Below are posts from June 2008
I had a few emails regarding my dismissal of iPhone 2.0 as ‘meh’. I didn’t expound on that really, because I was assuming everyone would get my point: that it is far from the exciting effort we expected to see.
What’s missing, that is preventing the iPhone from being all it could be? Forget the bells and whistles like turn by turn gps and video-conferencing…we mean useful stuff.
In order for me to take the Iphone seriously as a convergence device, I need to be able to dump the extra stuff I lug around to satisfy the emptiness the iphone …
Ok, so the Fight Club reference is a few years old, but this news from the US Patent office sheds quite a bit of light on some of the upcoming features we will see in iPhone 2.0 (or perhaps in later revisions).
The device supports a variety of applications, such as one or more of the following: a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an e-mail application, an instant messaging application, a blogging application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player …
Yet another article about how RIM is maintaining their edge over Apple.
Corporate IT buyers have known about Apple’s (AAPL) new business-friendly iPhone features for a few months, but they continue to strongly favor rival Research In Motion (RIMM) and its BlackBerry line, according to a new report from ChangeWave Research.
In May, 82% of respondents who plan to buy smartphones in Q3 said they plan to purchase a RIM BlackBerry, up from 77% in February. Meanwhile, 13% of would-be smartphone buyers said in May they plan to buy an iPhone, up from 11% in February.
The thing not considered is …
Jun 5, 2008 |
We’re pleased to announce that BabyGotMac is now sponsored in part by 37Signals, the geniuses behind BaseCamp, HighRise, BackPack as well as some awesome methodologies behind Getting Things Done!
If you aren’t in the know, 37Signals offers:
BaseCamp, the premier tool for collaborating with people in your organization as well as extenral to it (vendors, customers, etc.). It’s a slick app that makes it easy to share data without using proprietary or expensive options like SharePoint.
BackPack, which is a pared down version of BaseCamp that focuses …
Jun 4, 2008 |
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New on iTunes today is the new Weezer album (which, by the way, is awesome) and a Radiohead greatest hits album that is generating some controversy in that it was released by the label, not the band – who think it is ripping off their kajillions of fans who already own most of the material.
Oh Radiohead, why must you be so provocative?
Weezer – Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe Version] on iTunes: ![Weezer - Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe Version]](http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif)
Radiohead – The Best of Radiohead (Special Edition) on iTunes: …
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