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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010iTablet iPhone iThingy roundup
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Aside from the usual random speculation about Steve Jobs worldchanging release in a few hours time, there have been a few interesting articles recently, namely
- AT&T may no longer be the exclusive iPhone carrier in the US
- Amazon changing their royalty structure to encourage vendors to price their books at US$9.99, either scared of the new device’s market, or colluding with Apple to provide content for it?
- Google releasing Google voice for the iPhone via a web page rather than as an App Apple would have to approve
- The question of which input method the device will use (will Apple extend the iPhones Voice Control crack the voice recognition problem?), and of course
- the invite to the launch event itself (colour e-ink anyone?)
- 20 things about the hyped iPhone/iTablet/iSlate
- Doonesbury are devoting a week of strips to the launch
- Will this have anything to do with Apple hiring the Yale head of business school to start the Apple University
- Or AMD’s refresh of its low cost processors
- Apple’s stock price currently at US$215.59, up from around US$83 a year ago. Soon to come crashing down after the hype singularity of the launch as analysts realise that even the second coming of the Jesus phone can’t live up to everyone’s expectations. (Hint – follow the old Apple employee’s maxim of ’sell before the keynote’)
I also wonder what the cool feature will be… Mesh networking? Biofeedback? Merging with other nearby devices to form a larger device? Inbuilt projector?
It will also be interesting to see if Apple launches any updates to their 17 inch MacBook Pro as they would probably always have done if they were attending MacWorld this year. Also, I predict an iPhone software update, an iTunes update and a Mac OS X update.
Now, lets sit back and see how wrong we all are…
App store hits 2 billionth download.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Apple has announced that the 2 billionth application has been downloaded from the App Store.
The second billion only took 5 months. The store has 85,000 apps and 125,000 developers, with more than 50 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold in 77 countries.
Graphs of downloads and Apps on the store:
Number of Applications on Apple's App Store
Number of downloads from Apple's App Store
Mac Portable teardown
Monday, September 21st, 200920 years on, Technologizer does a Macintosh Portable teardown. Dig that 10 hour lead-acid battery, I wonder if you could retrofit a LiIon powerpack? And a bigger hard drive… and more RAM…
Apple’s iPhone App Wall
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009TechCrunch has some photos of the very cool iPhone App Wall at WWDC. Every time you buy an App an angel gets its wings (or at least, its icon bounces).
WWDC 2009 live coverage
Monday, June 8th, 2009MacRumors are providing MacRumorsLive, @macrumors on twitter, and a spoiler free keynote stream to notify you when the keynote video coverage is up (ie not live).
John C. Welch will be twittering the keynote for MacJournals magazines (MWJ, MDJ).
For Aussies, MacTalk are offering
- IRC – irc.foonetic.net #mactalk
- Live audio commentary – iPhone and iPod Touch users install the fstream app and go to http://mactalk.serverroom.us:7920/listen.pls
- Live text updates
Coverage starts at 2:30am Melbourne time (UTC/GMT+10) for all those up late with Swine Flu.
iPhone Oracle and MySQL client – jHeidi
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009If you can’t get away from your databases, you can at least talk to them from your iPhone using the iPhone version of jHeidi (presumably not using Java on the iPhone…). Supports Oracle and MySQL, only $3.99.
This is my iPod, this is my gun…
Friday, April 24th, 2009…this is for fighting, this is for fun.
Newsweek reports that the US Army are using iPod Touches and some iPhones for translation and other purposes. They’re cheap, rugged and many recruits are already familiar with using them.
Could be quite interesting if integrated with DARPA’s locationally aware wiki TIGR.
Not sure if the users get to upload their own content onto them though.
Apple pulls baby shaking iPhone App
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Unsurprisingly, Apple has pulled an iPhone App game where the aim is to shake a baby to death.
Surprisingly, they approved it in the first place?
17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro now shipping in 5-7 days
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009As of last Friday apparently the Australian Apple Store is now listing the 17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro as shipping within 5-7 days.
A reminder also that students, teachers and educational professionals are also able to get $176 rebate if they purchase an iPod with an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
