Yet another reason not to use my regular phone
‘It was a lot rockier than we expected’
MobileMe customers are getting a note from Apple regarding the shaky transition to MobileMe services. As an apology for the transition trouble, the company is extending all MobileMe subscriptions by one month. I love the[...]
Please stand by…
Back when this was a full-fledged journalistic endeavor — a real news site, if you will — things like re-designs and the development of additional features took place on a development server — behind th[...]
Early thoughts on iPhone 2.0
After finally getting my iPhone re-activated (thanks to the free WiFi at the Livingston, NJ public library), I spent much of yesterday examining the new features of iPhone 2.0 and happily downloading apps from the App St[...]
Appel d’urgence
I was too busy patting myself on the back for realizing I could update my iPhone’s firmware from my company Mac (rather than my home machine, where the iPhone is “registered,”) that I completely missed [...]
iTunes update out; MobileMe, iPhone 2.0…sort of
It's starting out as a day of fits and starts for Apple's new mobile computing-related releases. The company's Mac.com service went down last night, as scheduled and it's replacement, MobileMe, has poked its virtual head[...]
‘Last year’s iPhone…a year late’
In a post for TUAW, Erica Sadun focuses mostly on the unlocking prospects of the iPhone 3G, but comes to the same conclusion I di[...]
Comment spammers find me ‘insightful’
I get quite a bit of comment spam on the postings here. Because of the way the site is set up, not much of it gets through. I’m frequently amused, though, at some of the tactics the spammers use to try to get their[...]
‘Marketing iPhone apps shouldn’t just be a field of dreams’
Spot on analysis by Macworld’s Peter Cohen about what’s likely to happen to iPhone developers who think just putting their software on the iApps store will magically make everyone flock to it. [...]
Not so fast: For many, iPhone 3G=price, not speed bump
I wrote an article for The Mac Observer and iPod Observer today that points out that if you don’t live in an area served by AT&T’s 3G network, you’ll wind up paying extra for service you may never [...]
Apple, Technology, iPhone
‘It was a lot rockier than we expected’
MobileMe customers are getting a note from Apple regarding the shaky transition to MobileMe services. As an apology for the transition trouble, the company is extending all MobileMe subscriptions by one month. I love the straightforwardness of this line, the second sentence in the letter: “Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we expected.” The [...]
Early thoughts on iPhone 2.0
After finally getting my iPhone re-activated (thanks to the free WiFi at the Livingston, NJ public library), I spent much of yesterday examining the new features of iPhone 2.0 and happily downloading apps from the App Store. The new iPhone OS is impressive, full of wonderfully polished touches and new features. One that I didn’t know [...]
