遠野くん

There is not much in my life I could be truly disappointed by. There have been failures and set backs sure, but I always could be content by the fact that I had done my best at least and it was out of my control. Or I could be content knowing I got back exactly how much I put in. Today I felt some real disappointment.

Today I was unable to get an iPhone 4 and found that everywhere within a 50 mile radius of me is sold out, and probably will not be getting restocked until next week at the earliest. I feel so bad about myself, especially since I’ve been looking forward to this day over the entire exam period of the last few weeks. This was the light at the end of my tunnel and now I found out that the tunnel stretches even further.

I hate how I have such a trivial first world problem, especially with others out there in the world with vastly more severe problems, but I can’t help to feel disappointed, and utterly helpless. Knowing I feel this way, actually makes me feel worse.

Well, time to distract myself with something, anything.

Daring Fireball: Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone.

Second, publishing the name, photographs, and personal information of the Apple engineer who lost the phone is irrelevant to the story. It was the dick move to end all dick moves. Gizmodo is, ostensibly, a gadget site. The interest of their readers in this saga regards the phone. Publishing his name did not clarify in the least bit how they obtained the phone. The people whose identities I’d like to know are those who obtained and then sold the phone, not the guy from Apple who lost it. There is no interest served by outing him other than taking sociopathic glee in making a public spectacle of someone who made a very serious but honest mistake.

This, I’m deeply offended by.

No one puts it as eloquently and clearly as Gruber. This clearly describes my thoughts on the matter exactly.

Comparing the Pixels

From the amazing Shawn Blanc:

Following on from John Gruber’s post explaining 960×640 which is now pretty much a given for the new iPhone especially after the whole leak issue, and it does make perfect sense from a development standpoint. 4 pixel nodes equaling a single pixel will make apps before this look absolutely the same on a new iPhone of the same size but double pixel-ed, while newly coded applications or updates to old ones can use the extra pixel goodness.

To properly demonstrate how huge this is, Shawn Blanc has put together a little pixel to pixel comparison. Bear in mind, in reality, these would occupy the same sized space. This is fantastic, and I cannot wait for the new iPhone if the screen will be this resolution. It will be so crisp and beautiful.

I simply cannot wait.

I love this webcomic, and this time, they got serious.

Over the last few days, there has been this huge ‘Gizmodo has found a lost test model iPhone’ fiasco (which I will not be linking from a moral standpoint, and you can find it easily using Google), and it was nice for a small time when everything was just speculation. However, now the matter has blown over in a way I am not so comfortable with.

The implications of this model being stolen, and the confirmed passing of money to obtain this model put Gizmodo under a lot of legal spotlight. What really got me raging was Gizmodo’s response to Apple’s letter requesting their property back.

Happy to have you pick this thing up. Was burning a hole in our pockets. Just so you know, we didn’t know this was stolen when we bought it. Now that we definitely know it’s not some knockoff, and it really is Apple’s, I’m happy to see it returned to its rightful owner.

P.S. I hope you take it easy on the kid who lost it. I don’t think he loves anything more than Apple.

Stop being so fucking coy about it. The ‘kid’ is a working adult, a software engineer at Apple, a human being who is now in danger of losing what may possibly be his dream job. I am shocked by the frank and informal stance Gizmodo/Gawker are going with, because this is SERIOUS.

And now, I think I will be taking up Craig Hockenberry’s stance on the matter and will be washing my hands of this business. I’ll wait until the official Apple press release for news on the new iPhone (one which I am pretty much buying sight unseen to replace my iPhone 3G). I also think his argument here really rings true.

I can’t believe there are some people defending Gizmodo’s actions. Let’s put the shoe on your foot:

1. You’re drinking beer with some friends.
2. You leave your wallet behind at the bar.
3. Some stranger finds your wallet and opens it up. Inside is a naked picture of your partner.
4. That stranger finds a website that wants to post the picture and they sell your wallet intact for $1.
5. Your partner finds their naked body on the Internet. Shit hits the fan. HARD.
6. The site that posted the pictures looks at the ID in the wallet and calls up with an offer to return the wallet. “Don’t worry, all the money’s still there!”
7. Then that website posts another article saying how dumb you were for leaving your wallet behind. And instantly millions of people associate your name with a stupid mistake.

How do you feel now?

On a small side note, I do hope that this is a test bed model, as the design just looks a bit unpolished to me. Hoping it will look better on release.