You might have noticed that Scott Forstall said that the new iPhone 4 is all about connecting people. Of course that didn’t go well with Nokia, which is considering a trademark dispute with Apple.
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Nokia: “Connecting People” Is Our Slogan
Appsfire Removes iPhone App After 2 Months Wait
Steve Jobs said that 95% of applications are approved in the App Store within 7 days, and the 5% is made of crashy apps, apps that don’t work as advertised and developers who keep using private APIs in their software. Then, there are developers who submit working apps and don’t get a single word from Apple for months. It’s a limbo, a quite undocumented zone which Apple hasn’t clarified, yet it exists and, according to many devs, it’s the worst place you can find yourself in. What’s going on with Reeder for iPad, for instance?
Cyberduck 3.5 with Google Docs Support
Our friends over at TidBITS have the skinny on the newest iteration of Cyberduck, a fan favorite FTP client among many die-hard Mac users. Complementing their slew of Amazon S3 Support, Rackspace Cloud Files, and usual FTP/SFTP capabilities, users will be able to upload files to be converted into the Google Docs format – if they’re images, you’ll get optical character recognition similar to Evernote. Check out the change logs for all the newest updates, and download your below.
[Cyberduck 3.5 – 19.5MB] Cyberduck download.
Office 2011 for Mac Will Be 32-bit Only
When Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac ships later this year, you won’t be able to run it at 64-bit. It will be a 32-bit only app, quite unusual nowadays on Mac OS X.
Why? Because they’ve focused on making the Windows and Mac compatible with each other so much that they don’t have time left to do the transition.
Loren Brichter: “Tweetie for Mac Is Not Gonna Die”
Since when Twitter acquired Loren Brichter’s Atebits, lots of rumors have been spreading around about a) Loren dropping the development of Tweetie for Mac, b) Loren planning to keep working on the Mac version and c) Loren enjoying his truckload of bucks and nothing more.
Actually, the situation is a little bit more complicated than that.
AdMob CEO Claims Developers will Suffer Under New Policies
With Apple blocking AdMob, Google’s recent acquisition, AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui feels it’s necessary to comment on their ticket of non-admission. Acknowledging that, “Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google’s advertising solutions on the iPhone,” Omar finds Apple’s new terms highly distasteful. All I have to say is get over it buddy; companies don’t have to use AdMob to deliver the goods when iAds are always available. And Jobs has already made clear that some incredible businesses are already on board. So what’s your point?
John Sculley on Steve Jobs: “I have tremendous admiration for him”
John Sculley is the guy that in 1985 - together with the board of Apple Computer - decided to fire Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and visionary personality, was fired from his very own company.
Everybody knows the story: Steve later returned to Apple in 1997 after he founded NeXT, made a deal with Bill Gates’ Microsoft to bring Office to the Mac, started the development of Mac OS X.
Snippets WWDC ‘10 Promo
Hopefully when all of you brilliant developers aren’t attending every session you can at this year’s WWDC, you’re reading MacStories. Today, we want to pass a little deal along – Snippets is running a little promo this week to show their appreciation of all things Macintosh. A runner up for the Most Innovative OS X App in the 2010 Ars Design Awards for Mac OS X, Snippets is your ticket to libraries of code.
Be sure to check out our review here, and visit the Snippets promo page to get one of the limited promo codes to use for 25% off one of the best purchases you can make.
A Closer Look at the White iPhone 4 [Video]
If you followed our WWDC keynote live coverage, or watched the keynote online yesterday, you should know that the white iPhone 4 was unveiled during the last part of the presentation.
It’s gorgeous, but Steve himself walked on stage with a black model. iSpazio has found a high-quality hands on video with the white unit on Youtube, check it out after the break.