Post:Something Nice About Apple

From Fusselman.org

I was reading over at Holy Scrap Hot Springs the other day and noticed that a variety of their Flikr pictures were taken with an iPhone. I further noticed that the EXIF information for said shirts includes the GPS data from the phone. I knew EXIF had fields for it, but I'd never seen it implemented. Anyhow, my conversation with Dave went something like this (paraphrased, since I misplaced my chat log):

I found something cool about the iPhone today... It puts the GPS data into the EXIF information. This seems pretty useful, as both GPS and camera phones tend to work (basically) only outdoors; GPS for want of a sky-view, and the cameras for want of bright light. Disclaimer: I speak generally about cell phones and GPS, and have limited experience with the iPhone as the only only photos I've ever seen from it were taken outside.

The funny part about this is that usually, when speaking about Apple, my entire opinion, basically, is that "Apple is Crap". For balance: The iPhone camera function is pretty slick. Unfortunately, you can only take so many photos, for it's lack of expandable storage media. Moreover, God help you if you need to charge it, with it's non-standard plug :)

I just couldn't bring myself to write an entirely positive post about the iPhone.