If you thought today’s Apple WWDC was going to be all about the iPhone, think again. Much information has been swirly around the internet over the past few weeks about what other products Apple might unveil at 6pm GMT today. There has been talk of Apple TV getting a huge redesign, the launch of Safari 5, the next update for Snow Leopard but not necessarily this. The Apple Magic Slate/Trackpad, both names are guesses. Pictures and info after the break. Read more…
Some really interesting videos of when Steve Jobs took stage this week at D8 to answer questions from the Wall Street Journal and from the floor. Speaking about Flash Steve explains that when they took the decision to not include Flash on the iPhone OS when launching the iPhone, they spoke with Adobe, expressed their concerns about its speed and power consumption and asked Adobe to come back to them when they had a better product, they never did. He then goes on to say that whilst some users were disappointed nobody made too much of a fuss with the iPhone. When the iPad launched, Adobe were publicly outspoken about the exclusion of Flash from the iPad, regardless of the fact that they had not improved their mobile platform. In response, Steve published “Thoughts on Flash”. Here he mentions that Apple just got sick of Adobe trash talking their products even though they had failed to bring anything new to the table. The second video, after the break, aptly demonstrates just how passionate Jobs is about their products and is a real glimpse into why Apple takes some of the restrictive steps it does.
Oh and by the way, since launch, Apple has sold an iPad every 3 seconds! Read more…
Google went on record this week stating that they were abandoning the Windows operating system within its offices and stipulating that employees must chose a machine running either Mac OS X or Linux. Word has it that Google will be replacing all machines running Windows within its headquarters due to the security risks the operating system imposes. Read more…
It’s official (sort of), Mac and PC are no more. The five year relationship between the try-hard PC and the supportive yet tastefully condescending Mac have been removed from the Apple site and replaced with an altogether more dry advertising campaign explaining why you’ll love a mac. Paying homage to the iconic campaign the OneMoreThingPodcast has put together a brilliant montage of many of the best 30 second gems. Fair well PC (John Hodgman) and Mac (Justin Long) we knew you but for too short a time.
Earlier this week somebody silly from Yahoo said that Google was only known for search and that they needed to diversity in order to be successful… Don’t worry the rest of the internet had to read that twice too. Here is a prime example of how wrong Mrs. Yahoo was as Google demonstrates that Chrome is faster than sound, and fries. Lightening?
As a recent Apple convert I have often found Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ campaign highly amusing and poignant. News today would suggest that Apple’s long stretch of PC and Mac antics is set to end with Justin Long (Mac) indicating in an interview that “they might be done”. This article led me to an archive of all the ‘Get a Mac’ ads spanning from 2006 to 2009 and ultimately to the above advert from 2008. The last line of the song is of epic hilarity for smug converts like myself. Your can find the entire archive of adverts here at AdFreak.
Today’s the big day for iPhone fans in what has been an uncharacteristically vocal week from Cupertino. Obviously Apple’s media event to unveil their roadmap for iPhone 4.0 is invitation only however the GU team will be here with its very best copy-and-paste skills to bring you all the news as it happens.
Multitasking, exposé, redesigned home screen? Who knows. Its unlikely we’ll here any new hardware announcements today but we can only hope.
GU tip: Look out for the introduction of iAds and join us here at 5.30pm.
As if every Apple fanboy wasn’t already having the week of their life, Apple just went and unleashed this gem unto the world to literally turn the internet upside down with hysteria. Apple has announced an iPhone OS 4 event onApril 8th at 10AM PT for a “sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software.” So clear your calendar (as if you could possibly have anything more important to do) and check back here on Thursday for another GU Liveblog of the even as it unfolds. I’m going to lie down.
Due to impending examinations and lack of revision, today’s post is brought to you directly from Macrumors.com.
Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera – either on the front or back of the device. So that means no video conferencing or even photos are possible on the first generation device…. and yet, it seems like they had everything in place for it already. For example, the enclosure has an empty space for the camera and the SDK has accept/decline video chat references. Read more…
