Category: Apple
An Open Letter to the Apple News Community on Steve Jobs’ Health, Professional Boundaries and Not Being Douchebags
Dear Apple-centric media,
It’s time we had a chat. I think you know what this is about.
Writing about rumors concerning Steve Jobs’ health is not only unprofessional, but it is disrespectful.
I get that a lot of people think that Steve Jobs equals Apple. Not only is that incorrect, but it places an unfair burden on Jobs.
I totally understand that living in the public spotlight means that privacy sometimes is difficult to come by. I really do understand that. But there are still lines. While I find it distasteful, I get that the Mac Rumors[1. Update: Mac Rumors moved this story to its Page 2 section since my post first went up.] and Apple Insider teams feels compelled to report that Jobs has been seen at a cancer treatment clinic.
On Four Inches
App developers would then have three sets of resolutions to support for the iPhone instead of two, and scaling from 960 x 640 to 1080 x 720 wouldn’t be anywhere near as simple as the pixel-doubling that got developers by in the early days before they were able to scale apps up from 480 x 320 resolution.
via MacStories
On Sparrow’s Roots
Be sure to check this great interview at Cult of Mac on the new Gmail client for the Mac.
The Thirty Percent
Apple is betting that the allure of being tied into their incredibly efficient iTunes payment ecosystem (along with its 100 million + accounts tied to credit cards) will outweigh the downside of having to pay them a 30 percent fee. The same 30 percent fee they currently take from the thousands of app developers collectively making billions of dollars off of the App Store. And the same 30 percent fee they currently take for all other types of in-app purchases.
‘Five Years of Goodness’
Low End Mac’s Dan Knight takes a look back at the MacBook Pro.
The Verizon iPhone 4: One Week In
A week ago, my Verizon-powered iPhone 4 showed up at my door.
Longtime readers know that I switched to Verizon over a year ago, and carried a Motorola Droid, a Palm Pre Plus and a Razr over the last 13 months.
For me, Verizon’s coverage is better than AT&T’s. In fact, AT&T’s coverage was so poor where I spend most of my time, even the iPhone wasn’t enough to keep me on the network.
On the iPad and Blogging
This is one of the main reasons I sold my tablet.
Apple, on the Foxconn Suicides
Like many of our customers and others around the world, we were disturbed and deeply saddened to learn that factory workers were taking their own lives at the Shenzhen facility of Foxconn.
Recognizing that we would need additional expertise to help prevent further tragedies, we launched an international search for the most knowledgeable suicide prevention specialists—particularly those with experience in China— and asked them to advise Apple and Foxconn.
On Antenna Diversity
Inside, the CDMA iPhone has a substantially changed antenna and RF design to accommodate that diversity. There are two cellular antennas in the CDMA version, as opposed to one in the UMTS version. With the phone facing up, the first cellular antenna consists of the new strip at the very top. The second is the strip running from the bottom left, across the bottom, and up the right side of the phone. The far left side with volume buttons and the vibrate switch is part of the WiFi and Bluetooth antenna.
iPhone Nano Mockup
Ben Brooks, on Twitterrific
I think it is unfair to hold the Iconfactory guys to a bar set by Twitter.app — built by the service’s in-house developr and released very late in Twitterrific 4.0’s development cycle. That said, I think Ben’s done a good job at listing the app’s shortcomings.
Twitteriffic — on all platforms — is a complex app. Craig Hockenberry and his team give users more than one way to do things. I think most of these will get resolved quickly — the Iconfactory has always been very quick to fix things. Besides, most of what Ben doesn’t like could be solved by giving the users more options — the very thing the developer is prone to do.