By Antone Gonsalves December 14, 2009
Apple customers are complaining of problems with the 27-inch iMac, including flickering, cracked, or yellow-tinged screens. More than 80 pages of complaints were listed on Apple's iMac support forum on Monday. The company did not respond to an InformationWeek request for comment in time for this writing. However, resellers have reported to media delays in shipments of the 27-inch iMacs due to screen problems. On its Web site, Apple says orders for its largest all-in-one computer won't ship for two weeks. A spokesperson for the company told PC Magazine that the company was "working hard to fulfill orders as quickly as possible." Apple did not acknowledge that there were any iMac flaws. Nevertheless, the company's support forum indicated that flickering screens were among the most widespread problems. Some customers posted video of the problem on YouTube. "My iMac arrived 2 days ago and yesterday I saw some flickering with sections going black for an instant, then one case where the whole screen went black momentarily," customer MarkyJ reported. Others reported unpacking their new iMac only to find a cracked screen. "I unpacked the i7 iMac just as you did," Macfrenzie said in response to another customer's complaint. "Box upright, and lifted it from the bottom edge of the screen panel -- on the aluminum base edge. The bottom packing foam on the bottom corners came up with the iMac. When I removed the foam -- then you see the crack. The crack is below the foam line border which leads me to think it's a production line defect."
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Monday, December 14, 2009
iPhone users are delusional, consultants say
by Chris Matyszczyk Dec. 14, 2009
Many people I know are frightfully attached to their iPhones. They treat them as if they were a peculiar and exotic lover, one they can hardly believe they have managed to seduce. The finely calibrated minds at Strand Consult have taken this analysis to a particularly simple conclusion: iPhone users are, the consultants say, really quite nuts. The Strand thinkers released an opinion entitled "How will psychologists describe the iPhone syndrome in the future?." It focuses on the sorts of people who buy into Apple's great success. Here's a flavor of the somewhat-skeptical nature of Strand's feelings: "Apple has launched a beautiful phone with a fantastic user interface that has had a number of technological shortcomings that many iPhone users have accepted and defended, despite those shortcomings resulting in limitations in iPhone users' daily lives." The consultants' likening of iPhone buyers to kidnapped hostages may raise more than the eyebrows of many an Apple fanboy (fanperson?). Indeed, it already has the Mac world aflutter.
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Many people I know are frightfully attached to their iPhones. They treat them as if they were a peculiar and exotic lover, one they can hardly believe they have managed to seduce. The finely calibrated minds at Strand Consult have taken this analysis to a particularly simple conclusion: iPhone users are, the consultants say, really quite nuts. The Strand thinkers released an opinion entitled "How will psychologists describe the iPhone syndrome in the future?." It focuses on the sorts of people who buy into Apple's great success. Here's a flavor of the somewhat-skeptical nature of Strand's feelings: "Apple has launched a beautiful phone with a fantastic user interface that has had a number of technological shortcomings that many iPhone users have accepted and defended, despite those shortcomings resulting in limitations in iPhone users' daily lives." The consultants' likening of iPhone buyers to kidnapped hostages may raise more than the eyebrows of many an Apple fanboy (fanperson?). Indeed, it already has the Mac world aflutter.
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iPhone's Connection Problems Could Be Self Inflicted
By Ed Hardy, 12/14/2009
Many iPhone users love their smartphone, but they hate AT&T's network, which they blame for their beloved device's weak data connections and dropped calls. But experts say that the real source of the iPhone's woes is the iPhone itself. According to Roger Entner, the head of telecommunications research at Nielsen, Apple's smartphone does not communicate well with cell towers, which causes problems that "affect both voice and data." This could help explain the results of some recent research by Root Wireless. This company compared the 3G networks of all four of the top wireless carriers, and found that AT&T's came out on top in most ways, including average download speed and more consistent coverage.
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Many iPhone users love their smartphone, but they hate AT&T's network, which they blame for their beloved device's weak data connections and dropped calls. But experts say that the real source of the iPhone's woes is the iPhone itself. According to Roger Entner, the head of telecommunications research at Nielsen, Apple's smartphone does not communicate well with cell towers, which causes problems that "affect both voice and data." This could help explain the results of some recent research by Root Wireless. This company compared the 3G networks of all four of the top wireless carriers, and found that AT&T's came out on top in most ways, including average download speed and more consistent coverage.
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