The blame game continues with the AT&T and Apple with statements fired across from both parties blaming the poor service and issues that arise with AT&T’s network and Apple’s hardware. The result of much investigating and numerous firestorms from both sides, AT&T is in the limelight again for its network capacity. The problem that AT&T’s network faces is primarily related to the way the network is geared to handle data traffic. Although the network is optimized for voice calls, data traffic moves on a different spectrum. The overall effect is that when data traffic is flowing is that voice spectrum conflicts with the transmission of data. People have often complained about the poor quality of the network causing AT&T due grief about their network.
Nonetheless, AT&T was quick to blame the hardware of Apple’s iPhone. The primary complain was that the radio signal that the iPhone handles switches from active to idle rather than turning itself off. This means that the signal is constantly accessed causing a strain on the network. However, iPhone users in other countries have not complained about similar problems, therefore, it makes little sense that the iPhone is to blame. However, an anonymous tipster has said the following about the way the iPhone OS conserves the power:
“All iPhone apps, including Phone.app, cause the radio to switch from “active” to “idle” mode when accessing the network far more often than traditional phones do. This causes the signaling channel, responsible for such functions as SMS messaging, initiating, maintaining, or ending a phone call, voicemail notifications, and DHCP requests, to become overloaded.” – (Source)
It’s up, it looks great and at the office, we’re all loving it. The amount of work that has gone into creating and crafting the new website and theme is amazing. Our designers worked long hours to get the perfect layout and color scheme. Besides development our marketing team was also busy at work drafting and editing the text for the website. We felt it was time for a change to reflect how we’d grown as a company.
We’re extremely happy with it, but it’s all for you. Feel free to wander the website and check out the overall theme. Talk to us, tell us what you think. How do you feel? Lovin’ the new look or was the old theme better? Leave a comment or thought below.
All that is gold doesn’t necessarily have to glitter. Android has been touted as being one of the next big platforms that would knock iPhone of its throne. However, this doesn’t seem to be the situation for Android. The ultimate problem that the platform is currently facing is the number of versions of software on phones. With a whole slew of releases available for the Android platform, many apps are not necessarily backward or forward compatible with the operating system. Add to this the various vendors providing different phones with numerous variations of hardware components means that most developers have nightmares developing code for each individual phone rather than a universal app.
The problem inherently in this situation is that cross-platform independence regardless of hardware is an ideal utopia that developers want but can never get. Similar to the BlackBerry situation where porting apps from other platforms is a nightmare, it can happen but not without a significant fight.
From a smaller developer viewpoint, Android is a difficult platform to work on. The amount of resources and time needed to code for a single application is significant for a small business; the need to re-code for various hardware and software versions is not conducive to building a customer base. Not only do variations in hardware and software affect the overall compatibility of the app, it reflects poorly on the build quality of the app. As a result, customers are naturally wary of the platform when they experience poor app quality and interaction. Developers are then compelled to write quick-and-dirty patches to resolve problems, which is inherently dangerous and shoddy programming.
