Gawker
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utopia
iPhone to Revolutionize How Municipal Bureaucrats Ignore Residents
In San Francisco, citizens complain to the city over Twitter. Bostonians have it even better: they got an iPhone application just for carping at City Hall. It's never been easier to funnel your complaint into a Kafkaesque black hole! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: FROM: RedSoxFan20042007 TO: Mayor Menino RE: Yankee fan sighting outside Fenway Park - PLEASE SEND POLICE DATE: As needed Dear Mayor Menino, some fucking... 2 Responses | Other threads
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publicity stunts
iPhone Porn Makes Long-Awaited App Debut
It's been a full year since Time magazine dubbed porn "The iPhone's Next Frontier," and only now has an application publisher dared to distribute a truly adult application: An app called Hottest Girls was updated to include naked pictures. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by kneetoe: And if I do the right thing with my fingers, I can get her from vertical to horizontal. 6 Responses | Other threads
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nerdspotting
The Woz Cuts iPhone Line
Steve Jobs is famous for possessing a "reality distortion field" that bends people to his will. But today he's got nothing on his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who talked shoppers into letting him jump an iPhone line. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by misslinda: Silly nerds. If they banded together they could've gotten Woz to buy all of their iphones for him in exchange... 2 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
The iPhone's First Upselling Magazine App
Apple says it's a first: Men's Health magazine released an iPhone app that sells additional content for more money. Maybe this is the silver bullet that will finally save print journalism! But probably not. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by croush1211: I bought this last night, and I already had purchased (or is it free?) iFitness a week or two ago.... more » | Other threads
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print is dead
Will the New iPhone Save Old Media?
It doesn't take a particularly creative publishing executive to imagine a big opportunity in the new iPhone software Apple showed off today.
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By Ryan TateComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Reading on my iPhone is just a little bit easier than reading a full-size novel from a city block away. 7 Responses | Other threads
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change
The New Yorker Embraces Modern Technology
"Jorge Colombo drew this week's cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square." [New Yorker] More »
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journalismism
J-School Identifies Apple-Friendly Financial Aid Loophole
Congress is debating whether journalists should be subsidized. But hey, did anyone know that we're already coddling J-school students by letting them take federal loans for iPhones? More » -
leaks
Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence
Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!) More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Richard Lawson: U wouldnt hack Obamas emales would u? 9 Responses | Other threads
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iphone
Apple Copies and Pastes Adulation into Twittersphere
Have you heard that Twitter is the future of news? If so, we're in for a world where Apple's introduction of a copy-and-paste feature for the iPhone is the most important news ever. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: It is criminal that most modern phones don't have a legitimate copy and paste function. Their omission almost made the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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microsoft
"My Phone" rhymes with "iPhone"? Microsoft executive claims cluelessness.
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surly adopter
Even the Taliban Now Loves the iPhone
We doubt Apple will sign this guy up for an endorsement deal, but Mullah Zaif, a former Taliban official, raved about his iPhone to Al Jazeera correspondent Hamish McDonald during a visit in Kabul. More »
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timeline
Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
While Steve Jobs' famed "reality distortion field" transformed, despite all odds, computers, music, movies and cell phones, it is his own body which has proven resistant to his formidable power to reshape the world. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Mark 2000: What's disturbing is that Jobso, the hippy idiot boy, spent a YEAR not getting treatment for the original cancer and... 3 Responses | Other threads
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freakoutnomics
Why Walmart won't ruin the iPhone
Remember how Oprah once threatened to ruin the life of novelist Jonathan Franzen by selecting his book for her club and thereby making him lots and lots of money? Walmart might do the same to Apple's iPhone!
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By Owen ThomasComment by CaptainFantastic: It's been a while since iPhones were upscale. 2 Responses | Other threads
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ebay
The pop-culture junk pile of 2008
When we overdose on celebrities and overindulge in gadgets, where's the vomitorium to hurl it up? Why, it's eBay, on whose shores the flotsam of every shipwrecked trend lands. Here's what was formerly hot in 2008:
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By Owen ThomasComment by Figaro: I don't have a clue who that blonde is. Oh, I'm so proud of myself :D 3 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Walmart to kill iPhone's cool on December 28
I'm skeptical, but Boy Genius Report has what's supposed to be an internal document from Walmart. It details the launch timeline to begin selling iPhones at Walmart on December 28. Here's what nags at me: Why not start the day after Thanksgiving, instead of three days after Christmas? It's not because unprepared staff and long lines would be a problem. Please explain to me how this is all part of His Steveness's master plan.
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By Paul BoutinComment by godospoons: This makes complete sense--his Steveness wants as much foot traffic in his Apfel stores as possible during the fourth quarter. If... 1 Responses | Other threads
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crime
San Francisco man risks life for iPhone
Gene Wood, an operations manager at Ask.com, the Barry Diller-owned search engine beloved by Midwestern moms, wrestled a mugger to the ground rather than lose his iPhone, for which he paid $499. While riding on a subway train in San Francisco and watching a movie, Wood felt a hand reach behind him and snatch the phone. Wood, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds, jumped from his seat and pursued the thief. Here's his harrowing account of how he got his iPhone back through hand-to-hand combat — and got away with just one small, if nasty, head wound: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by pepelicious: It's called BART. If people in NYC can't figure out it's a "subway" that's their problem. 8 Responses | Other threads
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meltdowns
iPhone fails to save Best Buy's bacon
You can buy an iPhone at Best Buy, but more likely you won't buy anything at all this Xmas. The company's revised forecast predicts revenue between now and February may drop by 15 percent. CEO Brad Anderson's official statement is blunt: "Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we've ever seen ... Best Buy simply can't adjust fast enough to maintain our earnings momentum for this year." Cool, but seismic changes? Brad, come on out from Minnesota and we'll demo a real earthquake for you. (Photo by AP/Paul Sakuma)
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By Paul BoutinComment by guyinthevalley: how ironic that the best buy will be on the entire store. feel bad for those who work there... 1 Responses | Other threads
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iphone
Apple kills iPhone app for being too popular
Another one bites the dust. This time, instead of banning a new app, Apple has denied a music streaming app called CastCatcher from releasing an update, due to "unreasonable volume of traffic." As with the past bans, the developers come out as the folk heroes, but an evil corporate overlord would have helped CastCatcher a lot. Here's how: More »
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Comment by UltmanMoira: WTF!? Normally Valleywag gets this sort of story totally right. This one is complete garbage, and is a bogus analysis... 1 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Obama's cell phone sparks last-minute controversy
We knew there would be last-minute dirty tricks in this campaign — but who knew they would include attempting to turn the powerful Apple fanboy vote? iPhone Savior has revealed, with suspicious timing, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama uses a desperately uncool Motorola Razr, not the iPhone spotted in his hands back in May. Then again, maybe Obama's trying to appeal to America's industrial heartland; Motorola is based in the suburbs of Chicago, where Obama has his campaign headquarters. Or, possibly, he just wants to make phone calls.
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By Owen ThomasComment by longtailwagsthevalley: after he's done spreading my "wealth" around i'll probably only be able to afford a crap flip phone too... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
iPhone production off 40 percent
Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger claims his industry contacts know that Apple's Q4 iPhone production will be more than 40 percent lower than Q3. So, even though poor people are the iPhone's largest growth market, overall sales are expected to be off because rich people stop buying gadgets when the Nasdaq drops. I'm getting tired of this global-downturn talk. Where's my reality distortion field? (Photo by otakuchick)
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By Paul BoutinComment by Migrant Blogger: Rich people stop, but poor people keep spending? Not when they hit their credit card limits ... more » | Other threads
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pervs
Finally, a Porn Webcams Site Just for the iPhone
Sometimes, you just want to see an ugly girl in Bulgaria taking her clothes off for you in real time, but you aren't near a computer. Oh, cruel fate! If only there was a way to see a tiny, low-quality video of said ugly girl stripping on your iPhone! Well, good news (I guess): now there is. Yes, it's the first iPhone-only porn cam site. [Gizmodo]
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By Adam FrucciComment by DayWeSpilledThePaint_GitEmSteveDave: My webcam site is iPhone friendly. And if you ask me nice enough..... 5 Responses | Other threads
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dumbphones
iPhone's image being tarnished by poor people
The Jesusphone is no longer just for privileged white folks. "The strongest growth in users is coming from those earning less than the median household income, particularly since the launch of the iPhone 3G." So says a report from ComScore, which concludes that "lower-income mobile subscribers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to access the Internet, email and their music collections." Awesome. Now I can buy an iPhone 3G without feeling I'm being extravagant. But I can't shake the feeling this study was secretly paid for by RIM. (Photo by r.f.m II)
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By Paul BoutinComment by Trick: It is really sad how tarnished the Mac image has become. Now anyone with $200 left on their credit card think... 9 Responses | Other threads
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Rick Rashid
Microsoft research chief takes credit for iPhone
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles today, Rick Rashid, the head of Microsoft Research, reminded the audience that he helped write the Mach kernel 25 years ago. That piece of code is now at the core of Apple's OS X, the operating system which runs both the Mac and the IPhone. What he should be asking: Why didn't his employer think of that? (Photo by Ina Fried/CNET News)
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By Owen ThomasComment by Pragmatic: Technically Rick Rashid isn't the head of Microsoft Research, his boss Craig Mundie is. 1 Responses | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
When bloggers blog bloggers, is the result blather — or better?
Did you know Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen has joined eBay's board? Why yes, it's true — and it happened last month. VentureBeat editor Eric Eldon had gotten a belated tip about the hire, and published the story without checking the date. "I made a stupid mistake," he tells me. (He was more oblique in Twitter.) Eldon rapidly took the story down, but not before it was syndicated to The Industry Standard, where it caught the eye of Nicholas Carlson, my former charge at Valleywag who has landed at Silicon Alley Insider. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by eze: Well, I certainly deserved this spanking, Owen. Now I'm going to have to stay up all night stealing your scoops.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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flash
Adobe really really really wants Flash everywhere
Why is Adobe dropping licensing restrictions and fees for its Flash video player? To prod Steve Jobs into adding Flash to the iPhone. Maybe Adobe should just keep resubmitting that iPhone Flash player application to the iTunes Store. [Wired]
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Comment by Drunken Economist: I see that the 'wag is observing the 'sponsors get their stories held for 6 months' rule of internet journalism,... more » | Other threads
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dumbphones
The Googlephone has a kill switch too
Google's Android phone has something in common with Apple's iPhone: Both gadgets have a "kill switch" to uninstall unwanted applications. Buried in Google's Android legalese is a clause that says Google might "discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion." The outrage would be pretty bad if anyone actually had a Googlephone. [CNET] -
lawsuits
iPhone-app developer sues Coors for $12.5 million
Hottrix, a software developer, is suing Coors for copying its $3 iBeer application. The novelty iPhone app shows a glass of beer that disappears as you tilt the iPhone sideways. Cute and harmless. Unless of course you're a major corporation that made a similar application, creatively called iPint, and gave it away for free as a marketing promotion. iPint consistently showed up in Apple's top 10 free applications list. More »
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Comment by sample032: I think this is the third time in 24 hours that I've seen an iPhone way too close to someone's... 3 Responses | Other threads
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silicon valley users guide
How not to sell an iPhone app
The founders of Tap Tap Tap, a developer of iPhone applications, have parted ways, and are putting their most successful app, Where To, up for sale. John Casasanta says he and Sophia Teuschler delayed the announcement for weeks because they had difficulty coming to terms for the split. Commentards are already lauding the pair's transparency, but the move doesn't speak well for their business sense. If you were selling a home, would you tell people at an open house that the sellers were divorcing? Just what a buyer wants: a negotiation with two parties who can't agree on anything themselves. -
acquisitions
RIM the next takeover target?
Shares of Research In Motion have declined from $148 to $60 in four months, falling along with most tech stocks. The difference between RIM and, say, Yahoo? Microsoft still wants to buy RIM, say some analysts cited by Reuters. Forget Google's still-not-on-the-market Android phones; RIM's BlackBerry is the only real competition for Apple's iPhone. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by raincoaster: Not to mention that for arbitrary reasons the canuck buck is now at 86 cents! 1 Responses | Other threads
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the youngs
12-year-old does iPhone security QA
"My twelve year old son brought to my attention a security bug he discovered on his iPhone," blogs programmer Karl Kraft. "He has an even more paranoid security mind than I do, because he primarily uses his iPhone to send and receive sweet nothings between himself and his girlfriend, and he is certain that his mother and I are desperate to intercept these messages." The poor kid doesn't realize his parents would be perfectly happy with an XML summary of the content. They could set alerts on it: WARNING sexual subtext identified. Steve Jobs has four kids, so don't tell me this isn't in the works.
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By Paul BoutinComment by macbeach: Do most people out there give iPhones to their twelve year olds? I guess I really am out of touch. Suggestion for... more » | Other threads
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apple
Teens plan to ignore Wall Street, buy iPhones
Nearly one in four high school students surveyed by Piper Jaffray "plan on buying an iPhone in the next six months." It's not clear if the 22% who want one include the 8% who already have one, or if the survey was conducted before their once-splurgy parents began raving about The Worst Financial Crisis Ever — why, six months from now there'll be nothing left to sync with! Me, I took a hint from the kids: My shiny new Blackberry Curve 8330 will be a valuable job-hunting tool after Denton fires us all.
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By Paul BoutinComment by gkanapathy: Funny, because when I took a survey of teens, 79% of them planned to get laid within the next six... 2 Responses | Other threads
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dumbphones
BlackBerry Storm specs claim it runs iPhone software
Research In Motion's iPhone substitute, the touchscreen-equipped BlackBerry Storm, has debuted. Perhaps a bit hastily. In the U.K., it's sold by Vodafone, which has displayed a page of specifications. The screenshots show the Storm displaying the iPhone's characteristic icons and Apple's Safari Web browser. Has Apple licensed the iPhone's operating system to RIM? No, what this looks like is a rushed-out product launch, and an overeager Web designer. Another shot: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lawrence: if it looks like an Iphone, talks like an iphone, and walks like an iphone - it's an Iphone ...why bother... 1 Responses | Other threads
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apple
Apple hits 10 million iPhone target
The latest estimates show Apple has sold 10 million iPhones so far in 2008 — a goal CEO Steve Jobs expected the company to hit by the end of this year, when he launched the first-generation iPhone last summer. [Apple 2.0] -
Apple Users Held Hostage
Hong Kong's unlocked iPhones explained
"Hong Kong is now the one and only country in the world where you can buy an unlocked contract-free iPhone directly from the online Apple Store," writes John Gruber, aka Daring Fireball. He goes on to answer my plea for an explanation of Apple's motives. You can read his full-length post, or my 100-word edit: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by frederic: wrong link, I think for "You can read his full-length post" 1 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Obama's iPhone app spots your swing-state contacts
What took so long? Obama '08, the iPhone app, is free. Sort of: There's no charge, but the app will try to put you to work dialing friends in battleground states. CNET non-Democrat Declan McCullagh test-drove it: "The application ranked contacts in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico at the top; at the bottom was a friend whose cell phone has a Texas number, though she actually lives in California." The app's controversial feature is that it reports back to Obama Central on the total number of calls you've dialed.
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By Paul BoutinComment by LeeGeryon: The first moron to call me with this app will be hunted down and beaten with a sack full of... more » | Other threads
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loopt
Michael Arrington offers to be your friend, if you have an iPhone
The folks at Loopt managed to garner a heaping helping of positive publicity from Michael Arrington by releasing a tool allowing readers of Arrington's TechCrunch blog to stalk each other out in the real world. And not only will it help you raise all sorts of privacy concerns among perfect strangers, Arrington himself will tell you where he is in the world at all times. So it shouldn't be hard to find him when he ditches the plebes at the next TechCrunch event for a Scotch-fueled afterparty. (Photo by Andrew Mager)
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By Jackson WestComment by wchan_sea_wat: Great! Now I'll be able to tell Mike everything. 1 Responses | Other threads
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iphone
Apple drops hated iPhone app NDA, obliquely blames Microsoft
Apple made developers who wanted to write applications for the iPhone sign a non-disclosure agreement that was rigorous it even forbade them from publishing Apple's letters rejecting their app from its iTunes store. More seriously, the NDA also prevented developers from learning from each others mistakes and publishers from writing how-to manuals for would-be application developers. So after loud complaints, Apple today announced it would drop the non-disclosure agreement for released iPhone software. Developers rejoiced. Explaining the need for the NDA in the first place, Apple also landed a few only slightly veiled jabs at an old rival, Microsoft. I couldn't help but be reminded of a scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley, which I've embedded below. More »
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Comment by fullman: Too bad the iPhone SDK doesn't actually have much in terms of original, unique features, otherwise that quoted paragraph would... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Apple Users Held Hostage
Your iPhone plug is a fire hazard
If your iPhone 3G's American AC adapter doesn't have a green dot on it, Apple wants you to swap it for a new one. The recalled adapter's plugs have been reported to break off in wall sockets — not just an annoyance, but an electrical shock and fire hazard.
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By Paul BoutinComment by lucifugus: Paul, you have been pwned. Just to let you know... 1 Responses | Other threads
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iphone
Adobe building iPhone Flash player
A senior Adobe engineer confirmed the obvious at a Flash developer's conference in England that yes, they're building a Flash player especially for the iPhone. Paul Betlem from Adobe balked at saying the app was sure to be built into Apple's Safari browser that ships with the phone, but it seems a certainty. Flash websites and video clips are no longer the "Skip Intro" bane of the Web. Apple went out of its way to enable YouTube on the first iPhone. Enabling the iPhone to work on any Flash-based website seems the obvious next step in removing the functional differences between phone and laptop. (Photoillustration by Jackson West)
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By Paul BoutinComment by AngeloHarpie: Oh finally, this is the one thing that just ruins the browser on my iPod touch. And now it is... more » | Other threads
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Apple Users Held Hostage
Apple selling unlocked iPhones — in Hong Kong
I waited until today to post this, in hopes someone would explain why Apple now sells unlocked 3G iPhones in Hong Kong. Previously, the phones were locked into a two-year contract with Hutchison. The AP reports that unlocked iPhones were "widely available on the black market," but that's also true on eBay. Anyone? Gruber?
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By Paul BoutinComment by ShobhitaMorpheus: Iphone 3g is also being sold unlocked in South Africa, for R6,389 (South African Rand), about $750 (prepaid, no contract).... more » | Other threads
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