Archive | August 4th, 2009
A case against an Apple Tablet
Rafe Needleman of CNET writes: While a tablet may be great for browsing the Web and viewing media, it’s too big to replace a phone and too limited to carry around as a work computer. People will need their keyboarded Netbooks and notebooks for real work. Tablets, like other tweener devices, ultramobile PCs and Netbooks, [...]
Continue reading...An old, yet still timely, case for using OS X
4. August 2009
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Check out this on-point article from Tumblr developer Marco Ament on why you should consider switching to OS X. The article’s about a year and a half old, but the arguments still hold up today. Mac software follows design principles that you rarely see in Windows: Incredible attention to detail Simple, clean interfaces Justified, focused [...]
Continue reading...Another ridiculous decision from Apple’s app store review team
4. August 2009
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Call us gullible or optimistic, but after learning of Apple’s new channels of communication with developers, we genuinely believed that the days of ridiculous and non-sensical app rejections were behind us. We were wrong. DaringFireball gives us the low down on the trials and tribulations experienced by the developers of Ninjawords, an iPhone dictionary app [...]
Continue reading...Data strings found in iPhone OS 3.1 hints at new product from Apple
4. August 2009
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Last week, Apple seeded iPhone OS 3.1 to developers, who were quick to find new data strings in the USB preference file which seem to suggest that Apple has an entirely new product in the works. The data string makes reference to “iProd0,1″ and “iProd1,1″. MacRumors notes that the first “iProd0,1″ reference was spotted a [...]
Continue reading...“Hi, I’m Steve Jobs, and I have a present for you”
4. August 2009
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An Apple II? You shouldn’t have.
Continue reading...Palm Pre ad criticized for being too creepy
4. August 2009
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For the great job the Palm did in copying features of the iPhone for its Palm Pre, it hasn’t been nearly as successful at replicating Apple’s advertising prowess. Palm recently released a commercial for the Pre that has been criticized for being creepy. AdAge describes it thusly: The campaign features actress Tamara Hope speaking directly [...]
Continue reading...Analyst ups Apple target to $185
4. August 2009
Citing the iPhone’s high margins and its first mover advantage in the smartphone market, Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi raised his target for Apple stock up to $185, up from a previous target of $165. Sacconaghi, though, notes that if Apple wants to continue increase the iPhone’s worldwide market share, it still needs to make [...]
Continue reading...Palm hires yet another former Apple employee as new SVP of Brand Design
4. August 2009
The number of former Apple employees now working for Palm is quite extensive, and now you can add another name to the list. Palm recently added Jeff Zwerner to its management team as its new Senior Vice President of Brand Design. In his new role, Zwerner will apply “his significant expertise in strategic brand design [...]
Continue reading...Who should replace Eric Schmidt on Apple’s board? Tim Cook? Woz? Jim Goldman?
4. August 2009
In light of the recent resignation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt from Apple’s board of directors, an important question becomes who exactly should take the open seat on the board? Silicon Alley Insider suggests that Tim Cook would be a good choice, given his success in handling Apple’s day to day operations in the absence [...]
Continue reading...Report: Apple ordered a number of 4 to 12-inch touchscreens
4. August 2009
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With Apple largely expected to release a 10-inch tablet style media device sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, a new report from Shaw Wu of Kaufman Brothers reveals that Apple purchased a number of touchscreens in varying sizes over the past few years. While some of these purchases were undoubtedly for testing purposes, the [...]
Continue reading...Wall Street Rumor: Apple planning to take on PayPal with iTunes pay service
4. August 2009
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Silicon Alley Insider reports, citing Wall Street gossip, that Apple is toying around with the idea of taking on PayPal by implementing a system whereby iTunes users could purchase items via their credit card enabled iTunes accounts.
Continue reading...Makeshift iPhone Scanner
4. August 2009
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Check out this cool little contraption that turns any iPhone into a portable “scanner”. And the scans, or should we say “photos”, come out looking pretty clear. via KyleaKoch If you’re so inclined, you can purchase the “scanner” for $14.99 over here, but with the new auto-focus feature in the iPhone 3GS, it might already [...]
Continue reading...Greg Joswiak heads to China with team of Apple execs as iPhone launch nears
4. August 2009
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Apple’s Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, is in China with a team of other Apple executives to meet with officials from China Unicom to discuss plans for the upcoming iPhone launch in China, according to a report in the International Business Times.
Continue reading...The iPhone/App store puts iPod/iTunes growth to shame [Graphs]
4. August 2009
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Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB, the venture capital firm behind the $100 Million iFund initiative, came up with some interesting graphs which illustrate how much more quickly the rate of growth has been for the iPhone and the iTunes App Store compared to the iPod and iTunes Music Store. The differences are staggering. Kleiner Perkins iFund [...]
Continue reading...Charlie Miller on how he uncovered the iPhone SMS exploit [Video]
4. August 2009
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At the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, security researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller revealed that they could remotely take over any iPhone with a simple text message comprised of a single character. Here, Charlie Miller discusses how he went about uncovering the SMS exploit. Interestingly, Miller [...]
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