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Wi-Fi Sync, Rejection Of The Upcoming Weeks
There are some iPhone apps you just know Apple’s going to reject, and in the best case you’re not going to be too much disappointed about it - you just know. This is exactly what is going to happen to Wi-Fi Sync, an app from developer Greg Hughes who’s managed to build a tool that lets you wirelessly sync your Mac and iPhone. What we’ve been waiting for years now, and Apple never delivered.
But we know this is not going to happen. There are a million of reasons why Apple doesn’t want something like this to be available in the App Store, and at this point I hope Greg will get over it and release the app in the Cydia Store. At least he’ll make some good bucks out of it.
Check out the demo preview of Wi-Fi Sync after the break.
[via Engadget]
Geohot’s Next Jailbreak Tool To Be Called Limera1n?
It seems like popular hacker George Hotz is already working on the next version of his popular jailbreak tool for iPhone and iPod Touch, currently called “Blackra1n”. According to Redmond Pie, the next iteration should be called “Limera1n” and it turns out that a website is already online and the Whois record points to the same credentials Hotz used for Blackra1n. We’re embedding it after the break.
I think Hotz is indeed working on this Limera1n tool, but it’s the one that will jailbreak OS 4.0 devices, so it’s not going to be available soon, like next week. As for the jailbreak of the current iPad, we heard that it’s near completion - so I guess that should come anytime now. Hopefully, we’ll be here in two weeks discussing Cydia for iPad.
Steve Replies Again, iPad Wifi + 3G Available at Best Buy This Friday
Another week’s starting, and Steve’s on a roll again. Today we’ve reported an email from his Steveness regarding the “Mac App Store” and now 9to5mac has received an email from a reader, where Steve confirms that the iPad Wifi + 3G will be available at Best Buy on April 30th, this Friday.
Good news.
Steve Jobs Replies to Email: There Won’t Be A Mac App Store
We heard a rumor last week about Apple making some big changes to the Mac OS X platform, let’s say to 10.7, in order to make it similar to iPhone OS and introduce an App Store for Mac applications that should be approved by Apple first. People started complaining about it, and I guess this would be the worst thing that could happen to a Mac developer, indeed. There are entire business built on top of the open nature of Mac OS X, and Apple just can’t change it anymore.
Fortunately, Steve handled the situation himself and finally ended those rumors.
What If I Had Bought Apple Stock Instead?
We all know Apple’s stock is now worth like never before. It’s been a terrific year for Apple, and so it’s been for those who bought stock years ago and now have a huge amount of money in their hands. I wish I had bought some Apple stock instead of that damn vacation in Switzerland. But what about Apple products? Have you ever wondered how much money you spent on those iPods and could have invested in stock instead?
Steve Jobs now Making Personal Calls
Update: There was some initial confusion as to who made the call and who Michael talked to. Michael apparently talked to an Apple representative, rather than Steve’o himself. The article has been edited to reflect this change.
So there’ve been some display issues with the new iMacs. No one’s denying that. Now boot issues too? Oh boy. And one Mac loyalist was so fed up with his recent purchase that he wrote a snarky email to Steve Jobs himself about the situation. And what did Steve do? He had a representative leave a voicemail on Michael Weber’s machine. What CEO does this?
iPod Touch Prototypes Spotted on eBay? [Update: Removed]
9to5Mac has found something very interesting on eBay: two prototypes of iPod Touch, with built in camera and labelled as “DVT-1” and “DVT-2”, “Apple Development Team”. They don’t have a firmware as we know it, they’re running some sort of “Switchboard “OS” instead, which might seem a legitimate fake OS testing teams run just to see the hardware working.
The eBay seller he doesn’t have idea where the devices come from, because he bought them “from a guy at a flea market, who bought them from a live auction in the Bay Area”.
We’re pretty sure Apple is going to report this and block the auction, because the devices really seem to be actual testing units, those ones we heard about many months ago and never went into the production process.
UPDATE: Just like we guessed, the auction has been removed. I wonder what’s going to happen to the seller now.
Google: Turn-by-Turn Navigation Not Coming To The iPhone
Bad new, folks. Bad news. Yesterday MacUser reported that Google was thinking about porting its Android turn-by-turn navigation software to the iPhone (more than thinking, actually), but it turns out that PC World has talked with a Google spokesperson and they haven’t mentioned the iPhone. They’re not thinking about the iPhone at all.