Entries for Daring Fireball
Dec 22

Private #

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There has been much discussion lately regarding the use of private iPhone APIs.

Dec 18

That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying #

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What strikes me most regarding Apple’s abandonment of Macworld Expo is the thought that Steve Jobs seems deeply suspicious of, perhaps even outright antagonistic toward,...

Dec 16

Apple ‘Netbooks’, Eh? #

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So Computerworld has this story today regarding “analyst” Ezra Gottheil’s prediction that Apple is going to announce a $599 “netbook” at Macworld Expo next month:...

Nov 19

Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs #

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Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design for the voice search feature.

Nov 3

iPhone-Likeness #

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Anyone involved in Mac software development is familiar with arguments over whether a particular app is “Mac-like”.


Oct 14

Today’s Claim Chowder #

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Let’s flag the most egregiously wrong rumor reports from the last few weeks.

Sep 30

Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone #

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The Internet pipes are chock full of reaction to the news that Adobe is “working on” a Flash player for the iPhone, much of it...

Sep 18

There’s Nothing There #

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The odd saga of Microsoft’s nascent $300 million rebranding campaign brings to mind this nugget of genius from Paul Rand: “A logo is less important...

Sep 12

The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies #

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Fraser Speirs, developer of Exposure, the excellent Flickr client for the iPhone, has written an insightful piece regarding today’s news that Apple rejected the iPhone...

Sep 10

Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock’ Apple Special Event #

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Overall Scope The overall takeaway from yesterday’s news is that Apple’s music and iPod business is right on track.


Aug 8

It’s a Core Location Blacklist #

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Yesterday I linked to a story at MacRumors (via iPhone Atlas) about the discovery by Jonathan Zdziarski of a remote blacklist Apple is maintaining, supposedly,...

Aug 1

iPhone Calendar Syncing #

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With the 1.0 version of iPhone OS, calendar syncing between the Calendar app on the phone and iCal on your Mac worked like this: Everything...

May 30

Mobile Me? #

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Poking around the updated files in 10.5.3, the Russian-language site Deep Apple noticed that iCal’s “Localizable.strings” resource file now contains placeholders for the name “.Mac”,...

Apr 8

Google App Engine #

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New web app platform from Google: “Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” In...

Google App Engine #

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New web app platform from Google: “Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” In...


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