Negative Space: Apple
- Another reason to keep Flash off the iPhone
- I don’t know what Czerniak’s position is about Flash on the iPhone; I hope he’s against it, because if his opinions about Flash on Snow Leopard gain any traction, Flash will never be on any mobile device.
- Apple asks music companies to drop digital restrictions
- “Imagine there’s no DRM, it isn’t hard to do.” Steve Jobs goes public saying that Apple prefers that there not be any artificial restrictions added to music that customers purchase.
- Apple encourages MP3 distribution?
- Apple’s steadfast refusal to either license their own digital restriction mechanism or program other restriction mechanisms into the iPod may be encouraging labels to switch to unrestricted sales.
- Apple goes to the Swift
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The most exciting part of the WWDC keynote last Monday wasn‘t the new operating systems for the Macintosh and iDevices. It was the announcement of the new Swift programming language for MacOS and iOS. A new programming language is my equivalent of “one more thing…”
- Apple markets round wheel
- “Not enough corners,” say pundits.
- Apple switches to Intel processors
- Apple’s decision to switch to Intel means little more than that they are out of the business of commissioning custom CPUs. This ensures that Apple’s CPUs are never slower than those used by Windows, and makes a lot of sense.
- Apple’s new Music Store ringtone policy
- I had started to consider purchasing digital downloads instead of CDs, but because download restrictions change too easily CDs remain a far better choice for me.
- Apple’s spinning mirror: exploiting children for dictatorships
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Apple has decided on “child porn” as the root password to disable privacy on their phones. But the system they’re using appears to be mostly worthless at detecting the exploitation of children, and very useful for detecting dissent from authoritarian governments.
- Building the Replica 1 Plus Apple 1 kit
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The Apple 1 kit from Briel/ReactiveMicro is an amazing piece of history, and a lot of fun.
- Eucalyptus now available
- Apple has relented: you can now view the Kama Sutra in browsers other than Safari.
- How does Apple’s supposed anti-conservative bias matter?
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If you think Apple has a bias against conservatives or Christians, you definitely don’t want Apple to build a tool its employees can use to help guess an iPhone’s password.
- I married Rosie M’Donnell
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The “M” stands for “Microsoft”.
- iLife ’06 Review: The Good and the Ugly
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The new iLife for 2006 comes with several extremely useful new features, and one very strange, nearly useless but very pretty addition.
- iPhone development another FairPlay squeeze play?
- Why no iPhone-only applications? Is it short-sightedness on Apple’s part, or are they trying to encourage something big?
- iPhone review process squeezes out another one
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Apple’s iPhone review process has now rejected the English language for being objectionable.
- King Ludd
- There are some decisions that should be left to experts, and some that should not. It makes sense that if you leave acquisitions to experts, they will recommend acquiring what they’re familiar with. And if you acquiesce to a popular vote only among experts, they will naturally choose a course of action that requires more experts.
- Listen to the Music
- Apple’s new music store is a great step forward for music lovers, but it’s still a long ways from making music downloads as useful as buying a CD.
- The Macintosh SE/30: Forward-Looking Design
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In 1990, a USD team of faculty and programmers created an interactive, multimedia history and ethics project, now on display on a Macintosh SE/30 in my office.
- MacWorld 2006 mini-roundup
- Such a disappointing Stevenote! No monstrous widescreen Macintosh to light up my living room. but the new products that did arrive will help empty my wallet.
- The music industry vs. itself
- Yet again, music industry executives are complaining that Apple, by making the iPod easy to use and by complying with the industry’s demand for restricting music, is standing in the way of progress.
- Napster on owning music vs. renting music
- Napster president Brad Duea says that owning music isn’t the point, we should just be happy for the experience of being around music.
- OS X Experiences
- A log of my experience installing OS X from the supposedly non-beta version 1.0.
- A present for Palm
- Palm needs a little help understanding XML.
- Progressive taxation static analysis
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Static analysis is one of the hallmarks of progressive analysis: make big changes, and then expect everything else to remain the same. It almost always fails, and fails big.
- The Radio Shack Postal Service
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What if Radio Shack had been granted a monopoly on computers in 1981? They’d probably look a lot like the United States Postal Service.
- The Ringtone Racket
- John Gruber adds his 99 cents to the iTunes ringtone debate, and comes to the same conclusion: Apple is losing its battle for the hearts and minds of consumers. It might make more money in the short-term, but it faces a significant chance of becoming just another company in the long-term.
- Rip, Mix, Disney?
- What would Jobs Disney? Apparently 6%.
- Rip, Mix, Pay
- Apple has saved me $400. I’ll be renewing my Sprint contract for a year when it expires next month.
- Save Me Time, Save Yourself Trouble: Buy Macintosh
- Why the Internet support specialist wants you to buy Macintosh. Hell hath no fury like a Windows user who discovers the Macintosh advantage.
- Scripting your iPhone
- Will scripting your iPhone be disallowed? Why?
- Should Apple enable exes to access their ex-spouse’s iPad?
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Chris Matyszczyk wants Apple to just believe someone who says their spouse died, and give access to their iPad, then claims that this is how everything else, from house titles to bank accounts work. Unfortunately, he’s not far off there.
- Spread your wings: the new iPad
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Looks cool. Looks better than anything else out there. Now, when can I start writing my own programs for it?
- Stephen Fry on iPhone killers
- “You’re only on this planet once—do something extraordinary, imaginative and inspiring. That’s the difference, ultimately.”
- We have met the enemy, and he is our carrier
- If you want a phone that works as well as your Macintosh, you need a network that works as well as the Internet.
- What could make me buy an iPhone?
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Apple is hitting almost all the right buttons to get me to buy one. All they’re missing is letting me listen to my music the way I want to listen to it.
- What is the Mac Mini, really?
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Is the iMac Mini really designed for switchers? Or is there some loftier goal in mind?
- Which comes first? Apple TV or an earth-shattering asteroid?
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What comes first? SMOD or the next Apple TV?
- Windows XP: Same as the old boss
- Error messages are among the most important messages that software gives to software users. Too many programmers skimp on these, to the consternation of the people using their software.
More Information
- Privacy on iPhone—Private Side
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This is the best Apple ad I’ve seen in a long time. It rivals their rip-mix-burn ad from the music encryption wars. (For extra credit, count the number of walls in this video.)
- Replica 1 Plus from Briel Computers
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“The Replica 1 Plus is an exact duplicate of the famous first computer by Apple Computer, designed by Steve Wozniak. Can’t afford an actual Apple 1? Now’s your chance to own a logically exact copy. Anything you can do on an actual Apple 1 you can do on the Replica 1 Plus.”
- Rip. Mix. Burn
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“It’s your music. Burn it on a Mac. Dig?”
- Think Different
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Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
We see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
To think they can change the world,
Are the ones who do.
- Xcode
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This is the premiere programming package for Mac OS X, and it comes with every Mac. Xcode allows you to program in Objective C, C, C++, AppleScript, and Java. Groups are working on integrating other languages such as Python, Perl, Ada, and Pascal.
