Posts from — October 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple officially announced plans to release a software development kit for the iPhone and iPod Touch in February. That pulls the rug from under the harping wags who have tried to conflate Apple’s security efforts with the persecution of third party developers.

In Chinese 中文
Steve Jobs结束iPhone缺乏软件开发包的慌乱
翻译: Xavier Yang
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Daniel Eran Dilger
In a move that echoed the $100 iPhone rebate that Apple extended to early adopters who bought the phone in June and July, the company has announced that it will be giving those who bought a new Mac this month a $110 $120 rebate on the price of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which will ship October 26, 2007.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
I reviewed Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard for AppleInsider: Review: Apple Wireless Keyboard (aluminum), with lots of photos and comments.

AppleInsider is also doing a “Road to Leopard” series with historical overviews of new features coming in Mac OS X 10.5:

Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Finder 10.5
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dock 1.6
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Mail 3.0
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: iChat 4.0
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: iCal 3.0
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Safari 3.0
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dashboard, Spotlight and the Desktop
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: an extensive look at Preview 4.0
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dictionary 2.0

Technorati Tags: Apple, Bloggers, Development, Mac, Software

What You Expected:

What You Got…

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Daniel Eran Dilger
After years of looking foolish for parading out model after model of embarrassing junk as the next iPod Killer, the seas of punditry have given up on finding an iPod Killer, and have instead sought to identify an iTunes Killer. It seems they’ve decided that the reason the iPod is outselling everything else is that it is “locked down” to the iTunes Store. Their obvious answer is to seek to kill iTunes so that online music buyers are liberated to go out and buy iPod alternatives. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Mike Elgan, a former editor of Windows Magazine, has recently gone on an anti-Apple rampage, posting countless articles on why users should torment themselves with fear, doubt, and uncertainty about Apple. Elgan’s desperation is so overreaching that it is, like Rob Enderle, an embarrassment even to Windows Enthusiasts.

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