Category Archives: Apple
Calacanis is (mostly) full of shit.
Notes on Jason Calacanis’ The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts:
1. Destroying MP3 player innovation through anti-competitive practices
2. Monopolistic practices in telecommunications
3. Draconian App Store policies that are, frankly, insulting
4. Being a horrible hypocrite by banning other browsers on the iPhone
5. Blocking the Google Voice Application on the iPhone
1. (Apple) Hardware sales drive iTunes use, not [...]
Apple v. Microsoft-The Culture Gap
A great summary in one sentence, via Gruber.
What’s telling to me is that Microsoft’s new retail chief, David Porter, comes from Wal-Mart. Apple’s retail chief, Ron Johnson, came from Target.
Understudy: Front Row Plug-in For Streaming Video. Yes, Netflix+Hulu.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Awesome. Yes. Still kinda embryonic, but lets hope this goes somewhere.
@Google Code:
Understudy allows access to streaming video through the Front Row interface of Mac OS X. The user can subscribe to multiple feeds, and select a video to watch from them. Understudy currently supports Hulu and Netflix.
DMCA Circumvention Hubbub On-Tap?
Starting with this weeks dust-up over Apple’s claim that Jailbreaking an iPhone is/should be illegal. EFF analysis here. EFF briefs here and here.
More by Nate Anderson at Ars:
Every three years, the Copyright Office hosts a rulemaking in which it considers specific exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) rules against circumventing DRM, and [...]
Will iTunes Genius Feature Incentivize “Music SEO”
Yikes… So it just occurred to me, that with some clever testing and observation, someone could conceivably stumble upon (at least partially) a “formula” for getting unknown or new tracks associated with popular hit’s in iTunes via the new “Genius” feature. All it would take is some audio analysis of “popular” songs, and incorporating similar [...]
Weekly Apple Fanboy Post
An iTunes controller for the iPhone?
The new iMacs are the first to have Intel’s latest chip.
Apple TV enabled for movie purchases.
Can Apple Break Into The Enterprise Market?
New version of the iPhone SDK dropped. Is iPhone 2.0/3G coming June 15?
EETimes on the Apple P.A. Semiconductor acquisition.
Apple refuses to build “content protection” into the iPod.
The iMac turns [...]
Odds+Ends for Thursday
Major studios announce day-date DVD/VOD/iTunes releases, and Apple is going to lose a dollar on each movie it sells. Don’t worry, they’ll make up for it on volume.
Video game industry thriving, despite piracy.
Apple buys chip designer P.A. Semiconductor, who just happen to design low-power processors for things like hand-held, portable devices.
NBC is apparently going to [...]
Some stuff…and some other stuff.
3G iPhone Rumor Watch:
Nike+ app for iPhone?
A KEYBOARD? Doubtful.
Hulu: showing progress? Beating projections. Interesting:
He also intimated that Hulu was investigating new technology in the HD realm, and a possible transition from the computer screen to the comparatively larger television screen. He declined to provide specifics, saying any expansion ideas are still in the brainstorming phase.
Some [...]
3G iPhone Rumors
Rumor’s are flying:
_32 GB of storage
_Higher resolution for the digital camera — 3 megapixels
_Video recording
_Upload video directly to Google’s (GOOG) YouTube
Kevin Rose also noted in a previous Diggnation that it would sport two video cameras, to facilitate video chat/conferencing.
All of it seems plausible so far. The 3G iPhone chip:
a 7.2Mbps HSDPA chip with all the [...]
Apple Dump.
Long time, no post. The Apple news/rumors/goodies:
Updated: iPod Reset Utility 1.0.3 (Mac)
Updated: AppleTV receives a 2.0.1 update—mostly bug fixes and peformance enhancements.
Rumor: Apple is developing sort of “fitness companion” device
Interesting job post at Apple: Handwriting Recognition Engineer.
PWNED: MacBook Air hacked in 2 minutes.
Rumor: 3G iPhone launch seen in 2nd quarter. New features and speculation.
Catching [...]

















