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Dan Frommer of BusinessInsider says people shouldn’t worry about iPhone 4 antenna issues. iPhone 4 signal issues fueled this week when consumer reports announced “they can’t recommend iPhone 4 to buyers”. Ironically, in a separate report, they also chose iPhone 4 as the best smartphone on the planet at this moment.

We are living in a strange world. I agree with Dan that this is a non-critical issue as what happened to Toyota or BP. :-) Despite the strong calls for penalty, eh I mean, recall, I think there are still other viable yet effective options for Apple - e.g. giving away free bumperss!!

It is now official. Mobile is the future. These companies - Zynga, Fring, Square, EA - have done a phenomenal job so far in creating a new wave of incredible apps for mobile phones! Nobody could’ve expected we would spend so much time on these little apps. A completely new economy with healthy consumers spending, new jobs and new lifestyles have emerged with the birth of an App universe.

Zynga:

The Farmville phenomenon has become so pervasive that Mozilla offered a Firefox update solely because players complained the browser kept crashing on them during gameplay.

Zynga makes money by charging for virtual goods. Once gamers are hooked, they’re more likely to pay for items like tractors, fuel, and animals. The company reportedly brings in $1 million in revenue daily, mostly from such transactions.

Mike Verdu, Zynga’s Senior Vice President of Games imagines Farmville will one day be localized, so users in one country can trade region-exclusive items with users in another country, giving the app yet another dimension of gameplay.

“People want all the goodies that they’ve come to expect from the PC,” says Jake Levant, Fring’s VP of marketing. “There’s no reason why they shouldn’t get that and more from a mobile phone.”

Quite an insightful post with thorough, perspicuous explanation of how multitasking works in new iOS4. It might not be 100% gold master apple reference guide, but definitely is still a place for you to start if you wanna get your hands on multitasking/fast app-switching in your apps.


Oliver:

Adding fast app switching and multitasking support is quite easy since for the most part you don’t need to do anything. But you WILL have to review the contents of your app delegate methods to see which code has to be moved into one of the other delegate methods now.

Wunderman:

Right now it’s hype and buzz more than reality. There are just not that many people with iPhones in their pockets or iPads in their hands to consume this advertising.

The leading Chinese PC maker, 30% in its home market, has something to say about Apple.



Speaking of that one bad fellow, Lenovo’s founder and chairman, told the Financial Times:

We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.

The phone is still hot and fresh in the consumers’ hands. But sadly, terrible reviews about its signal strength are coming out thick and fast. I hope it only happens to AT&T and not in Singapore. :)