lawrence mcalpin

The iPhone 4 is far from perfect, but it’s the best phone on the market in my opinion.  I honestly wish that wasn’t the case: quite frankly, I would prefer a phone that I could write programs for in Java, because I prefer that language tenfold over the antedeluvian monstrosity that is Objective-C.  I hate Apple’s 3.3.1 clause which makes writing software for it in anything other than Objective-C a risky affair.  Android is catching up, but it still feels like a major step backwards when using it on any phone I’ve tried.

I hate Apple fanboys. Nothing annoys me more than some hipster who acts like Apple can do no wrong when any identical action by Microsoft is an affront to mankind. I hate it when these people complain about Windows: inevitably, whinging about something that affects Macs, or would affect Mac OS X if it had a market share worth a damn.

But if there’s one thing I hate more than Apple fanboys, it’s bloggers.

The recent kerfluffle because of the attenuation issue with the iPhone 4 antenna was over the top idiotic.  Once upon a time, when I walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to work, using the awesome new object oriented technologies and C++, which made all my co-workers jealous, because they programmed in COBOL and not all these fun, newfangled technologies — once upon a time, there was such a thing as journalistic integrity.  Which is fancy pants talks for checking your motherfucking facts.  Which people actually did.  And they didn’t even have an internet to check them on.  Actually, maybe that’s the problem.

Nowadays, everyone listens to Internet bloggers, including the so-called journalists who are doing their best to become a televised mashup of all the worst traits of tabloids and bloggers.  And because of these controversy-seeking FUD-spewing attention whores, we all were forced to listen to whinging about the iPhone 4 antenna everywhere we turned since the damn phone came out: the New York Times, Letterman, and in the feedback loop that is the incestuous blogosphere that has grown to envelop every corner of the Internet.

You know what: every phone loses signal if you hold it in a certain way.  So don’t hold it that way.  http://www.apple.com/antenna/  People were saying that since the beginning, but apparently, not in a black enough turtleneck with a slideshow.

But I guess I get a free bumper case because of the whingers.  So, thanks for that.

Oh, and check out this cute little iPhone antenna song.  This guy is good!