My ApplNion

And I have it on my iPhone.

Apple released it a around 1h00pm eastern time. As soon as I saw it available in iTunes, I started the installation on my iPhone. The total installation time took approximatively 25 minutes, and I had no issue at all. Some people said that in the past they lost their iPhone services for a long time, while Apple servers were processing the reactivation, but in my case, it was automatic. And I did it at that moment on purpose. I did not have any specific need for my iPhone, so even if it was going to be out of service for a few hours, it would not affected me at all. In a way, I tested how Apple improved the reactivation process over the years! And it was great.

Then, what’s new and fun?

Multitasking is certainly the best feature. It took me a few minutes understanding how it works, but that is really wonderful to come back to an application in the state it was before. While this has nothing to do with multitasking, the animation to switch from the menu to an app and so on, makes the experience much more pleasant.

Folder is my next best feature. I had so many apps, that trying to classify them on a per page basis was not doable anymore. Now I can have multiples games folders, instead of pages, classify my games per type (strategy, puzzle, etc.), or by productivity type of apps, and so on. Thanks Apple.

Then, I’d say that the Mail.app is the best “better app” at all. The unified inbox is cool, but imagine the threaded messages. You no longer have to look at multiple messages in your inbox to see all answers you received for a specific message. It feels as good as what you have on your Mac.

What is still wrong?

I must say that on the iPhone itself, it is not too bad. I cannot say that I found something I do not like yet. But the classification of apps on pages and folders is still painful. And iTunes 9.2 is not much better than was the previous version at helping there. Apple could do much more better than that in iTunes.

Ok, now I have to leave it there and continue to explore the new stuff in my hand!

Hi to all,

I’ve obviously taken a break from my blog lately. Not that I haven’t done anything with my Mac, or had nothing to say, but I was busy on other things.

Many events happened since my last post. Here a few outlines of my opinions on them:

Apple released the iPad

I’ve seen one in a local store, and I must admit I like it. But I’m not ready to put my money on one of them because I do not feel I need one now. And I’m waiting for Apple to show what iOS4 will do on the iPad before I commit to one.

Apple announced iPhone OS 4

Apple had a special event to announce the iPhone OS 4, now renamed iOS to show the support of many different device types. I must say, at first, this looked like a much more better upgrade than version 3 was. While version 3’s great innovations were Cut & Paste and notifications, nothing is showing better than multitasking.

The Gizmodo iPhone 4 leak

While I like reading about rumors and may be disappointed by them not becoming true, the iPhone 4 leak was a bit over the top as far as I’m concerned. I really think that things went wrong there. There is a limit that the publication’s sites must stop at. Law is law after all.

iOS 4 to be released tomorrow

I just can’t wait to install it on my iPhone. I think it is what I’ve been waiting for the most in 2010 in the Apple world.

iPhone 4 to be release this week

While I have no intention of upgrading my iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4 at a huge price and break my contract by doing so, I will certainly try to see one of them in service to compare it to mine. The Retina Display is what I want to see. FaceTime is certainly the most useless features I’ve seen so far. I saw, a few months ago, another mobile phone with a front facing camera, and failed to see the purpose. Apple is no different, especially that it is iPhone 4 to iPhone 4, not even with iChat or something like this. The fact that they make it an open standard is going to help, maybe, but I’m not sure of the success of it. Bonjour is also an open standard, supported by the IETF, but it is not widely used outside the Apple software and hardware.

New Apple laptop

The new MacBook Pro released in March is certainly good stuff. It is just too bad that Apple could not fit a i3 or i5 in the 13″ MacBook Pro. The standard MacBook is a breaking deal compare to the 13″ MacBook Pro for those who don’t need FireWire.

New Mac mini

The new mini certainly looks better than the old one, but the bump of $100 is not going to help it at all. At that price tag, I’d recommend to anyone to go to the MacBook 13″, you get a screen, a keyboard and portability for almost the same price. And if you prefer using it at home on a desktop like configuration, you can still buy a keyboard, mouse and display for a relatively decent price. The HDMI port is not a selling option to me.

That’s it for today.