Category: Apple

Well, through someone else’s clever means I have the 2.0 firmware early, and am impressed with the App Store so far.

Apple Remote is kinda cool, NetNewsWire works well, AIM is, well, AIM.

Next to try is OmniFocus..

Oh, yeah. And the 3G comes out tomorrow. Sigh.

Apparently “John Mayer” is the secret password at Apple?

…and once again I find myself glued to see what Steve Jobs announces..

Was watching a live feed from ustream.tv – naturally, it keeled over. Twitter seems hosed, too.

UPDATE:Ustream.tv is back. Not bad, actually. Oops! Looks like they got busted.

Post keynote observations:

Time Capsule – does the Airport Extreme get the same capabilities?

iPhone update – Cool. Already installed. Map autolocation surprisingly accurate. Revised to disturbingly accurate when at home.

Apple TV – intriguing. Might consider.

Macbook Air – intriguing. Would be more so if I didn’t already have a laptop and traveled more.

..and attempt to install on an iMac.

Skip the verification step – that’s the optical equivalent of reading the manual! It’s brand new, why bother?

Start the install.

Come back to the computer to find… “The installer was unable to validate the contents of the BaseSystem package.” And a helpful suggestion to “contact the vendor”. (eh?) Only option is to restart.

Uh, oh.

Ok, re-run the install – this time verify the DVD. Passes after 20 minutes of testing – confirmed by looking at log and verifying checksum.

Restart install.

Same error. Swell. Now system isn’t bootable and the installation media is toast.

Off to ADC to download 7GB of operating system. There are times I really appreciate FiOS. This is one of them. 2.6MB/s; 30 minutes left.

Didn’t have this problem installing Vista. Installing, anyway.

No, not that Halo.

Apple blowout helped by ‘halo effect’.

It will be interesting to see if Leopard sustains those gains.

“Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone […]” – Steve Jobs

Cool.

Ok, I’m one of those who thought the whole ‘Web 2.0’ development model rah-rah RSJ presented for the iPhone was, well, lame.

Now there’s been several ways to ‘jailbreak’ the phone, such as this one explained at tuaw.com.

But there’s always been the sword hanging over developer’s heads that Apple could disable this functionality with a firmware update. It seems that they’re not inclined – at the moment – to do so.

Greg Joswiak of Apple says that while they won’t support development, they won’t hinder it either. (nothing was said about breaking the service provider lock)

So if you break your iPhone, you own both parts. But that’s a pretty enlightened approach – and it gives them an opportunity to survey the landscape for application development (and developers) as well. Sometimes that works out (SoundJam/iTunes), sometimes it doesn’t (Watson/Sherlock).

It also implies that applications running on the iPhone should run on the iPod touch as well.

Full article here.

Update: Or maybe not.

Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4

Apparently the effort to update iToner is underway; it broke with iTunes 7.4.

The concept of paying a second time for music I’ve already purchased – especially if it was purchased to be played on the device upon which I am now expected to pay for again – doesn’t inspire me.

Is it because the labels have it in their contracts that ‘ringtones’ are a secondary use and Apple must charge, or is it just because Apple can?

Update: iToner 1.0.1 works. Slick.

Totally unexpected.

As a customer, I’m impressed. I mean, it makes sense in many ways, will engender goodwill, and after all, you’re going to spend more than the $100 anyway.

As a shareholder, though… “Wait. You sold how many iPhones? Multiply that by $100?” &#060thud>