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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
 As everyone who isn't under a rock already knows the iPhone SDK is out, you know about the developer fees, you know about the cost breakdown, you know about free apps. Now the real highlight, Steve said "porn". He was talking about limiting the apps for the iPhone, and number one limitation ... no porn.
This leads me to question, how? I don't have an iPhone, so it doesn't effect me directly, but I am really curious how he plans on stopping porn. Granted they can stop blatent pornographic applications, but what about other applications that any industry could use? Would he really block an app that pulls down a new picture a day? That could be taken advantage of by a porn site, or you could use it to view AP photos. I hope he can stop it though, imagine how many iPhones would be taken advantage of if the touch screen was used for ... eh ... you get the picture.
Steve said "porn". hehe. And yes, that is a real picture of Steve Jobs.
Hear Steve say porn (at 1:07:44) or watch the entire event.
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More Money to R&D for Apple |
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 In the Steve Jobs interview with Fortune a question was asked about the economy and Apple. Steve gave a great response, here's his quote from Fortune magazine interview.
"We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I
told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through
the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken
a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place
-- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were
going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget
so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was
over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly
what we'll do this time."
Looks like inovation will win again. Buy the stock now as it is still low.
Complete Interview Here
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Jonathan Ive Interview, 2002 |
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 While this interview seems to be a little bit old (2002 since it features the iMac flat panel), it is a nice little piece about design and Apple. It's about 7 minutes long but entertaining. It is interesting to hear the inspiration for the Mac and Apple products as well.
Jonathan Ives circa 2002
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All new Macs by end of 2008 |
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 If you have any questions about when a new mac product is going to come out, I have a blanket answer for you. Unless you are talking about the Mac Book Air, every product is going to have some redesign by the end of THIS YEAR. Okay, maybe the redesign might be on the inside, but every Mac product is slated for at least one more update, except for the Mac Book Air.
How do I know this? Did I get Steve drunk and he leaked info? No, but I would buy him a drink if he asked.
I know this because Apple said they were going to. Not in a big flashy way, but in a straight forward way. From the Apple website, "Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs in its products by the end of 2008". If the MacBook Air was the first of Apple's greener products, and they plan on keeping their promise/goal (released on March 2nd of this year), they'll have to update every other product to non PVC/BFR compliance.
Me, I'm really hoping for the for the Mini Xserver with the Atom chip.
Apple's Green My Apple website.
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Job Openings : Game Makers At Apple |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Big-O noticed a game developers opening at Apple (req.
# 3094432), so I took a closer look. Doing a search for "game" on the Apple jobs website came up with 7 matches, not all about gaming though. They have a standing SW applications internship that includes gaming, but from there it gets more interesting.
One of the positions is for the manager of the AppleTV Sr. Systems Designs Engineer, while it doesn't mention gaming, it does say that Apple is considering experience with gaming consoles when looking for AppleTV Engineers (req.
# 3098041). The other finds during the search point to a QA for iPod games & a Software Lead/Manager for the iPod (req #
3312260 &
3401155).
Apple is also looking for
Graphics Performance Technical Lead and
GPGPU Development Engineer, both of which are looking for game scripting experience. While this does not lead to any hard evidence of games made for anything other than the iPod or testing games on hardware, it is some handy info to keep in the back of your mind if we start seeing any other game rumors start circulating.
Apple's Job Website
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Apple's future looking good |
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
 Tom Cooke, COO of Apple, conducted an interview at the Goldman Sachs
Technology Symposium on Februray 27th and everyone is feeling good
about it. The stock rose 4% after the interview and he gave some good
bait to bloggers everywhere. Tom said that Apple was "not married" to
any business model for the iPhone, and they would do anything to sell
10 million iPhones in 2008.
Tom says that having a problem with the exported/unlocked iPhones in
non-iPhone markets it is a good problem to have. Apple is in a key
position since it can develop not only a product (iPhone), but also a
platform (OS X). First of all, I think it's really important to
realize that very
few companies in the world know how to build a platform. You can count
them on a few fingers. Apple is one of them. We've had the Mac platform
for years and really understand this."
Tom was calm and had solid responses to the questions. It shows that
Apple is feeling confident about their products and aren't limiting
themselves when reaching for their goals (specifically the 10 million
iPhones).
A quick overview of the interview
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No more in-store Apple Deals |
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
 Cyrus Farivar of MacUser.com
recently reported that the in-store "open-box" deals have been
discontinued. Apparently the local Apple stores used to hold open box
items in the back and occasionally bring them out for a "fire"
sale. But if you asked, you could take a look at their current
selection before they rolled it out.
Josh Bryant posted that he
too tried it and was told that the open-box and fire sales have
discontinued. I had never heard of this. Has anybody else ever seen a
fire sale or tried to get an open box deal? Are there any other Apple
buying secrets out there that anyone can share?
The open-box is empty
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Secret OS X API discovered |
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
 There are some undocumented API's for Apple Web Kit that give some apps a big speed boost. Web Kit is used in the Mac Mail, Safari, and other applications. The hidden API basically deals with how fast, or how the computers is instructed to, draw images on the screen. The APi's are there in the open, but there are no comments on them. Some programmers are saying that Apple is acting like Microsoft (who apparently has lots of hidden API's), while Vladimir (who originally found the API's while developing FireFox 3) says that's not why he posted the find, and it was slashdot twisting his words around.
Bottom line is that there are some hidden features of the Mac OS that are available, but known by non-Apple employees/developers. Apple has not commented on this, but it is worth watching to see how open Apple responds and if they will help the open source and private market or not.
Vladimir's blog
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