Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

Having bought an iPhone as a consumer and being a developer I can see that the iPhone could have a great future and a potential significant impact on the landscape. I would not go as far as Read Write Web does in their article “Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing“, but it is worth reading.

The powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open. Over a decade in making, this Objective-C based stack is complete with interfaces for operating system, sockets, graphics, audio, motion control and UI components; just to name a few. The platform comes with complete iPhone simulator, XCode development environment and 1-click compile/build/deploy process. This platform is a game changer.

A premier venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins, agrees. They sent John Doerr to announce the 100 million dollar iFund, a fund to focus on iPhone startups. Mr. Doerr is one of the most well respected venture capitalists ever. He called the release historical and even claimed that the iPhone is bigger than the PC. Think about this, he said: a device that travels with you everywhere and brings the world’s information and applications to your finger tips. It is indeed a powerful thought.

In early July I attended the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference where I witnessed the announcement that Apple was transitioning to the Intel chip. Naturally this caused quite a stir. However after the initial buzz it was made clear that OS X would only run on Mac hardware with Intel chips. In my humble opinion that’s a mistake. OS X is superior Windows XP so why not make it available for all PC’s?? Sure you might lose some of your hardware market share, right? Well maybe not, I don’t know if I buy that argument. Apple hardware sales are on the rise fueled by the iPod/iTunes craze and new Mac Mini. Just like iTunes fueled Apple’s bottom line I think making OS X available for all PC’s will help them as well. Anyway is yet another article on how the community is hacking the OS X to work on PC’s.

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We don’t know whether Justin Nolan—who answered the call of UNEASYsilence’s recent OS X Intel challenge—used the
same exact techniques as we saw before to do it, but it
looks like he too has joined the elite ranks of those running OS X on his PC laptop (in this case a Vaio TR2A, how
appropriate). Of course, these laptops won’t run Rosetta since none have SSE3, but if you want to talk straight up
functional x86 OS X, this is your biz.

(Via Engadget.)

With a 45.5% increase from the same time last year Apple appears to be reaping the benefits of its iPod/iTunes fortunes. I also think the introduction of the new low cost Mac mini will boost these numbers up higher.

Fuzzy math in Apple harvest?: “Blog: Apple Computer saw its personal computer shipments jump considerably during the first quarter, as we reported Friday. The…”

(Via CNET News.com.)

Mark April 29th on your calendar if your an Apple user. That’s the day the public will get its hands on Tiger the next major upgrade to the Mac OS X operating system.

It’s a significant release with major improvements across the board including the Apple web browser Safari which while pleasing to the eye, has seen its market share drop slightly as Firefox, the independent browser, has stormed the market in the last six months. According to Apple, Safari is now faster than Firefox and also incorporates RSS into the browser, an important feature.

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