He did it. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and nerd superhero, just made his debut on Dancing with the Stars. As you’d expect, the surprisingly nimble Woz enjoyed himself without concern of mockery. But as one judge put it, “overall it was a disaster.”
Yes, Apple’s App Store carries great stuff for your iPhone. But some of the best applications Apple banned from the App Store are now found at an unauthorized store, called Cydia. But Apple is already prepping to send its legal sharks after The Cydia Store by leveraging DCMA in order to push jailbreaking into illegal territory.
Owen Goss writes “Everyone is familiar with the story of the iPhone developer who spends two weeks of spare time making a game that goes on to make them hundreds of thousands of dollars. The reality is that with the App Store now hosting over 25,000 apps, the competition is fierce. While it’s true that a few select apps are making developers rich, the reality is that most apps don’t make a lot of money. In a blog post I take a hard look at the first 24 days of sales data for the first game, Dapple, from Streaming Colour Studios. The post reflects what is likely the norm for developers just getting into the iPhone development game.”
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Palm essentially has to bet all of its money on the Pre phone – may go bust. But here’s the problem: No phone yet. All that buzz, and if you want a cool touch-screen phone, the choices are still pretty much your local Apple store, or a BlackBerry outlet. The Pre is nowhere to be found. And now, Palm admits that re-starting the buzz…
Despite public statements to the contrary, Apple did lay off around 50 enterprise salespeople last week, CNET News has learned. Sources who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal confirmed reports by Valleywag and 9to5Mac.com that roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for “business and economic reasons”.
Universal Music has prevailed in a case that would have otherwise given millions more to artists for the sale of their songs on digital download services such as Apple’s industry-leading iTunes Store.
TechDirt is reporting that in response to the frustrations with Apple’s app store dictatorship, a few developers are looking to set up their own alternative app stores. Alternate app stores would only work on jailbroken phones, making their adoption scope limited, so the question is whether Apple will go after these start ups on the legal battlefield. “Apple, which collects a 30% commission from sellers on its store, doesn’t break out the site’s revenue. Brokerage firm Piper Jaffray estimates the site generated about 0 million in sales last year and projects total sales will grow to 0 million this year. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. But it has said in the past that with the iPhone it was trying to strike a balance between a closed device like the iPod and an open device like the PC.”
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Boom: Apple netbook in Q3 — that’s the rumor being spread by the Commercial Times / DigiTimes tag-team of electronics tattlers. Apparently, Wintek will supply the touch-panels to Quanta computer who’ll be tasked with assembling Apple’s netbook…
A couple years back, Jobs, who doesn’t like touching anyone, embraced Bono on stage. Bono joined The Edge for a couple of songs. Flash forward to today: Bono is a partner in venture firm Elevation Partners which owns 39 percent of Palm.
With the latest seed of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple has made dramatic changes to QuickTime Player in both interface and features. Changes to the interface has gotten the most attention with a description posted by AppleInsider. The new QuickTime X playback window appears to be minimalistic with all user-interface pieces fading away, leaving…
