The recent outbreak of in-store “planking” by Apple retail employees has led to the firing today of a midwest U.S. employee, highlighting how closely Apple monitors the Web in general and employee blogs in particular, where personal or incriminating information might be posted.
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Today’s termination came after a Store Leader noticed an employee planking photo on the Web and recognized the employee. In an email to IFO, the employee said the Store Leader then somehow located the employee’s personal blog, “wherein they found a post talking about myself and a coworker allegedly drinking during last month’s store meeting.”
Category: Apple
‘Your Data is the Computer’
This is the new world that Apple is creating. Where your data resides, the device you use to access it, how it is saved, where it is saved, how to manipulate it, how to back it up, how to recover if you make changes to it that you did not intend, all will be things you don’t have to think about.
Your data will be available to you on any device you own. It will be left exactly as you last left it. You can open it in any application that it is able to open it. Should your computer crash, do not fear, your data is safe. And when you get a new machine, simply log into it and all of your data will be there in short order. Buy a new Mac, a new iPhone, and new iPad, simply log in and the data will be there too.
It’s the Little Things
Someone clearly spent some time on these sidebar icons from Finder in Lion. Impressive work:
More on Shared AppleIDs and iCloud
To sum it up, it is still possible to use iCloud for your personal stuff, but a shared Apple ID for you and your family. For me, the key was to skip the automated iCloud setup at the iOS welcome walk-through.
[via Shawn Blanc]
iCloud: A Study of Apple and Google
Of all the things Apple announced at WWDC, iCloud is the most difficult to explain. After watching the keynote and reading Apple’s site, the whole thing is so big it is hard to think about.
As John Gruber pointed out in this week’s The Talk Show, not everything in iCloud is actually new. iBooks has been using the “it just works” sync-like features since the service launched over a year ago. MobileMe’s contact and calendar sync has been pushing data between devices for years.
Evernote Peek Harnesses Smart Cover Power
This is the sort of thing that excited me when Apple announced the Smart Cover.
Paul Thurrott, Professional Douchebag
Leading off his recap of WWDC:
No discussion of a modern day Apple event can occur without at least some passing mention of Steve Jobs, who now both looks and sounds like he’s dying. I’m sorry to have to write that, and I know people get freaked whenever anyone has the temerity to even mention it, but come on. Aside from the weird psychological needs of a guy who feels he needs to market the hell out of products before an adoring crowd even though he is clearly–and literally–a shadow of his former self, the whole thing is just sad. Suffice to say I’m really pulling for the guy. But I am afraid for him.
Fourth Round
Steve Jobs is apparently hoping that iCloud will break Apple’s losing streak on building cloud-based devices, and he’s hoping that the tens of millions of dollars the company has poured into its gigantic new data center in North Carolina will make the difference this time. But he may be stuck with the strengths and weaknesses of the company he has built over the last 35 years. We wish him well, but we won’t be surprised to see stories in the coming months about iCloud having performance and reliability issues.
Guest Post: On Lion, the Mac App Store and the Future
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Marilyn Halpin. She and her husband run mac-fusion, an Apple-Authorized Service Provider in Signal Hill, CA. As such, she knows all about Apple support in the realms of education and business.
Yesterday’s announcement of Lion and Lion Server being only available in the Mac App Store made me cringe. Not because I will no longer be able to sell it. Not because I will lose what tiny bit of profit there was on it. Not because I have a love of physical DVD media. Not because you have to be on Snow Leopard to have this option.1 I cringe because of how this shift to the Mac App Store works in the corporate world. As of today there isn’t a great way to deploy apps that are available in the Mac or iOS App stores. If you have 50 users that need FileMaker Go I can’t just buy a volume license of it and push it to their iPhones and iPads. I can’t use one Apple ID to manage 50 computers and apps that are only available through the Mac App Store. While there are several work arounds, none of them are optimal:
On Nerds and Beta Software
I was chatting with Aaron Mahnke this morning about some things concerning iCloud and iOS 5 and I had a thought:
Beta is stressful.
I am not an app developer, by any stretch of the imagination. Programming is the one part about computers that I just don’t understand.
But I do have access to a developer account. So both my iPad and iPhone 4 are running beta software at the moment.
iCloud and Apple IDs
I’ve been thinking about how to take advantage of this iCloud love and am afraid I may have some trouble. My iTunes account is really old and affiliated with an older e-mail address. When I joined .Mac so many moons ago, I created a separate Apple ID, my .MAC account (which later became my MobileMe account). This has never been a problem. I’ve bought lots of apps, books, music, and video with the old iTunes account and the MobileMe account handles e-mail, calendar, and address book.
Need to Burn a Lion Boot Disc?
According to Thomas Brand, it’s pretty easy:
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Purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Mac running Snow Leopard.
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Right click on “Mac OS X Lion” installer and choose the option to “Show Package Contents.”
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Inside the Contents folder that appears you will find a SharedSupport folder and inside the SharedSupport folder you will find the “InstallESD.dmg.” This is the Lion boot disc we have all been waiting for.