Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Freeware, Internet Tools, Software Update, Bad Apple, Apple
The news that Apple has stealthily included Safari in its Software Updater bounced all over the Mac blogosphere today, and earned cheers and jeers (well, mostly jeers). Here’s a quick roundup.
The most attention probably comes from John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, who […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Multimedia, Apple, iPhone
Roughly Drafted has a nice, long analysis of the iPhone as a gaming device, and they hit on a lot of great reasons why the iPhone seems destined to be a great gaming platform. Not only will it have the hardware chops to play games (including a […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, MacBook
Peter Cohen’s got a good commentary up at Macworld about Apple’s should-be next target for gaming, the Macbook. Finally, as of the iPhone SDK announcement, we’ve seen some serious movement on the gaming front from Apple — they brought EA in and commissioned their own programmers […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, iTS, Multimedia, iTunes, Apple
According to the Financial Times, Apple is (still) considering an “all-you-can-eat” subscription model, which is strange, because why would anyone want to eat digital music? They must mean “listen.” Yes, as speculated before (in order to figure out what Jobs will be doing in a […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunes, Apple
The California Assembly, apparently facing an $8 billion deficit, has introduced a bill that would apply sales taxes to “media downloads,” namely the music sales going through iTunes (which, as we’ve reported, is challenging even retailer giant Walmart for music sales numbers). But it seems as though (since […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Apple, iPhone
The rumors are apparently true, after a fashion — despite reports of Jobs’ opposition to the idea, Adobe has told the Wall Street Journal that after reviewing the iPhone’s SDK, their CEO says they can bring Flash to the device all by themselves. It’ll be super interesting to […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, Apple, iPhone
One more reason why we can’t wait for the iPhone SDK to drop. GameSetWatch has a short interview up with developer Steve D of Demiforce about his new iPhone game, Trism. It’s a Bejeweled-like gem matching puzzle game, but the twist is that after getting matched, […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Apple, iPhone
The Inquirer isn’t just counting their chickens before they hatch — they’re counting all the feathers, the chicken feet, and even the eggs of those chickens, too. When we first heard that the slide you see above (reportedly from a CeBit presentation from Intel) apparently meant that Apple […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, Hardware
There’s a glowing article about Apple at Fortune today. Here was the stand-out line for me:
“Apple’s philosophy goes like this: Too many companies spread themselves thin, making a profusion of products to defuse risk, so they get mired in the mediocre. Apple’s approach is to put every resource […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Deals
Freeverse has sent along the heads up on a sale they’re having today only. To celebrate “Leap Day” (yes, we’re only having this twenty-four hour period today because it’s a Leap Year), they’re selling everything they got for an extra 20% off whenever you use the […]
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