Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Chill the fuck out
According to TUAW, there are thousands of angry developers (online, select, premier, solo, corporate) who have been denied early access to Firmware 2.0 and the App Store and, more importantly, ability to load apps onto the iPhone.
Is anyone really surprised?
Only yesterday, Macrumors reported that someone had hacked ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
John Gruber, probably one of the most popular Mac bloggers, says:
Despite the fact that the iPhone SDK terms explicitly state that “No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s)”, Sun announced that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
So, there's three categories of applications which can be installed onto the iPhone without Jailbreak.
Payfer Apps - you write your application, sign it, give it to Apple and they host it on the App Store and you get 70% of all proceeds.
Free Apps - you write the application, sign it, ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Let's say you're a developer producing applications. Your livelihood depends on applications sold and you really want to get the best penetration for them.
How much would you pay for:
a) no need to set up a web shopping cart
b) no need to pay for bandwidth and hosting
c) greatly reduced need for ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
For years it's been a pain getting Macs to talk to Exchange servers because more often than not the Exchange servers are managed by some pencilneck IT guy with a pressed shirt and a lifetime subscription to "Ballmer - Candid Photos of Everyone's Favourite Microsoft Exec". As a result ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you.
Here's the details.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
That the "roadmap" to be announced for the iPhone software will not, as previously thought, include the release of said SDK just yet but may include the release of some third party software whivch has been in development for some time.
Of course, the responses were typical.
What a tease. It just ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
According to Macrumors, the iPhone SDK will be announced on March 6th.
"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.
Are we to assume Apple has licensed ActiveSync?
Are we going to see ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Abilene Christian University is investing in mobile learning.
What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff ...
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