Category: Apple

Randall Stross for the New York Times:

Roger Entner, senior vice president for telecommunications research at Nielsen, said the iPhone’s “air interface,” the electronics in the phone that connect it to the cell towers, had shortcomings that “affect both voice and data.” He said that in the eyes of the consumer, “the iPhone has the nimbus of infallibility, ergo, it’s AT&T’s fault.” AT&T does not publicly defend itself because it will not criticize Apple under any circumstances, he said. AT&T and Apple both declined to comment on Mr. Entner’s assessments.

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Letterbox is a Mail plugin that moves the message portion of the window to the left of the mailbox, as opposed to under it, a la Outlook.

I’ve used it for years on my notebooks, where vertical space is at a premium. I have never used it on my iMac, where screen real estate is much more abundant.

Anyways, Letterbox Beta 5 is out, and after installing it a few days ago, I’m happy as a clam in Mail once again. Check it out.

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Jobs has been like this for years — why is it suddenly a problem now?

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That photo is pretty damn good.

Ahem.

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Adobe:

The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, expected in the first half of 2010, will be the last version to support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. This unavailability is due to performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.

I mean, they can’t get it running smoothly on platforms like Atom. It’s simply brutal on my old Sage iMac.

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This is a great part of Apple history that most people don’t even know about.

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WSJ:

Trudie Styler, celebrating the launch of her new yoga DVD series, said her kids call her “Wilma Flintstone” because of her technological ineptness. “I’m really not good with my cellphone,” she said. “Videogames, definitely not. I would hope my DVDs would help people get away from all that.”

Her husband, Sting, owns an iPhone, but rarely uses it, he said. “I use my laptop to email. That’s really it. Although Tiger Woods has been calling my cellphone all week,” he joked. “I wonder what he wants?”

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Gigaom has a lovely graphic explaining who gets how much money when an iPhone is purchased.

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9 to 5 Mac:

We have noted that the new 21.5 and 27-inch iMac packaging has the “Macintosh. Think Different’ moniker inside it, below the specifications. In previous Macintosh packaging, Apple’s website URL is printed below the specifications list.

Today we find out, that on December 8, 2009, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s new trademark application for Think Different under application 77882684.

I, for one, would love to see them resurrect the slogan.

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MSI’s new nettop looks a lot like the old Apple Studio Displays, don’t you think?

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Wired has posted a piece looking behind the curtain at the iPod’s birth. I love stuff like this.

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Time:

Everybody likes Android, Google’s open-source smartphone operating system. But a smartphone operating system isn’t all that satisfying without an actual kick-ass smartphone wrapped around it. Now Android has one: The Droid is a hefty beast, a metal behemoth without the gloss and finish of the iPhone, but you don’t miss it. The Droid’s touchscreen is phenomenally sharp and vivid, it has an actual physical (not great, but good enough) keyboard, and best of all, the Droid is on Verizon’s best-of-breed 3G network. It’s Android’s first credible challenge to the iPhone.

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