There’s going to be a lot of noise made about this, but my immediate impression is that, like Playboy, award-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore will be given a pass because he’s a known quantity. That he won a Pulitzer Prize probably doesn’t hurt, though.
Without even considering the new iPad tablet computer, which is selling like the proverbial hotcakes, Apple seems to be riding on the crest of a wave of prosperity, led primarily by their high-flying iPhone.
News of the empire from Saskatchewan! A Canadian telco spills the beans on Apple’s plans to introduce the fourth generation iPhone, a.k.a. iPhone HD, at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) and then ship it sometime thereafter — we’ve seen this movie.
With the iPad rumors fading into the background a bit, it is time for the rumor mill to begin cranking out iPhone scuttlebutt in earnest, including that one about when it will be released and exactly how.
The tenacious Norwegians at Opera Software built a version of their popular mobile browser for the iPhone and then sent it to Apple for approval, and almost no one thought that it would make it onto the App Store. To say the least, the naysayers have been proven wrong.
The guesses are mixed about the likelihood of Apple building and releasing an iPhone under the Verizon banner, with opinions both ways and reasons advanced for such a move by both companies for and against.
Are you a newshound with a penchant for word puzzles? Here’s a fun and challenging way that’s quite like Wheel of Fortune to feed both addictions and there’s a free version for Apple handheld owners, as well.
The one big caveat with iPhone OS 4.0, at least as described by Steve Jobs and his cohorts, is that anything other than the iPhone 3GS, 3G iPod touch or iPad won’t, can’t ever support multitasking because of hardware limitations. The folks who hack Apple mobile devices for fun and profit’ however, beg to differ.
Previously, Apple had banned the use of private APIs in the development of iPhone apps. Now, they’ve gone a step farther in banning the use of any “intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool.” In plain English, these two conditions in the new developer agreement ban the use of Flash in development — period.
Many of the improvements in the iPhone OS, as unveiled by Steve Jobs and others at yesterday’s v.4.0 event, seem to be aimed specifically at making the iPhone better suited for business and boardroom use.
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