Leander Kahney's Blog, page 2281

Steve Jobs Emails Again: OS X Is Not On Backburner

Steve Jobs' busy fingers might be needing a rest right now. He has just responded to concerns that Mac OS X in on the backburner to the iPhone OS, which will get a major 4.0 upgrade later this year.

Mac fans were worried about the fate of OS X after Daring Fireball's John Gruber said there [...:]

Steve Jobs On Tradeoffs In New 13″ MacBook Pro

Steve Jobs has sent another of his off-the-cuff customer emails, this time about the not-so-fast chip in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Some observers are complaining that the 13-inch MacBook still sports a rather lowly Core 2 Duo chip, which also powered the previous generation machine. Meanwhile, the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBooks got speedy Intel Core [...:]

2,000 Fake iPhones Seized

Customs officers in San Francisco confiscated a shipment of 2,000 iPhoneys they estimate to be worth $1.2 million.
The faux iPhones flew in via Taiwan before being ferreted out by customs agents on March 9. They must have been pretty good fakes — it took about a month to verify that they were, in fact, fraudulent.
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The iPad Is The New Puppy

The iPad is a total babe magnet, writer Jim Colgan has discovered.
Colgan took his new iPad on the streets of New York and got so much attention, he says it's better than borrowing a puppy to talk to girls.
"If you're looking for a dating aid, leave your friend's dog alone and borrow an iPad," he [...:]

Newsweek: Apple A "Game Changing" Business Despite Recession

Newsweek has its pom-poms out, leading a cheer for team U.S.A. This week's cover story about how business is bouncing back for the "comeback country" cites Apple as a company whose innovation turned profits, despite the downturn, comparing the iTunes model to the efforts of Thomas Edison.
But more important is the rise of systems innovation, [...:]

Cydia Now Running on iPad, Jailbreak Release Imminent?

In case you doubted that an iPad jailbreak was imminent, this gorgeous little image posted by hacker extraordinaire George Hotz should prove the point: Cydia running on the iPad. Now stop being coy and give us a hint at a release date already, George!

iPhone OS 4.0's iPod Out Functionality Meant For Car Stereos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbco58GnS9c
iPhone OS 4.0's new iPod Out functionality didn't get a lot of attention when it was briefly shown at last week's event, but TUAW has posted a good overview of what to expect, along with the informative video above, which prominently features the horftastic caterwauling of country singing nightmare Wynonna.
iPod Out is a new application [...:]

Report: Keeping iPads in Stock a Tough Task for Apple Stores

The less-expensive versions of the iPad (16GB and 32GB) have become the Zhu Zhu Pets of the tech world. Remember the news footage of parents going from store to store, only to find shelves bare of the mechanical hamsters? The same thing is happening to Apple fans searching for something other than the 64GB iPad. [...:]

OS X 10.7 Not To Be Seen Until WWDC 2011?

Lengthily discussing Apple's heroic focus on iPhone OS 4.0 for the past few month's, Daring Fireball says not to expect the next version of Apple's other operating system until at least 2011.
Gruber writes:
A few months ago, I heard suggestions that Apple had tentative plans to release a developer beta of Mac OS X 10.7 [...:]

Callooh! Callay! "Alice in Wonderland" for iPad

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw
Atomic Antelope's Alice in Wonderland app for the iPad is certainly plenty frabjous — and makes a strange case for the iPad as the twenty-first century's digital successor to the pop-up book — but what I really want to see is how the iPad changes the reading game when it comes to drier books.
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