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Jobs to iPhone Developers - Write a Web App

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 11th 2007 at 3:17PM


We mentioned that rumors were flying about Apple opening the iPhone up to third-party developers. Well, today during his keynote, Jobs revealed exactly how this is going to work.

There is no Software Development Kit. Just use the built-in Safari engine to run AJAX based web apps.

Wait... So Jobs' idea of opening up the iPhone to developers is to let them run Web apps? This isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Apple will open access to core functions of the phone to the Web apps so they can place calls, send e-mails, etc. But this is not quite what most of us had in mind when we heard there would be third-party apps on the phone.

Another concern is speed, since the iPhone runs over Cingular's aging and relatively slow EDGE network. Running rich Web applications at speeds hovering in the high dial-up range might prove to be too excruciating for customers to bother.

From Engadget

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Coverflow to Come to Mac OSX 10.5

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 11th 2007 at 1:59PM



We're sure you're familiar with that gorgeous feature of iTunes called Coverflow that allows you to flip through your albums in glossy 3D. At today's Apple keynote, Mr. Jobs has seen fit to extend that feature to the next version of the Finder, the file browser built into OS X 10.5, otherwise known as Leopard. In a nutshell, you will be able to flip through your files with live 3D previews of their contents -- all without opening their associated applications.

This works for files, devices, drives and applications -- even over your home network.

The new version of Finder makes browsing and sharing files between computers and over networks easier, and integrates with .mac (Apple's e-mail and remote storage service) to allow remote access to your files on your Mac through the Internet. This new feature is called 'My Mac' and may make remote access... well, accessible, to the masses. No more clunky services like 'Go To My PC' needed.

Your move, Mr. Gates.

From Engadget

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New iMacs? New iPhone@home Tablet?

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 11th 2007 at 9:46AM

Jobs KeynoteA German website claims to have "found" an outline of Steve Jobs' World Wide Developers' Conference speech that will take place later today (1pm Eastern). This is obviously all speculation and rumor but here go the highlights:
  • New iMacs - Brushed metal, LED backlight, Santa Rosa.
  • .mac now free with purchase of Mac computers.
  • "Oh, and one more thing..." iPhone@home.
According to the translated outline, iPhone@home looks like a 10-inch iPhone minus the phone and plus 30-gigabytes of flash-based storage.

Remember, these are just rumors and the iPhone@home sounds suspiciously useless for an Apple product.

From Daily Tech Talk

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