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Apple's On-Again, Off-Again Approval Of iTether App.
Did Steve Jobs Favor or Oppose Internet Freedom? Both.
Hopes And Fears For Microsoft Office On The iPad
Why Hypercard Had to Die
Nikkei Business: NTT DoCoMo To Launch LTE iPhone By Fall, '12; LTE-capable iPad Next Summer
Weak Non-iPad Tablet Sales Reduce Demand For Gorilla Glass
UBS Dismisses iPad Concerns on Corning Glass Warning
Apple's iPad 3 To Usher In Pixel-packing Tablets
Apple's On-Again, Off-Again Approval Of iTether App.
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald's John Demont reports that Tim Burke, CEO of Halifax, Nova Scotia-based developer Tether started Tuesday with soaring spirits thanks to his company's iTether iPhone tethering app becoming available on Apple's App Store late Monday.
However early Tuesday afternoon, however, elation turned to letdown when Apple announced that it had pulled iTether.
THe article notes that Burke and his co-developers knew that that developing an application for the iPhone, what with Apple's rigid controls on code and applications given leave to access to its platform, would be different than with open-platforms like BlackBerry and Android.
However, the app had been approved by Apple weeks ago after having undergone the company's rigorous vetting process and Demont says Burke doesn't buy Apple's explanation for the flip-flop being that the iTether app puts too great a burden on the carrier network, suspecting that the decision was more driven by pressures from carriers than because the app is disruptive, and has begun an appeal in hope that Apple will rescind the iTether ban, and that public pressure could also help.
In the meantime, Apple's ban can't stop iTether's success on the BlackBerry and Android platforms.
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Did Steve Jobs Favor or Oppose Internet Freedom? Both.
Writing for Scientific American, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, and author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, notes that with the original Macintosh, outside developers could write software and share it directly with users. Thirty years later, Jobs dropped the openness paradigm with the iPhone, initially closing the platform to outsiders, then welcoming coders back, but with the restrictive proviso that software has to go through Apple, which takes a 30 percent cut, along with 30 percent of new content sales such as magazine subscriptions, and reserves the right to kill any app or content it doesn t like, achieving a degree of top-down control that even the famously proprietary Bill Gates never achieved with Windows, and with iCloud and other services, the choice of an Apple phone or tablet potentially locking customers into a branded silo, making it hard for them to do what Apple has long advised potential customers to do: switch.
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Hopes And Fears For Microsoft Office On The iPad
PCWorld's Tony Bradley comments on the rumor that Microsoft is hard at work developing a native iOS app version of its Microsoft Office productivity tools to run on the iPad. If it turns out to be true, Bradley says, it could be awesome, but there are also some ways that Microsoft could really screw it up.
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http://bit.ly/vzD1or
Why Hypercard Had to Die
Loper OS blogger Stanislav recalls being a Hypercard child, though our friendship was brief, noting that compared to the familiar ROM BASIC of his family's second-hand Commodore 64, Apple's HyperTalk language seemed clunky and comically verbose.
However he concedes that there was something magical, something oddly enthralling about Hypercard as a whole, and that the program remains one of the most loved software products ever created.
However, when Steve Jobs returned from exile to rule Apple again, he let HyperCard wither away and die. Why? In order to answer this question, it is necessary to actually power up an old Mac (or an emulator) and try HyperCard on your own skin.
Stanislav further observes that while Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind, what he really sold us was a train for the mind that goes only where rails have been laid down.
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http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
Nikkei Business: NTT DoCoMo To Launch LTE iPhone By Fall, '12; LTE-capable iPad Next Summer
Japanese Apple blogsite Macotakara's danbo reports that according to the News of Nikkei Business , NTT DOCOMO will release an iPad supporting LTE in the Summer of next year and an iPhone for LTE by autumn.
danbo notes that Ryuji Yamada - President and CEO and Senior Executive Vice President of NTT DOCOMO along with Kiyoyuki Tsujimura, visited the United States in mid-November to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook, with the basics agreed for sale of next generation iPads and iPhones, and launching full-scale negotiations about matters such as sales figures.
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http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/index.php?ID=14953
Weak Non-iPad Tablet Sales Reduce Demand For Gorilla Glass
Appleinsider's Neil Hughes reports:
Citing weaker-than-expected demand for tablets, Corning has reduced its sales forecast for Gorilla Glass, though disappointing sales are believed to be related to non-iPad tablets, not Apple.
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http://bit.ly/uYkEKD
UBS Dismisses iPad Concerns on Corning Glass Warning
The Mac Observer's Bryan Chaffin reports that UBS analyst Maynard Um told clients Wednesday that a warning from Corning about weakened demand for tablet glass had more to do with limited demand for non-Apple products than it did with Apple s iPad. The analyst said that he wasn t adjusting his forecast for Apple's December quarter iPad shipments of 12 million units.
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http://bit.ly/u7Edaz
Apple's iPad 3 To Usher In Pixel-packing Tablets
CNET's Brooke Crothers says that Apple's next-gen iPad won't be the only new tablet design with lots more pixels, noting that Market researcher DisplaySearch forecasts that the average pixel density of tablets will surge next year to more than 200 pixels per inch (PPI), up from the current average just shy of 150 PPI.
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http://cnet.co/sQCGsR
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