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By Stephen Hackett
Monthly Archives: September 2009
FCC Promoting Net Neutrality
Wired: FCC chairman Julius Genachowski delivered Monday on President Obama’s promise to back “net neutrality.” But he went much further than merely seeking to expand rules that prohibit ISPs from filtering or blocking net traffic — he proposed that they cover all broadband connections, including data connections for smartphones. It’s encouraging to see the Obama [...]
More on the Macintosh Portable
Technologizer: On September 20th, 1989, Apple released the Macintosh Portable, the first true mobile Mac and a much-maligned machine. It didn’t sell well and is very rare today–not due to any particular design failure, but because the original price was a whopping $6,500-$7,300 ($11,288 to $12,677 in 2009 dollars). It wasn’t the only Mac to [...]
Apple Portables Turn 20 Today
The Apple Blog: The Mac Portable development project was launched in 1986, not long before Steve Jobs’ departure from Apple, and the product was first released for sale on September 20, 1989. It was featured on the cover of the November 1989 edition of MacUser magazine, which called it “by far the most complex piece [...]
App Store Taking Central Stage?
iPodNN: The App Store is believed to be the current center of Apple’s attention, as iPod sales are flattening after years of growth. The problem, says BusinessWeek, is that record labels are now more dependent than ever on Apple, as some 90 percent of US digital music sales are handled through the iTunes Store, and [...]
‘There’s AT&T’
From iLounge’s review of the original iPhone: There are some issues. First, there’s AT&T. If you’ve ever had doubts about the company, they’re not going to go away with iPhone: we’ve experienced very significant problems activating two of our iPhones, attributable not to iTunes but rather to AT&T, and its customer service has been atrocious. [...]
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire?
The FCC has posted Google’s responses to the government’s inquiry into the Google Voice app being banned from the App Store. From reading through it, it seems that Apple did indeed reject the application, contrary to what Apple’s Phil Schiller stated a few weeks ago.
One Device to Replace Them All
Kottke: Once someone has an iPhone, it is going to be tough to persuade them that they also need to spend money on and carry around a dedicated GPS device, point-and-shoot camera, or tape recorder unless they have an unusual need. But the real problem for other device manufacturers is that all of these iPhone [...]
A History Lesson on iTunes
Mac|Life: About 10 months later, at Macworld San Francisco in 2001, Apple debuted iTunes alongside iDVD and the CD-RW-enabled Power Macs. While it wasn’t exactly a show-stopper (though 275,000 copies were downloaded in the first week), the “world’s best and easiest to use ‘jukebox’ software” definitely raised the bar for music players on the Mac, [...]
WSJ to Charge for Mobile Content
Oh boy: Beginning Oct. 24, the WSJ Mobile Reader application, currently available on BlackBerry smartphones and Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices, will require a separate mobile subscription for full access to Journal subscription content. The application itself will remain free to download and contain both free and subscription content, emulating the experience found on [...]
