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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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State of the iPhone

April 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, iPhone

In case you didn’t follow the Apple earnings call last night (which I’m ashamed to say I did), you might have missed the news (reported everywhere) that Apple just had their best second quarter in their history. That’s in the midst of a horrible recession. Everything was roses for Apple in all but one category [...]

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Android/iPhone Development Comparison

February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone

ArsTechnica has a very good (though high-level) look at developing for the Android phone. What interested me most was drawing comparisons.
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Google created their own implementation of Java (Dalvik). The only way to deploy an app on the phone is to code it in Java.
The Dalvik engine is slower then normal Java (it’s optimized [...]

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