Arik Hesseldahl

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Tech Pundits Take iPhone Complaints Directly to the Source on “Saturday Night Live”

You’ve heard all the complaints about Apple’s iPhone 5. The Maps applications doesn’t quite work right. The camera sometimes adds a purple-ish halo when there’s bright sunlight in the shot. Its outer case also tends to scratch easily. Is that all of them? Right. So, on “Saturday Night Live” last night, a panel of tech bloggers hashed out their concerns with the people responsible for making the iPhone: Workers from the Chinese assembly line where it’s made. Watch:


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer