Quote: "The CIO article also discusses Apple's physical supply chain for the iPhone 3G, and how it performed for the rollout. Analyst consensus: top notch."

Bullsh...!! Try going to any of Telefonica Movistar's stores, where they are selling between 0 and 20 PER DAY. This means that in the whole of Barcelona, pop. 3 million people, a maximum 150 iPhones have been sold since Friday.

Went to the iTunes store (Spain), purchased the update...and was met by a "Thank you" screen that instructed me to click on some 'Download and upgrade' button that was nowhere to be seen. The only two buttons on this page are 'Finish' (takes you back to the store), and a 60-day free Mobile Me trial, which takes you to http://www.me.com/not_found/

So much for paying for something and not getting it, I guess I will head over to the 'bay and see what I can find.

You're saying there are plenty of phones in stores? This must be in the US right? I sent you a tip that Telefonica Movistar was sending 10-20 phones to their own stores, of which there are three or four in the whole of Barcelona, and zero to every other retailer. The result was that at 10:05am on Friday, people were walking out of the shops with a "fuck them" look on their face. They could not have done it worse. Here is another tip, which you may choose to post about or not (seems like all tips I send to the tip line are systematically ignored):

http://the.firehou.se/2008/07/12/iphone-total-cost-of-ownership/

Now, has anyone at TUAW bothered checking out Whisher? They offer a free Airport menu plugin, that shows signal strength and encryption status (Tiger showed neither, Leopard only encryption), and whether a signal is compatible with their per-minute price (with the per-minute price also shown next to each signal). If you find a signal say at an AT&T location, you can just click to connect to it, and the plugin will log you in automatically - and you only pay for the minutes you connect, no rounding up to the nearest 10 or 15 minutes, or having to buy a 24-hour pass just to check your email in three minutes.

I believe there was a plugin you also wrote about that did the extra signal information thing, nothing else, and it actually cost some $10.

Now, why isn't there even ONE Apple logo on the event's website? This smells like some tradeshow put up by someone else, not a -true- Apple event. The page even has a banner ad, uncharacteristic of anything Apple would make. I quote: "Spend four days to take in this Mac event". Mac event?

Will Steve give a keynote? If not, can you call it an event even similar to Macworld? Will we see new products announced there? I very much doubt it.

AT&T has to limit the speed, as even on "full-speed" cells where you could achieve a theoretical 7.2Mbps, this is actually shared between ALL users on that cell. Thus, you only get a piece of the pie. By limiting to 1.4, they are making sure at least a few users will actually get 1.4 before the whole thing starts degrading. There are also chipset issues involved, but I seriously doubt Apple has used a first or second-gen 3G chipset.

And for those using Entourage 2008, I have posted a script to show notifications, including different icons for urgency levels:

http://tech.am/2008/06/04/growl-notifications-with-entourage-2008/

Now...why are you people only thinking *software*?

All manufacturers of processors and components for mobile phones develop a huge circuit board with all the components that can go in the final product, so that their costumers can evaluate and develop the firmware on a reliable platform with plenty of test points and bigger connectors, rather than use test run circuit boards for the final product which can have hardware bugs on their own, making debugging a nightmare.

For example, CSR (#1 maker of Bluetooth chipsets) provides development boards which are 10 times the size of the PCB that goes into a normal Bluetooth headset, with plenty of breakouts and test points to aid debugging.

Search "arm development board" on Google images to see what I mean.

Been there, done that...

http://tech.am/2006/06/02/tomtoms-hidden-all-terrain-mode/

...but didn't venture into the forest :)

WRONG! The iPhone has a BlueCore4 AudioFlash, with 6MB of on-board FLASH, or else, they lied in their Bluetooth certification documentation:

http://tech.am/2007/09/14/apple-is-against-bluetooth-but-why/

Are there pictures of the Bluetooth section?