iPhone Oddities: 10 Unique Ways that Apple company Creates, Provides Its Legendary Handset

Apple’s iPhone is officially the world’s most popular smartphone. Tens of millions of units of the device are sold to customers around the world each quarter and there is currently no product on store shelves today that can come even close to matching that figure. The iPhone is the benchmark by which all other smartphones are judged, and it’s widely viewed among reviewers and consumers alike as a device that deserves that crown.

But that doesn’t mean that the iPhone is perfect. As noted before, the iPhone has some flaws, including a less-than-desirable camera and lack of 4G, that doesn’t make it ideal for everyone. In addition, the device is surrounded by some rather surprising market and feature quirks that raise questions about how Apple made some of its decisions. From its choice to ignore T-Mobile to its old debate over not offering Flash support, Apple has made some odd decisions over the last several years.

Read on to find out what sort of oddities are surrounding Apple’s iPhone, and why, at least in some cases, they’ll never end:

1. No friend to T-Mobile

Apple has always offered the iPhone on AT&T’s network and last year brought the device to Verizon and Sprint. This year, it has made a serious push into the regional carriers. Along the way, however, Apple has turned its back on T-Mobile. It’s an odd decision, considering T-Mobile is a major carrier and has more customers than any of the smaller regional carriers. Why is Apple ignoring T-Mobile? And more importantly, when will it stop?

2. Apple’s no-4G stance

Although Apple has brought 4G LTE to the iPad, the company has yet to give the same treatment to its iPhone. It’s an odd decision, considering so many competitors have already introduced 4G smartphones. Hopefully Apple will support the ultra-high-speed network when the iPhone 5 launches later this year.

3. High subsidies: take it or leave it

In the vast majority of cases in the mobile space, smartphone makers aren’t so willing to charge carriers an exorbitant amount of cash to carry their products. In fact, they usually come to some sort of agreement to make it easier for carriers to want to sell their devices. But with Apple, everything is different. For years now, the company has been selling the iPhone for $600 or more to carriers, and Apple has given no indication it’ll budge from those prices.

4. Touch...to a point

Apple might have been the first company to truly popularize touch screens in the mobile space. But to call its iPhone a fully touch-enabled device would be incorrect. Since it was released, the iPhone has come with a home button and in order to quickly change volume settings, set the phone to vibrate, or turn off the screen, physical buttons are required. When will Apple finally go all-touch?

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Ms windows 8 due 'for the vacations,' but will biz bite?

Ms decreased some suggestions these days that the commercial launch of Ms windows 8 could come earlier rather that later, but experts are concerned that it's not very company friendly.

Announcing the Ms windows 8 Release Review, Windows Steven Sinofsky had written these days in the Developing Ms windows 8 weblog that one more edition is, at the very least, on track.

"If the reviews and telemetry on Ms windows 8 and Ms windows RT match our objectives, then we will enter one more stages of the RTM (release to manufacturing) procedure in about 2 months," Sinofsky had written. (Windows RT represents the edition that operates on ARM snacks. Ms windows 8 operates on Apple and AMD processor snacks.)

He ongoing. "If we are successful in that, then we are monitoring to our distributed goal of having PCs with Ms windows 8 and Ms windows RT available for the vacations."

That's the best part about it. On the other hand, companies may not find the update to be fulfilling, say experts.

"Virtually all of the significant new features in Ms windows 8 -- the new Ms windows Playback, the Community environment with its full-screen programs, and the all-new designer APIs that drive it all -- are produced completely from the cellular community and Windows encounters building Ms windows Phone for smartphones on the market," had written John Thurrott at SuperSite for Ms windows.

Thurrott ongoing. "It's become significantly clear that Ms doesn't actually expect companies to update to this new system in any significant way."

Thurrott went on to say that it's a "a measured risk" that allows Ms to focus on the individual market, which it threats losing to Apple and, somewhat, Operating system.

Another report these days mentioned business designers that are flummoxed by Ms windows 8.

"I like Community on a product, though I don't see how on a company level it's going to perform for business company programs. It's a little too simple. It's too adorable," a company user told RedmondMag.com.

Microsoft, of course, believes Ms windows 8 is great for company and published a individual weblog to address company users these days.

"It provides what modern employees wants, providing new opportunities in cellular efficiency, end-to-end security, virtualization and management enhancements, and the company pills you've been awaiting," had written Windows Erwin Visser.

And here are more best parts from Sinofsky's weblog these days on the Ms windows 8 Release Review.

We have a lot of technical engineers modifying a very little bit of value. We often say that delivery a significant item means "slowing everything down." Right now we're being very planned with every change we make and guaranteeing our quality is higher than ever as we advance towards RTM. The item is last when it is packed on new PCs or generally available for purchase.

RTM itself is a service stage, rather than a instant. We keep throw out Ms windows 8 in over 100 different dialects and we are planning last items for different markets all over the community. As that procedure indicates, we are done modifying the value and are formally "servicing" Ms windows 8.

Once we have joined the RTM stage, our associates will start making their last pictures and developing PCs, and software and components distributors will ready their Ms windows 8 support and new items. We will also start to produce store bins for delivery all over the community. We works with our business customers as well, as we ensure option the volume certificate tools and items.

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