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What's Apple got against the Contacts App?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008

I have this thing about incorrect images of the iPhone in Macworld, and it's got to the point where I want to give Apple itself a stern ticking off.

Allow me to explain: The iPhone has space for 20 Apps on a screen (a 4x4 grid and 4 permanent Apps in the dock). When Apple first released images of the iPhone there were 15 Apps on the screen. The iPhone looked like this:

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Why can't Apple and China just be friends?

Thu, 24 Jul 2008

Because Mike Elgan says so, that's why.

He penned a piece at Datamation attempting to explain the 'incompatibility' between Apple and China that has prevented Apple from effectively extending its business, and therefore its market share, throughout the People's Republic.

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The Mac keeps driving Apple

Thu, 24 Jul 2008

Some 48 hours removed from the light and heat of Apple’s third-quarter earnings announcements, a couple of things deserver further examination. And no, I’m not talking about the “Did someone just cough? Sell! Sell! SELL!” mentality that seems to have gripped the investment community.

What still stands out about Apple’s third-quarter performance—for me, at any rate—is just how well the company’s Mac business did. In case you missed Monday’s announcement, Apple said that it sold a little bit less than 2.5 million Macs during the three months ending in June. That’s the most Macs Apple has sold in any quarter ever. And if it sounds like I’m repeating myself, that’s because I am—this is the fourth time in the last five quarters that Apple has set a new standard for Mac sales.

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Attack of the clones

Tue, 22 Jul 2008

We scorned. We mocked. We laughed.

Psystar was a puzzling joke. We had no doubt they could get OS X running on non-Apple hardware, sure…but what happens after it’s installed? Can it be updated? Is it even legal? How long would Apple just wait on the sidelines before they light-sabered Psystar in two and sent their attack-droids to destroy the rebellious few who dare purchase a Psystar machine? Seemed risky, and those risks were realized when Apple filed suit against the wannabe Mac-maker last week.

Dan Pourhadi | Read more...


Psystar: a clone alone

Sat, 19 Jul 2008

No one gives a damn when a new PC manufacturer enters the market selling its own-branded Windows computer. The launches of Wizard Micro, Delta Desktops and Lasco laptops do not set the web’s blogs alight. They’re just another bunch of plastic/metal boxes running standard components, initially put together by a small bunch of grunts under some railway arches. They will be cheap – probably so cheap that the company will go bust as soon as it tries to market itself or supply tech support.

But it’s a very different matter when there’s a new company making and selling Macs, and – after 11 years with no one but Apple in the market – there’s a new player in town. Although possibly not by the time you’re reading this…

Simon Jary | Read more...


UK iPhone launch - in pictures

Fri, 11 Jul 2008

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Well, doubtless, I'll be writing more than a thousand words on today's iPhone launch, but I thought this visual aid might just show the difference between last year's iPhone launch, and this year's.

iPhone launch: O2 Store, Oxford St, 2007



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How was it for you?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008

If you're buying an iPhone 3G today, then I want to know how it went. Badly, is most people's experience. But let us know what it was like in your neck of the woods. Was there a queue? Did you get an iPhone 3G? How did the approval process go?

We managed to get iPhones from both O2 and Apple Stores in London, but we want to know what it's like outside the capital.

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New-look iDisk folder

Thu, 10 Jul 2008

Today has been marked by some very odd things periodically happening to my .Mac / Mobile Me account.

The latest is my iDisk which has just switched over to the new-look logo. Not sure if I fully approve of the new design, that cloud looks a bit 'Fisher Price', but then the old logo looked like a 1990's throwback.

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Six interesting iPhone applications

Thu, 10 Jul 2008

It's driving me nuts. The App Store is up and running and there's hundreds and hundreds of new applications ready. You can download them now (well the free ones, you can't yet get the ones that require payment).

You can read all about them. But you can't yet use them. At least not until the iPhone 2.0 software update rolls along.

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Goodbye .Mac

Wed, 09 Jul 2008

It's time to wave goodbye to .Mac. At 2am tomorrow morning Apple will pull the plug on its venerable Internet service, and at 8am tomorrow MobileMe will go live.

So when we arrive on Macworld tomorrow morning we will be able to fire up MobileMe and discover all the new services.

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Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless'

Wed, 09 Jul 2008

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has blasted Apple's iTunes Store as "brilliant, but heartless".

In his personal blog he responds to an article by Simon Jenkins in The Sunday Times. Jenkins wrote how thrilled he was by the resurgence of live performance and the death of recorded music.

Simon Jary | Read more...


O2's flakey Web site

Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Well I've currently had nine separate upgrade codes from O2 and still no joy with managing to order an iPhone 3G from its Web site.

Every time I go to the site it first asks me for my iPhone number, then crashes at some point between texting me an upgrade code and placing my order. I've managed to get as far as selecting the phone and option and even clicking on the 'Place Order' button before it hanged.

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A tale of two cities WiFi

Fri, 04 Jul 2008

Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different results, with one project springing up around the city and the other inching through regulatory procedures.

The high-tech meccas are still pursuing municipal wireless after the first bubble in that industry burst last year. The free-for-cities business model that was to have covered all major U.S. cities in Wi-Fi failed because of high costs and low subscription rates, with some thorny political battles thrown in. San Francisco was one of the most high-profile casualties.

Stephen Lawson | Read more...


Acrobat's new home on the Web

Wed, 02 Jul 2008

Remember when hardly a week went by in the early months of 2008 without some sort of Apple product announcement? The past few weeks, Adobe has been doing its best Apple imitation, with a slew of product news aimed at creative professionals.

Following the debut of a trio of public betas for the CS4 versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth, Adobe kicked off this week by introducing Acrobat 9 Pro. The new version of the PDF creation and editing tool should arrive in July, and Adobe has said that it will integrate Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro into Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Standard editions, Creative Suite 3.3 Web Premium and Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection editions. CS3 owners can upgrade for $159. Pricing for full versions, as well as a host of optional upgrade paths can be found at the Creative Suite page on Adobe’s Web site.

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