Eventually , something will sweep away all this news of theiPhone 4 antenna problemsand we ’ll count back on these days and laugh warmly — probably around the time people pick up that the next Windows Mobile headphone actually deletes your full personal identity . Everywhere .
Until then , we continue to follow the reception issues apace , along with Microsoft bungle yet another chance , Apple - exhort Disney stores , and a surprising new add-on to Twitter . Remainders for July 14 , 2010 , coming your room .
Microsoft White House mocks iPhone 4 , dubs it Apple ’s Vista(Computerworld )
Speaking at Microsoft ’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington DC , the company ’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said , “ It take care like the iPhone 4 might be [ Apple ’s ] Vista , and I ’m okay with that . ” Only Microsoft could plow a favorable opportunity to make fun of one of its biggest rivals into a jab at its own expense . Smooth .
Disney opens first Apple - exalt store(Forbes )
Disney ’s redesigning its retail store and taking pages from Apple ’s playbook . feature of speech of the new fund let in a Magic Mirror in which tiddler can , with the undulation of a wand , cite a tarradiddle - evidence princess . Apple is expected to adapt that idea to its own computer storage , where customers waving at iPads will muster a virtual Steve Jobs to explicate to them the gadget ’s magical nature . The same goes for the Disney store ’s “ Imagination ” fragrance and Pixie Dust Trail . You do n’t want to know .
prospect from a Foxconn factory(Gizmodo )
Michael Zhao is a scholar who ’s give way off to college in the fall — first , though , he ’s taking a misstep to China . While there , he visited the much discussed Foxconn mill in Shenzhen a Taiwanese manufactory to see firsthand what it ’s like . The answer ? Lots of shopping shopping center , scary drivers , and luxury condo . Or , in other words , a lot like New York City . [ Gizmodo afterward updated the patch to correct that this was not the Foxconn factory but another Chinese factory . We apologize for the erroneous belief . — DM ]
Scott Forstall joins Twitter(Twitter )
You might think that after he was shout out by Steve Jobs during this year ’s WWDC keynote ( see the 10:43 mark ) , Scott Forstall , Apple ’s senior frailty United States President of iOS , would be trying to stay off Jobs ’s radio detection and ranging . Instead , he ’s started a Twitter explanation to which he ’s posted nothing and is only succeed Conan O’Brien . really , that sound just like Apple .
Top 10 signs you ’ve purchased a spoiled iPhone 4(YouTube )
Yes , even Letterman has alternate on the iPhone 4 reception issue bandwagon . I ’m call it now : there ’s operate to be a congressional investigating into the iPhone before the calendar month is out .
