I can’t believe that Apple actually managed to released all the features people had been complaining about. IT is a mayor announcement for the platform.
As always John Gruber has a good piece on it.
I am still downloading the iphone SDK(2.5 GB). As soon as I have time to look at it, I will [...]
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iPhone SDK: Finally!
How important is the SDK announcement tomorrow?
Consider this: Michael Arrington hasn’t live blogged any event in a while(that I can recall). This time he is going himself(just a couple of miles anyway) to report on the iPhone’s SDK announcement as per his twitter account:
I don’t really care about Arrington reporting it, and it might even be irrelevant(I just wanted to mention [...]
AppleInsider Exclusive: Delicious Library 2.0 Preview
As per Will Shripley’s buzz creation rules(Monster Marketing), Delicious Monster has given AppleInsider the exclusive on Delicious Library 2 upcoming March release ($40 a pop).
If pictures and words aren’t your thing, here is a video preview from TUAW taken at MWSF ‘08.
Microsoft’s Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Seattle PI on Microsoft’s greatest internal email hits. One of my favorite quoutes is Jim Allchin’s 2004 comment:
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
More funny emails like this at Valleywag:
No one really believed we would ever ship[Vista].
NewsFire goes free: I really need Anderson’s new book
Dave Watanabe’s NewFire RSS reader goes free just as NetNewsWire.
NetNewsWire is still king.
With everything going freeware, I am really going to need to read Chris Anderson’s new book “Free“.
(Via TUAW.)
iPhone Open Application Development Book from O’Reilly (not from the SDK)
An O’Reilly book being released on March 13, 2008:
Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple’s desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground. iPhone [...]
iPhone: Apple trojan 2.0
Ars Technica is reporting that on March 6th Apple will hold a press conference where they will announce the “iPhone Software Roadmap”:
learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.
Wow, look at Apple sounding so enterprisy with words like “Roadmap”. So it’s pretty much set(as I said before) [...]
Imaginary performance boosts
Brent Simmons:
I bet every software developer has seen this—release a new version, even one you know to be slower, and some people will thank you for the performance boost.
Perception is a bitch and people do buy into the numbers game. 1.14 > 1.1.3 thus faster.
I guess that’s why Microsoft doesn’t use numbers that much (2000, [...]
iPhone firmware 1.1.4 but no SDK
On Sunday night I said we should expect the the SDK but no consumer update. I got it….but completely opposite.
So next time I make a prediction….believe the contrary.
But trust me… the SDK won’t come out without Steve presenting it. It’s his baby!
(Via Macenstein.)
New MacBook and MacBook Pros: No exterior change!
Apple today released an update for their Macbooks and MacBook Pro laptops. The MBP now include MultiTouch trackpads and a very nice set of hardware upgrades like 200 GB standard HD.
My only concern is the MacBook Pro’s casing which hasn’t changed much since the G4 PowerBook. It sucks that I have owned three Apple laptops [...]