iPhone: "Type What I Mean"

Dudley, if you read more carefully, you'd have realised that the post you referred to was NOT explaining the existence of the pop-up blocker, it was discussing how it'd been disabled by the upgrade to the Beta. Several people appreciated the post, and there were a few comments about the post, so it wasn't completely useless for them, and therefore not completely useless.

Alan, stop copying-and-pasting, you made the exact same misrepresentative comment on another post. Neither the pop-up blocker post, nor this one, is explaining a simple feature like the trash can. A lot of non-critical comments on this post, so it wasn't completely useless for those comment-makers, and therefore not completely useless.

frou, I am sorry you don't like Erica's writing, but not everyone will, we all have different tastes. But TUAW should have material that appeals to a wide audience, not restrict itself to only what you (and a few others) determine is acceptable.

You called Erica's posts "unprofessional" but since you do not use capital letters, and since you incorrectly elevate your *subjective* opinions (about how good you think the other TUAW boggers are) to become objective facts, and since you are, for some reason, unable to simply not read Erica's posts, then I have serious doubts as to your entitlement to accuse others of unprofessionalism.

You have noticed, have you not, frou and the others, that Erica's posts nearly always have comments attached that are discussing or debating the point she raised (as opposed to merely sniping at her) ? That means that there are readers who read her articles, who enjoy them and enjoy the topics she writes about! So while YOU may not like her posts, you can understand, SURELY YOU CAN UNDERSTAND that there are others who do like Erica's posts and want to keep reading them? Can you?

You have no right to censor sites just so they match exactly what you, and only you, want to see. Just because I'm bored by the topic of GTD doesn't mean I go to every GTD post on TUAW and write, "you shouldn't be posting about this". How would you like it if that comment appeared on every single post about your favourite topic, or from your favourite author?

So stay away from posts that others want to read and stop making comments like "don't post this" / "pay-per-post" / "old news" / "slow news day" etc.

It is negative, snide and useless people like YOU who is bringing down TUAW, not Erica.

Nothing new. This technology has been in Pocket PCs since a long time ago.

Given the fact that the "U" and the "A" are nowhere near eachother - I don't think your example would ever be a problem. I'm sure it only looks for words that include letters "close" (as in physical distance) to the letters it picked up.

But you were half-joking anyway.

@31: I thought the general consensus was ARM

No, frou has it wrong. You're missing the point-

Erica's pointing out a feature that is far more innovative than it appears.

This phone has smarter typing auto-correction features than exist on the computer platform, Mac or PC. That is mind-blowing for such a small device.

One of the things we don't know is what kind of CPU it has, even though its coming out in 2 weeks. That's the key to it's spry computing agility, and as soon as it's CPU info gets out, there's going to be iphone imitators up the Wa-zoo. Seen all the cheap mp3 players and fake Nokia's from China? Think it's going to be that hard for the Chinese to imitate the iPhone? Don't think so.

okey, the iPhone is going to be useless to me.
why? cause i'm from switzerland, and when i write SMS (text messages), i usually write them in "swiss german" how we talk, and not in german.
now, swissgerman does not have a grammar, nor does it have a dictioniair. you can write a sentence in more ways than you can imagin.
"ciao wie gahts"
"sali wiä gats"
"sali wyä geits"
"hoi, wi gohts"
these are just some samples how to say "hi how are you"
there is no dictionairy for swissgerman, thats why T9 does not work.
so if that "auto correction" is required or else that would be too many writting errors, it means you cant use the iPhone to write swissgerman, and we are forced to write in german.
which sucks, beacuse swissgerman is for me much more personal.
does that mean that we need really little finger, to always tip the right letter?

Wow. I guess I have to agree with frou. At first I looked over Erica's past entries and thought, well, I think there's room for making interesting comments on existing technology. A new perspective, or something edifying, yet trivial... but as I came to the end of this article:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/15/tuaw-tip-safari-popup-blocker/
I realized that she was... in a paragraph, recommending that people turn on their pop-up blockers on Safari. Yipes... I mean, YIPES. That is not something I want to see reported on. At least give me something juicy like, that Apple is required to leave pop-up blocking off, due to a conflict that prevents its own website from working correctly at start-up, or maybe that there's a patent lawsuit that was settled by simply forcing this to be a user initiated action. --But... nothing. Meh.

Hey another weird q: Why do all the iPhone videos and pics on Apple's site still say "cingular" and not "AT&T"? I thought at first it was just because when they initially put it up it was Cingular and no one bothered to change it, but now they've put out a ton of new media, and it still says Cingular.

What's up with that?

One nice thing about having the touchscreen is when you make a mistake you might as well just keep typing your message until you're done, then at the end go back and fix them by just moving directly to the mistake via the touchscreen.

About the iChat "app":
How secure is it to be putting in your username and password?...

If it is secure, then it would be nice to say so somewhere in the program.