Right on the first count. This is indeed the US equivalent of Which, and it does you a severe disservice to try to knock their reputation.

Indeed they should be applauded for admitting they made an error of omission in the initial testing process, but then again their credibility is much more important to them than sticking to the initial line, particularly now that overwhelming new evidence on reception is available.

Who? Where?

I certainly don’t hate Apple or Steve Jobs, although I do as a rule dislike and distrust bullshit merchants. However, I have dealt with more than enough CEOs to realise that this trait is far from the exception.

What disturbs me in particular with this situation though is the fawning cult of personality, infallibility and blind acquiescence that has built up around Jobs amongst his internal and external acolytes. Now I am a firm believer in religious freedom, and will defend to the hilt people’s right to worship whatever they want, be it a recognised deity, limited liability company, or corporate CEO.

However, when this is combined with Jobs’ habit of telling porkies and liberally dispensing propaganda bullshit, and the evident unshakable conviction that he knows what is best for his followers in everything from how to hold their phone to what their personal morals should be, the whole thing starts to take on a distinctly sinister totalitarian tone.

That may sound extreme but I believe it is largely defensible philosophically. Nevertheless I don’t seriously believe their is any risk to democracy from Jobs becoming supreme leader, but I reserve to right to expose these tendencies in whatever manner I see fit, since the conscious and unconscious yearning for totalitarian order is not in as small a minority as I would wish. And I do hate that.

I obviously couldn’t say for sure, but I have a feeling Steve Jobs would prefer the wristband solution over the duct tape. But only just, since it probably isn’t much different in appearance to Apple’s bumper, that he has refused to give away almost certainly due to aesthetic considerations, despite the well documented reception problems.

The reality is that this episode is turning into an unmitigated PR disaster for Apple. As a generalisation iPhone 4 owners are now looking not so much hip trendsetters as gormless sheep and that’s most unfortunate in the fashion accessory business.

And while alert to charges of schadenfreude - as well as the possibility, no matter how remote, that Apple will admit error - not too long ago you would have been easily forgiven for laughing out loud at the gods’ delicious sense of irony in punishing Apple’s hubris through the instrument of their ascent to the heavens: design.

Don’t know if it matters to anybody in this discussion, but Consumer Reports in the US have just come out with a report the concludes they can not recommend the iPhone 4 due to the small matter of the reception flaw inherent in the design. This is on the basis of tests conducted in a controlled environment that have fatally sunk Apple’s latest and actually quite astonishing “the bars were never there” line of bullshit.

The good news for Apple smart *and* phone lovers is that the design flaw can be easily rectified by affixing an inexpensive piece of duct tape - thickish but no bigger than a few inches - onto the bezel. How cool is that?

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No Tim, your're on ignore.

Don't care much for your name calling and aggressive bluster. Or your refusal to answer a straight question.

You should have no trouble fitting them. Mine were a straight replacement for the conventional Stanton cartridges I used to use.

However, I am personally highly sceptical you will be able to hear much difference at all, as long as it is a replacement for something decent on a deck with a bit of weight to it.

On the other hand for DJ use they are in a different class, since the low needle mounting provides significantly better stability when you are cueing, people are jumping around, etc.. (unless you are into scratching, in which case some say they make the tone arm a little light at the business end)

3x Technics SL 1210 MKIIs with Ortofon Concorde Nightclub cartridges, Yamaha natural sound amp for the lounge, and a 2.5 kw Vestax rig with borrowed Bose 802s for the odd party.

Of course there was another side to posting that story, namely to emphasise to the non-wild eyed Apple customers here that they should not get lulled into a false sense of security by the ridiculous myth that Apple systems can not be compromised from a security perspective.

A myth - as I said above - that Apple are in no rush to dispel. For example, a recent update to OS X added a new trojan signature to the virus handling subsystem, but very strangely the release notes made no mention of this whatsoever. Why do you think that is?

Linux is based on the same software architecture as OS X, but you won’t hear anybody from that community making such silly claims about virus free. More secure yes, virus free—don’t be stupid.

Errrrr...how about that you should check your iTunes account to see if you have been ripped off.

Get a grip.

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