Apple might have some work to do…
Year: 2012
iCloud and Windows
iCloud for Windows got an update today too, but there’s not much to say about it.
On the Blue and White →
Thomas Brand:
Production of the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) was short lived, being replaced by the Power Macintosh G4 less than a year later. It would end up being one of the most stable and long lasting machines Apple ever built, running Mac OS 8.5.1 in 1999 all the way up to Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger in 2007. Its innovative El Capitan case would go on to inspire the look of future professional desktop Macs, and the technologies it brought with it like FireWire and the New World ROM would bring Apple into the next decade.
The Blue and White was the first “pro” machine I ever used. It was rock solid.
iOS 6 Released →
Over 200 new features. Look for my mini-review in this month’s System Extension.
10.8.2 Released →
Lots of goodies, but this is my favorite:
iMessages sent to your phone number now appear in Messages on your Mac
Hooray!
Apple disallows ‘pcast’ URL scheme in iOS 6 →
Now, pcast:// links will just open Apple’s own Podcast app. Instacast has implemented an icast:// scheme, but I don’t see that really taking off unless other apps do it too.
This is a step backwards.
Security Blankets
I’m typing this on my iPhone. I’m on my back, with my almost-four-year-old son pressed against my left side. He’s breathing evenly, so I know he’s finally drifted off to sleep.
Tonight at bed time, I couldn’t find his blanket. It’s blue, with a print of khaki-colored cars on one side.
He calls it his “boppie,” a word his little sister invented to describe her favorite blanket.
My wife is out with a girlfriend to a movie, so my SOS text message went unanswered. When I broke the news to him and offered another blanket, Josiah lost it. I couldn’t stand it, so here I am, in a tiny bed, being his security blanket for a little while longer.
Hopefully, in a few years, he won’t need his boppie or me to fall asleep.
The iPhone 5 review embargo just broke. I retweeted a few links before putting the kids to bed, but I haven’t read a word of them. I’m too busy being a dad, and at this moment, a writer.
In many ways, our iPhones are our boppies. We obsess over them. We need to know where they are at all times. We freak out if we can’t find them.
(Doubt this? Just check out the first few seconds of Apple’s iPhone 5 video.)
Maybe we just need to rest and breathe evenly for a while.
AT&T 4G LTE now available in Memphis →
Just in time for the iPhone.
‘I’m in love with the API’ →
This week on the 512 Podcast, Myke and I talk about the iPhones we ordered, Twitter’s new iPads, the Verge and Clamshell iBooks.
This week’s show was made possible thanks to Squarespace 6.
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What if Apple were added to the Dow Jones? →
Adam Nash:
As of September 17, 2012, AAPL closed at 699.781/share. As it turns out, if Dow Jones had added Apple instead of Cisco in 2009, the index would now be at 16,617.82. Hard to think that hitting all new highs wouldn’t be material for market psychology and the election.
Without Apple, the Dow sits at 13,553.10. It seems silly to me not to include Apple, and it really speaks volumes that a group of people thought Cisco was the way to go.
NYC Fox affiliate blows iPhone 5 story →
Michael Rose at TUAW:
As pointed out by 9to5Mac, the coverage package of interviews with line-waiters at the 5th Avenue store who are anticipating the Friday launch took a rather surreal turn. The reporter breathlessly cites “a laser keyboard and holographic images” for the new iPhone, as a clip plays showing those capabilities.
It seems Fox’s lack of concern for truthful reporting extends beyond politics.