What Steve Jobs should have said, but didn't

Summarising the good words by others...
(John Gruber, John Syracusa)

On the external antenna design:
"Overall the iPhone 4 performs better than prevous iPhones. Apple is very confident in the chosen design, BUT the design does make an antenna weak spot explicitly visible to the end users."

On the reception issues:
"Vast majority of users do not have reception issues with iPhone 4. The left-handed "death grip" way of holding the phone does cause problems for some, although this is not entirely unique problem to iPhone 4. While the weak spot makes demonstrating the problem trivial, it should not be confused with the experience of actual use of the phone."

"Actually in parallel, a real bug has been identified that probably is causing a part of the problems people attribute to the antenna. Fix for the proximity sensor bug is coming in upcoming software update."

On the free bumber:
"Apple cares about all users. We do think most people will not need a bumber solely because of the antenna design. However, we are willing to give one free to anyone who feels they need a bumber. We will continue to improve the hardware and software in the future products."

Computer trends and how to communicate them

Took a small deep dive with Business Week to see what they have to offer. I was surprised about their quality of web presence. And I can actually see their articles (no registration pains, no subscription requirements)!

It's sometimes good to see the business side of computer industry and innovation, and Business Week does have quality articles with that perspective. The many retrospectives are also interesting.

The Special Report on Next Generation Computing was pretty nice summary on the current understanding of the near term innovation in computer tech. I truly like some of the trends, such as the "designing to blend with the rooms in home". One example of this was the forming of computer parts as look-alikes of a bookshelf and its contents. There are the obvious dangers of overdoing the ideas, of course.

Another pleasant surprise was the "slideshow" style of reporting. The concept of putting the picture in the forefront and text secondary to that is quite appealing. This also takes away the need to create overlyelongated articles from material that really doesn't need it. Also, it is excellent form of communication when the journalist goal is that of a summary.