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Category Archives: Apple

A theory about the iPhone app store

28-Oct-09

My theory is that in 2 years there will be so many applications in the iPhone app store that it will be impossible to achieve success. That only the early developers will find any measure of success.
 
I say this because it seems to be the way the Apple software ecosystem works. There are a [...]

Monotouch Has an Uphill battle ahead

05-Oct-09

I love me some Mono and love the Mono team, but Novell really screwed the pooch with the release of MonoTouch. It had such promise, write iPhone apps using C# instead of Objective-C. But it has some problems.

It requires XCode.  – I’m not sure if they can get around this one. It seems like they [...]

Apple software update on Windows

20-Mar-08

Joe Wilcox has a piece here where he talks about how Windows iTunes owners are being prompted to install Safari 3.1 by Apple Software Update even though they haven’t installed any version of Safari on their Windows PC before.
I’ve had Safari 3 for Windows installed for quite a while at work as a test platform. [...]

Wil Shipley on Hype

12-Feb-08

“Hype is foreplay for geeks.”

iTunes movie rentals? Gimme a break

16-Jan-08

This big news in the announcement for me wasn’t the rental part, it was the “Fox is including iPod compatible versions of the content on the DVD you just bought.”. It’s an acknowledgment, at least in my mind, that the studio recognizes that people don’t want to pay twice for their content. Sure I can [...]

New artist branded iPod ideas

13-Jul-07

Burningbird » We all Live in an iPod: “”
Shelley Powers asked us for some other artist branded iPods. I came up with a few.
A Dolly Parton iPod with HUGE headphones and a rhinestone click wheel?
A Van Halen model except the hard drive and head phones won’t work with the iPod and come separately.
A Cat Stevens [...]

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