So What’s Up With Windows Phone 7?
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Today is my first day as a Mobile Engineer at MailChimp. @drewconner and I are tasked with creating awesome mobile stuff here at MailChimp's (shiny!) new Mobile Lab. Needless to say, I'm super excited. :)
So I'm leaving Xeko. And I'm bummed about it. I'll miss all of the great people there, the sweet office at King Plow, and what the company stands for. I'm leaving so I can learn (hopefully lots of!) new things and find new challenges in mobile at a very exciting place. Tell you more soon.
So I was under the impression that Samsung's garbage collection tech only worked on NTFS file systems. My drive, a Corsair P256, has very noticeably slowed down in day to day use. And earlier today I complained about the lack of TRIM support in OS X:
The results above suck. Well below what my drive did out of the box.
For the hell of it, I decided to log out of my machine to see if garbage collection would kick in. About 2 hours later I ran XBench again:And Again:
I'll be leaving my machine logged out more often until Apple gets on the TRIM bandwagon.
@jhaile is curious. I am too. My best guess is there'll be a firmware update that makes things much better. The issue will not be eliminated entirely but I think it will improved to the point of being effectively unnoticeable. I think software has a lot to do with it. I'm not talking about changing how the "bar gauge" works, either. I read someplace (location escapes me) that iPhone 4 runs entirely different software for its radio/baseband stuff. This would explain some initial quirks.
Edit: Before anyone says it: it's obvious that there's a hardware issue in play as well (signal attenuation when shorting the two antennae) but I think Apple will find some way to improve the performance dramatically. Such a fix could come at the expense of battery life.
I love my iPhone 4. And it's unfortunate but the antenna issues are real. I have a bumper. Without the bumper I can make the Radio Javan iPhone app buffer by holding the phone in my left hand. And I'm left handed. With the bumper, it's better but I couldn't load a web page this morning holding the phone in my left hand. It worked once I switched hands and held it differently. Irritating.
Basically, AT&T's new data plans do the following:
- Save most iPhone users $5 a month. Cool.
- Provide tethering for $20, but no additional bandwidth to go with your paying said $20. Lame.
- Cost heavy data users much more per month. Lame.
- Screw iPad 3G users a month after its release. Lame.
My initial thought was wow, this is pretty lame. I was disappointed. I still am. It's a big iPod Touch. It does offer some in-between functionality around document editing via a customized version of iWork, which I think will be key to its success (if it does indeed succeed). It's my opinion that there were a great number of missed opportunities for the iPad but it's worth noting Apple's target market for the iPad is (apparently) not me.
I've published a post about Blipr on the return7 blog. It talks about expectations, costs, risk, failure, etc. related to Blipr. You should definitely measure the effort and deeply research the market involved in creating a quality iPhone app (if you want to succeed). Check it out here.