Category — Tech
Joe Wilcox: Here’s the answer to your jackass question about Steve Jobs
Daniel Eran Dilger
Dear Joe Wilcox, I can’t help but notice that you failed to understand why Steve Jobs directed comments toward Apple’s two closest competitors, RIM and Android, during his company’s conference call with analysts.
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October 19, 2010 43 Comments
Anticipating Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Daniel Eran Dilger
As Apple prepares to release its current quarterly earnings, a second announcement this week will present the company’s future related to the Mac platform. Here’s what’s likely to be unveiled.
October 19, 2010 42 Comments
Media kit for reporting on Steve Jobs & Apple: Understanding & Spinning Rants
Daniel Eran Dilger
This media kit is being made available to keep your staff writers on message when reporting on Apple Inc, as opposed to every other tech company. Please do not stray from these guidelines, or Apple’s competitors might be induced to actually fight to contest in a competitive market, rather than being lulled into complacency while making meaninglessly trite responses.
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October 19, 2010 22 Comments
Podcast: Mac OS X Lion, Windows Phone 7

Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Mac OS X Lion, new Macs, Windows Phone 7, and more.
The current episode can be found here: NOW PLAYING! October 16, 2010 — Daniel Eran Dilger, Edgar Matias, and Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus
You can tune into the live broadcast stream Saturday nights from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Pacific, 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show is available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
The Tech Night Owl LIVE is also broadcast on many local radio stations via the GCN network.
You can also access our show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml.
October 18, 2010 1 Comment
Android threats from Verizon iPhone, Windows Phone 7
Daniel Eran Dilger
Enthusiastic backers of Google’s Android project are excited to see a increasing market share for the platform, but the figures seem neither sustainable nor relevant as two new competitors enter the smartphone marketplace.
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October 12, 2010 80 Comments
Will Microsoft Buy Adobe to rival Apple?
Daniel Eran Dilger
Hello readers, sorry for the long hiatus. I hit pause to enjoy life a bit. But now I’m digesting a story that is causing me to gag: that Microsoft and Adobe are going to battle Apple together in 2010 by resurrecting the 1990s.
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October 8, 2010 80 Comments
Will Apple TV get FaceTime, too?
Daniel Eran Dilger
Everybody is talking about the expected new release of Apple TV 4.0, running iOS apps, streaming shows, and perhaps sporting a new iTV name. But the most interesting new potential of the device isn’t even being mentioned: FaceTime.
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August 27, 2010 59 Comments
How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once
Daniel Eran Dilger
Another major war is exploding in the tech world, but alliances have shifted in interesting enough ways to ensure that this will be one of the most fascinating events ever to hit the technology world.
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August 14, 2010 81 Comments
Major developer turns attention to Google’s Android
Daniel Eran Dilger
After a couple years of collecting little more than hobbyist shareware supported primarily by ads rather than commercially viable software, Google’s Android platform is finally engaging the interest of a major developer. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of interest Google wants.
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August 13, 2010 39 Comments
Podcast: Antennagate

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! July 17, 2010 — Daniel Eran Dilger, John Martellaro and Robb Moore
You can also access the show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml. Gene Steinberg’s Tech Night Owl LIVE program is now being syndicated on the GCN radio network.
Listen live, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:
July 17, 2010 20 Comments
How to speed up your iPhone 3G running iOS4
Daniel Eran Dilger
Many users with an iPhone 3G have found their phone almost unusably slow after upgrading to the latest iOS 4. If you’re suffering with a slow phone, here’s something that’s worked for a lot of people: a cold hard reboot. And turn off Spotlight search.
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July 7, 2010 36 Comments
Reality Check: No, Daily Tech, EU isn’t forcing Adobe Flash on the iPhone
Daniel Eran Dilger
Jason Mick at Daily Tech writes that the EU is gearing up to push a “Digital Agenda” intended to foster interoperability, then wildly jumps to the conclusion that this means it will force Apple to implement Adobe Flash on the iPhone. He’s wrong, here’s why.
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July 7, 2010 11 Comments
Apple updates “formula 1” iPhone bars
July 2, 2010 21 Comments
Reality Check: CDMA/Verizon iPhone is nothing like Mac OS X for Intel

Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s become fashionable among Mac writers to refer to a secret CDMA iPhone that’s been under development all this time in parallel to the GSM/UMTS version Apple actually sells, and to compare this to the Intel build Apple secretly maintained for Mac OS X. It’s not really accurate though.
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July 2, 2010 55 Comments
Reality Check: the iPhone 4 launch in perspective
Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s not just the Gizmodo bloggers under investigation in the iPhone prototype case who are painting the electronic world’s biggest launch as a fair to middling failure. The mainstream media is also in on the act. How delusional are they? Here’s a look.
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July 1, 2010 29 Comments

