Just to add to yesterday’s post: this morning, I updated 37 iPads from iOS 5 to iOS 5.0.1 in less than two hours. I set them out on a table and walked down the line hitting “update” on each, then walked away.
Category: Apple
On Hong Kong and the iPhone 4S
We mentioned in passing that the iPhone 4S had sold out in ten minutes at the Hong Kong Apple Store, but given these pictures that have been posted online since, a statement like that doesn’t really do the launch justice. That place looks like a madhouse – thousands of people lined up to buy Apple’s new iPhone, and the police were out in force with barricades and dogs to make sure everything went smoothly. Black market salesmen were buying and selling iPhones outside the store, apparently, and leaving the queue got your picture taken and your number checked. There were even “professional queuers,” low income workers that were paid to simply stand in line and buy the phone when it became available.
OS X Lion Certifications Live
I guess it is time for me to update my ACSP.
Even if you don’t take the exam, the Peachpit book is a great resource to keep handy.
Apple Storefronts
Thomas Park has put together a website showing every single Apple Store. While most of Apple’s stores look pretty similar, it’s nice to easily see some of the more wild ones.
Saddle Creek — Store 011 — is my old stomping ground.
The Biography
I finished Steve Jobs over the weekend, and wanted to share my two biggest impressions:
Steve was broken
I can’t even count how many times Steve is portrayed in the book as crying or breaking down. He would fall apart in meetings, on phone calls and on walks.
Steve often befriended someone, just to use and discard them later. He struggled with the fact he had been adopted and later abandoned his own daughter for a time.
Adobe to Cease Work on Mobile Flash
Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology. For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices.
Sandboxing is the First Step
Developers are concerned Apple’s limited list of entitlements will make their applications incompatible with the future of the Mac. They have a reason to be concerned. It may not happen in Mac OS 10.8 or even 10.9 but someday soon the filesystem will be gone. Sandboxing is only the first step. The operating system on today’s Macs can already be restored from the net. The applications we use everyday can be already downloaded from the web. And very soon the data we use across all of our computers will be backed up in the cloud. Disk Utilities, Anti-virus software, and filesystem browsers will all be ill relevant. Computers will be more reliable, easier to use, and everything will be downloadable from the internet. Application and not the filesystem are the future of computing. You may not agree with this vision of the future, but mark my words it is coming. The sandbox is only the first step.
Unsanity: We’re Still Here
Currently, none of our products are enabled to work on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”. The core APE component part works, but that’s useless without haxies and it’s disabled because of it. So it’ll be a few weeks or a few months before we get these into beta.
Honestly, I had forgotten these guys were around.
By Simple, I Mean Idiotic
It seems the new in-app EasyPay is as simple as it seems.
The Lost EasyPay Video
The guys who made this video were rumored to have been canned for it.
On the New Apple Store App, Retail Stress and Hipster-Salespeople
Vlad Savov at the Verge, on the new Apple Store iPhone App:
It allows you to scan the barcode on “select accessories” into your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S and then pay right inside the app, walking out of the physical Store without having to ever trouble a sales assistant. The Personal Pickup option is rather more self-explanatory, as it allows you to order up an item via the app and pick it up at your designated Apple Store, typically within an hour of placing the order.
Apple Launches Adapter Replacement Program
New in the knowledge base:
Apple may provide customers a replacement adapter if the power adapter shows signs of strain relief.