Adobe has some of the best apps on the market today, but when it comes to getting Flash on a consumer device like the iPhone, the company’s cries for solidarity seem to be falling on deaf ears. (more…)
Apple added a speed boost and longer battery life to its MacBook line of computers on Tuesday as the company quietly released an update to the notebooks. The price remains the same at $999. Looks like a good time to pick up a MacBook.
The new MacBook now has a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of memory. The notebook has a 250GB hard drive and boasts battery-life of 10 hours, up from the seven hour battery of the previous model. The MacBook is also now using the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card, the newest mobile card from the company.
After admitting to collecting data from Wi-Fi networks, Google could find itself at the center of investigations in both Germany and the U.S. The data was being collected by the cars Google uses for its mapping service, which also collected Wi-Fi addresses and snippets of data.
“This may be one of the most massive surveillance incidents by a private corporation that has ever occurred”, said Marc Rotenberg, leader of the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Centre in Washington.“It is unprecedented vacuuming of WiFi data by a private company. Can you imagine what would happen if a German corporation was sending cars through Washington sucking up all this information?”
Google set for probes on data harvesting [Financial Times]
Piper Jaffray Senior Research analyst Gene Munster said on Monday that he sees no signs that the iPad is cannibalizing sales of the Mac. (more…)
Renowned photographer Chase Jarvis is hosting a set of three, free classes for photographers that want to get more out of Apple’s professional workflow application, Aperture 3. (more…)
The ongoing battle between Apple and Adobe began to heat up earlier this year after it became clear that the iPad would not support Flash. The two companies brought the fight to the public in recent weeks, and I wanted to try a different approach to track how people feel about each of them, using the Wisdom of Crowds principle. (more…)
What a day it has been. After the news that the judge would unseal documents related to the iPhone 4G and Gizmodo, everyone waited to see what would happen. There were more than a few surprises and some juicy tidbits that came out late today. First, here are a couple of choice quotes from the articles and then links to some of the better stories out there. (more…)
This case is about to get a lot more interesting. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan ordered the documents in the Gizmodo iPhone 4G case unsealed on Friday. The judge said he read the affidavit and there is no confidential informant. Media organizations that banded together to ask for the documents to be unsealed include Wired.com, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and CNET.
Cretan said he only agreed to to seal the document in the first place because it involved a fast-moving, active investigation, and because “the warrant involved possible intrusion into media sources,” said the judge. “Which is ironic. Now it’s media seeking to open things up.”The judge added that information contained in the affidavit has already emerged in the press. Last month Wired.com reported that 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan, of Redwood City, California, was the one who came into possession of the prototype iPhone at an area bar, and passed it to Gizmodo in exchange for a payment.
Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Papers Unsealed [Wired.com]
We all saw Adobe’s new ad campaign launched yesterday with the tagline, “We Love Apple,” which not-so-subtly tries to get people on its side in the battle with Apple over Flash. MG Siegler wrote a great post yesterday that drew me in right away with a funny headline.
You’ve just spent God-knows how much money on an ad buy that blankets much of the technology press (including this site). It’s a strange passive-aggressive message that just makes Jobs’ aggressive-aggressive post from a few weeks ago seem even more forceful. And it’s transparent. But worst of all, it won’t work. You must know this.On the face of it, the ad is an attempt to convince people that you’re the good guys in this fight. “We Love Apple” — the problem is, you don’t love Apple. Why on Earth would you? They’re completely screwing you right now. Everyone knows that. You’d have to be crazy to love Apple right now.
Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight [TechCrunch]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) takes place in San Francisco from June 7-11, but it’s not the only conference in the area during that time. eBay is also holding its developer conference and they are offering WWDC devs discounted entry. (more…)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs responded to an email from a developer on why the Mac was dropped from this year’s WWDC Apple Design Awards. Jobs responded saying this was “just the normal cycle of things” and that Apple was focusing on the iPhone OS. Certainly makes sense with all of the mobile products Apple has and will put in 2009/2010.
Steve Replies to Email About Mac Design Awards: “Just The Normal Cycle Of Things” [MacStories]
Two weeks after Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter on the pitfalls of using Flash in the company’s mobile devices, Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock responded with their own thoughts. (more…)
If you’re a MobileMe user, you’ll be interested in the new beta Apple launched for Mail users. (more…)
Sad news today from Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch, the organizer of the C4 developer conference — the event is dead. I never attended any of the C4 conferences, but I know a lot of developers who did and they really enjoyed it. Anytime a conference that gets developers together to share ideas and discuss the current market conditions dies, we all suffer.
Rentzsch cites Apple’s recent alteration of Section 3.3.1 of its iPhone developer agreement—the controversial clause that prohibits the use of some tools and programming languages for creating iPhone applications—as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Specifically, he points to the lack of developer outrage about the change, saying “unlike previous issues such as the senseless iPhone SDK NDA, the majority of the community isn’t riled by 3.3.1.”
C4 developer conference will not return [Macworld]
Let the gaming begin! Valve Software on Wednesday publicly released Steam for the Mac. It’s now available, and it’s free to use, though most games incur a fee to play. Valve is also giving away its popular action game Portal until May 24, 2010. (more…)
Responding to a lawsuit brought against it by Apple in March, HTC on Wednesday said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. (more…)
Vietnamese Web forum Taoviet has photos that show another alleged iPhone 4G prototype, according to AppleInsider. (more…)
Apple is being sued for patent infringement by Softview over the way it displays mobile content on its iPhone and iPod touch devices. (more…)
Dave is making a change in his computer of choice, moving from a PC to a Mac. The reason, it seems, is the same reason many users have switched over the years: malware, spam and viruses. The computer discussion was part of last night’s show, but I suppose we have no way of knowing for sure whether he is actually using a new Mac. If he was smart he would.
Big switch in Dave’s computer world. He’s making the change from the PC to the MAC. He’s complaining of getting too much unwanted spam and cookies and gummie bears and e-mails about pills that can grow parts of your anatomy. Paul chimes, “They don’t work!” Dave says the only thing he can get on his computer right now is the current time.
The iPad may not be for everyone, but usability expert, Jakob Nielsen, said in a recent report that the iPad’s interface is whacky. (more…)
Media organizations including CNET, AP and Bloomberg are asking San Mateo County Judge, Clifford Cretan, to unseal records about the police investigation into Gizmodo. Documents the media are looking for include the search warrant that was issued, allowing police to search Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house.
The San Mateo County district attorney is opposing the request. In an four-page legal brief (PDF), prosecutors say the media’s First Amendment right does not “outweigh the rights of the people to protect the identity of persons who may have provided information to law enforcement in confidence during the initial stages of the investigation.”
When news broke on Monday that Android had taken over the second spot from Apple’s iPhone OS, I thought the Internet was going to blow itself to pieces. But there is more to the numbers than a simple boost in Android sales and Apple agrees. (more…)
Adam and Tonya Engst have released three new ebooks that cover topics for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. (more…)
Steve Jobs did say that Flash was a PC technology, so it probably doesn’t matter that the Toy Story 3 Web site is built using the technology. However, considering Steve’s distain for the technology on Apple’s portable devices and taking into account his position at Disney, you would think that some effort would have been made to make the site work with the iPad.
Image courtesy John Gruber, Daring Fireball.
You can add Pixar’s own site to the list too. It also doesn’t do well on the iPad.
Thanks for the screenshot Andy.
Update: Added the screenshot from Pixar.com. 05/10/2010 9:26 am.
American McGee, formerly of Id Software (makers of Quake and Doom) is a well-respected game designer in his own right, with a string of titles that bear his name, including “American McGee’s Alice,” a trippy retake on the classic Alice in Wonderland story that was brought to the Mac. Now he’s turning his attention to the iPhone and iPad with “American McGee’s Crooked House.” In an interview, McGee called the iPhone platform “truly refreshing” and says he and others in his company – Shanghai, China-based Spicy Horse (and its iPhone-specific subsidiary, Spicy Pony) – are looking forward to developing for iPad.
Nokia on Friday filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, claiming the iPhone 3G devices infringe on five of its patents. (more…)
Apple on Friday announced that the iPad will be available in nine more countries starting May 28th. Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will get the device on May 28, 2010, with pre-orders starting on Apple’s online store on Monday, May 10. (more…)
If you hadn’t yet made up your mind to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) next month, your mind has been made up for you. Apple revealed on Thursday that the event is sold out – no more tickets are available. (more…)
IK Multimedia is bringing the guitar to the iPhone. The maker of amp and effects modeling software, AmpliTube, on Thursday said it would bring the software to the iPhone with a hardware interface, called iRig. (more…)
Long time Macintosh developer, Dan Wood, released a new set of training videos this week for his Web site building tool, Sandvox. (more…)