Other than giving a bunch of Apple fans the initiative to call me nasty names (go here to understand why), the real question I’d like you to consider is, “Can anyone beat Apple?”
The answer is yes. No company is impossible to beat. Clearly, Apple has been pounded in the past, but with every cell phone and MP3 player company on the planet focused on kicking Apple’s hind end, why the heck hasn’t anyone been able to do it yet?
Read more »"Nike+ will definitely be extending its compatibility beyond the iPod Nano to the iPhone and iPod touch. No surprise there really, but the interesting detail is that it could also make use of both devices Wi-Fi (and, ultimately for the iPhone, 3G capability) to let you update your training log on the fly. Once you’ve legged round your local park you’ll be able to send the data (probably via a software app like the one the new SportBand uses) wirelessly without having to sit down and drip sweat over your computer. Very cool," Mark Wilson reports for Stuff.tv.
Read more »Rumours have been rampant for months since the launch of the iPhone in the USA back mid-2007 regarding Australia's chance to taste the iPhone. There have been many dates and leaks of false info, so much so that some people even think Australia is never going to get it. Today however, Apple have been informing resellers of their iPhone strategy for Australia.
Read more »Apple's next-gen iPhone "will launch at WWDC 2008, in two or possible three different configurations, and prices starting at US$399. There are a few other tweaks, which, however, may be less than you would expect from a next-gen iPhone," Richard Felton reports for TG Daily.
Read more »The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is just around the corner and we all may be surprised how Apple’s unified communication solution could merge mobile communication with VoIP, PCs, Macs, iPhones and even Apple TVs," Christian Zibreg writes for TG Daily.
Zibreg writes, "We took a hard, long look at the information that is available right now from reports as well as patent filings to give you an outlook what Apple might be up to, why we are quite certain that VoIP and videoconferencing will be the iPhone’s new killer applications."
Read more »Apple Inc.'s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh, AppleInsider has learned," Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
Read more »The latest build of the iPhone SDK includes support for a 3G chipset. Apple has introduced the third version of its iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), in doing so it has once again fueled expectations of a 3G iPhone.
The latest SDK alongside freshly-updated resources for developers, such as a new tutorial for building applications using Interface Builder and updated documentation are all available from the iPhone Dev Centre now.
Read more »These Firmware Updates are avalaible via Software Update and also as standalone installers
Read more »Where are all the iPhones? Apple sold 3.7 million of its hit mobile phones last year, but its official partners only registered 2.3 million new customers. Meanwhile, many of its U.S. retail stores are selling out of the handsets. Apple is tight-lipped, but the two stories could be related.
Read more »"Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey," Eric Bangeman reports for Ars Technica.
Read more »"Apple might have finally come around to allowing third party developers to create applications for the iPhone, but only up to a point. ZDNet UK claims Apple is leaving itself vulnerable to the competition and to a loss of lustre by blocking background tasks on the device. The author notes, 'Perhaps it doesn't trust application designers or users very much. Perhaps it wants the best software for itself, where it can limit what it can do in order not to upset its telco friends. Whatever the reason, it reflects badly on Apple.
Read more »"And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the 0-day patch rate. What they found: 'Apple was below 20 [unpatched vulnerabilities at disclosure] consistently before 2005,' said Stefan Frei, one of the researchers involved in the study.
Read more »"Apple is poised to become the most powerful company in technology and along the way it'll definitely court its share of individuals who will despise its every move. And let's face it -- a company doesn't become the most dominant by being the nicest on the block," Don Reisinger blogs for CNET.
Read more »"The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world's consumers, while Microsoft and the United States nation brand are those considered most in need of a remake, a survey showed on Monday," Rachel Sanderson reports for Reuters
Read more »Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted...
Read more »The best way to understand the situation facing iTunes is to look at other business models for distribution that don’t require the ownership of music. Take terrestrial radio, for example. One can live off this as a source of music forever and for free. Because the advertisers pay to have time in between songs to sell you stuff. The radio station uses this money to pay a per song fee to the record label for broadcasting the song.
Read more »APPLE SAID yesterday that it's offering the latest release of its Safari web browser to Windows users through Apple Software Update.
Read more »Apple says recent developments in computers and computer graphics have made spatial 3-D images more practical and accessible.
Read more »Is Apple rethinking its music strategy?
As part of a deal to offer devices featuring preprogrammed music, Apple would have to agree to share sales revenue from the devices with the labels, says a source close to the deal. Cutting the labels in on iPod or iPhone revenue would mark a sharp turn in Apple's strategy.
Read more »Complaints about overheating notebooks — Apple doesn’t call them laptops anymore for reasons that become obvious once you use them for a few minutes — surfaced soon after the release of both the MacBook Pro in early 2006 and the MacBook later that spring
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