Nik Rawlinson

Giving off the wrong signals

by Nik Rawlinson on 19 July 2010 in Editorial
Nik Rawlinson

Apple has admitted faulty iPhone signal bars… but a fix is on its way. How embarrassing. Apple got its sums wrong. Those bars on your iPhone screen aren’t as big as you thought they were… or at least they shouldn’t be. For anyone who missed it, the company fessed up and sent out a missive [...]

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Get ready for iPhone 4 mania

by Nik Rawlinson on 29 June 2010 in Editorial

Forget the iPad hype – it’s the iPhone 4 that’s taking the world by storm… One of the perils of working on a magazine – any magazine – is that you eventually have to press print. There comes a time in every production cycle when you have to down tools and send your pages off [...]

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Detractors will eat their words

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 June 2010 in Editorial

iPhone 4 is getting slammed by the media, but it’ll still fly off the shelves. iPhone 4. What a surprise. Were you disappointed? I was. Not with the specs. Not with the hardware. Not with the forthcoming and slightly awkwardly named iOS4, but by the lack of, well, surprise. But enough of the spoilers. We [...]

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Genuine replies or just lies?

by Nik Rawlinson on 28 May 2010 in Editorial

Jobs has answered some emails, but how can we tell the bona fide ones? Steve Jobs has found the send button. Apparently. More and more people who send him a note are getting replies, but do you think it’s actually him? Let’s consider the evidence. For starters, the address: sjobs@apple.com. Can you imagine how much [...]

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Apple looks to a mobile future

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

The WWDC sell-out shows Apple is calling the shots in the mobile arena. If ever proof was needed that the future is mobile, it comes from Apple’s ticketing staff. This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has sold out in record time, despite its narrow focus on iPad and iPhone development. In previous years, the WWDC [...]

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Indecent exposure

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

With iPhone 4 laid bare on Gizmodo, Apple is in a very difficult position… Well, any suggestion that Apple deliberately leaked the fourth-generation iPhone has pretty much been scotched. If you’re not up to speed, Apple employee Gray Powell was out in a bar testing a live sample. He left it on a seat, under [...]

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