The iPhoney at Robert Pogson

Since Apple went after Gizmodo about a leak of the design I have been beating up Apple. I feel guilty about it. I am not abusive…

The product has so many flaws Gizmodo might have been a distraction.

When Apple came out with the announcement that its problematic antenna was not that bad and they had a bug in the algorithm for calculating signal strength, I chuckled. That’s really old maths and should not have been a problem. OTOH, people were losing connections…

Now Consumer Reports, a well-known and trusted tester of stuff consumers buy has quantitatively analyzed the problem and demands Apple provide an update/fix or a piece of duct-tape. I find real justice in the juxtaposition of an ad for the Sony Xperia on the same page… Cute, eh? You can buy something that doesn’t work from Apple or something that does from Sony. What are you going to choose?

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.