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Well, Steve Jobs and Apple delivered in terms of content: the 2008 WWDC keynote was significantly better than last year’s. That’s the content, by the way; not the presentation itself, which seems not to have delighted everyone e.g. see the coverage at Engadget. (not enough Steve Jobs, I guess). Herewith, my initial reactions…
New iPhone 3G [...]
The Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 keynote presentation is happening right now. This blog entry records my comments and analysis live as Jobs presents…
What everyone is really waiting for is a new Mac notebook computer. Let’s see how long Steve takes to get to that… if he gets to it at all!
1. Leopard Uptake
20% [...]
Judging by various reports on the current state of its brand new desktop OS, Leopard, Apple as a company is still pretty stretched with iPhone-related work. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone: the mobile space requires constant and rapid innovation, and new product development. However, I’m not sure the company [...]
Steve Jobs appears to have made a U-turn with respect to third-party applications on iPhone. He now thinks it’s a good idea. On the Apple web-site, Jobs writes:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. [...]
The world of business is full of so-called “professional CEOs”. You probably know the type. The thing is - I’m not quite sure why they’re called “professional” because they tend to be particularly ineffective in their jobs. So often, these people lack the ability to do anything other than run their companies [...]
In a published e-mail exchange with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, Steve Jobs reveals something hugely important. That is, he shows he understands that iPhone is not like iPod as regards the importance of software. Job says,
I will say that the iPhone is the most sophisticated software platform ever created for a [...]
When Steve Jobs made his announcement about Apple’s strategy for third-party application development at the WWDC, it left a lot of developers cold. After all, if what Apple proposed is so great, how come Apple doesn’t use the same approach for its own apps? And let’s face it - you ‘re not [...]
Steve Jobs has, this minute, finished his keynote address at the 2007 Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Here are my initial reactions…
Top Secret New Features… What Top Secret New Features?
Well… Leopard looks… just OK. Not much, if any,”wow factor”. About as interesting as Vista. If there were any exciting [...]
Perhaps you’ve already seen yesteday’s article about music and DRM written by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. Steve gets to the heart of the issue when he writes,
So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their [...]
Seems like there’s some confusion on the topic of Java on iPhone. Ed Burnett on ZDNet highlights a quote from Steve Jobs but draws the wrong conclusion. The quote Ed draws attention to is as follows (taken from Pogue’s Posts)
Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight [...]