Category: Apple
What a Difference Ten Years Makes
Macworld’s Benj Edwards has a great look back at Mac OS X Public Beta, released ten years go:
When users got their hands on the Public Beta, reviews were mixed but optimistic. It was obvious that OS X represented a promising future for Apple, but the company still had a long way to go in terms of producing a fully mature OS. Apple collected bug reports and ideas for its new beta through an Internet-enabled suggestion box in the Apple menu.
How the new Nano was Designed
Hilarious. And sad.
iLounge Reviews the iPod nano
Jeremy Horwitz, on the new iPod nano:
More than most of Apple’s iPods—and certainly the majority of its iPod nanos—the sixth-generation iPod nano is a love it or hate it addition to the family, dropping so many of the capabilities of its predecessors that it’s hard to take seriously as a sequel. Haters will seize upon the omissions, the unchanged price tag, and the lack of true multi-touch functionality as reasons to pass on the nano, and we can’t say that we’d blame them; this would certainly be the first nano we’d have skipped, and as our limited recommendation suggests, we’d expect that most of our readers will do the same. There are enough of last year’s nanos floating around at lower prices to make this one extremely easy to forget; our editors all agreed that we would have felt differently if this was a $99 model; there’s just not enough here to justify these prices.
iPhone 4 Case Program Ending Sept. 30
We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally thought. A small percentage of iPhone 4 users need a case, and we want to continue providing them a Bumper case for free. For everyone else, we are discontinuing the free case program on all iPhone 4s sold after September 30, 2010. We are also returning to our normal returns policy for all iPhone 4s sold after September 30. Users experiencing antenna issues should call AppleCare to request a free Bumper case.
Apple Profiles charity: water
I can hand my iPad to another person and let them move through a presentation at their own pace. With iPad, it feels more like sharing.
My brother’s organization is a big supporter of charity: water. It is a cool group, all the way around.
Modder Turns Newton Into iPhone Case
This makes me happy and sad, all at once.
Apple Relents on Section 3.3.1 [Updated]
We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
In addition, for the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps. We hope it will make us more transparent and help our developers create even more successful apps for the App Store.
My Top iPad Apps
This post has been sitting in my “Local Drafts” folder for some time, and after reading Shawn’s excellent “ An iPad Buyer’s Guide and Other FAQs” this morning, I decided it was time to finish it.
You will notice the above screenshot is of my iPad in the landscape orientation. I almost never use it in portrait. One reason is that I hate how the app icons on the Springboard re-arrange when the iPad is rotated. The Dock always has the same number of apps in it, regardless of orientation, so why can’t the rows above it?
New iPod Shuffle Gets Unboxed
Boy, is it tiny.
Why I Love the Apple Community
Riccardo Mori at System Folder:
You’re surely aware of the serious earthquake that struck New Zealand a few days ago. I was concerned for the safety of an active member of the NewtonTalk mailing list, Tony Kan, who lives in Christchurch, so I sent him an email to ask if all was well with him and his family. He replied that they were all fine, and pointed to this post on his blog, in which you can read an intense report of what happened there.
The Macalope Nails It
In this week’s Macworld piece:
And that, kids, is the moral of this week’s Apple event: very little matters besides the iPod touch.