Apple’s trojan horse is the “computer as appliance”. They’ve managed to create devices that are almost as wide in scope and functionality as general computing devices but are easily accessible to non-technical people. And, more importantly, don’t need technical maintenance or an understanding of the computing underpinnings.
If it were just the App store, [...]
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Apple’s Trojan horse
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
Steve Jobs holds forth at Apple town hall
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Mac
Steve Jobs held an internal town hall at Apple after the unveiling of the iPad. Since secrecy is so tight, many at Apple had no idea the iPad was coming. He took questions and second-hand commenters say he had a few choice comments.
He said that Apple bought Lala because they wanted their talent [...]
Will the next iPhone OS allow multitasking?
January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
It’s not the hardware. And it’s not a fundamental software issue. It’s a combination of UI and trust.
From the UI perspective, Apple didn’t want multiple apps running at the same time without visual feedback. So the few apps that they allow, all provide it. A background phone call shows as a [...]
Tags:iPhone·Multitasking·Slate·Tablet·UI
What people want in iPhone OS 4.0
January 11th, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
TUAW solicited email requests from its readers asking for what they wanted to see in OS 4.0. Excluding changes to the built-in apps (that’s coming in a later article), this is what people asked for, along with my own comments.
1. The lock screen needs to change.
Absolutely agreed. I want better handling of notifications. [...]
The Google Phone
December 17th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
There’ve been reports lately about the new Nexus One phone from Google. It appears to be a phone directly controlled by Google. Past Android phones have been produced in the traditional way, by having hardware vendors create the phones and then sell them to mobile operators. Google appears to be taking the [...]
New iMac is a monster – and that’s good for laptops
November 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
The newest iMacs are available with Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs and early benchmarks are in. Intel is phasing out the Core 2 Duo chips in favor of the i5 and i7 lines.
In general, the i5 is a single CPU with 4 cores inside it – compared to the Core 2 Duo with [...]
Windows and OS/X steal from each other
October 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
Well, that’s no big surprise. Here’s two Infoworld slide shows that attempts to show the top 10 items each stole from the other. They got some things wrong though.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/top-10-features-apple-stole-windows-966?source=fssr
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mac/top-10-features-microsoft-stole-mac-os-x-971?source=fssr
What OS/X stole from Windows
Finder sidebar – stolen from the Explorer navigation pane. Yep.
Finder breadcrumb path display – stolen from the Explorer address [...]
Tags:ActiveSync·Apple·Mac·Microsoft·OS/X·RDP·Remote Desktop Connection·Unix·VNC
Compiling Ruby with MacRuby 0.5b1
October 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 is out and can be downloaded from here. The beta can only be used on Snow Leopard, which means its Intel-only. They switched from using YARV as the internal engine to using LLVM. The major side effect of this change is that Ruby code can now be compiled.
Compilation is still pretty [...]
What’s in an iPhone carrier settings file?
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
What’s in the new AT&T carrier settings (ATT_US.ipcc) file?
The ATT_US.ipcc file is a zip file containing a ATT_US.bundle (identifier com.apple.ATT_US). It contains configuration information for AT&T’s US service and is provided by Apple to configure internal settings on the iPhone. It’s how the iPhone is customized for a given carrier. The AT&T file has [...]
Using Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 on Snow Leopard
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Mac
Since Apple removed Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 from Snow Leopard, it’s not possible to run software that requires older Java versions, or to develop against older Java versions.
In order to restore Java 1.4 and 1.5 to your Snow Leopard install, you’ll need to download the old Leopard versions and put them back where they [...]
Tags:Java·JRE·Mac·OS/X·Snow Leopard
