Steve Jobs and company showed off the latest innovations coming to Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” on Tuesday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which kicked off in San Francisco. Apple revealed that Lion will be released in July for $29.99, and will be available exclusively through the Mac App Store in a 4GB download, suitable for installing on all authorized Macs. (more…)
The Loop is at WWDC and we’re getting ready to bring you live updates from Steve Jobs’ keynote. The keynote starts at 10:00 am PT (1:00 pm ET). (more…)
If you want to listen to The Loop founder Jim Dalrymple, make sure to check out this week’s Your Mac Life podcast, where he joined Ian Schray, Bill Reynolds from A/V Awakenings and host Shawn King. (more…)
Brent Simmons sold NetNewsWire, one of the most popular RSS readers in the Mac market, to NewsGator a number of years ago, but that’s not the end of the story. Simmons told Ars Technica on Friday that he was behind the initiative to sell the software again to Black Pixel.
In an exclusive interview with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, Simmons said he’ll have “some more news next week” about what he’ll be doing. Apparently, he won’t be going with NetNewsWire.
The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco [Daring Fireball]
There was a new app released yesterday by Selligy called Meeting Spot that is going to help out a lot of people at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference being held next week. (more…)
Market research firm comScore on Friday released its latest report detailing mobile market share in the U.S. It’s good news for Apple, but continued bad news for RIM. (more…)
Here’s a lesson for people that want to write for a living or even for a hobby — if you are going to quote somebody to make your point, make sure they actually said what you claim they do. Time Techland’s Jared Newman made the mistake of wrongly quoting Daring Fireball’s John Gruber and Macworld’s Jason Snell in a recent article and Gruber sets the record straight.
Here are a few excerpts from Gruber — you can just tell Newman got it wrong:
[Disdain] is utterly the wrong word
bear no resemblance to anything Snell or I actually wrote
Neither Snell nor I wrote anything resembling that
neither Snell nor I described the iPad
What I wrote is
And people in hell want ice water
It’s just a classic article. A must read.
Ice Water Enthusiast [Daring Fireball]
MacTech Magazine has announced that Guy Kawasaki, Apple’s first evangelist, will deliver the keynote speech for its upcoming MacTech Conference 2011. The event happens from November 2-4, 2011 at the Sheraton Universal hotel in Los Angeles, Calif. (more…)
After the release of the original iPad, companies crawled out of the woodwork to announce a tablet of their own. However, those companies are finding that consumers don’t just want a tablet, they want an iPad. (more…)
There was some startling news from Motorola on Thursday as the company’s CEO spoke at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology conference. (more…)
Apple on Thursday released an app for developers of next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference. (more…)
Konami and Marvel announced Thursday the release of X-Men Arcade, the first mobile adaptation of the classic coin-op cabinet arcade game that made its debut in 1992. It’s a universal app that runs on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and costs $2.99. (more…)
If you’re Tim Cook, it’s pretty easy to see how the iPad could outsell PCs in the next few years. (more…)
The guys behind image editing application, Pixelmator, on Thursday announced the new features that will be in the 2.0 release scheduled for release later this summer. (more…)
Justin Williams on Wednesday released a new version of Elements, his text editor for iOS, adding many new features and fixing some bugs. (more…)
Apple on Tuesday released Security Update 2011-003, aimed at Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). The update is recommended for all users, and is available either through the Software Update system preference or through Apple’s Web site. (more…)
We sure have come a long way in a short period of time. iTunes went from not having any of The Beatles to having music released exclusively on the music service. (more…)
U.S. government agencies have long been bastions of the RIM BlackBerry, thanks to RIM’s secure e-mail service and the government’s need to do careful security and recordkeeping. But that’s changing. Even President Obama has been seen carrying an iPad, and now some government employees are using iPhones.
“The flashy consumer products that have been adopted in the corporate workforce — upending BlackBerrys for iPhones, Microsoft Outlook for Gmail, and lately laptops for iPads — are now invading the federal government. The State Department. The Army. The Department of Veterans Affairs. NASA. The General Services Administration is in the process of moving 17,000 employees onto Gmail.”
Federal government loosens its grip on the BlackBerry | Washington Post
(via Daring Fireball)
Apple on Tuesday announced the release of iWork for the iPhone and iPod touch. A free update for iWork for iPad customers, the redesigned Keynote, Pages and Numbers apps are priced at $9.99 each from the App Store. (more…)
Apple announced Tuesday plans to unveil iOS 5 and “iCloud, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering” at the keynote address for its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next week. (more…)
If the rubber surface on the bottom of your unibody MacBook is peeling away from the case, good news: Apple has initiated a MacBook Bottom Case Replacement Program. You can either bring it in to an Apple store or service provider, or do it yourself. (more…)
If you keep track of The Loop’s editors’ appearances on podcasts, here’s where you can find our latest appearances: (more…)
There have been many reports talking about how Android or is more popular than iOS and vice versa. However, if you’re a developer and want to make money, you should be on iOS. (more…)
Yesterday morning, Google announced Google Wallet. By the afternoon, PayPal launched a lawsuit against the company, claiming it stole the technology. (more…)
Market research firm Asymco says that Apple has passed Nokia in terms of mobile share. The big question is what exactly does “share” mean? (more…)
Amazon already has a mobile App Store, but the company on Thursday launched the Mac Download Store. (more…)
Apple on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against a company that makes iPhone version kits. The kits basically turn your black iPhone into a white iPhone. (more…)
U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked both Apple and Google to require “clear and understandable privacy policies for all of their apps.” (more…)
A new game from the folks who brought Mac users the MacHeist software bundle has done the unthinkable — it toppled Angry Birds as the top selling app on the App Store. (more…)
AT&T on Wednesday offered the first details of its planned rollout of Long Term Evolution (LTE) services for cell phone customers. LTE provides much faster data transmission services that AT&T’s existing 3G network can provide. (more…)