I installed the theme and tested it out. I'll offer up my first 3 impressions:
It looks great, just as the real theme does on HTC phones. I don't like the dock being reduced to 3 buttons: Winterboard, Phone, Contacts, within the skin. It disables the SB Settings ability to show date/time/free memory in the status bar.
I think it's remarkable that Apple missed the boat on this one. It makes me think of when Gates said that Microsoft takes chances on bringing products to the market and were not afraid of striking out on some. Apple is starting to do this as well now. Apple TV bombed, hopefully Take 2 will do better. MacBook Air seems to be a swing and a miss unless you like "form" so much you don't mind "function" in my opinion. The fact that Remote Disc makes you restart your Mac but not your Windows PC is just the icing on the cake. I seriously need to see an updated MacBook Pro or iPhone sometime soon to smooth things over.
I have to applaud Engadget for their statement to save your money and donate yourself. I'd also like to encourage blogs like this to start putting pressure on corporations to include carbon offsets in their plans.
As an iPhone user with a jailbroken phone, I believe it is Extended Preferences which you can download that gives you that ability. You just tap the battery and it shows you the % remaining.
I haven't had any troubles at all as of New Year's. I was on Halo 3 Team Slayer last night for a while and my brother and his friend are playing Call of Duty 4 right now. I can't say that I've experienced any problems whatsoever since that big ball dropped. I also agree that any xbox live user should know full well that xbox.com has all of the info you need. However anyone taking the time to make unnecessarily snotty posts is "contributing" something far worse to Engadget.
So conversely, if we download an album on iTunes legally we can't burn that to a CD right? That would seem in line with their "logic" here. I hope more bands do what Radiohead and Trent Reznor have done. No actually I just hope that more indie labels rise from what these bands are doing. One day we're hearing about handshakes and digital downloads without DRM...and the next it is this trash. It's utterly ridiculous.
Yesterday my friend and I played Halo 3 with some connection issues at first but between 6pm and 3am everything seemed fine. During that time my brother was playing Call of Duty 4 online for several hours as well. Today I have had the dreaded "Restarting Search" in Halo 3 ranked team slayer playlists intermittently. It currently says the population is 25,204 for this particular match which is quite low. I did see the message posted here yesterday but it wasn't nearly as long! I hope the issues are worked out shortly but I have been playing without any troubles maybe...70% of the time over the past 2 days.
I don't think you need to make personal insults to anyone who decided to upgrade. It's not bad patching Safari security holes or being able to hear someone over your speakerphone. 1.1.1 won't be the end-all here, it'll be cracked eventually, but your immaturity will live long past this post.
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It looks great, just as the real theme does on HTC phones.
I don't like the dock being reduced to 3 buttons: Winterboard, Phone, Contacts, within the skin.
It disables the SB Settings ability to show date/time/free memory in the status bar.