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iPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 25th 2008 7:40PM A little education is a dangerous thing...
A lot of us seem to have never learnt or bothered to acquire the discipline of "finishing touches", of "dotting our i's" and "crossing our t's", and it shows up in the most surprising places and in surprising ways - the atrocious grammar and spelling of some blog posters and editors, for instance.
It becomes a more serious matter entirely when dodgy documentation for help files and appendixes, buggy and memory-hogging code etc start to appear in the AppStore for sale or free distribution on a platform that has a reputation for obsessive attention to detail.
Sheesh, guys! Let's get some perspective here - we've barely cleared 14 days of maiden applications deployment and some people are expecting 5 updates and revisions to clear the test beds and hit the shop?
Failure to plan is no different from planning to fail: some things take time because they simply have to, and surely software evaluation is one of those processes.
To do otherwise would be to increase the amount of junk in the AppStore, which is already starting to raise eyebrows among those of us who have traditionally expected better.
Apple extends MobileMe subscriptions by 30 days {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 16th 2008 2:44PM Good work here, Big John, you're actually doing what the so-called journalists here have shamefully failed to do - take a bad situation and make it better, leading by example.
It is better to light a candle than to sit cursing the darkness...
PC Safari use triples despite backlash {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 4th 2008 5:40AM Worked for me, was almost a mind-blowing stunt of prescient proportions on Apple's part:
I'd just gotten over my grief at AOL's discontinuation of support for my all-time fave browser, the Netscape 9 series, which had started to badger me to switch either to Firefox (already got it) or Flock, when lo and behold, the QuickTime update reminded me that I had a further choice - Safari.
With barely a nanosecond's hesitation, Safari was on it's way down to my machine. Still checking it out, still evaluating, but without a doubt, it's gonna be my replacement for Netscape Navigator, which is sorely missed.
Shady business practices work: Apple dramatically increases Safari users {Download Squad}
May 1st 2008 8:58PM Worked for me, was almost a mind-blowing stunt of prescient proportions on Apple's part:
I'd just gotten over my grief at AOL's discontinuation of support for my all-time fave browser, the Netscape 9 series, which had started to badger me to switch either to Firefox (already got it) or Flock, when lo and behold, the QuickTime update reminded me that I had a further choice - Safari.
With barely a nanosecond's hesitation, Safari was on it's way down to my machine. Still checking it out, still evaluating, but without a doubt, it's my replacement for Netscape Navigator, which will be sorely missed.
Sneaky Safari Updater opinion roundup {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 23rd 2008 8:51AM Yeah, it came as a surprise, but a pleasant one, it must be said, and I'll explain for why...
(That's ancient English anyway, for you Grammar Nazis)
I've just dried my eyes over the recent discontinuation of support for my favourite Netscape Navigator browser when the thought occurred to me that it could be a good time to give Safari a try.
I honestly suspected for a second that Apple Inc actually have bots placed in my head when I saw the download prompt - "is this Reality Distortion Field more than a journalistic metaphor" I thought.
Well, I decided it was just convenient coincidence and downloaded it anyway. Will test it later this week and decide what to do with it.
Minority Report-like interface gets demoed at CeBIT {Engadget}
Mar 12th 2008 7:18AM I see where you're going Jake: some kind of workflow chain where one person "preps" the product and "tosses" it along the line for another to continue, and so on and so forth (and possibly back again or back and forth).
The guys in the video didn't appear to have any practical aim to their demo other than showing the zooming and movinng capabilities.
The next step - practical applications of the science?
Rogue Amoeba on code signing, iPhone SDK {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 11th 2008 11:49PM As Steve Jobs and his cohorts have learned only too painfully over the last three decades, with Freedom comes Responsibility. Even the "Supreme Commander of the Rebels", as KPCB's John Doerr affectionately called him, has had to embrace the lessons of entrepreneurship, even more so now that Apple Inc is finally about to engage enterprise customers. It's now about far more than I-me-mine.
And guess what, that applies to the end-user too, but from the self-centred opinions I see constantly bandied about on these and similar blogs, that's a lesson most of us have yet to learn. Regardless, actions will always have consequences, it's a Law of Existence.
Rogue Amoeba on code signing, iPhone SDK {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 11th 2008 11:30PM Photoshop - WTF!
LoL, I get your point, Thomas, but something tells me that in the not-too-distant Moore's-Law future we will smile knowingly as we look back at that remark, while performing impossible unsharp-mask and smart sharpen operations on our iNewton 7.0 holo-mobiles and write the results directly to electronic billboards as we pass them by on our aero-segways.
Apple to allow VoIP on iPhone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 9th 2008 10:59AM Skype/VoIP over WiFi would be the perfect solution for avoiding roaming charges outside a carriers coverage area.
I don't consider it fair to use a carrier's own network and avoid carrier charges at the same time, that only makes sense from a self-centred point of view.
Sun working on Java for the iPhone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 9th 2008 7:44AM .... and as for the multi-tasking and memory management limitations so many iPhone detractors and fanboys alike are crowing about, that I am sure is an on-going development issue that will likely be resolved with software and firmware upgrades as time goes by, if not before late June when this all kicks off for real.
