Inside Apple's Anechoic Testing Chambers 229
As part of Apple's press conference on Friday, they mentioned their state-of-the-art testing facilities and released a brief video showing some of their anechoic chambers. They later invited journalists on a tour of the rooms and explained some of the experimentation process. Quoting:
"There are four stages. The first is a passive test to study the form factor of the device they want to create. The second stage is what Caballero calls the 'junk in the trunk' stage. Apple puts the wireless components inside of the form factor and puts them in these chambers. The third part involves studying the device in one of these chambers but with human or dummy subjects. And the fourth part is a field test, done in vans that drive around various cities monitoring the device's signal the entire time (both with real people and with dummies). ... The most interesting of these rooms was one that Caballero called 'Stargate.' Why? Because, well, it looks like it belongs in the movie/TV series Stargate. Inside this room, there's a giant ring that a human sits on a raised chair in the center of. This chair slowly rotates around as signals are passed around the entire outer circle. This creates a 360 degree test area. I was told this room is completely safe for humans. And people typically spend 40 minutes in there at a time for testing. By comparison, devices can stay in the other anechoic chambers for up to 24 hours at a time. ... We then went into a room that contained fake heads."
Re:Those fake heads... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:So what? (Score:3, Informative)
I'd say a lot of instrumentation runs on Windows only.
Sad but true.
Re:Mind the gap (Score:3, Informative)
Where's your head at man? The link is about RIM's response to Apple's accusation. It says that they don't have the problem Apple has and that Apple should take responsibility for (but won't).
Re:So what? (Score:3, Informative)
The fact that they had a bug in their signal strength algorithm is bad, but one can't complain the problem happened because they weren't testing.
For the last time.. it was not a bug. A bug has unintentional consequences. What they were doing was intentional.
Re:Mind the gap (Score:3, Informative)