He did it again, and with his usual style we’ve gotten used to. Steve Jobs has replied to a customer mail regarding the future support for the iPhone 2G (do you even remember it?) and clearly said:

“Sorry, no.

Sent from my iPhone”

So, the first generation iPhone won’t be supported anymore from Apple. And this is quite fair, as technology moves forward and old models are left behind. We didn’t get any confirmation about this at the latest Apple event, except that iPhone OS 4.0 isn’t entirely compatible with the iPhone 3G and old iPod Touch. But now, Steve himself that not only the iPhone 2G won’t run OS 4.0 as it should, but that Apple is officially dropping support for it.

You should upgrade your phone, folks. Check out the mail screenshot after the break.

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Adobe has released the Creative Suite 5, which includes new version of 14 products, 64-bit support for Intel Macs and GPU-accelerated performances.

Macworld:

“Several CS5 apps have advanced technologically to keep pace with advances in Apple hardware. Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects are now 64-bit native to take better advantage of the increased memory built into the Mac’s new hardware, and Premiere Pro is now better optimized for multi-core Intel Macs. Improvements in Photoshop’s OpenGL engine will make the new version faster and more responsive, as well.

As Adobe announced last year, CS5 will run only on Intel Macs and with only the most recent operating systems, such as 10.5.7 (Leopard) or Snow Leopard (10.6). In addition to native 64-bit support, Adobe has introduced the Mercury Playback Engine to Premiere Pro, its flagship video editing app.

The Mercury Playback Engine speeds up processing and rendering so editors can work on large, complex projects without delays. The key to this improvement is GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration and the full use of all processing cores. While traditionally apps use the computer’s CPU (Central Processing Unit) for performance, the Mercury Playback Engine directly accesses Nvidia graphics cards for performance boosts. Premiere Pro and the Production Premium apps require either OS X 10.5.7 or OS X 10.6.3 for GPU-accelerated performance.”

So yes, Photoshop is 64-bit now. You can take a look at the official CS5 page here, together with packages details and pricing.

The Telegraph reports that Apple has patented “iSpecs”, electronic spectacles that should enable people to watch films on the go, right in front of their eyes.

“Worn like a pair of glasses, the gadget has already been nicknamed “iSpecs” by technology fans. Plans for the device are revealed in a patent application, published this month by Apple. The document shows how users would slot their iPod or iPhone, on which the film is shown, into the head-mounted gadget. A special “smart” lens in the iSpecs then projects the image from the screen so that it can be comfortably viewed by the user.

The lens would also be able to split the image into two different frames, one for each eye, so that it appears the picture is being seen from slightly different angles. This would produce a stereoscopic image, giving the illusion the film being watched was three dimensional.

The device is also to be fitted with a camera that would stream video of the outside world into a smaller screen in the glasses. If someone approaches the user or tries to get their attention, this would be detected by infrared sensors and the video stream would pop up inside the glasses, allowing the wearer to see what is happening.”

Now, seriously, Apple patents between 20-30 new ideas per week. And while some are cool and many are crap, I can’t really see this one happening. At least not without Steve’s retro glasses.

I guess the “Twitter bought Tweetie” should have scared the hell out of many 3rd party developers. And I quite understand their position, as it’s not easy to develop a Twitter client knowing that Twitter itself bought the best client on the market and made it official. And free.

That’s why many devs are freaking out. I’ve heard many of them claiming that they will quit development of their apps, others who are simply very sad about the situation. And some who decided to sell their own suite of applications on eBay. Keep on reading to find out what exactly happened.

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Bitspace, the webapp that allows you to upload your music collection we reviewed 2 months ago here, has been up to some amazing stuff recently. The company has launched public free accounts (they used to invite-only) and a brand new feature called “Public Profiles.

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