Don't silence your iPhone. Do better. Just don't buy one to start with.
Use your Apple gizmos only for good, says Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Steve Jobs' vision of the fruity firm's products conquering the world has been a success, while highlighting how smartphones help tackle injustices. Opening with a joke aimed at competitors' products, Cook reminded attendees at the speech at George Washington University, Washington DC, to …
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Monday 18th May 2015 17:43 GMT getHandle
LOL - how?
A friend handed me her iPhone (dunno which number) a while back, knowing I was "into mobiles" (Android), asking if I knew how to put it in silent mode. Darned if I could figure out how. In the end I just held the volume down button for a while. Mind you, Lollipop appears to have adopted the same wanky UI design philosophy...
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Tuesday 19th May 2015 09:00 GMT Dave 126
Re: LOL - how?
The 'hold Vol-Down to make phone silent' facility seems to have disappeared in Lollipop. I'm in no hurry to upgrade from KitKat, so have been keeping an eye how other owners of my handset are getting on with Lollipop first.
>So it didn't occur to you to flick the switch on the side? Fuckwits, the pair of you.
That switch can also be configured to lock the screen orientation, IIRC.
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Monday 18th May 2015 18:19 GMT John 104
Funny
Cook noted that Steve Jobs envisioned the company as one which "turned powerful technology into tools that were easy to use, tools that would help people realise their dreams and change the world for the better".
Since the rebirth of Apple via the iMac, I've always looked at Apple like I look at Harley Davidson.. HD is NOT a motorcycle manufacturing company. They are a wann-be tough guy looking, Easy Rider Born To Be Wild dreaming marketing machine that happens to sell motorcycles along with their branded clothing, accessories, etc. There motorcycles are adequate but overpriced. Just like an iPhone...
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Friday 29th May 2015 06:37 GMT Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
Re: Funny
"turned powerful technology into tools that were easy to use"
Funny indeed. Companies wriggle like hell to avoid their products being seen as tools. To the point of designing the products as non-utilitary and intrusive as possible. These days it's all about the "experience", "lifestyle", "vision", "technology" and other BS-bingo material. With "ease of use" moniker serving as a warning label.
Gosh, I'm getting ranty. Need a coat, quickly.
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Monday 18th May 2015 18:26 GMT disgruntled yank
For the non-Americans
I don't know whether universities outside the US go in for big commencement ceremonies. If not, you should know that it is routine for schools to bring in a celebrity to speak to the crowd. Generally the formula is a bit of self-deprecating humor, mixed in with world-in-your-hands cliches. (I did once hear an exception, delivered by Temple Grandin; but I imagine that Wilson College got away with it only because it is small and little known.) So I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about what Tim Cook said.
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Monday 18th May 2015 19:01 GMT ItsNotMe
Wow...
...talking about sucking up to your audience!
Sorry Timmy...completely happy with my Android phone, thank you very much.
Oh...and Timmy...I just purchased one of your 64GB 5th Gen iPod Touch devices last week, and I want to tell you that compared to my 4th gen Touch...and my 3rd gen Touch...and my two 2nd gen Nanos...this is a REALLY annoying device.
When I sync just a handful of my albums from my MacBook Pro onto it, because I don't want them all on this device, and if I am connected to Wi-Fi...and open up my "Music" on it...your crappy device tries to download ALL of my Library from your iTunes Music Store.
And yes Timmy...the MacBook is running the latest version of OS X Yosemite, and the iPod is up to iOS 8.3.
This is really pissing me off Timmy.
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Tuesday 19th May 2015 09:17 GMT Dave 126
Re: Wow...
>Sorry Timmy...completely happy with my Android phone, thank you very much....This is really pissing me off Timmy.
Relax. We would expect the CEO of any company to *say* that his products are the best, and we would also expect him to know that we expect him to say that. He merely was acknowledging his position whilst reminding people to turn their phones off in a light hearted way.
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Monday 18th May 2015 20:26 GMT VinceH
"Our products do [these] amazing things, and just as Steve envisioned, they empower people all over the world," said the CEO. "People who witness injustice and want to expose it [...] can, because they have a camera in their pocket all the time."
He didn't actually say it, and definitely isn't trying to imply it, oh no, but that quote reads to me as though he's trying to lead people to infer that before the iPhone, mobile phones lacked cameras.