Category: Apple

Remember that TUAW post about 1st-generation iPhone users getting screwed over when it came to push notifications that turned out to be incorrect?

They’ve apologized:

TUAW’s bloggers and editors strive to provide accurate information and to clearly distinguish conjecture or rumor from fact. In this instance, we got it wrong.

We are truly sorry for this situation. We understand that it reflects poorly on us as a site, to readers and to the community at large. As a result, we have strengthened our editorial resolve to do more vigorous checking of the technical details of posts, so that this sort of misinformation does not get published in the future.

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When the first iPhone came out, AT&T and Apple Stores were mobbed when the doors opened at 6 p.m. At the Apple Store here in Memphis, we had campers from New Orleans 3 days before launch.

This time around, the crowds were smaller, but those who were there had the same excitement as the very first adopters. Macworld’s intern Blair Hanley Frank spent the night in front of an Apple Store to be one of the first iPhone 3G S owners, and took notes, which can be found here.

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I usually keep away from posting about Steve Jobs’ health, but this is pretty big news, via the Wall Street Journal:

Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially.

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The boys over at Rapid Repair have already gutted an iPhone 3G S. It’s built pretty much like the 3G, but this is interesting:

This phone is capable of 833MHz and 720p video.

Right now, Apple has it clocked at 600Mhz. No doubt running the processor at 833Mhz would eat through the battery, but it’s interesting that the hardware is capable of it. My guess is that at 600Mhz, the processor can’t render 720p video in reasonable time.

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It happened last year, and it’s happening again this year: the iTunes servers are crumbling under the load of millions of users upgrading to 3.0.

I hate to say, but I told you so.

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Well, well, look at this from Engadget:

The original plan was to offer mildly subsidized prices of $399 and $499 for the 16GB and 32GB versions of the iPhone 3G S to AT&T customers who weren’t currently “upgrade eligible,” but the carrier’s having a change of heart, ostensibly in response to… you know, people wanting to pay less. The new plan is to let anyone with an upgrade date in the months of June, July, August, or September get in on the fully discounted $199 / $299 price points, which should cover a good number of existing 3G owners.

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For the many users who pre-ordered their iPhone 3G S, it looked like they would be getting their new phones a day before Apple’s public launch data of June 19. When I first read this, I thought “How very un-Apple to have a messy release.”

It seems I was right in my thinking. Engadget:

We’re getting a bunch of tips rolling in with updated tracking information for shipped 3G S orders folks have placed through the online Apple Store, confirming that Apple has actively coordinated with its shipper to hold on to the packages until “a future delivery date” that isn’t specified. We can only assume that’d be the 19th, but our question is this: can you just march down to your local UPS branch and try to pick it up yourself in the meantime?

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TUAW:

One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. While the iPhone 3G can handle data and voice simultaneously when using a 3G/HSDPA connection, on EDGE (the cellular data service that the original iPhone uses) you are unable to take calls and maintain a persistent data connection. As a result, if you turn on the push notification service, you may be unable to receive voice calls.

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I love when Apple goes all passive-aggressive, like in support article HT3642:

Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.

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Gizmodo has posted 94 ideas for iPhone apps - designed in Microsoft’s Paint application.

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Jason Snell, on AT&T’s lack of support for iPhone OS 3.0’s keystone features:

From the outside, there’s just no way to know why AT&T does the things that it does. But given Apple’s attitude, the reaction from the crowd at WWDC, and the anger out on the Internet, something is obviously wrong. It makes me wonder if AT&T, as a company, is simply incapable of changing the way it does business, even if the changes might end up benefiting it in the end.

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The Newton is back in the spotlight, and once again, is creating waves in the Apple community.

The Newton 2010 bug has made news before, but just re-surfaced on a prominent Apple blog. Here’s TUAW:

Apple’s ill-fated and technologically advanced personal digital assistant was hot stuff in the 1990s until it was axed in February of 1998. There are still a good number of Newton MessagePad fans who not only use their devices every day, but are also working together on hardware and software updates to their units to bring them into the 21st Century.

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