by Jean-Louis Gassée
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Revelation or revelator? I’m referring to the iPhone, of course. We’ll quickly skip over the revelation part, enough praise (and some well-deserved barbs) already. Instead, we’ll look at the light the iPhone sheds on the cellular infrastructure and on the culture of operators.
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The symptoms: spotty 3G coverage, bad reception, ‘bandwidth’ (meaning download speed) [...]
Fiction: How Steve Jobs Cuckolds AT&T
August 17, 2008 - Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée
Tags: iphone, mobile internet, smartphones, steve Jobs
Steve shimmers into a bar, materializes next to Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO, crying in his mojito and whispers: I can fulfill your fondest dream. You’re the Devil, go away! No, I’m merely Steve Jobs and I want nothing to do with your soul or your chiseled body. Relax, it’s just about money.
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Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and Sync Trouble
August 11, 2008 - Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée
Tags: apple, iphone, mobile internet, smartphones
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. So goes one of the many proverbs of our computer lore. As Apple found out last month with the MobileMe launch misfires, the lofty promise of “Exchange for the rest of us” translated into a user experience that was neither simple nor easy — [...]
iPhone 3G — One Week Later
July 21, 2008 - Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée
Tags: apple, iphone, smartphones
Contrary to what I expected, the dust hasn’t settled yet. A week later, people still queue, 2h30 Friday morning before being admitted to the sanctum sanctorum in San Francisco. Besides the long lines, there were glitches: activation problems, trouble with the new MobileMe service, with getting access to software updates for the “old” iPhones. [...]
iPhone Applications: Apple people now believe in a Supreme Being
June 16, 2008 - Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée
Tags: apple, iphone, smartphones
No, no, not Steve Jobs but an even higher entity smiling upon the company. As I hope to show, Apple’s hard work years ago is now about to pay huge unexpected dividends on the iPhone. When the iPhone first came out of Steve Jobs’ quasi-divine hands in January 2007, it was a hack, the [...]



