Category: Apple

Kerry Sanders and Bob Sullivan, NBC News:

The UDID – which stands for Unique Device Identifier – is present on Apple iPads, iPods and iPhones, and is similar to a serial number. During the past year, researchers have found that many app developers have used the UDID to help keep track of their users, storing the data in various databases and often associating it with other personal information. When matched with other information, the UDID can be used to track users’ app usage, social media usage or location. It could also be used to “push” potentially dangerous applications onto users’ Apple gadgets.

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It’s a little sad that those of us trying to do a good job can’t write full time, when morons like the ones listed in this article are probably raking it in.

Sigh.

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Apple has San Francisco’s Yerba Buena all done up with its logo set in front of a wildly colorful backdrop.

Here are some things all of this could mean.

• The new, taller iPhone screen will support color images. As have all iPhones.
• Apple will be releasing colorful new iPods alongside the new iPhone.
• The new iPhone will indeed ship with a taller screen. This is obvious looking at the vertical orientation of the graphics.
• Phil Schiller has listened to Narrow Stairs one too many times while staring at the album artwork.
• The new iPhone will come in colors, Lumia 920 style.
• Tim Cook designed the graphics after taking some LSD he found in Steve’s office.

Update: People on the Internet have too much free time.

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This is in my “must-run” command list when I set up a new Mac.

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Clayton Morris:

Get ready, because the iMacs are coming.

I’ve been hoping for an iMac update and it looks like my wish is about to come true! Multiple sources tell me that a new lineup of desktop machines from Apple is imminent.

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A similar thing happened to the store here in Memphis when I was employed as a Genius. Good times.

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“Gestures!”

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I love my bloc. We’re putting in several Apple TVs at work over the next few months, and I’ll be ordering one of these for each of them.

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Karan Varindani:

The iPod touch is a lot of kids’ first Apple device. That initial experience is what’ll convince them to get an iPhone in the future. And with Android (and now Windows Phone 8) strongly competing with the iPhone, it’s in Apple’s best interest to make that initial experience as appealing as possible.

While I’m not sure Windows Phone 8 is competing with anyone at this point, let alone “strongly,” Karan’s case is solid.

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With the Internet taking a collective poop in its pants about Apple’s iPhone event a week from today, rumors of an update to the iPod line have begun to take shape as well.

It’s about time the iPod family get an overhaul.

Let’s look at the iPod line, item by item. (If you want to hear a complete history of the iPod family, check out Episodes 20 and 21 of the 512 Podcast.)

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Rene Ritchie:

This information comes from sources who have been reliable in the past. While nothing is confirmed until Apple shows it off on stage, based on the parts, dummies, and other reports, it seems highly probable.

While I like Rene, that headline is awful. No one knows what the next iPhone will look like outside of a handful of people at Apple.

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Arnold Kim breaks down the gobs of “information” concerning what could be Apple’s next iPhone.

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