Archive | September, 2009
If the iPhone is the MJ of smartphones, then what does that make AT&T?
This weekend, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse raised some eyebrows when he called the iPhone the “Michael Jordan” of smartphones. Q: Is the Palm Pre making a dent into the iPhone market? A: Aaah… It’s-it’s doing well, but you can almost put the iPhone, to be fair, in a separate category. The Apple brand and that […]
Continue reading...Why the new Motorola Cliq won’t be a hit
14. September 2009
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Last week, Motorola unveiled its latest attempt to remain relevant in a mobile industry that seemingly passed them by in a heartbeat – the Motorola Cliq. The Cliq features a new Motorola technology called “Motoblur”, a feature which “Motoblur streams your emails, conversations and friends right into your phone. Only Motoblur can sync them all, […]
Continue reading...What ever happened to these Snow Leopard features?
14. September 2009
Snow Leopard is admittedly low on new eye candy features, which makes us wonder what ever happened to these window resizing features, originally spotted a few months ago. Were they fake, or did Apple decide to remove them? Our take is that the features above look better in a demo than would translate into actual […]
Continue reading...Video Showdown: iPod Nano v. Flip SD
13. September 2009
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a point at last weeks media event to compare the new video capable iPod Nano to the popular lineup of Flip Video Cameras. Now you might get a lot more bang for your buck with the Nano, but if you’re solely interested in shooting video, how do the two devices […]
Continue reading...Apple releases source code to Grand Central Dispatch under open source license
12. September 2009
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The recent release of Snow Leopard marks Apple’s first attempt since the initial release of OS X to focus almost exclusively on under the hood system performance and take a breather from a rapid infusion of marketable features. One of the more significant under the hood improvements in Snow Leopard is Grand Central Dispatch, a […]
Continue reading...iTunes LP first impressions
12. September 2009
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Jay Robinson takes a closer look at the iTunes LP bundles, and overall, he thinks there’s a lot to like. He concludes: As a music fan, and as a web developer, I couldn’t be more pleased with the new iTunes LP offering. If your audience is significantly Apple-oriented (e.g. a site about Mac rumors or […]
Continue reading...iPod Touch 3G teardown reveals spot for a camera
11. September 2009
iFixIt was up to their old tricks today with their customary iPod Touch teardown. Not surprisingly, the internals reveal that Apple did indeed clear some room for a camera It appears that Apple left in room for a camera in the top of the device. There is a 6mm x 6mm x 3mm space between […]
Continue reading...“Flight Control” for the iPhone nets over 1.5 million downloads in less than 6 months
11. September 2009
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The popularity of the “Flight Control” app for the iPhone and iPod Touch has really taken off since its release last April. Bad puns aside, the game from the Melbourne, Australia based Firemint development studio has enjoyed almost unparalleled success in a relatively short period of time. Earlier this week, Firemint announced that their “Flight […]
Continue reading...More video footage from the iPod Nano
11. September 2009
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Check out this iPod Nano video footage of Bill Lonero straight shreddin’, courtesy of Jim Dalrymple of LoopInsight. Dalrymple notes that the new Nano “records video at 640 x 480 with millions of colors in the .mp4 H.264 format”, and at a framerate of 29.97 framers per second. And in case you’re curious, Dalrymple notes […]
Continue reading...Will a camera-enabled iPod Touch arrive by Christmas?
11. September 2009
Last we checked, the “new” iPod Touch’s have yet to hit any Apple Stores, and despite Steve Jobs assertions to the contrary, something’s afoot here. The most likely explanation is that cameras were, in fact, poised to be in the new iPod Touch models, but that quality issues forced Apple to readjust midstream and simply […]
Continue reading...iPod Nano teardown [Photos]
11. September 2009
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True to form, the folks at iFixIt wasted no time at all in ripping apart the new video camera enabled iPod Nano. Here’s what the front of the logic board looks like. Ohhhh…. ahhhh. And here’s what the entire thing looks like taken apart, bit by bit, and piece by piece. You can check out […]
Continue reading...Is Dan Lyons slowly turning into Rob Enderle?
10. September 2009
Dan Lyons might slowly be morphing into Rob Enderle before our very eyes. In a recent article about Snow Leopard, Lyons writes that things are amok over at Apple, an opinion he bases on “unimpressive reports on the performance of Snow Leopard.” Hmm, last time we checked, Snow Leopard has been getting glowing reviews at […]
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14. September 2009
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