Tag: Apple

Here’s my iPhone 4S review after almost a week of owning the device:

• It’s fast
• The screen is beautiful
• Reception is better
• It’s really fast
• Siri is fun to use, if still limited (but has potential)
• The camera is amazing
• It is the best phone I have ever used

Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.

I had the privilege of running into him on the Apple Campus at 1 Infinite Loop in October 2010, but I would not say that I know him in any capacity outside of his duties at Apple. Yet, I still feel sadness at his passing.

My thoughts and condolences with his family and friends who morn his loss. He has inspired more than one generation to foolishly find something they love and do it.

Thanks, Steve.

Summary: iPhone 4S grabs the spotlight at Apple event

If you want to read about what was announced at the event, read the above link. It’s from Macworld and they will take care of you. I won’t recount everything that was announced, but I will hit on a theme I’ve already been reading from sone people that think unicorns really do exist.

Yes, it has been an unusually long time between iPhone releases and I’m fairly certain that Apple would have loved to sell you a new iPhone 4S back in June, but that does not mean that the hardware was the blocker for the release this time around.

The iPhone 4S was never going to launch without iOS 5, and iOS 5 was never going to launch without iCloud. Any one of those three could have been the holdup on this event. Trying to get all three to get not the same schedule was not just audacious, perhaps a mistake to some extent (or maybe, it could have been).

All I’m saying is that you can cry about the iPhone 4S having the same look as the iPhone 4, but that doesn’t mean this phone wasn’t ready in June and that something else was blocking the launch.