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It depends on what criteria is used to judge greatness of course. By my evaluation, the iPhone's notifications and multitasking UI have been horrible since day one. That hasn't stopped Apple from oveloading push and local notifications with third-party multitasking, all without much change to the fundamental problems, making the experience worse over time. Marco's focus on the simple and shiny, at the expense of the functional and robust, indicates that we have different standards for greatness.

I see in another comment that your phone is afflicted with the proximity bug. I understand why you see that as a more important issue now.

My comment is getting downvoted without any contradicting replies. shrug

Huh? Apple's PR letter specifically says that their 'mistake' has been there since the "original iPhone". And the 'grip of death' can kill calls and more importantly, IMO, affects data transfer rates (as I use my iPhone more as a browser than a phone and naturally hold it the 'wrong way') so I'm not sure why you conclude it's not a real issue.

Gruber has never tired of making jokes at AT&T's expense even though he personally has great service in Philly and AT&T has the fastest network. Let's see if he brings the same level of snark to his Apple and Jobs posts henceforth.

An extremely well written interview, the best yet. Apple's decision to remove the Field Test from i0S4, the introduction of the iPhone Bumper case, and the complete disregard to the numerous complaints so far has heightened my suspicions that they were well aware of the problems with the external antenna but assumed they could get away with it.

Actually that's still bullshit from Gruber. Google may have made a touchscreen OS but they still deferred to Apple in many ways, most notably by not including 'pinch to zoom' and other UI that Apple claimed was theirs alone. Google stood by and watched as Palm jumped into direct competition with Apple and included that, lawsuits be dammed.

Apple broke the peace when they rejected Google Voice from the AppStore last summer (and retroactively removed and banned all the third party Google Voice clients already sold through the store). That was the first dickish shot of war--an act of unfair competition by Apple and AT&T--not this iAds business or Google making a phone OS