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Daring Fireball
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Monday, Nov 2
★ Pinching and the Droid
A key advantage Apple has over many of its competitors is simple, consistent, worldwide branding. For three years, Apple has released one new phone in either June or July: iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS. Everyone, everywhere, just calls them all “iPhones”, or “the iPhone”. Even in the case o...
Friday, Oct 30
★ Regarding Apple TV
Establishing an App Store for Apple TV, so that companies could offer video services, games, other apps, hardware accessories, etc., the way they do on the iPhone. This sort of did happen with the 3.0 software — Apple TV can now play iTunes Extras and iTunes LPs, which are bundles of WebKit con...
Wednesday, Oct 28
★ Regarding Joe Wilcox’s ‘iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars’ Piece
Wilcox doesn’t come out and say so explicitly, but he’s defining “winning” as “highest unit sale volume”. So he’s probably right. I don’t think the iPhone, or any Apple product, will ever “win” in terms of unit sales. But that’s because Apple doesn’t even want to win that game. If you instead me...
Tuesday, Oct 27
★ Pound the Quality
The danger I see is in conflating cause and effect. Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular? There’s a big difference between those two arguments. The latter is the argument Microsoft has long made regarding the advantage o...
Monday, Dec 22
★ Private
When iPhone OS 2.2 shipped, Safari Bookbag began crashing on launch. iPhone developer Landon Fuller investigated, and found that the source of the crash was a called to a method in the Cover Flow framework that Apple removed between iPhone OS 2.1 and 2.2:
Thursday, Nov 20
Mobispine MMS App for iPhone
This is the app that the Swedish carrier Telia will be providing to Swedish iPhone users. ★
Thursday, Nov 13
★ Tangled Up in White
This has been a constant irritation for me ever since I first got an iPhone. In the back of my mind, I’ve had the vague hope that the problem would eventually be solved by wireless earphones. When I got my iPhone 3G in August, I did notice that the cord of the included earphones felt different — th...
Tuesday, Aug 5
★ iPhone Calendar Syncing
MobileMe syncing and iTunes syncing are mutually exclusive. If you turn on MobileMe syncing for calendars on your iPhone (Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars → Your MobileMe Account), iTunes no longer offers calendar syncing options when you tether your iPhone. The same goes for conta...
Monday, Jun 16
★ Twice as Fast, Half the Price
The iPhone 3G seemingly only has two major hardware additions: 3G networking and GPS. The battery, I suspect, might be stronger (and, given the shape of the back of the iPhone 3G, perhaps a stronger but bigger battery). No front-facing camera. No video from the rear camera. Instead of buildin...
