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Is Apple Punishing Rogers over iPhone Plans?

Rumor on the street has it that Apple is going to short change Rogers on iPhones.  Apparently Rogers wants to price their plans beyond what Apple feels is reasonable.  How far can Jobs go?  I recall that Steve Jobs said that the iPhones themselves would be priced the same for everyone, with a price of $199 or [...]

Prepare for dot Mac to Mobile Me

Mobile Me is just around the corner.  If you haven’t realized it, today is the last day to sync your Safari bookmarks with dot Mac.  be warned.
if you don’t plan to update any of your dot Mac pages before the weekend, I suggest you create a local backup immediately.  You’ll still be able to edit your pages if [...]

Apple’s dot Mac service is down…?

There are many reports that Apple’s dotMac service is down this evening.  Could it be a precursor to the Mobile Me service.  My initial thought is that dot Mac is undergoing maintenence.
But wouldn’t it be great if Apple sprung Mobile Me tomorrow?  It will be Tuesday…

Mobile Me Requirements Posted?

TUAW is reporting that the browser requirements for Mobile Me were mistakingly posted on dot Mac.  How soon could we see Mobile Me?  My guess is no later than July 11.

Still no Flash for the iPhone?

Let’s see… Apple didn’t want Flash on the iPhone because it uses too much battery… Adobe was questionable in its effort to develop a less power-consuming Flash player… iPhone users have been out in the cold for almost a year.
Wherefore art thou, Flash innovation? Has the iPhone sales and interest not been enough to [...]

Bob Cringely, you rascal!

You blew Steve’s cover! Steve Jobs will now have to reveal Apple’s plan to take iWork to the cloud. Take that, Ballmer!
Seriously, I think Bob’s prediction is right on. Why no copy/paste ability and text, spreadsheet, and presentation creator for the iPhone? iWork is going to be a web app. There [...]

Mysterious shipment to Apple

Since mid-March, Apple and associated distributors have received 188 ocean containers of “electronic computers” and other electronic goods. Could they be the new 3G iPhones? You bet they are. We already know that AT&T told its employees that they cannot take vacation time from June 15 to July 12 to enable full staffing [...]


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