Posts from — July 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
Along with Notes, Apple’s iCal is also getting a major overhaul in Mac OS X Leopard. Here’s a look at how Apple’s iCal and iCal Server relate to other products on the market, and how the iPhone handles calendaring.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Every comfortable society demands security. By demanding security, we promote a secure future. We train our children to talk instead of fight, to work instead of steal, and to educate themselves instead of cowering in ignorance and hatred of others.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s Notes are about to get a major overhaul in Mac OS X Leopard. Here’s how it relates to the iPhone, and how Apple will use all those iPhone sales to dial up new Mac purchases.

I mentioned iPod Notes in 2005 as part of my Leopard wish list, and again last year as one of the hoped-for software upgrades for the 6G iPod, along with the ability to display PDF documents. Apple has since demonstrated how it plans to expand upon Notes in a major way and address all three items.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s iPhone eschews the two dominant traditions in mobile text entry–ink and mini keyboards–to deliver a unique way to enter text. Here’s why Apple chose a different path, some advantages and disadvantages, a few hints and tricks, and a look at how iPhone text entry might develop in the near future.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing on the series looking at the architecture of the iPhone, here’s a look at the Mac system frameworks and application environment on the iPhone.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing on the series looking at the architecture of the iPhone, here’s a look at the Unix underpinnings in the core OS of the iPhone.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing on the series looking at the architecture of the iPhone, here’s a look at what’s been discovered about the security in the core OS of the iPhone.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
A number of people are working to crack open the iPhone in order to use it on alternative mobile networks or to install or modify software. What they are finding is more interesting to me because it reveals hints as to what latent features of the iPhone remain to be unlocked in software. Here’s a look at what’s been discovered about the core OS inside the iPhone, starting at the kernel.

En Español:
La arquitectura del OSX del iPhone: el kernel Mach y la RAM - planetamac
Traducción: Oscar Reixa

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Daniel Eran Dilger
A number of people are working to crack open the iPhone in order to use it on alternative mobile networks or to modify its software or install their own. What they are finding is more interesting to me because it reveals hints as to what latent features of the iPhone remain to be unlocked in software. Here’s a look at what’s been discovered, starting with how the iPhone’s OS relates to Mac OS X in the year of Leopard and Vista.

En Español:
Leopard, Vista y la arquitectura del OSX del iPhone - planetamac
Traducción: Oscar Reixa

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Reuters broadly reported JP Morgan’s Kevin Chang forecasting the imminent arrival of a smaller cheaper, version of the iPhone dubbed the ‘iPhone Nano.’ The problem: not only is there is nothing backing up the iPhone Nano prediction, but it makes no sense at all. Even JP Morgan has distanced itself from the initial report.
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