Apple: No White iPhone for you!
All of you who are waiting for the white iPhone 4 to appear before placing your order better get used to your current phone. Apple PR today released the following statement:
“CUPERTINO, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.”
Apple has a fairly horrible track record when it comes to making sturdy, scratch proof “white” products that don’t discolor, so let’s hope this delay helps minimize class future action suits for fingerprints and scuff marks.
Man gives thieves the finger in iPad theft
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Cynicism, Ouch!, Theft, iPad
OK, actually, he didn’t give it to them, they took it, along with his two iPads. Ouch.
(yeah, it’s Flash only, get over it).
[via Engadget]
Have you humiliated me in “Words with Friends: yet? If so, tell the world!
Filed under: Games, Ouch!, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Some people apparently thought I was being modest when I mentioned how badly I suck as Words With Friends in my review. In fact, Faithful Macenstein reader GrantWall was so excited about beating me, he twittered about it. I jokingly said there was probably a Facebook group he could join with over 3000 members by now who have all kicked my ass, and if there’s one thing we should all have learned by now, it’s “Never joke about starting a Facebook group”.
So BAM, there it is, Grant’s “I owned Dr. Macenstein in Words with Friends” page. If you are a Words with Friends player, and have defeated me, as I estimate 87% of you have, then feel free to join up, and share pics and memories of your meaningless victories over an admitted idiot. And if you are in the 13% who I have beat, it might be time to pick up a book.
Detective Munch denies choking Apple Store employee
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Ouch!, That's Weird..., video
Richard Belzer’s “Detective Munch” character holds the distinction of being the only fictional character (played by a single actor) to appear on eight different television shows, and it looks like that number could go up to 9, assuming you count Apple Store security footage.
Earlier this week Belzer was accused by NY Apple Store employee Milan Agnew of assault when he put his hands on her shoulders and asked for help while waiting in line at the Apple Store’s “Genius Bar”. While I am not a big fan of strangers touching me (at least not 65 year-old male strangers) it appears to have been a gross over reaction on the part of Agnew, and after reviewing the Apple Store surveillance tapes, the NYPD agreed and no formal charges have been filed. Belzer describes the incident to HLN’s Joy Behar in the clip below. (I apologize in advance both for Joy Behar’s voice and Richard Belzer’s ears).
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Dan for the tip!
Israel hates Jennifer Garner
Filed under: Apple Bashing, Apple Fanboyism, Hardware, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Not Cool, Ouch!, Photos
How else can you explain Israeli airport security firing three shots into the MacBook of Lily Sussman, which just happened to be sporting an Elektra Stamp? (2005’s Elektra of course being the 3rd worst Marvel comic movie of all time, and starring Jennifer Garner in the title role).
Above: Elektra proved as hard to kill as the Elektra movie was to watch.
In the airport security’s defense, technically it WAS a bomb…
(can I get a rimshot?!)
If I were Jenn, I would steer clear of the entire Middle East until anger over the movie subside, and make it very clear that she does not plan to ever star in a sequel.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Sam for the link!
Real story via Lilysussman’s Blog via Gizmodo]
iPhone + 100 mph + pavement = ?
Apple’s iPhone “Tech Specs” page posts tons of useful information about the iPhone designed to keep users from inadvertently damaging their devices – such as optimal operating temperatures, optimal altitude, humidity, etc. But two glaring omissions on the page are the “optimal velocity” and “optimal amount of tonnage” the iPhone can handle.
“Hey there Doc,
I’m a long time Macenstein reader and instantly thought of sending this to you when it all happened. My friend Dane and I (Phil) work UPS night shift and also live a couple blocks from one another. So after leaving work, he flies ahead on his CBR600. At some point on my venture home, i drove through a flurry of what appeared to be small papers. As i entered my home town, i see my friend on the side of the road yelling at me to turn around. I asked him what was up and he said that he lost his wallet and iphone 3g. It then hit me that the flurry of papers was the massive receipt collection in his wallet. Off we go back to the scene of the crime. We ended up finding his wallet, pieces of what used to be whole debit and credit cards, and …………. the iphone.
It did have an Incase Hard Case on it, but when i found it, it was face down with out its case. I found the case about 10 feet from the iphone also in pieces. The back of the iphone clearly shows it had been run over at least once, i assume the case went to pieces as it fell out of his pocket. So just spent the last couple hours of my morning scouring route 119 in pa, literally picking up the pieces of my friends life.
– Phil”
I think Dane has a case here. Apple clearly was negligent in not outlining the harmful effects of high-impact collisions on the iPhone, and there was really no way Dane could have known. I suspect Apple PR will be sending Dane a new iPhone any day now in hope of making this whole thing “disappear”.
PowerBook takes a “Major League” hit
Filed under: Apple Bashing, Apple Fanboyism, Hand of God, Ouch!, That's Weird...
I’m the furthest thing you’ll find from a baseball fan, so the idea of being a photographer sent to cover all the “action” of a Pittsburgh Pirates game is scary enough, but check out the carnage that befalls this poor man’s PowerBook during an 8th inning foul ball. (Be sure to check out the chick with the iPhone at the end – priceless).
More pics after the jump.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…!When it comes to making iPhone apps, if you snooze, you lose
Filed under: Cynicism, I Told You So, Ouch!, Software, iPhone
Last October I had what I thought was a killer idea for an iPhone app. I know, I know, who hasn’t? But this was (I thought) a better idea than another Suduko puzzle or restaurant tip calculator, it was actually a fairly unique idea. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am an animator, and while I can muddle my way through basic PHP and Flash’s Actionscript, and write some After Effects and Maya expressions, I am HARDLY a programmer. So I put out a vague call to my readers looking for help in making an iPhone app.
Since I felt it was an idea with some potential, I didn’t want to broadcast all the specifics of the idea. I described the programming requirements thusly:
“The app in question would rely heavily on accessing information from a website and then plotting that information on a Google Maps display based on the iPhone’s current location (GPS) or Zip code (sort of like a restaurant or movie finder app, but slightly more involved)… at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I feel my app could potentially save lives.”
The responses I got ranged from “I’ll help for $10,000″ to “Sorry Doc, ideas are a dime a dozen”.
So I picked up a “beginning iPhone Programming” book, but quickly realized it wasn’t going to be enough for my needs. I decided to ask around the developer-sphere for help, starting with Erica Sadun (hey, why not start at the top?). I don’t think Read more
I don’t know, call me skeptical, but…
Hopefully there’s a follow up book on how to WASH that money…
Author Dottie Randazzo’s new book How to Shit Money to Get an iPhone sounds interesting enough, however, I would imagine that depending on whether or not you are a current, under-contract AT&T customer, you might have to shit obscenely unhealthy amounts of money to get that iPhone. Hopefully there’s a “consult a physician“-type health warning somewhere on the back.
Pay up, or the iPhone gets it!
Hmm… I guess they didn’t pay up.
And good for them! If we negotiate with the terrorists, then they win. Here’s to the memory of the bravest little iPhone ever. You took it like a man – no whimpering, not pleading or blubbering. I’d like to see a Palm Pre show HALF as much courage. Long will you live in our hearts.
