{"id":8766,"date":"2010-04-21T07:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2024-07-16T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:25:00","slug":"much-ado-about-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/21\/much-ado-about-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;ncl=dOdBKQl1vZR9LYMDuT3QlsWQMTi9M&amp;topic=t\">Internet-tech world is abuzz<\/a> with the iPhone 4G Loser controversy right now \u2013 which really is more the irony that the news sort of replaces the screaming headline news of the recently released iPads earlier this month, and how local retailers here are selling their units for twice the retail price.<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes: someone who was working on the iPhone 4G accidentally left it behind at a bar. The unit gets picked up by someone else who initially intended to return it to the owner, but upon realizing that the unit was the top-secret iPhone 4G, had a change of heart and instead put it up for bidding. Popular news site Gizmodo apparently paid an princely sum involving four-digit figures to pick up the device, which they next proceeded to dissect \u2013 and then determine that yep, it\u2019s the real thing. Apple, not surprisingly, now wants their toy back, and there\u2019s talk of law suits coming down Gizmodo\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion sure is divided whether the leak is deliberate on Apple\u2019s part. On the one hand, some think it\u2019s inconceivable that Apple would knowingly leak out what is a bonafide prototype of a hot product, knowing their penchant for jealously guarding product secrets (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/22\/iphone-suicide\/\">people have committed suicide<\/a> apparently out of terror of what Apple would do if you bloop there). On the other hand, others are saying this must be one of Apple\u2019s cleverest \u2018gotcha\u2019 tricks they\u2019re playing \u2013 they\u2019ve deliberately let out the leak just to generate free publicity for their next big toy.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I\u2019m tempted to just dump the Apple iPhone when the thing wears out and just go for an Android phone next. The phone&#8217;s got a fatal defect now &#8211; at least two or three times a day, it&#8217;ll state dumbly &#8220;No SIM card installed&#8221;. And everytime that happens, instead of an iPhone I&#8217;ve got an iBrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet-tech world is abuzz with the iPhone 4G Loser controversy right now \u2013 which really is more the irony that the news sort of replaces the screaming headline news of the recently released iPads earlier this month, and how<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/21\/much-ado-about-iphones\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Much Ado About iPhones<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys-technology","tag-smartphone","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35758,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/35758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}