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A few days ago Geohot “announced” his official retirement from the jailbreak scene and there was so much drama around it. First he said the jailbreak tool he was working on didn’t exist. Then he deleted his Twitter account. Then he made the blog private. And, he said that we shouldn’t think about him anymore and follow his good friend @Mikecohen instead.
Now, iSpazio noticed that Mike Cohen just tweeted something very, very interesting: make it ra1n.
Sometimes a new app comes around and reinvents a genre. A few times (a very few times, actually) a new app arrives and reinvents everything you thought about a device. I’ve mentioned the “second wave of iPad apps” before: I think that a new generation of applications for Apple’s tablet is ready to invade the App Store to show everyone, not just its 3 million users, what the iPad was meant to be since the beginning.
I think that the second wave starts today with Flipboard.
Well, this is shaping up to be an interesting war between cellphone makers about who’s got the tightest grip on…whatever. Customers or devices? As you maybe have read, Nokia responded to Apple’s Antennagate with this statement:
“In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That’s why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.”
And they sounded pretty serious about it. Too bad the folks at Cupertino have just posted a new video showing the Death Grip killing a Nokia N97 reception.
Unless you’ve been living under a giant rock for the past - well - few years, you should know that Firefox 4.0 is coming. A major new version of Mozilla’s browser with redesigned interface, new addon manager, new engine, lots of improvements and tweaks. Mozilla die-hard fans look at it as the ultimate program coming to a computer near them. We Mac users just think about how Mozilla badly screwed up with the UI on OS X in the past and wait with curious eyes for some stable version to actually ship.
Now, we have a nightly version (as usual, it’s dubbed Minefield) with the much-discussed tabs-on-top available for testing. You can also download a 64-bit enabled build for Snow Leopard.
So, how about these tabs?
You might have noticed this on other blogs earlier today: Apple approved an app called Handy Light, which was pretty similar to other flashlight apps on the App Store. Except for one little insignificant and absolutely unnoticeable detail for American users: it allowed tethering on the iPhone.
With AT&T. For free. Boom.
We’re following Apple’s earnings call live, and during the Q&A section a question about the data center Apple is building in North Carolina just came up. The response:
“Apple NC data center build is on schedule, should be complete end of the calendar year, start using it in 2011.” And, they said that today they couldn’t share more details. Now this is just speculation, but many times we reported that NC data center could be meant for the possible migration of iTunes in the cloud. The must requested cloud music service from Apple everyone is waiting for.
If the rumors of the data center hosting the huge iTunes catalogue are true, then we might not see iTunes.com in the cloud until next year. Maybe even the second quarter of next year. Which is WWDC period.
Sounds interesting? Could iTunes in the cloud be more than a simple music streaming service? Hosted databases, movie streaming, TV shows? Perhaps to integrate with the new Apple TV?
Time will tell.
You’d think if you were going to make the attempt to sell Mac users a security product they didn’t want in the first place, you’d at least support their web browser of choice. Seriously McAfee? I might be a little rash, but I’m not wasting a gig of memory and 150 MB of hard drive space for this, especially after seeing how they treat Windows computers.
[via Macworld]
We’re assuming at least one of our lovely readers has helped Apple reach new record breaking levels with all those Macs selling like hotcakes, and we wouldn’t be surprised if you were in need of a tote to carry your precious machine. Gizmodo reports that Timbuk2 is having one helluva sale right now if you’re interested in some quality bags, so we suggest you check out their (up to) 60% off promo-a-day for the opportunity to save some bucks and score some sweet shwag.
[via Gizmodo]
Here are some notes we’re taking from the call:
Mac growth 33% vs. 22% PC;
iTunes Store revenue over $1 billion and growing 25% year over year;
Over 5 billions apps downloaded;
Over 100 million iOS devices sold;
9 million average revenue per Apple Store, 5.9MM a year ago;
60.5MM visitors compared to 38.6 a year ago;
Estimate cost of the iPhone 4 cases is about $175m ;
“We thought capacity of 1M iPad units per month was very bold. Analysts thought we might sell 1M units in the whole year.”
Tim Cook on the iPad: “It’s not following a typical early adopter curve taking a long time to cross into the mainstream”
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