Apple Leaves Older MacBook Pro out of the PureVideo Fun
If you own a MacBook Pro (Early 2008), the model that was just discontinued, it looks like you’ve got a bit of a reason to be ticked off. See, Apple never enabled the older MacBook Pro’s onboard H.264 decoding abilities. That means when you watch an H.264 movie, your CPU spikes to (or near) the [...]
What About Tiger? What About Apple TV?
Tiger and Apple TV will put Apple in an interesting situation, once Snow Leopard comes out. See, Apple has a house rule on product lifespan. Only the prior, major, release of Mac OS X is to be supported. That means that if a device can’t be upgraded to the last version of Mac OS X, [...]
FSF Misrepresents App Store
I like free software. I don’t like when people make it a death wish. I didn’t see this post on the Free Software Foundation blog until this morning. Quite simply, they have started giving false statements and half-truths about Apple and the App Store, in order to promote free and open source software. Quoting their five [...]
MobileMe Lacks Web Bookmarks: Sales Tactic?
Along with MobileMe’s launch came the lack of a feature that was in .Mac: Web Bookmark access. Now, most would say that Apple’s primary excuse for gutting the feature would be that most people didn’t use it. And, I’m sure parsing sync data to display bookmarks in a web format might have taken some adaptation [...]
iPhone & Mac ALS: Same, But Different
One thing that has really caused me to scratch my head since last June, is the difference between how the Ambient Light Sensors (ALS) on iPhone and Mac respond. After doing a lot of testing, I’ve found that the difference can be explained in software. But, that still doesn’t explain exactly why Apple has chose [...]
FedEx (and then Apple) Lost my iPhone… For Over A Month!
Okay, yes, I know it sounds crazy, but FedEx wound up losing one of my iPhones for a month, which I had sent in for warranty repair. After numerous calls, and complaints, I was about to give up and create an anti-FedEx web site. Apple pointed the finger at FedEx, FedEx said Apple wasn’t giving [...]
Apple Refusing to Close Exchange Loop?
Come June, iPhone users will be able to use exchange. Great. With a Mail2Web free account, you’ll be able to sync your world of devices on Exchange. Your calendar, address book, and device info can all freely flow to your Windows Mobile phone, all your PCs, your iPhone, even your iPod touch. But what about [...]
One More iPhone 2.0 Thing…
I know I said I wasn’t going to spill any beans on iPhone 2.0 software, but this one is just too juicy. Apple, next time, get the media to NDA on things you know will leak out… media relations needs to wake up and smell the coffee on this one (you know who you are). [...]
ADC Gives no iPhone SDK Love
If you were thinking of getting some nice code samples (say, Touch Fighter) in this month’s Apple Developer Connection mailings… sorry. The April disc has nothing, nada, zilch on iPhone.
Safari is Marketing, not Malware
A long, long time ago, I was having lunch with some Apple folk and engineers. I noted Safari for Windows, which at the time was top, top secret… and folks started to turn their heads away from the table when they heard I knew about it. I also noted how I was 100% sure that [...]
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