Regardless of what phone is better, Apple's response to this whole debacle made me sick.
They kicked off their press conference by pulling in other phone manufacturers who had NOTHING to do with this. Steve Jobs demeanor and everything just disgusted the hell out of me. He comes off as a self-righteous dick.
The gist of their conference was:
"Hey, we're fucking awesome. There's no problem, but since some of you are whining about it we will offer a free case to shut you up"
Whereas how it should have went down is nothing more than a simple press release that said "We apologize for the antenna issues and are offering a refund or free case for all iPhone 4 users. We also plan to fix this engineering DEFECT in a future revision of the iPhone 4 and you will also have the option of trading your existing iPhone 4 for one of these when the time comes."
Trust me, they wouldn't be offering free cases for millions of iphone owners if they thought it only affects 0.55% of their users. Those numbers were complete bullshit.
"Benson said upping the resolution comes at the expense of the silky-smooth 60 frames per second available at 720p (Blu-Ray movies run at 24 frames per second)."
You are comparing video playback to rendering an actual game. Blu-ray doesn't run in 1080p 3D at 24fps because it can't do any better, it does so because the film was shot that way....not rendered in real-time like a video game. There is no correlation between the two at all. Sorry... little pet peeve there...
RIM co-CEOs pull no punches responding to Apple's antenna statements
Jul 17th 2010 2:32AM (Engadget)They kicked off their press conference by pulling in other phone manufacturers who had NOTHING to do with this. Steve Jobs demeanor and everything just disgusted the hell out of me. He comes off as a self-righteous dick.
The gist of their conference was:
"Hey, we're fucking awesome. There's no problem, but since some of you are whining about it we will offer a free case to shut you up"
Whereas how it should have went down is nothing more than a simple press release that said "We apologize for the antenna issues and are offering a refund or free case for all iPhone 4 users. We also plan to fix this engineering DEFECT in a future revision of the iPhone 4 and you will also have the option of trading your existing iPhone 4 for one of these when the time comes."
Trust me, they wouldn't be offering free cases for millions of iphone owners if they thought it only affects 0.55% of their users. Those numbers were complete bullshit.
Sony limiting use of 1080p 3D in PS3 games
Jul 16th 2010 11:18AM (Joystiq)You are comparing video playback to rendering an actual game. Blu-ray doesn't run in 1080p 3D at 24fps because it can't do any better, it does so because the film was shot that way....not rendered in real-time like a video game. There is no correlation between the two at all. Sorry... little pet peeve there...