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Press Info - New iPad Tops Three Million | Apple
"Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16." What's remarkable about this isn't just the numbers (it took 28 days to sell the first million iPads, and estimates are that the iPad 2 sold a million in its first week), but that Apple have been able to supply the demand. (Anecdata: most people in SF who pre-ordered found their delivery chain started in Ontario, California rather than abroad.)
apple  ipad  business  millions  shipping  production 
9 weeks ago by blech
Apple's aesthetic dichotomy | Made by Many
"My question is: why does this approach not extend to the devices themselves? Why not make a wooden case for the iMac, like those hideous Sony TVs from my childhood? Or why not a case that makes the computer look like a typewriter? And why, when we have these beautiful, clean, efficient devices, do we put up with this horrific, dishonest and childish crap?"
apple  design  skeuomorphism  iphone  ios  interfacedesign  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Presumed Valid | Subsequently & Furthermore
"Apple has no philosophical problem with software patents whatsoever."
apple  patent  comment  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Polaroid’s SX-70: The Nearly Impossible | Technologizer
A long - five page, with no single-page option, sigh - but worthwhile article centred on Polaroid, Edwin Land, and the SX-70, but also drawing interesting parallels with Apple and Steve Jobs while containing links to a variety of interesting Flickr groups, old ads, and other Polaroid resources.
cameras  technology  polaroid  apple  sx70  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Polaroid’s SX-70: The Nearly Impossible | Technologizer
A long - five page, with no single-page option, sigh - but worthwhile article centred on Polaroid, Edwin Land, and the SX-70, but also drawing interesting parallels with Apple and Steve Jobs while containing links to a variety of interesting Flickr groups, old ads, and other Polaroid resources.
cameras  technology  polaroid  apple  sx70  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Alexandra Lange: New Apple HQ, 1957: Observers Room: Design Observer
"After marveling at the idea of an endless corridor of offices, and speculating on Twitter about which firm could handle all that curved glass, I realized Apple's ring reminded me of something else. And it wasn't the future. It was 1957." A very good critique of the conceptual framework behind Apple's proposed new Cupertino campus.
architecture  apple  business  planning  from instapaper
june 2011 by blech
Removing Ping from iTunes 10.0.1 | Tom Gidden
Remove Ping, and more usefully, reinstate the non-store arrow behaviour (for quickly filtering down to just an album). (I should probably stop using things like this, because they eventually vanish, but that's the sort of person I am.)
itunes  osx  defaults  terminal  apple  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion | Apple
The most interesting thing to me in this press release? "The Lion preview is available to Mac Developer Program members through the Mac App Store today."
apple  macosx  pressrelease  software  distribution  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan | SFGate
Jeff Yang muses on how Apple managed to beat the tech titans of Japan by playing their game, only better
apple  sony  sfgate  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Analysing a Touch-to-Desktop UI port | Daniel Kennett
"Someone came out with a Mac OS application that’s clearly a touch UI crowbarred into a point-and-click universe. And it doesn’t work." A good post by Daniel Kennett using Fitt's Law to start explaining why "touch UIs typically simply don’t work in mouse-driven environments", in the light of a bunch of Mac App Store ports by iOS developers. <br />
(Of course, Apple fans have spent the last few years deriding Windows tablets/slates/things for trying to go the other way with insufficient work. We'll see if they're resistant to the inverse.)
apple  macosx  ios  development  ui  interface  design  via:rentzsch  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Repair Time Machine after logic board changes | Mac OS X Hints
This works.
apple  backup  mac  macosx  macosxhints  howto  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
New content for a new device | Snarkmarket
"Apple: you did not invent a magical and revolutionary device so we could read books in ePub format. Think about what the iPad really is! It’s the greatest canvas for media ever invented. It’s colorful, tactile, powerful, and programmable. It can display literally any thing you can imagine; it can add sound and music; and it can feel you touching it." A call to arms.
apple  ipad  design  books  media  culture  content  via:infovore 
january 2010 by blech
TidBITS Macs & Mac OS X: Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes
"an application in Snow Leopard cannot use a creator code attached to a document to bind that document to itself." Good coverage here of what happened and workarounds.
apple  macosx  unix  finder  hfs  10.6  development  via:@siracusa 
september 2009 by blech
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard | Ars Technica
John Siracusa's usual Mac OS X masterwork, skipped to the Finder page, since that's the most important. I played with 10.6 in the Apple Store and the way the Finder's been hit with the Core Animation stick annoyed me, but I suppose in time I'll get used to it. I suppose the Cocoa Finder could have been worse. (It could have been all column view. Shudder.)
apple  macosx  10.6  finder  ftff  siracusa  review 
september 2009 by blech
Obligatory Snow Leopard Post | ignore the code
"Snow Leopard has broken «Creator code» file associations." Oh. Thanks. Hey, Mac OS X? I was *using* those. Sigh. (How come Siracusa missed that bit?)
apple  macosx  10.6  review  bug  finder  ftff  metadata  via:ssp 
september 2009 by blech
How Mac OS X reports drive capacity | Apple
As mentioned in the previous link: "In Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, storage capacity is displayed as per product specifications (base 10). A 200 GB drive show 200 GB capacity" even though it's actually only 186.2 GiB. I'm not sure I like this. When will Windows follow suit?
apple  macosx  10.6  hardware  software  via:rcarmo  via:ssp 
august 2009 by blech
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (2/2) | Quarter Life Crisis
The less complimentary half of Sven-S. Porst's 10.6 review, including a look at the Finder (which I was resigned to finding slightly worse), Activity Monitor (might back up the 10.5 one, there) and Exchange ("apparently the corporates cheer about it. It scares me. I don’t want corporate users in my world. They made quality software like Windows and Office big and seem to be keen on putting all their power and money to get crappy pseudo-solutions."), amongst other things.
apple  macosx  10.6  review  finder  ftff  ui  interface  re:ssp 
august 2009 by blech
Apple Answers the FCC's Questions | Apple
"We are pleased to respond to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s inquiry dated July 31, 2009, requesting information regarding Apple’s App Store and its application approval process." The Mac pundits will be digesting this all weekend. Most interesting: why Google Voice wasn't approved, the admission of an explicit AT&T veto on VOIP (and an implicit one for TV), and the stats on App Store personnel and process.
apple  google  iphone  appstore  software  pressrelease  via:daringfireball 
august 2009 by blech
'Black boxes' for future iPhones | New Scientist
"In a patent filed on 6 August, Apple reveals that it aims to thwart iPod and iPhone users who cause damage to their gadgets and then claim new ones under warranty" including checking for overly high voltages on the dock connector.
apple  iphone  patent  newscientist 
august 2009 by blech
Why No iLife-Equivalent for Windows? | Joe Wilcox
"Apple released iLife for Macintosh in January 2003. Every year or so, the suite gets better, with no Windows developer offering anything comparable. Isn’t it about time?" "By controlling the dominant digital media content creation stack, Macs are hugely popular among important influencers."
apple  ilife  windows  microsoft  creativity  content 
august 2009 by blech
iPhone twitter clients and push | jerakeen.org
Tom explains why we're unlikely to see a Twitter client offering notifications on the iPhone any time soon. It looks right to me.
apple  iphone  twitter  jerakeen 
june 2009 by blech
NIN App Rejected by Apple | Mashable
Apple have rejected the new Nine Inch Nails app because it has swearing in the lyrics to Downward Spiral, which is available in the store. Trent Reznor responds with a fairly accurate summary of the other options, and picks jailbreaking as most attractive.
apple  appstore  music  nineinchnails 
may 2009 by blech
David Hockney uses his iPhone to paint mini masterpieces | Daily Mail
I'd have preferred the Telegraph's story, which was posted first, but this has already been saved to delicious, and it has a nice photo of the iPhone propped on an easel.
apple  iphone  art  via:benterrett 
may 2009 by blech
Nolan Bushnell | The Guardian
Subtitled "meet the Bafta-winning father of the videogames industry", this is an interesting look back at a career that only has its bookends in the subject at hand. No less worth reading for that, mind you.
interview  games  history  computing  atari  apple  guardian 
march 2009 by blech
What's Apple's problem with buttons? | Marco.org
Seems to fit well with the link to the (arcane) commands used on the headphone button (singular). "It’s easy to see signs of a perpetual internal battle at Apple between usability and appearance. [Sometimes] the appearance-driving forces choke usability enough to leak toxic usability flaws into a shipping product."
apple  ipod  design  ui  interface  via:daringfireball 
march 2009 by blech
iPod shuffle (3rd generation) Controls | Apple
As alluded to by John Siracusa, the cheat-sheet for controlling a 3rd gen iPod Shuffle. Triple click and hold? For something that was a physical button on the previous generations? I suppose that's some sort of progress...
apple  ipod  usability  buttons  support  documentation  via:siracusa 
march 2009 by blech
Mobile Experiences - The new paradigm | Christian Lindholm
"What now is going to be killer interesting is will there become a legal fight in the Control layer or not. It did not happen in the past paradigm 'soft keys', when Nokia let the others do soft keys, to the great benefit of humanity in my opinion."
apple  nokia  design  mobile  interface  patent  ui  via:preoccupations 
february 2009 by blech
Apple, Google, and Palm | Daring Fireball
"in addition to multi-touch [on the G1], the other feature that Apple objected to was using a standard headphone jack. Apple apparently owns a patent on controlling software using buttons connected by a standard 3.5mm headphone jack (at least for music and video playback controls)" If true, this might be the most annoying patent in a long while.
apple  google  palm  mobile  patent  headphone  standards 
february 2009 by blech
Faces, Places, and new features | Apple - iPhoto
"Once you share your photos, iPhoto creates Facebook and Flickr albums for them in the Source list. Add, remove, or edit these photos, and they’re automatically updated on Facebook and Flickr." Two-way sync for Flickr? Nice. Now, what about my old photos? Should be worth investigating.
apple  iphoto  flickr  facebook  photography  software 
january 2009 by blech
iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr | CNET News
Apparently Camera Finder shows the iPhone being the first mobile to break into the top five cameras. I can't say I'm surprised; although it's damned near awful as modern camera phones go, it comes with a data plan that doesn't make you fret about uploading, nor a UI that makes it feel like hell. It's probably the first decent camera-enabled networked phone in the US, fwiw (Nokia never broke that market).
apple  iphone  camera  mobile  flickr  geotagging  via:arstechnica 
december 2008 by blech
About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update | Apple
Most baffling entry of the release notes this time round, I think: "Addresses inaccuracies with Calculator when the Mac OS X language is set to German or Swiss German."
apple  macosx  software  update  via:daringfireball 
december 2008 by blech
Apple Exploring 3D Desktop | Mac Rumors
Oh dear. I'd thought the 3D dock was just a bit of useless, unattractive "eye candy", but apparently not; (bits of) Apple seem determined to hide the desktop at the bottom of a hole, just so they can put the menu bar at the side. Terrible, and terrifying.
apple  software  desktop  ui  interface  patent  rumour 
december 2008 by blech
Terminal.app and applescript 'set bounds' | Open Radar
I complained about this a while ago, so it's good to see that it is in Apple's official bug tracker (mirrored here to the Open Radar GAE web app).
terminal  apple  bug  applescript  openradar  via:jerakeen 
november 2008 by blech
Bridging the iPhone GAP | PhoneGap
"PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We're trying to make iPhone app development easy and open."
iphone  development  apple  webkit  html 
november 2008 by blech
How people really use the iPhone | SlideShare
Lots of interesting stuff in here, both about the iPhone's UI metaphors, and also pricing responses on the App Store.
apple  iphone  software  development  business  usability  appstore  slideshare  presentation  via:rodcorp  via:infovore 
november 2008 by blech
Two Macs: Fail. | Fraser Speirs
Syncing isn't good enough, but MacBooks are now (storage in particular). Also, hurrah for US keyboards (something I definitely agree with.)
apple  mac  hardware  laptop  desktop  computing  keyboard  blogcomment 
october 2008 by blech
Resources - Environmental Performance | Apple
PDFs for Apple's current product line, outlining what the environmental impact of their production and use is.
apple  environment  product  pdf  information  via:tomtaylor 
october 2008 by blech
Latest Snow Leopard (10A190) Now Available | World of Apple
"Almost all user facing applications in Mac OS X are written in Cocoa with the exception of a select few. Finder, one of the oldest Carbon applications in the system, is being transitioned to Cocoa for SnowLeopard and much progress has been made in this seed. Please report any issues you find with the new Cocoa pieces of Finder." Much as I want them to FTFF, I very much doubt this will have any useful UI changes.
macosx  finder  cocoa  apple  via:ssp 
october 2008 by blech
iPhone Contacts and Maps fast start | jerakeen.org
Some nice documentation on how Apple's iPhone applications use abilities not open to third parties to appear faster. (This also explains why Maps sometimes shows a useful screen when I start it up on the iPod touch without wireless on.)
iphone  applications  apple  ui  via:jerakeen 
october 2008 by blech
Web Inspector Redesign | Surfin’ Safari
The Safari built-in equivalent to Firebug gets more tweaks. The editable style rules, metrics and properties look good, as does the ability to search by CSS selectors. Looking forward to an official Safari 4 release (or indeed a new ADC beta). (It'd be nice to see in Chrome too...)
safari  webkit  webinspector  apple  firebug  javascript  html  css  development 
october 2008 by blech
Front Page | App Store
A Google App Engine-hosted web-based front end to the App Store, which used to be accessible only though iTunes - and therefore not bookmarkable, etc, etc. There's no details of who's behind it, which is perhaps understandable, but also a shame.
apple  iphone  appstore  web  google  appengine  python 
september 2008 by blech
Apple's mad MailWrangler moment | Inside iPhone Blog
'If it is indeed Apple’s policy to “own” email ... on the iPhone, then it is a misguided one.' It also doesn't need to be so heavy-handed. Almost everyone ends up using Apple's Mail on the Mac proper, despite the presence of alternatives, because it's free and good enough. Why not rely on the same behaviour on the iPhone, and profit from the small number of dissenters?
apple  iphone  appstore  comment  gilest 
september 2008 by blech
Boo... NetShare banned from the App Store | Dorian Moore
The lack of availablity of the laptop-tethering app isn't new news, really, but there's some interesting points in here. I hadn't thought about the fact the iPhone can't stream to an AirTunes receiver (why should I have to faff with Remote, after all?) and the multiple libraries point will probably bite me eventually.
apple  iphone  netshare  remote  daap  airtunes  airport  comment 
september 2008 by blech
Things to do with /programmes: iTunes | BBC - Radio Labs
Unfortunately I couldn't get the Erlang to work - maybe I was trying with too new a compiler? - but this writeup makes it look like I should perhaps give it another go.
apple  itunes  daap  iplayer  bbc  radio  todo  erlang  via:tristanf 
september 2008 by blech
Further WebKit vs Gecko Thoughts | blech.vox.com
Speaking of defecting from Gecko, here's some thoughts I tried to get down in April on the subject. I'm not very happy with the writing but I stand by the idea- that WebKit will succeed in the long term because it's easier to embed and hack upon.
webkit  gecko  mozilla  apple  software  browser  development  link:self 
september 2008 by blech
iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading' | BBC News
'the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone" [but] because the iPhone did not support Flash or Java [...] the claim was misleading'
apple  technology  advertising  iphone  asa  bbc  news 
august 2008 by blech
Apple's low-cost ultraportable Mac? | Technovia
Ian Betteridge looks at the MSI Wind and its the people running Mac OS X on it and asks if Apple would ever make something similar. I suspect that he's right about the pricing if they did, but that they're more likely to stick with the MacBook Air as their "ultraportable" and that if they do make something that aims at that sector, it'll be a bigger iPhone OS based tablet.
apple  macosx  eee  ultraportable  macbookair 
august 2008 by blech
Extending Your Wiki Server | Apple
Having spent part of this morning poking around in the guts of a wiki trying to figure out its format, I find that Apple have actually published a PDF with that info in. It doesn't mention, let alone document, the SQLite revision.db file, though.
apple  documenation  macosx  server  wiki  format  pdf  work 
july 2008 by blech
Time Machine: Exclude All System Files | Extra Pepperoni
How to persuade Time Machine not to back up system files on the user version, with reference to the fact that Mac OS X Server lets you force clients not to. (Turns out Tom knew about this before the post, let alone now.)
macosx  server  backup  timemachine  apple 
july 2008 by blech
UK iPhone availability | Apple
A JSON feed for UK Apple Store 3G iPhone availability.
uk  apple  iPhone  data 
july 2008 by blech
Google Mobile App for iPhone | YouTube
Yet another web site wrapped in an iPhone application. Oddly, it's not available in the UK, despite being presented on the UK YouTube site by a British person.
apple  iphone  google  application  mobile  blogcomment 
july 2008 by blech
How selective is the App Store? | Hack This Mac
"how selective is Apple being with who gets to put an app in the App Store? We’ll likely never know, but my guess is extremely." Given the books-wrapped-in-readers, I have to disagree.
apple  iphone  appstore  applications 
july 2008 by blech
Apple Made A Mistake | Brighthand
"Apple, with its own browser, Safari, and a fresh mobile platform, had the opportunity to really change the game when it came to making web applications. ... The company chose instead to listen to developers."
apple  iphone  web  webkit  applications  sdk 
june 2008 by blech
sproutcore: SproutCore 1.0 (WWDC) milestone | sproutit
If you can't get at sproutcore.com (and I've found it down all day), then this lets you get the code from github and shows you what the team have been hacking on.
apple  javascript  development  web  framework  opensource  objc 
june 2008 by blech
Home | SproutCore
You wait ages for an Objective-C like platform to come along for building rich internet applications, and then two come along at once. (Page loading very slowly, or not at all, since it's getting a lot of attention.)
apple  javascript  development  web  framework  opensource  objc  via:rcarmo 
june 2008 by blech
Mac OS X Leopard - Snow Leopard Server | Apple
Ah, so there is another glossy pre-release page. ZFS presumably isn't ready for the consumer, then. Can't say I understand why Podcast Producer gets all that space.
apple  macosx  server  zfs  filesystem  wiki  podcasting 
june 2008 by blech
Snow Leopard Previewed For Developers | Apple
Link to the Mac OS X 10.6 press release, as it has all the information in the glossy page, but it won't vanish. Obviously nobody cares much, either, given all the iPhone noise (in the keynote, and the analysis).
apple  pressrelease  macosx 
june 2008 by blech
The great British iPhone mystery | The Register
"the iPhone has been more successful as a word-of-mouth hit" "[Nokia's] smartphone had found a niche ... but most of the potential of an open, flexible device ... was ignored by most of the people who had one"
apple  iphone  nokia  sony  mobile  uk  comment 
june 2008 by blech
Make Help Viewer windows non-floating | macosxhints
Oh please let this work. Includes a plist change, so you might need to repeat that after an update, but then that's only to show the icon in the Dock and task switcher.
apple  macosx  interface  ui  usability  hack  via:jack  via:pauldwaite 
june 2008 by blech
Apple's Script | Daring Fireball Linked List
Gruber: "maybe even make a clean break and scrap OSA and introduce a new system" Woah, hold on a minute. OSA is great, and re-architecting it would be huge. Also, the Cocoa OSA stuff is now finally mature. Really bad idea.
applescript  apple  development  cocoa 
june 2008 by blech
Apple’s Script | Red Sweater Blog
Daniel Jalkut argues that, given SquirrelFish and its wider success, Apple should consider retiring AppleScript as the primary choice for the Open Scripting Architecture and replace it with JavaScript. Lots of comments already.
apple  applescript  javascript  development  code  comment 
june 2008 by blech
Announcing SquirrelFish | Surfin’ Safari
I saw the checkin from branch to trunk announced somewhere a week or so ago, but it's nice to have a formal announcement - Apple's WebKit has a new JavaScript core, and it's a fast, register-based VM. Should do well.
apple  webkit  javascript  squirrelfish  development  software 
june 2008 by blech
Interview with Aaron Hillegass | InformIT
"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America." Random Perl praise in there, too.
apple  cocoa  development  perl  via:pauldwaite 
may 2008 by blech
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.1 | Apple Support
Typical; you complain about 10.5.3 not having 450D RAW support, and in the morning a freshly minted software update shows up. Oddly, doesn't require 10.5.3. Also oddly, adds supports the ancient Epson R-D1.
apple  camera  canon  raw 
may 2008 by blech
Reluctantly Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail | TidBITS
I've still got all my archived mail - everything from something like '02 to August of last year - in Eudora, but I'm now using Mail as my primary client. At some point I'll look at this and put everything in one place. Sigh.
apple  email  applemail  eudora  migration  macosx  software 
may 2008 by blech
The Apple of your iMac | smh.com.au
Looking back at the iMac a decade on. "It will ship with built-in networking (great if this was a built-for-business bMac or a network computer nMac, but a curious inclusion for homes and quite a slab of the educational market)" How things change.
apple  technology  history  design  via:cityofsound 
may 2008 by blech
Sleep all displays via keyboard shortcut | macosxhints.com
10.5 only, but shift-control-eject should switch off the screen (backlight?). One to try this evening.
apple  macosx  display  sleep  tips  via:bsag 
april 2008 by blech
Control the new 10.5 iTunes visualizers | Macworld
Turns out there are new visualisers in iTunes that are actually Quartz Composer based. Coo. Actually, I vaguely recall hearing that as a WWDC style bullet point, but I'd forgotten, so this is good.
apple  itunes  development  quartzcomposer  macosx 
april 2008 by blech
AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow 4.2.5 | Apple
If you have old hardware (hello!) then you'll want this, as the admin utility that comes with 10.5 won't talk to the UFO-shaped access points. I'm not sure what needed fixing for Leopard; the previous version works for me.
apple  airport  software  download 
april 2008 by blech
Changing the download safety settings | My Macinations
I should have a good look at this and see if the safe files are related at all to the xattr settings discussed earlier.
apple  macosx  security  safari  via:ssp 
march 2008 by blech
“Disabling” Launch Services File Quarantine | The Apple Blog
That annoying "this is downloaded from the Internet" dialog? Here's how to get rid of it.
apple  macosx  security  software  finder  metadata  applescript  via:daringfireball 
march 2008 by blech
Downloaded From the Internet? | pudge hates software
Chris Nandor on the hates-software blogmailinglisthing about the rather stupid notifications you get that an application is from the Internet.
apple  macosx  software  security 
march 2008 by blech
AirPort Extreme + USB Disk = Time Machine | Infinite Loop
"After yesterday's Airport updates, folks starting noticing that USB drives plugged in to Airport Extreme Base Stations were suddenly recognized by Time Machine as valid backup drives." Hurrah! Not that I have an Extreme. Ah well.
apple  airport  timemachine  backup  wireless  arstechnica 
march 2008 by blech
The Open Scripting Architecture | William Cook
Another PDF on AppleScript, this time a look at the lower-level (the OSA) that underlies both AppleScript and the new crop of scripting interfaces (ruby-osa, Scripting Bridge, etc). Originally from 1993, but unpublished.
applescript  apple  development  pdf 
march 2008 by blech
AppleScript | William Cook
A PDF on the history of AppleScript, including tantalising descriptions of the never-released Professional Dialect, amongst other things. (I referred to this back in September 2006, but keep needing to find it.)
applescript  language  development  history  apple  pdf 
march 2008 by blech
About the Safari 3.1 Update | Apple
I was half-expecting this lot to have to wait for 10.6, but apparently not; perhaps Safari's new life as a dual-platform app has led to lots of releases. Fun toys, including a Developer menu and local storage (using the HTML5 API).
apple  safari  web  webkit  browser 
march 2008 by blech
New AirPort Express with 802.11n | Apple
Finally, the Express gets a bump to modern networking speeds (802.11n rather than g), and the price stays the same, but no hard disk sharing over USB; that still needs an Extreme. Oh well.
apple  wireless  hardware 
march 2008 by blech
Reading Steve Jobs | New York Times Blog
The NYT tech blog on the prospects of the iPod touch becoming just one of a family of devices. My (utterly worthless) feeling is that you're far more likely to see a 7" "iPod" than a Mac smaller than the Air.
apple  ipodtouch  mac  technology  kindle  nytimes  comment 
march 2008 by blech
Bestsellers | dive into mark
One of these things is not like the other. It's the one that "had users file a bug on me to make Thunderbird’s new account dialog smaller, so they can get to the buttons."
eee  apple  amazon  laptop  hardware  linux  macosx 
march 2008 by blech
Marketing by downtime, the Apple way | Pingdom
I'm not as sure as this article is that the downtime is deliberate (is WebObjects that good? Also, they have to deal with lots of markets, and there's the legendary secrecy) but the store being down unarguably generate buzz.
apple  web  via:takeoneonion 
february 2008 by blech
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