Posts from — June 2010

Daniel Eran Dilger

Updating existing App Store titles to support new features in Apple’s iOS 4, from multitasking to the higher resolution Retina Display of iPhone 4, are relative easy and straightforward to do, developers report.
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Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about WWDC and iPhone 4.

You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.

NOW PLAYING! June 17, 2010 — Jim Dalrymple, Daniel Eran Dilger and Molly E. Holzschlag

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The Tech Night Owl LIVE with Gene Steinberg

Daniel Eran Dilger

Dan Lyons of Newsweek , in a desperate bid to get noticed again, has abandoned his iPhone rejection / Android adoption schtick and has raced back to the Apple tent to announce his latest revelation: Apple is deemphasizing the Mac OS X platform to focus on iOS this summer, therefore the Mac is dead and Apple will seek out its remaining desktop users and beat them to death and leave them to die in their own blood (I’m exaggerating slightly).

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Daniel Eran Dilger

Google and its supporters enjoyed intimating an all out war on Apple during the company’s I/O conference a couple weeks ago, disgorging a sea of propaganda that likened Apple to North Korea and its iPhone platform as a dystopian “1984” world. At its own WWDC, Apple never really turned up the rhetoric on Google, but the company did deliver a series of real, competitive assaults that will matter.

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Daniel Eran Dilger

What’s likely to make it into Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC on Monday? Here’s some ideas, ranging from almost assured to speculative wishes.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

After Steve Jobs described in detail why his company isn’t putting its efforts into trying to revolutionize TV, TechCrunch has decided that the answer may be for Apple to begin building its own televisions, a gangrene solution to a hangnail annoyance. More likely: Apple will merge Apple TV with the Mac mini and deliver a new iPhone OS based device to serve streaming iTunes content and apps to the living room TV.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Two researchers, Bernd Marienfeldt and Jim Herbeck, have detailed the ability to mount the iPhone 3GS and access its data even while a pin code is set and active. That is a flaw, but the people covering this news are only interested in sensationalism, so here’s some context.
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