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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 [...]
Literally, just a couple of minutes ago, during Steve Jobs’s 2008 WWDC keynote, Apple announced two new brands: MobileMe and Me.com
Now, we’ve been dropping clues to the name of one of our forthcoming brands for some months now (for example, see the photos on www.psynixis.com ). Given Apple’s announcement, though, I wanted to get our [...]
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 [...]
Right from the first announcement of iPhone at the beginning of 2007, many people (including me) said that Apple had made a mistake with their commercial strategy in making the iPhone a closed device - third-party iPhone applications represent a potentially significant revenue stream for Apple. Between January and now, however, [...]
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Stay tuned for live reaction to the Steve Jobs keynote presentation at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference.
There are now 0.75 million registered developers for the Mac. Off the top of my head that compares to about 5 million Java developers, and around 30 million software developers in general.
There were 1.3 millon [...]