Monthly Archives: June 2008
Which upcoming goodie are you anticipating?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
With only a week before July, we’re eager to get our hands on the new goodies from Apple. With so much to look forward to and try out, we’re wondering which of the pending updates you’re most interested in.
Is it Mobile Me’s offer of “Exchange for the rest of us?” Perhaps it’s iPhone software 2.0, or even the snazzy 3G iPhone you’re waiting for.
Analysts: Macs will continue to take market share from PCs
Filed under: iPod Family, Apple, iPhone
Are you sitting down for this one? Good. Here goes: Apple is going to keep taking market share from “traditional PCs.” I know, it’s a real shocker. But so says Zacks Investment Research (which is not, apparently, run by a dude named Zack as you’d think). They say that consumers are enjoying Apple’s innovations, and that a strong product line lead by the iPod, iPhone, and the MacBook Air will continue to increase Apple’s business and give them a bigger piece of the personal computing pie. Who knew?
But Zacks isn’t jumping into anything — they still say that the iPod line will slow down over the next few years, so they’re going “hold” with AAPL. Still, it’s a good thing they told us about that marketshare thing. Without analysts like these, we’d have no idea what we’re buying lately.
Video of iPhone Japanese Keyboard from iPhone Firmware 2.0
Steve Jobs had announced during his Keynote address at Apple’s WWDC 08 event that Japanese and Chinese will have various input types including character recognition. So its no surprise to see a video demonstrating iPhone’s Japanese keyboard from iPhone firmware 2.0 via iPhone SDK simulator. However, the thing that you can figure out from the video demonstration is that it is very well designed and refined.
iTunes 7.7 to include remote control capabilities?
Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone, App Store, SDK
Along with the new iPhone SDK 8 beta that came out tonight, Apple also shipped a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Dev Program. iTunes 7.7 is a requirement for the new iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 firmware; it also appears to include a new remote control feature.
According to an anonymous tipster, iTunes 7.7 will allow either an iPhone or iPod touch to download a free application that can remote control iTunes from anywhere in the vicinity of your Mac (most likely over your home network). Reportedly, this free application will be available in the App Store upon the 2.0 firmware release.
iPhone SDK Beta 8 Released
Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 8 (9m2199) in preparation for launching the iPhone App Store in the near future. Additionally, iPhone beta certificates issued before June 9 have also expired. Applications must be associated with a certificate issued after June 9 in order to work with the iPhone.