Or is he trying to ensure that Apple apps continue to "just work?" A guide to the latest flap
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The hottest topic in tech these days -- and the lead item all weekend in Techmeme -- is an obscure clause in Apple's (AAPL) latest Developer Program License Agreement, the document programmers must conform to if they want to be part of the bonanza that is the iTunes App Store (185,000 apps and counting).
It's a discussion that echoes complaints about Apple's essential controlling nature that date back a quarter century to the original Mac and which have returned full-force with the release of the iPad -- a device that has been called the Disneyland of Computers, and not in a nice way.
Its outcome could determine whether Apple holds on to the dominant position in smartphone computing it has achieved with the iPhone, or whether the history of Mac vs. PC -- in which Microsoft (MSFT) seized control of the desktop and Apple was relegated to the role of a small (albeit highly profitable) also-ran -- is about to repeat itself.
For those who couldn't make it to Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) has posted a Quicktime video of its iPhone OS 3.0 special event.
Click here or on the image at right to view it.
These recordings are always useful to pick up nuances and details -- including, in this case, a live duet on leaf trombones and a terrifying three-person shoot-out -- that don't make it into the live blogs and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 18, 2009 10:18 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
UPDATE: To see what will and won't be in the new iPhone OS when it's released this summer, you can read our summary here or follow our link to the Quicktime video here.
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The first thing to remember about Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3.0 special event, announced last Thursday and scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT), is that it has been billed as "an advance MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 17, 2009 7:12 AM ET
If you ever wanted a demonstration of Apple's out-sized power over the Internet chattering classes, you need look no further than the front page of Techmeme, the premier site for catching up on the hottest tech news of the day.
On Wednesday morning, Apple (AAPL) announced on its developers Web site that it was dropping the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that prevented iPhone programmers from talking about their applications.
By midafternoon, the announcement MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 1, 2008 5:14 PM ET
Murderdrome is not Ulysses, Lolita or Lady Chatterley's Lover. It's a dark, bloody comic strip marked by the type of over-the-top violence that has made its genre so popular among young readers with a lot of pent-up rage.
But Murderdrome has now joined the pantheon of suppressed fiction as the first digital book banished from Apple's App Store by censors in Cupertino.
News that the work had been rejected by Apple was MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 27, 2008 7:26 AM ET
The following is a live blog from Steve Jobs' keynote from the great hall at Moscone West. It started just after 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) and ended at 11:50 a.m. PT. Apple's press release is now available here; you can watch the event in QuickTime or MPEG-4 here.
The posts that follow are in reverse-chronological order, most recent first.
11:45 a.m. Wrapping it up. Steve Jobs just announced the big MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 9, 2008 8:59 AM ET
The World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) that opens Monday morning in San Francisco would be a relatively obscure technical gathering of programmers and IT administrators - with sessions on "Advances in OpenGL" and "What's New in Objective-C" - were it not for one thing.
Steve Jobs.
The keynote address that Apple's CEO is scheduled to give starting at 10 am Pacific Time (1 pm ET) is perhaps the second most closely watched MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 6, 2008 3:26 PM ET
How much faster than the original iPhone will the new iPhone be?
Up to 30 times faster, based on evidence discovered in the latest software update. Poking through the iPhone software developers kit (SDK) version that Apple (AAPL) issued on Monday, programmers at ZiPhone discovered the word "SGOLD3" in the firmware that refers to the new device's chipset.
AppleInsider's Aiden Malley did some sleuthing and concluded this is a reference to an MORE
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