iPhone 5: Same basic design as iPhone 4 A5 processor Better camera Virtual wallet technology (possibly, but not necessarily, NFC) Runs iOS 5 like a champ and works great with iCloud- and games Single model phone for all carriers using hybrid GSM/CDMA technology Big deal is price: $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, $399 for [...]
Today is the 11th September 11th associated with the horrific attacks on our country. A few days ago, as I’ve done a few times before, I watched the live broadcast of NBC’s Today Show from the morning of 9/11/2001, from the moment they learned about the first plane crash at the World Trade Center through [...]
It’s difficult to summarize the above, but I just came across the following unpublished post I wrote on my company’s blog a few months ago, and I think it addresses the above pretty well in this context. If you’re reading this, thanks. Here’s the post: About a year ago, my friend Paul and I had [...]
I think Apple’s got a big shoe to drop in the form of an online service that combines iTunes and MobileMe and adds additional features that enhance the value of using multiple devices on the iPhone OS platform. But that’s just background to keep in mind for the following… I think Apple TV will change [...]
Tagged apple, ipad, iphone, iphone os, ipod touch, speculationIt was like every other aspect of the smash hit ABC television series “Lost”, where the only thing you can predict is that the unpredictable will win the day. Four days before the highly anticipated final episode was broadcast, Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group, called a press conference to [...]
Tagged lostThis is the second in a series of posts about what I’d like to see Apple do with the next generation iPhone and beyond (here’s the first). As far as the product family name is concerned, I like “iPhone 4″. Ties it into the vague “4G” concept and how to Apple, “4G” means the next [...]
Tagged apple, iphone, mobile, speculationI’d like the new iPhone to look almost exactly like the infamous prototype. I went from dismissively thinking such a design could come from Apple, to accepting that it was an Apple design choice that I really didn’t like, to finally getting excited about it. It looks very minimalistic and industrial- metal and glass. My [...]
Tagged apple, iphone, mobile, speculationHow about: Every app that launches and then quits is passed along to a “Back Seat” process, which is a low-overhead system process designed not to interfere with foreground application performance. Apps in the Back Seat take up no additional resources if they just sit there thinking that they quit. But apps that were in [...]
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