Category: Apple
iPhone Update + Two Weeks: Poor Crisis Communications
It’s now been two weeks since Apple debuted the new iPhone 3G and made available version 2 of iPhone software for owners of previous iPhones. Even though I am an Apple enthusiast, the new version of iPhone software has ranged from problematic to aggravating to a disaster. If you own an earlier iPhone and have [...]
No Such Thing as a Secret
If you’ve ever wondered whether a blog can become a money making venture, I suggest you read the story of Dr. Arnold Kim and his blog, MacRumors, in today’s New York Times. There is a proliferation of blogs devoted to finding out and revealing secrets about companies and organizations. MacRumors is one that is devoted [...]
New iPhone Apps
At the risk of gushing over the latest iPhone updates from Apple, I must write a few words about the exciting new iPhone feature, called Apps Store. It is a giant WOW! and blows the competitor, the Blackberry, away, in my opinion. A few months ago, Apple made its development software available at a reasonable [...]
Day 2: iPhone 3G & Software Update
A friend went by the ATT store in downtown Washington, D.C., today to buy an iPhone 3G … no joy because the store had sold-out. I suspect both ATT and Apple are celebrating with sales despite yesterday’s significant glitches with activating new iPhones and installing the new software on older iPhones. I had no problems [...]
MobileMe Rollout Stumbles
Apple’s highly anticipated rollout of its new MobileMe service to provide hopefully seamless syncing of calendar, email and contacts between your computers and iPhone is working … its first day … like a train wreck. The primary Me.com Web site (screenshot is left) has crashed, the older .Mac Web site has crashed and other Apple [...]
iPhone Day
The scene (left) at the ATT store in downtown Washington, D.C., this morning was similar to that at other ATT and Apple stores across the nation this morning – lines of people waiting to buy Apple’s new iPhone 3G. Apple has intentionally kept the iPhone off the market for the last month, both to [...]
@me.com Active
For anyone who uses .Mac email, as I do, Apple’s newest offering is now automatically available – @me.com. In other words, if your .Mac email has been (yourname)@mac.com, it’s now also (yourname)@me.com. While I have read Apple’s announcements about MobileMe, of which @me.com is a part, I am not sure how I feel about having [...]
Apple iPhone 3G Update
A source at Apple tells me that a cosmetic difference between the original iPhone and the new iPhone 3G is that the new model will have a plastic case. Buyers will have a choice of black or white plastic. That could be a issue to some iPhone purists – the brushed metal case of the original [...]
The New iPhone 3G
Readers of this blog and friends have asked my thoughts about the new Apple iPhone 3G that was unveiled, as expected, by Steve Jobs last Monday. Well, I admit that I’ve been dragging my feet a little while I learn more about the new iPhone. Now, a few words: 1. I believe David Pogue of the [...]
An Apple Store is Robbed!
It must be an unfortunate sign of our times. My neighborhood Apple store in the Clarendon shopping area of Arlington, Virginia, was robbed yesterday morning about 4 a.m. by persons who appeared to be organized and bold. They wore masks, apparently knowing that the store has multiple security cameras (which caught everything, I am told). [...]
