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David Pogue Posts Updated iPhone FAQS

By admin#IM, Monday, Jan 15, 2007 a 8:05 pm

New York Times columnist David Pogue has published an ammended blog entry containing a second round of FAQs everyone seems to interested in finding answers to. This is definitely worth the click, as it paints a clearer picture of this "micro" OSX platform. I found one comment from Steve Jobs to be rather dishy...

Markoff: “And what are you thinking about Flash and Java?”

Jobs: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”
Markoff: “Flash?”
Jobs: “Well, you might see that.”
Markoff: “What about YouTube–”

iPhone Shackles Users to Apple's Walled Garden

By admin#IM, Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 a 10:26 am

p>As "iPhone euphoria" slowly wears off, replaced with sobering reality, some of iPhone's less shiny aspects are beginning to come into view. Wilmington North Corolina's StarNews (I didn't know they had newspapers in NC. Wonder if they have internets as well ;) ) pointed out the unfairness of Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology which locks users into Apple's walled garden by limiting playback of songs purchased through the iTunes Store only on Apple authorized hardware. Since Apple doesn't license FairPlay to any other vendor, that means you can only listen to these legally purchased tracks on an iPod, or iPhone in this case.

Needless to say a good many users, and competitors to Apple, are not happy with this arrangement. Some are seeking legal recourse, accusing Apple of being a monopoly.

iPhone Will/Will Not have 3G Support

By admin#IM, Friday, Jan 12, 2007 a 10:26 am

If there is one thing I cannot tolerate it's a technology company playing with my emotions by promising one thing and delivering another. During the keynote, Steve Jobs clearly indicated the iPhone will not have 3G support built-in, meaning it will not poses UMTS or HSDPA technology. And yet John Markoff of the New York Times is claiming that Apple will provide a firmware upgrade that will unlock this hidden functionality.

Hint to Mr. Markoff 3G is a hardware feature, not software. Meaning that it's going to take a hell of a lot more than a firmware upgrade to add 3G capability to iPhone if the underlying hardware that enables it is missing. Smacks John on forehead

Apple Answers some of the "20 Unanswered Questions"

By admin#IM, Friday, Jan 12, 2007 a 9:59 am

PC World's Yardena Arar and Eric Dahl interviewed Apple VP Greg Joswiak, posing some of the same questions formulated by Mike Elgan of ComputerWorld.

I found this item particularly juicy, and disturbing :? ...

iCringely on iPhone

By admin#IM, Friday, Jan 12, 2007 a 9:46 am

Renowned columnist Bob Cringely, an old favorite of mine, has written a great editorial about iPhone and Apple's struggle to wrestle control of the product name away from Cisco's clutches.

iPhone Faces Uphill Battle, Says Mercury News

By admin#IM, Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 a 10:37 pm

More industry publications weigh in on iPhone, forecasting a less than rosey outlook. This from Mercury News...

``My perspective since I first learned about it is, `Wow, this is really cool.' But `really cool' doesn't mean success right away,'' said Neil Strother, an analyst who covers the mobile phone business for NPD Group, a research firm.

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Why Is This Man Smiling?

By admin#IM, Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 a 8:47 pm

And this year's "things we say that come back to bite us right in the ass" award goes to Palm CEO Ed Colligan, who was interviewed back in November '06 during a Churchil Club event by the New York Time's John Markoff about his thoughts on Apple's secret development of a mobile phone device. Colligan proudly boasted...

"PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."

Oh, Ed. I feel your pain. If only I hadn't consumed that last Gin and tonic at the company Christmas party I might not have told my boss he looked sexy in that suit he was wearing. He still gives me nervous looks as we pass each other.

Will the Real iPhone Please Stand Up

By admin#IM, Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 a 5:14 pm

The tech world's greatest child custody battle continues; it's Kramer vs. Kramer, or Apple vs. Cisco. Who will win, who will lose. Slowly I turn...Niagra Falls!

Read the story on MarketWatch.

AppleInsider's iPhone Gallery

By admin#IM, Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 a 4:07 pm

AppleInsider has posted some really great shots (from behind the giant Bell glass display case) of the iPhone on display at MacWorld.

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Can Apple Penetrate the Enterprise Market?

By admin#IM, Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 a 3:25 pm

Carl Weinschenk from ITBusinessEdge calls the iPhone a "Milestone in Business Mobility". But can Apple really lure corporate customers with what is clearly a consumer play? I don't see that happening. iPhone is, by design, an entertainment device...not a business oriented mobile productivity tool like the Treo or Blackberry. It would be nice to see the IT world embrace such a lavish smartphone, but it's going to take much more than style and software elegance to dislodge Blackberry.

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