Bits from Apple's iPhone deployment guide for the enterprise
David Morgenstern: Following the release of the iPhone Software 3.0, Apple also presented corporate customers with its first edition of the iPhone OS Enterprise Deployment Guide. This manual is packed with instructions for setting up mass quantities of iPhones and iPod Touches as well as some interesting "important" notes and tips.
Tue Jul 14 09:56:09 PDT 2009
1 billion of Apple's app downloads may be bogus
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple today announced that “customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year.” An impressive feat, or is it? What does this number actually mean? If you ask me, it’s a total joke. Apple used this same PR crutch back in the day when they’d tout stupid things like “one million QuickTime downloads every [...]
Tue Jul 14 09:25:33 PDT 2009
Justifying non-removable batteries
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple got the ire of its users when it released the original iPhone with a fixed, non-removable battery. The mainstream media and blogosphere (myself included) barbecued Apple for the omission as everything from flat out stupid? to a fatal blow to the success of the device. We see how far that went. Here we are [...]
Mon Jul 13 21:38:48 PDT 2009
Apple tablet rumor rehashed, this time October and $800
Jason D. O'Grady: It appears that the Apple tablet rumors just won’t die. Today, the age-old story of an Apple tablet got resuscitated by The China Times who reports (Mandarin, English translation) that an Apple tablet is planned for release in October for $800. The translation is a little rough, but China Times appears to have sourced the rumor-mashup from [...]
Mon Jul 13 10:16:53 PDT 2009
Games load 3-4x faster on the iPhone 3GS
Jason D. O'Grady: A new post at OS X reality demonstrates that the “S” in iPhone 3GS truly does stand for speed. Although Apple touts the iPhone 3GS as “up to 2x faster” than the previous model, OS X reality notes that in gaming performance — specifically launch times — the 3GS is up to 3x faster than the [...]
Sun Jul 12 19:31:32 PDT 2009
3,000 queue for the iPhone 3GS in Singapore
Jason D. O'Grady: I don’t know about you, but there were only about 20 people waiting in line at the iPhone 3GS launch at the Apple Store in Atlantic City on June 19, 2009. Contrast that with this video of the iPhone 3GS launch in Singapore posted on the Apple 2.0 blog. Shot by a student named Satya who [...]
Sun Jul 12 18:55:43 PDT 2009
Battery percentage indicator for all iPhones
Jason D. O'Grady: Easily the most under-publicized new feature in the iPhone 3GS is the ability to view the amount of charge remaining in a numerical percentage in addition to the visual indicator that appears on the battery icon. To enable the feature, simply tap: Settings > General > Usage > Battery Percentage The problem is that the feature [...]
Fri Jul 10 11:17:22 PDT 2009
Time to dump Schmidt from Apple board
Jason D. O'Grady: Since the announcement of its Chrome OS on Tuesday there has been a growing drumbeat calling for Eric Schmidt to step down from Apple’s Board of Directors, and I agree. Schmidt has got to go. A day after the announcement that Google would battle Microsoft and Apple in the desktop operating system market, CNet’s Tom Krazit [...]
Fri Jul 10 09:27:12 PDT 2009
One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010
Jason D. O'Grady: iSuppli reports that accelerometers are expected to appear in one-third of mobile phones shipped next year, due to their inclusion in the popular iPhone and Palm Pre handsets. The iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape and changes the display accordingly. The iPhone’s 3-axis MEMS accelerometer motion sensors are also used [...]
Fri Jul 10 06:56:10 PDT 2009
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