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Jun 3

Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed #

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Jason Snell calls for Apple to allow sideloading native iPhone apps: I don’t think the company needs to stop controlling what apps get in the...

Jun 2

The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T’s New Data Plans #

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Good: The big plan, “DataPro”, now costs $25/month and gives you 2 GB per month.

Apr 30

Middleware and Section 3.3.1 #

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Miguel de Icaza wrote a thoughtful, informative piece this week regarding how MonoTouch works, and how it might avoid conflicting with Apple’s new Section 3.3.1.

Apr 13

A Brief Review of Opera Mini for iPhone #

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Opera Mini for iPhone is fast, but at best only seems 2 or 3 seconds at getting to a readable page than MobileSafari over AT&T’s...

Apr 8

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler #

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Prior to today’s release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK, section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement read, in its entirety: 3.3.1 —...

Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1 #

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We’re still in the early days of the transition from the PC era to the mobile era.

Apr 7

The iPad #

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[Screenshot of the iPad keyboard, alphabetic mode.]

Back in December, here’s how I concluded my piece on what I expected from Apple’s then-still-unannounced tablet: If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a...


Mar 1

Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7 #

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They Stopped Digging Good for Microsoft for starting over with a truly new UI and new developer APIs.

Feb 25

Tits and Apps #

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So with this whole thing where Apple has removed and banned like 5,000 “sexy apps” from the App Store, I think I’ve figured out the...

Feb 9

Macworld Expo Prelude #

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Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco. Is it going to fly without Apple?

Jan 30

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? #

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Robert Scoble has a good analogy: Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene.

Jan 28

Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad #

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Automatic Transmission Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change...

Jan 27

The iPad Big Picture #

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There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole.

Jan 25

Apple, Adobe, and Flash #

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In my “Tablet Musings” piece two weeks ago, I speculated that Apple’s imminent tablet probably won’t support Flash, for all the same reasons the iPhone...

Dec 31

The Tablet #

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Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often...

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