Horace Dediu talks about what it means to be Apple-like.
Category: Apple
iTunes Movie Bundles⇢
There are a lot of movie bundles on sale right now over on iTunes. I picked up a couple at a ridiculous price.
September 10⇢
Ina Fried at All Things D:
Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone at a special event on Sept. 10, sources told AllThingsD.
The launch comes at an important time for Apple, which continues to make a lot of money from the iPhone but has seen its global market share dip amid a growing wave of lower-cost Android devices as well as an intense battle with archrival Samsung.
Tim Cook has said this fall is going be a busy one for Apple. If this is true, we have 30 days until the madness begins.
The Market for Used Mac minis⇢
The guys at Macminicolo break down why used Mac minis go for so much dough.
The Newtonians⇢
Wired takes a look at the Cult of Newton.
In college, I used an upgraded MessagePad 2000 to take notes in class. I had the official hardware keyboard, and synced it all back to my PowerBook. This article makes me want to pick one up again.
App Updates and iOS 7⇢
Craig Hockenberry:
Like many of my fellow developers, I am in the middle of an update of an app for iOS 7. As you’d expect, it’s a lot more work than previous versions of iOS. But results are stunning: both David Lanham and I have commented that our shipping version was “feeling old and clunky.”
While cranking along on the update, a couple of thoughts occurred to me: how many other developers were doing the same thing and were they going to commit fully to iOS 7? The depth and breadth of the changes in iOS 7 makes it difficult to support older versions of the OS.
On OS ‘Ten’⇢
Dr. Drang:
On ATP 25, Casey Liss was shamed after asking whether the new Logic Pro X should be pronounced “Logic Pro Ex” or “Logic Pro Ten.” This came a few days after a similar incident on The Prompt when poor Myke Hurley was laughed at for saying “Logic Pro Ex.”1 And there was, I believe, an incident back in January on The Frequency when Haddie Cooke committed the unforgivable sin of saying “Oh Ess Ex” instead of “Oh Ess Ten.”
On Connecting Newton devices to OS X⇢
Matt Gemmell breaks it down.
Mansfield Out as SVP of Technologies⇢
John Paczkowski:
“Bob is no longer going to be on Apple’s executive team, but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Tim,” company spokesman Steve Dowling told AllThingsD. He declined any further explanation, refusing to comment on the reasons behind Mansfield’s abrupt demotion or whether Apple plans to appoint a new SVP of technologies.
Mansfield, of course, came out of retirement to go back to Apple, and last fall to head up the then-new Technologies group after Forstall was canned by Tim Cook.
Quote of the Day⇢
Myke Hurley:
The next time anyone complains about the iPhone design not changing, point them to the Porsche 911.
Apple’s Developer Site Back Up⇢
Welcome back, friend. I’m curious if we’ll see any fallout from the week of downtime.
Apple Publishes Update on Developer Site Outage⇢
Apple:
We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Apple Developer Forums, Bug Reporter, pre-release developer libraries, and videos first. Next, we will restore software downloads, so that the latest betas of iOS 7, Xcode 5, and OS X Mavericks will once again be available to program members. We’ll then bring the remaining systems online. To keep you up to date on our progress, we’ve created a status page to display the availability of our systems.