I recently purchased a new iMac, a lovely Core i3 27″ beauty that swayed me over from six year of Apple laptop use. So far, the computer has been wonderful. The processor and faster memory offered a great performance improvement over my unibody MacBook, and the improvement in graphics power was incredible. Overall, I’m very [...]
The iPad is changing things. How do I know this you ask? Take my word for it. I met a friend for dinner last night, another programmer and Apple “enthusiast” like myself and brought along the iPad for him to play with while we were geeking out. The waitress asks us what that gorgeous thing [...]
Apple announced today that they will be holding an event for the media on October 20th entitled “Back to the Mac” where they will showcase the next version of Mac OS X. I’m really hoping for something in Mac OS X to blow me away – so far 2010 has been relatively quiet on the [...]
For those of you that haven’t heard the “earth shattering” news that Apple released yesterday in a a press release, shame on you. Developer Agreement Essentially, Apple tweaked the terms that were added earlier this year in the developer agreement restricting the languages and tools that a developer could use to produce an application for [...]
I love Apple’s MobileMe service – and the improvements that came to the Mail service last month were a huge step forward in the right direction, bringing features such as easy archiving, server side rules, vacation messages, and rich text formatting when composing messages on the web. Now that the update to the Mail service [...]
Apple traditionally gives out Apple Design Awards in several categories for Mac applications every year at WWDC, the Worldwide Developers Conference (running this week – keynote from Steve Jobs at 10am PST this morning). However, this year Apple did not have categories for Mac applications, only for iPhone. Therefore, the popular tech website Ars Technica [...]
Check out this awesome article reviewing the hot topic of the Apple developer TOS (Terms of Service), including some email correspondence between the article author and Steve Jobs. Read the article here.
With Apple’s announcement of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, Apple slipped in a contractual change that is raising some hairs in the development community. Previously section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer contract prohibited using private APIs in your application. With the announcement of iPhone OS 4, Apple added wording prohibiting using third [...]
Pretty exciting news from the WebKit team: This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework “WebKit2″. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where [...]
Apple announced the immediate availablility of a developer preview of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, with plans to bring the update to iPhone 3G & 3GS and late model iPod Touch users “sometime this summer”, with the iPad lagging behind “sometime this fall”. The announcement hinged upon seven major features, with well [...]