My Home world !

This thing is a breakthrough device. Yes I really believe it.
It’s all based on small details that make this iPhone incredibly better than the previous generations.

First, a noise canceling microphone. This is really useful. It’s maybe not a game changer but interesting tough.

Another cool thing is FaceTime, ok it’s iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 for the moment. But Apple made it an open standard. This means that Android phones will probably introduce FaceTime in the next months. It’s far more advanced that the actual 3G calling.

Next point, Retina Display. This is the most accurate screen you’ll find on a smartphone. Far more interesting than having a AMOLED screen. This means the eye doesn’t perceive any more dpi. iPhone is now ready for iBooks. I’ld like to see a Retina Display on the iPad. But it will be quite hard to get a fast enough processor for such a resolution. And what could you use it on ? 1400p movies ?

Finally, the design is really cool. I remember Apple patented this external antenna technology which made people feeling dissapointed about the design. I honestly like the design.
A flatter iPhone will be a good deal for my pants. And the new glass is much more resistant. No more broken glasses !

All this seems good news.

And we do know now what the news iPod will be like. Retina display, new glass, A4 processor.

Oh yes and One more thing. Do you like that iOS name ?
That name was owned by Cisco but they licensed it recently to Apple. Honestly I feel weird seeing iOS 4 GM in the Developer Center.

To conclude, I’ld like to introduce the biggest loser on this new iPhone.
Samsung
They always built the processors ARM-Based for the iPhone. No more Samsung processor in the iPhone is a game changer contract.

Enjoy iPhone 4 !

PS: For Belgians it’s a dissapointement to get it only in July. Is this linked because of the contract with Mobistar ?

I just want to congratulate once again my friend @comex from the iPhone Dev Team for the amazing work he did on the 3.2 / 3.1.3 jailbreak !
Well done !

To use the jailbreak, download Spirit : http://spiritjb.com/

It jailbreaks the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch. All versions available until now !

I expect Apple to release a new update soon. So don’t settle !

A lot of people are surprised that Apple bans the Flash compiler and don’t understand why Apple bans it. It doesn’t slow down the system, it isn’t hurting iPhone OS.

There are few reasons that explains Apple’s decision.

The first one, is to slow down the growth of other marketplaces. In fact, if Adobe’s cross-platform compiler would work, a lot of developers would use it to cover all the platforms at once. And Apple is at the moment the leader in term of Marketplace. That would change very fast if Adobe’s Flash Compiler would allow to make all versions at once.

Another reason is that Apple’s trying to get more developers for the Mac. Objective-C is one of the rare company owned languages. And developers have to learn objective-c to develop for the widely developed “iPhone OS”.
In terms of market share, Apple’s mobile platform is the “Windows” of the mobile phones.
They are dominating the market and they want to stay there.
Therefore they are trying to make cross platform developement as difficult as possible. It’s like if Windows decided that they only authorize Visual Basic Apps on Windows.

Most of the apps are cross platform developed with special libraries or “neutral” programming languages like C++ or Java.

The decision of Apple is completly understandable. I would have taken the same one.
Apple isn’t a country, it’s a company and it’s allowed to do it’s best to increase it’s market share.

Don’t forget, Steve’s only incomes are the one coming from Stock Options.

The iPhone has been introduced the 9th of January 2007 because it took few months to get FCC approval.
If they announce the tablet in Jan, it makes sense that it will be available in June.

So who wants one ?

I’m going to try writing longer form stuff for the weekends, sort of to stretch the old mental legs a bit and share a bit of the stuff that is floating through my transom, man, about tech and especially mobile and portable electronics.

Come back with me to 2001. A young man got up on stage one afternoon in November to announce something new and amazing: an operating system dedicated to tablet computing. That young man was Microsoft’s Bill Gates and that operating system was Windows XP Tablet PC edition.

Chances are that is the first and last time you saw a working tablet computer. Laptops, then, were monsters. They were heavy – 10 pounds or more – had small, bad batteries, and WiFi was just a dream for most people. It seemed, in those dark years, that laptop manufacturers could shave off pounds and complexity by removing the keyboard and offer a pen-based OS. After all, this was a post-PalmOS era when handwriting recognition was an input option we all knew and understood.

The thinking was this: if you can streamline applications – data entry applications being the target here – you could sell smaller, more expensive computers to medical and business clients. It didn’t work and Windows Tablet PC has been little more than a clever solution to a nonexistent problem.

So what’s with all the tablet talk lately?

We have entered an era of the thin and light computer and, rather than worrying about power we’ve become obsessed with the concept of thinness. This is why Apple, in their wisdom, created the MacBook Air and the iPod Touch. This is the same reason we are all salivating over the thought of tablets thinner than an issue of BusinessWeek and this is why laptop manufacturers – and Michael Arrington – are rushing to make them.

The Apple Tablet (or iPad or Tapplet) is real. It will have a capacitive touch screen and manufacturing difficulties are slowing down the tablet’s release to a crawl, thereby preventing us all from having one. It will be thin and, like the abhorrent HP DreamScreen, will focus on media. The extant tablet verticals – mostly in the medical industry – will still exist.

Note this new focus. Rather than trying to create a business machine, manufacturers understand people want bigger screens on which to consume web and media content.

So what can we expect in the next year? Well, first we have the CrunchPad. When all the bugs are worked out, it will be an amazing device – I’ve seen it. And I’m not just saying that because I’ve been intimately involved in the design process, because I wasn’t – that gives me a bit of perspective. Expect the CrunchPad to be a excellent device for blogging – that’s what Mike made it for – and for web apps. Don’t expect much in the way of media.

Then there’s the iPad. This will eclipse the industry and for the rest of the year that’s all you’ll hear about. Trust me. Apple could require you to give this device three drops of blood every morning in order to satisfy the demonic hell-beast soul trapped inside it and we would, gladly. The release will be on par with the iPhone release and they’ll sell a million of them.

Then you have Microsoft’s Courier. It’s impressive, but it’s Microsoft; don’t expect that thing to take shape for two years and don’t expect it to take off until the second generation. Like the Zune, Microsoft will make a product but they won’t make it good until they have a little time to mull it over. I don’t think the Courier will be a player in 2010.

As for the rest of the devices, expect slow uptake by price conscious consumers and folks who don’t think it’s “cool” to own “name brand” technology and are real “hackers” (read: teenagers and European students). Archos, for example, is doing a lot of good work in the tablet space but they’re an also-ran. They are going the Tablet OS route, which is no good. Creative has some devices planned and it’s also clear that ChromeOS could power a nice device – provided HTC makes it.

As for connectivity most of these will have a 3G option – although I doubt the iPad will have 3G built-in. WiFi is an obvious second-best.

As for size, tablets, at least with capacitive screens, are weighed down by a huge hunk of metal that shields the electronics from the screen. This hunk of metal – and the glass – prevents us from getting a bigger iPod Touch and is what is keeping the iPad from coming out sooner. Once the world’s (i.e. China’s) scientists solve this problem we’ll get what we want. Until then it’s resistive all the way.

So prepare yourselves for the coming tablet wars and sock away a little cash because things are going to get interesting in 2010.

Credits to CrunchGear !

Granted, Sprint is a mobile carrier and not a handset manufacturer, but it nonetheless is in direct competition with Apple to the extent that the iPhone is an AT&T exclusive and the Pre a Sprint exclusive.

That said, when Hessee was recently asked by Charlie Rose about how the Palm Pre has been doing against the iPhone, Hesse candidly remarked that it’s not really a fair comparison.

Q: Is the Palm Pre making a dent into the iPhone market?

A: Aaah… It’s-it’s doing well, but you can almost put the iPhone, to be fair, in a separate category. The Apple brand and that device have done so well, it’s almost not… it’s like comparing someone to Michael Jordan.

Hesse’s remarks are surprising because most executives, be they from Palm, Microsoft, or Verizon, have been quick to downplay the success of the iPhone and trump up their own products and services. To his credit, Hesse seems to understand that it’s better to acknowledge that there’s work to be done instead of blindly asserting that things couldn’t be going better.

And for what it’s worth, MJ was just inducted into the hall of fame. Just sayin..

It’s here: The official invite for Apple’s September 9 iPod event. It kicks off at 10am Pacific (1PM Eastern), and we’ll be there bringing to you live, as always. What do you think we’re gonna see?

These days, Microsoft tries to evangilize like Apple does…

But I think the way they do it is a bit strange …

What do you think about this ?