![]() As for the effect on Apple’s stock price since the iPhone went on sale, the stock is up. What is it about this “146,000 activations” number that has rotted out the minds of the business press? If you care about opening weekend iPhone sales, the number that matters is 270,000, which is how many phones Apple sold. Widespread shock at what is now being seen as the device’s failureĪnd a down period for Apple shares, sliding 7.5 per cent over aįew days last week, a fall of some $10bn in total market Its network in the first two days it was on the market has led to Sweet! The Register: ‘Apple’s Takes Flak as AT&T Drops iPhone Bomb’ ★ĪT&T’s declaration that only 146,000 Apple iPhones registered on ![]() Consequently, though it may appeal aesthetically to some users, it’s not as impressive as we would have expected for its relatively high price, and offset mostly by an interesting packed-in item in its box. iLounge Reviews Apple’s Bluetooth iPhone Headset ★Īpple’s new iPhone Bluetooth Headset ($129) takes a nearly opposite approach: made largely from black anodized aluminum and designed to look less geeky than the vast majority of its predecessors, its appeal is almost entirely in its shape, size, and simplicity, rather than any major performance advantage it offers over competing options. That is not a coincidence.īill Walsh personified what makes football a glorious sport. At least three of his draft picks - Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Ronnie Lott - are in my opinion the best to ever play their positions in the NFL. (An eight-year-old Cowboys fan just isn’t equipped emotionally to deal with a game like that.) But the man was a genius, both strategically and in terms of his uncanny ability to spot genius in players. No single game has ever broken my heart like the 1981 NFC Championship (a.k.a. I rooted against Bill Walsh’s teams passionately. Bill Walsh, Genius Coach of the 49ers, Dies at 75 ★ If you’re interested in scripting and development tools, you’ll want to keep an eye on this. Testing is private, but Alldritt has launched a weblog to document its progress and show off some of the ways it works. I’m lucky enough to be be alpha testing it, and even at this early stage it is extraordinary. FaceSpan 4 is an interesting improvement, at least in some ways, over Apple’s own AppleScript Studio - but the downside is that because it’s fundamentally based on AS-Studio, it is also in many ways limited by AS-Studio’s own limitations.Īlldritt, with the help of his long-time co-conspirator Matt Neuburg, is hard at work on FaceSpan 5, a ground-up rewrite completely untethered from AppleScript Studio. Mark Alldritt, whose Late Night Software is behind such terrific scripting tools as Script Debugger and Affrus, took over development of FaceSpan about a year and a half ago. The transcript still claims Apple had projected “half a million” opening weekend sales (they didn’t), and still uses the adjective “hotsy-totsy”. Lo and behold, we’re told 270,000 iPhones were sold in the day and a half between the phone’s launch and the most recent quarter’s end - trouble is only about 146,000 were actually activated. Lo and behold, we’re told 146,000 iPhones were activated in the dayĪnd a half between the phone’s launch and the most recent quarter’s end. Where he was previously quoted as saying: They’ve also updated their free Mac OS X converter for the new “Office Open XML” file formats. Universal binary update to Microsoft’s free utility for connecting to Windows machines via RDC. Microsoft Mac BU Releases Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 Beta ★ You can see how closely iPhone’s UIKit resembles Mac OS X’s AppKit. Sample program for iPhone, produced using reverse engineered header files and a jury-rigged set of developer tools. ![]() iTweet - iPhone Web App for Twitter ★įirst third-party Twitter web app to offer “Older/Newer” links in your friends timeline, and, thus, now my preferred iPhone Twitter interface. Now that he’s pointed this out, I suspect I’ll notice this trend everywhere. ![]() iPhone Software 1.0.1 Released ★įirst bug fix and security update for iPhone. Apple: About the Security Content of iPhone v1.0.1 Update ★Īll MobileSafari issues - cross-site scripting holes, a buffer overflow in PCRE (the regex library used by JavaScriptCore), anti-phishing measures, and more. Safari 3.0.3 Beta and Security Update 2007-007 ★īoth are available via Software Update release notes for both Safari 3.0.3 beta and Security Update 2007-007. Reminds me of this old Letterman Top 10 list. Khoi Vinh: ‘Don’t Ever Leave the Airport’ ★ New iMacs are a gimme I think it’s time for revamped MacBook Pros, too. Invitation explicitly states product announcements will not be related to iPods or iPhone. Linked List: July 2007 Tuesday, 31 July 2007 Apple Schedules Media Event for Tuesday, August 7 ★
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