maps for all sorts of navigation purposes, and it has always gotten me there safe and sound, and the one time I mentioned above, I could see the store when it said I was there so it was not an issue, even if not 100% correct.

Re: Shows

I've seen lots of non-Apple phones with shattered screens. In fact, last night, at a football (soccer) game we were at, the lady sitting in front of me had a Galaxy 3 and it had a big impact shatter point in the upper left quadrant. And I saw a couple Android based phones at church the other day with similarly cracked screen from some sort of fall or impact. To be fair, I've seen a couple iPhone 4/4S recently that had similar impact point cracks or dropped phone cracks on the screens. All, both iPhone and Android-based phones [most likely Samsungs since Samsung is the largest Android vendor but I did not see what the phone model was in some cases] usually all use the same sort of glass, Gorilla Glass, and all suffer from similar issues when impacted or possibly dropped.

Luckily for me, despite repeated drops, non of my iPhones (original, 3GS, 4, 4S, or 5, or wife's 4 or 5) or iPads (original, 3, mini) have suffered any cracked or broken glass. The original iPad was dropped on its corner once, and there is a noticeable bend in the device casing on the corner, but the glass did not crack at all and the iPad does function 100% still.

iPhone photo-slurping loophole sparks app privacy fears

Re: From a dev perspective..

It does. The "alert" IS only asking for permission to access location data in photos. The photos themselves have always been open to access.

Re: Re: From a dev perspective..

The app IS asking ONLY for permission to access location data embedded in media (photos and video). The system wide photo library has always been open to access by Apps since iOS 4 (and I guess before that directly in the filesystem).

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part Two

copy/paste

Just a note. Copy/paste to copy files "windows" style has been on the Mac for a while. I use it once in a while on Snow Leopard. It is not new in Lion. Don't remember if it worked in Leopard (10.5)

British troops to get new all-terrain camouflage kit

good for them

Now if we can just get MultiCam issued to the US Army. MultiCam is loads better than any other viable alternative and more than loads better than the ACU/UCP stuff the US Army wears.

Good on the British Army for beating the US Army and not taking years to figure it out. You got it right the first time.

One good side effect of the MTP for the British Army. Since it is basically a version of MultiCam, all the good MultiCam kit should work fine with it -- fleeces, combat jackets, slings, web gear, etc etc etc.