Although fake fans were hired to stand in line in Poland, real fans showed up for the midnight iPhone 3G launch in India. However, Houston, there appears to be a problem.
The Apple iPhone 3G (third generation) was launched across India by telecom majors Bharti Airtel and Vodafone.. . .
Aditya Malik whooped with excitement after he bought his iPhone. “I’m excited because I have got an Apple iPhone. I am not bothered about the price. Good things come at a price,” Malik said. “I have been waiting for a year to buy one. Last year I missed buying the iPhone 2G, which was launched June 5, as I left for the US on June 3. Now I am very happy to have got the latest one,” he said.. . .
Twenty-two-year-old Nishant Arya, a businessman, was equally happy though he has the earlier versions of the iPhone. “I already have five iPhones. This is the sixth. I bought it because my family wanted it. The earlier phones were 2G, this is 3G.“. . .
“More than 30,000 iPhones (2G) are running on the Airtel network alone,” Sanjay Kapoor. president of the mobility division of Airtel said.
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2G? Well gee, this is confusing. You see the 1G wasn’t any G, but the 3G is really the 2G, and the 4G (which is really the 3G) may not be 3G. Or perhaps the G1 isn’t the 1G, but the G2 is the 3G. Whew! For the few who don’t know what I am on about (such as apparently the entire country of India and the editorial staff of IBN Live), many Apple products are affectionately called by their generation number. For example there are first generation iPod nanos and second generation iPod nanos. Older iMacs are often distinguished as a G4 or G5 (meaning fourth generation and fifth generation respectively). However, worlds have collided now that cellular technology and Apple have been fused, and like the ottoman, no one knows what to do with the G.
Psst Aditya, I whooped too. Seriously. I did the Apple store employee happy dance.
UPDATE: A helpful reader noted that I was imprecise in my terminology, caving in to the popular use. The “generation” of the machines refer to the processors inside the machines rather than the actual machine line itself. I was trying to keep things as simple as possible in a subject that is already confusing the heck out of India.
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cirisme
22nd August 2008, 15.52 pm
“Older iMacs are often distinguished as a G4 or G5 (meaning fourth generation and fifth generation respectively).”
Wrong. The name has nothing to do with the generation of the machine. (else, how would you explain the first mac mini G4?) It’s the PowerPC processor generation.
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Dizzle
22nd August 2008, 21.18 pm
Yes that is more precisely correct, it is the generation of the processor within the unit, but in the mainstream use, that is what the unit is called. I don’t say I have an iMac with a G4 processor. I have a G4 iMac, that is how it is popularly used. But you are correct that is more precisely refers to the processor as there are no 1G or 2G iMacs that I am aware of. I believe the iMac began with G3, no?
This goes to prove the point that with these Gs flying around everything one is bound to get clobbered by one.
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