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Yes, it’s Easter Monday but don’t let that stop you. Here’s the details. Related posts: NiMUG Meeting: Monday 18th Feb, 7 pm NiMUG Meeting tonight, Monday 15th December NiMUG meeting tonight… iPhone SDK. 6th March 2008
Yes, it’s Easter Monday but don’t let that stop you.
Here’s the details.
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 seems like Apple … Continue reading “The theory goes…”
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 seems like Apple can’t get anything fine anymore. There getting more and more like Microsoft.
well that sucks
what’s going on over there in cupertino?
What you know for sure is that neither of these retards is actually a developer. A developer doesn’t really want to wait but at the same time they don’t really want a beta SDK.
From the same page.
The comments above typify the reaction by those who have literally no idea just how much work goes into developing such an initiative. Apple is taking baby steps here, and an SDK allowing third party development is a massive undertaking if you want to have an element of control over the process, and the beautiful integration people have come to expect, overall, from Apple products.
Indeed.
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 a demo … Continue reading “iPhone SDK. 6th March 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 a demo of SAP’s iPhone client?
What about Sling? iChat? iPlayer? Over-the-air Calendar syncing? Push email? PDF Reader? File Manager? Skype?
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 member is “connected.” Though … Continue reading “mobile Learning”
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 member is “connected.” Though the applications and functions portrayed in the film are purely speculative, they’re based on needs and ideas uncovered by our research – and we’ve already been making strides to transform this vision of mobile learning (mLearning) into reality.
From TUAW: Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday’s sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone ‘in the coming weeks.’ iPlayer is a mixed bag. For Windows users … Continue reading “iPlayer on my iPhone”
From TUAW:
Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday’s sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone ‘in the coming weeks.’
iPlayer is a mixed bag. For Windows users you can stream Flash versions or download DRM-laden episodes of your favourite BBC content for offline viewing. For Mac users, there’s just the streaming option.
So what does this mean for iPhone/iPod touch users?
I reckon it means that they’ll do a Youtube and re-encode their iPlayer content into H.264 so that we can watch it over WiFi. I do not believe for a second that the BBC will re-encode and allow us to download content to our iPods. I’d certainly be more impressed with an iPlayer application for iPhone and would actually use it. In comparison, the Youtube player in my iPhone is seldom used because, frankly, Youtube is crap for anything other than showing people the “This is Karate” or “The Baron” sketches from Blunt.
Of course I don’t expect the BBC to do more than that but consider sitting anywhere there’s WiFi and catching up with last nights Eastenders or watching the so-far extremely compelling “Ashes to Ashes” (episode 2 expires today). This is why we pay our license fees, so we can have content on demand, over the t’internet, delivered to our desktops and handhelds.
Ars technica has a petulant headline: iTunes UK welcomes BBC shows while rest of world waits. Only a media-hungry spoiled brat could entertain a headline like that when you see the content available on the US store. Are we to assume the writer, Jacqui Cheng, has already purchased everything off the US iTunes store? Er, … Continue reading “BBC shows air on iTunes.”
Ars technica has a petulant headline: iTunes UK welcomes BBC shows while rest of world waits. Only a media-hungry spoiled brat could entertain a headline like that when you see the content available on the US store. Are we to assume the writer, Jacqui Cheng, has already purchased everything off the US iTunes store?
Er, tough shit. How about the fact that we in the UK still can’t buy movies through iTunes? You forget that? That’s the problem with bloggers and journalists – because you put finger to keyboard you develop a sense of entitlement.
The comments as usual, make my day:
At the risk of sounding sour, but in future please add the phrase “while the rest of the world waits” to all posting about iTunes content that is available only in the USA.
Tell you what- you vote in a Democrat, you get the Beeb’s shows on iTunes. Fair?
With the greatest possible respect, you guys wouldn’t know what to do with The Mighty Boosh. You fear the lack of rules, the lack of boundaries. It’s all just chaos, shapes, primal. “Ooh I’m lost—it’s a fence, no it’s soft!â€
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Zu-ne. verb. 1. To fuck over or generally bugger up partners who believed your shite for years and invested heavily in it. (From Zune, noun, a music player released by Microsoft which is incompatible with their previous music sales efforts under the PlaysForSure brand and immediately began to undermine their own branding and hurt their … Continue reading “Microsoft to start manufacturing phones?”
Zu-ne. verb. 1. To fuck over or generally bugger up partners who believed your shite for years and invested heavily in it. (From Zune, noun, a music player released by Microsoft which is incompatible with their previous music sales efforts under the PlaysForSure brand and immediately began to undermine their own branding and hurt their partners).
If you’re currently a vendor of phone handsets using the Windows Mobile operating system, you’re about to get Zuned.
Microsoft has just acquired Danger, makers of the consumer smartphones, the Sidekick. They’re reportedly buying Sidekick to keep it out of Google’s hands as well as to line it up against Research in Motion’s Blackberry and Google’s Android, not to mention Apple’s hit iPhone (which recently garnered 23% of the smartphone market). The Sidekick, although popular, does not run Windows Mobile.
What does this mean to any manufacturer currently using Windows Mobile? Well, if Microsoft is getting into the hardware game for phones then you can expect to have a rough time. This is bad news for beleaguered handset maker, Palm and possibly even worse news for Sony-Ericsson. Palm is floundering after dividing it’s market offering Palm OS and Windows Mobile based handhelds rather than concentrating on developing a decent successor to Palm OS (and what the hell did they do with everything they got from their acquisition of Be?). But there’s more.
After Nokia started road-testing it’s new Linux-based platform in the 770/N800/N810 series of handhelds, Sony-Ericsson knew that it’s use of Symbian as an OS for their phones would leave it in the doldrums in terms of features and development speed. Their solution was the opposite of Nokia’s and they decided to license Windows Mobile.
Boo. Bad mistake.
If Microsoft starts manufacturing their own hardware running their own operating system, where does that leave everyone else who’s investing in Microsoft’s operating systems?
Exactly. Without a paddle.
Don’t believe me? Wikipedia speaks!
During its launch week, the original Zune, now Zune 30, was the second-most-sold portable media device with a 9 % unit share; behind the market-leading iPod’s 63 %. For the first 6 months after launch, NPD Group figures show that the Zune 30 achieved approximately 10% market share in the Hard Drive based MP3 market and 3% in the overall MP3 player market.
Good for Microsoft. $100 million spent on marketing for a 3% market share in the US and 0% outside the US. But that 3% comes at a cost – that’s a few million sales for Microsoft’s previous PlaysForSure partners. Microsoft robbed their hardware partners of those sales and then proceeded to screw over anyone who opened a PlaysForSure store because it didn’t play anything from Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, or even their own MSN Music Service.
So, what’s the chance they’ll sacrifice their own hardware sales to enable licensees to make a buck?
From iPodNN Apple ranked third in the global hardware market during the fourth quarter of 2007, according to canalys.com, with its iPhone garnering a whopping 28 percent of the smartphone market. Apple entered the market late in the year, and has thus far shipped only one device. Go iPhone! Related posts: The Gaming Market: time … Continue reading “iPhone kicking ass”
From iPodNN
Apple ranked third in the global hardware market during the fourth quarter of 2007, according to canalys.com, with its iPhone garnering a whopping 28 percent of the smartphone market.
Apple entered the market late in the year, and has thus far shipped only one device.
Go iPhone!
IFrogz, among others speculates if Apple will sell 10 million phones by the end of 2008. I like iFrogz, I like the cases and whatnot they do, though I’m currently using a Capsule from SwitchEasy which is excellent. If Apple is to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this year they will have … Continue reading “iPhone sales predictions”
IFrogz, among others speculates if Apple will sell 10 million phones by the end of 2008. I like iFrogz, I like the cases and whatnot they do, though I’m currently using a Capsule from SwitchEasy which is excellent.
If Apple is to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this year they will have to sell 200,000 more per quarter than they did over the hottest time of the year, the Christmas season. During that time last year Apple sold 2.3 million.
In the first six months the iPhone was on sale, it sold 4 million units. That was in 2 quarters in the US and less than 1 quarter in France, Germany and the UK. Steve Jobs aimed at 10 million iPhones out there by the end of 2008. A rather optimistic claim but one that everyone has jumped on.
If Apple only do 9, 200, 000 iPhone sales, will the entire affair be a flop. Do the math. The extra 200 000 units per quarter only adds up to an extra 800 000 phones in the remaining 4 quarters. If they only did 8 million iPhones by the end of 2008, would it be a flop? Of course not. Some heads may roll but the sky will not fall and the sun will still rise.
Some people speculate shaving $50 off the price of the phone would create an instant surge. Maybe, maybe not. I seriously doubt it. The issue most people have is the contract but, as we saw yesterday, O2 have just doubled their voice minutes allowance and increased the text allowance on the iPhone contracts they offer. I now have 1200 minutes and 500 texts and unlimited data which is more than I will ever use. People on the cheapest £35 tariff will now enjoy 600 minutes and 500 texts which is a huge improvement (from 200 and 200 respectively). This is where the innovation will come. With 1200 free minutes, I almost can’t be bothered wondering if Skype will appear on the iPhone unless I’m calling internationally (which is so infrequent I wouldn’t care anywway).
The iPhone is also just onto AT&T’s business tariffs and will be added to O2’s business tariff soon. This is excellently timed as the SDK is to be released in a few days and some early access developers (such as SAP) already have their client software ready to go.
So chill out on the numbers. It could be 9 million, it could explode to 20 million. We don’t know. What we do know is that a lot of the bloody things will be sold in the next 11 months.