News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
From the day of the App Store’s launch, some of us pointed to unfettered software reviews as an area for abuse. It was sadly simple for a developer to create a sock puppet account and pimp its own product, just as it was simple for a rival to do the same to denigrate the competition.
Peter Cohen | Sep 30, 2008
Some people assume that the homes of technology writers are filled with cutting-edge, HAL-esque systems that do everything from bark out sharemarket changes to make the coffee in the morning and exercise the pets. This may be truer in Chez Braue than in most homes, but it is with some humility that I confess to you: I do not have surround sound.
David Braue | Sep 29, 2008
As the old saying goes, the wheels of justice turn slow…I think there’s more to it, but the wheels of aphorism actually turn even slower. Last year, a man by the name of Jose Trujillo—whom, as we noted, was probably not a reader of our blog—launched the first (but far from the last) class action suit against Apple over the iPhone. Now, according to Bloomberg, that suit has been dismissed.
Dan Moren | Sep 28, 2008
Some many months ago, I railed against the Downing of Internet Radio—an effort that A) pays artists and labels fairly for the use of their work or B) jacks up royalty rates to such an extent that some consider this nothing less than an attempt by representatives of the music industry to price webcasters and services such as Pandora off the Internet. Since I penned that article, little had changed -- until this week.
Christopher Breen | Sep 26, 2008
Back when the US National Security Agency still had a low profile, before it became the villainous adversary of action movies or the subject of congressional inquiries, there was a quip amongst the agency’s employees that the abbreviation NSA stood for “Never Say Anything.” But shift just one letter in that abbreviation and you’ll get “NDA,” the document that’s beginning to make Apple look more and more like the über-secretive government agency.
Dan Moren | Sep 25, 2008
With the iPhone and iPods getting so much attention, I've turned my thinking for a moment to the things I would like to see most in the next generation of Apple hardware and software.
Keith White | Sep 23, 2008
Apple opened up five new brick-and-mortar stores this past weekend, bringing it ever closer to its goal of having 242 stores operating by the end of this month. But in the comment thread for our news brief on the latest round of Apple Store openings, one of our forum members asked an intriguing question about the company’s retail efforts.
Philip Michaels | Sep 23, 2008
The denial and removal of applications from the App Store has become a hot-button issue and adding fuel to the fire is news from over the weekend that Apple has blocked another program.
Dan Moren | Sep 23, 2008
It's not an Apple product, but the HTC phone to be launched this week is nonetheless interesting because it is the first real device to be based on Google's Android mobile operating system. In so doing, HTC is positioning itself in an ideological juxtaposition to Apple that, I think, poignantly reflects the difference between what I will call The Apple Way and The Open Way.
David Braue | Sep 22, 2008
The headline on this article is slightly misleading. Google doesn't have a vendetta against the iPhone, at least as far as I am aware. Sure, it recently updated its maps application for Java-based mobile platforms like BlackBerry and not for iPhone — but that's mostly Apple's fault (Apple develops the Maps application for iPhone, Google simply provides the map data) and I can't blame Google. However, I now have conclusive proof that Google has it in for me. And its weapon is Maps.
Matthew JC. Powell | Sep 20, 2008
Over the past two years, running Windows and Windows apps virtually on Apple hardware has become a popular way for consumers to dump their PCs in favor of Mac gear. In contrast, Apple has only grudgingly allowed Mac OS X to be run on virtual machines. The regular client version of Leopard cannot be run virtually, whether on Apple’s hardware or not.
Eric Lai | Sep 17, 2008
App banning: it’s all the rage these days. The folks at Nullriver, makers of the controversial NetShare application that lets you use your iPhone as a modem for your laptop, report that their application has also been officially banned from the App Store.
Dan Moren | Sep 16, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
