12.18
Murder Your Darlings
Yet another viewpoint on Apple’s surprise announcement that 2009 will be their last Macworld Expo: John Siracusa, of the esteemed Ars Technica, calls the move, by Apple, “fearless”, that a penchant for this sort of quick and decisive action is in Apple’s DNA and is part of the reason they are the successful company they are today. Via Daring Fireball.
12.16
Apple’s Last Year at Macworld
Bombshell, indeed (and, unlike the previous post, this is no joke): this is Apple’s last year at Macworld, traditionally held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
Even though I had pre-registered, and because of all the pull-outs, I was seriously considering not attending this year’s event (last year’s registration fiasco had nothing to do with it). I guess, if for nothing else than to say I was there at the end (and, like others, I believe that this must certainly be the end for the expo itself, as well), I have to go, now. Sad.
10.1
Progress
Apple makes a small but much needed step towards mending fences with the iPhone/iPod Touch developer community. Let’s hope the good news doesn’t stop here, though. Could there be more good news to come as Macworld approaches?
9.25
The Point
The point in all this anger, fear, incredulity and hopelessness directed towards Apple, on the part of the iPhone and iPod Touch developer community, as beautifully expressed by Jason Snell in an article over at Macworld (or, if you will, why you, as a “regular Joe” iPhone or iPod Touch user should care about what a bunch of coding monkey developers have to say):
Now you, as a user, may say something along these lines: Why does it matter to me? Maybe these developers are a bunch of spoiled brats, and they should just shut up and keep making money hand over fist from the App Store like those guys who wrote Trism.
If you don’t want to sympathize with developers, let me rephrase it to describe how this will affect users: If developers are afraid to write programs for the iPhone that aren’t games, to-do lists, and tip calculators, for fear that all their hard work will be wasted by a malicious or capricious Apple rejection notice, they will stop writing programs for the platform. And the well of innovative, interesting iPhone software will dry up.
Crystal clear on this end, Apple. Your move.
I can’t wait for Macworld.
11.29
A Faster iPhone
You’ll have it next year
…says AT&T Inc. C.E.O. Randall Stephenson. Sounds like as good a source as any.
Some say “this isn’t news”. Hokum, I say. It’s news because it is a second affirmation of the inevitability of a 3G iPhone and it’s news because, as vague as “next year” is, it is a more definite date than “sometime in the future”. It’s “next year” not two years or three years from now.
So, the only question that remains is when? Macworld ‘08 or the WWDC 08?
I wonder if Mr. Jobs is freaking out that Mr. Stephenson has a such a big mouth (talking about a better product that comes out next year right in the midst of the holiday buying season? Hmmmm…). Damn partners.
