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August 20th, 2008

Copy-and-Paste (Finally) Makes it to the iPhone

It’s amazing how Apple provides products lacking functionality, but enjoy a user-base willing to add the kind of versatility that should’ve been there in the first place!
Case in point: OpenClip, an open-source project dedicated to giving the iPhone copy-paste functionality. Apple’s lucky; they let all the fanboys do the work of making a better product, […]

By Rico -- 1 comment

August 15th, 2008

PC World and Microsoft Gang Up on the Poor iPhone

That evil Microsoft! That jealous PC World! Why gang up on Apple, even though the company’s managed to convince a bunch of groupies that they’re the best at everything—especially since they’re not! Poor Apple has to bear the humiliation as PC World talks about 10 Things Missing on the iPhone 3G, on MSN no less! […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

August 5th, 2008

Can We See More Tech Writing Like This?

With all due respect to Walt Mossberg and company, we haven’t seen anyone match the witty prose of Flappy the Dolphin for quite some time. The intrepid dolphin redefined tech journalism last year, when he tested a first-generation iPhone, Treo 680, and a Blackberry Curve 8300 in his pool:
Once again, the aquatic mammal sector has […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

August 1st, 2008

AT&T Pays Apple $300 For Each iPhone 3G

Check out this usatoday.com article. Of interest are:

The fact that AT&T is paying “about $300 per device”. No wonder the iPhone 3G is superficially cheap!
The impression that the iPhone made the mobile web “dead simple”. Despite the existence of Nokia and it’s very capable MiniMap browser. But then again, you can’t argue with the results […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

July 26th, 2008

The Barriers to iPhone 3G Business Adoption, Straight from the Horses’ Mouths

As the second-generation iPhone 3G is being marketed as the best phone for enterprise use, you can expect people to take note to Apple’s apparently new business-friendly stance. Some may like the company’s lip-service to providing what corporations need, while others see Apple as a company jumping on an old bandwagon in an effort to […]

By Rico -- 0 comments

July 2nd, 2008

AT&T Announces iPhone Plan Pricing and Unlocked Units

AT&T finally came out with their planned iPhone 3G plan prices, exposing Steve Job’s $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB variant prices as borderline duplicituous.
Tags: Activating the iPhone 3G, buying the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G activation, iPhone 3G plans, iPhone 3G pricesShare This

By Rico -- 3 comments

June 10th, 2008

Apple WWDC 2008 Keynote Post Reality Distortion Field

So we had to let the distortion field dissipate for a bit after WWDC, albeit we did notice how Jobs was under the weather for his latest performance to wow developers and announce the iPhone SDK, iPhone 2.0 software, MobileMe, and the iPhone 3G.
# Is Apple lazy? The 2.0 iPhone software still does not have […]

By Jayvee Fernandez -- 2 comments