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Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Steve Jobs on Flash, Adobe and Other Technology Apple Doesn’t Use Anymore

2 Jun 2010

Software development isn’t about implementing every feature that a customer requests. Its about implementing what is right for the product. And a lot of times that involves cutting existing features and more time than not, simply saying no to a feature!

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Tags: Apple, Software Development

AppStore – Happy Birthday!

In: Apple

7 Jul 2009

Wow, the app store is only one. Seems like it should be older with 50,000 apps in the store. Impressive work Apple! Apple has put together a special link to celebrate some of the top apps of the past year. Speaking of iPhone Apps… stay tuned for an announcement in the next week concerning a [...]

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Tags: Apple, Birthdays

WWDC Predictions Follow UP

In: Apple

8 Jun 2009

Well, the keynote was today at noon CDT, let’s see how I did. 1. The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling Yup, got those. And they were impressive! Something along the lines of 50,000 apps, over 1 billion app downloads and somewhere in the range of 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod [...]

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Tags: Apple, Predictions, WWDC

WWDC Predictions

In: Apple

8 Jun 2009

Here is my quick run down of predictions for the keynote: The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling iPhone 3.0 will be released with availability right away for iPhones. Once again iTouches will get the $20-$30 shaft. (Seriously Apple, why do you treat them like second class citizens?) Snow Leapard [...]

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Tags: Apple, Predictions, WWDC

iPhone 3.0 Beta 5 – update

In: Apple

29 May 2009

So far things are still going good. The part that was a bit rough was that when the restore image is used and the phone reboots…its like having a virgin iPhone again. Luckily you can restore your settings from a backup. But man that takes a while to re-install all of your applications and copy [...]

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Tags: Apple, iPhone SDK

$1.29 a song

In: Apple

7 Apr 2009

As many people around the net have reported today, Apple has started selling songs using its variable pricing scheme. And unfortunately, it looks like Amazon may be following suit. Now, I like DRM free music as much as the next guy. But for popular songs, I’m not jazzed about paying $0.30 more per track. For [...]

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Tags: Apple, greed

Safari 4 – focus issues

In: Apple

1 Mar 2009

Like a lot of Mac users out there, I took the plunge and tried out Safari 4 Beta.. Unfortunately, I’m rolling back to Safari 3. Its not that I really want to, its that I have found a very annoying issue. You see, my company uses IM like it is going out of style. It [...]

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Tags: Apple, Beta, Safari

Safari 4 Beta – First Impressions

In: Apple

24 Feb 2009

I’ve been messing around with the new Safari 4 Beta release and so far I’m pretty pleased with the browser. There is a bit getting use to some of the new features but overall, I think that they have made some changes for the better. Here is a run down of the big features: Top [...]

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Tags: Apple, Safari

Apple Lawsuit – not spam

In: Apple|In the news

24 Jan 2009

Last night I recieved the following email: To obtain the documents you need to learn more about the settlement, make a claim or exclude yourself from the settlement, go to www.iPodnanoSettlement.com or call 1-888-232-3395. Your Control #: XXXXXXXXXXX You will need your Serial # to make a claim. By keeping this email and providing your [...]