Apple have released its plans for WWDC 2008, due to kick off on Monday June 9th. The event will open with a keynote from Steve Jobs, expected to be resplendant in a new, exciting outfit, before focussing on OS X Leopard and OS X for iPhone. There’s no mention, of course, of a new 3G iPhone, although speculation continues.
The conference, which runs for five days in total, will feature in-depth sessions and hands-on labs for developers working with the OS X iPhone 2.0 software. It will also cover the technicalities of the iPhone SDK and the App Store. Apple’s own engineers will be on hand to jeer at the less capable show coders where they’ve gone wrong.
Meanwhile OS X Leopard developers will have their own coding sessions and technology labs. In fact they’re welcome to bring in their own code for advice, including interface design and implementation, application frameworks, security, localization and networking. Registration is open now.
Written by Chris Davies on May 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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What a number! In the second fiscal quarter of this year, Apple was able to push a little over 1.7 million iPhones out the door. This is the overall theme of the Apple earnings report, with Apple announcing a whopping $1.05 billion in profit. Since there is not last year comparison of iPhone sales, their is no growth estimate, but they are no doubt selling plenty of them.
The iPhone may be selling great, but there is quite a bit more exciting news for Apple than the iPhone. The amount of Macs sold is up 51%, and the amount of profit from them is 54%, over last year. This is of course in line with the exploding popularity of Macs lately. Apple is not longer a US only affair, as 44% of Apple’s revenue came from international sales.
iPod sales are still high, but seem to be pretty flat. No real growth there. 1% growth in sales, and 8% growth in revenue. Any growth is good though, so it is not like the iPod division is not performing well or anything. The iPod still carries 73% of the MP3 player market.
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Written by Chase Higgins on April 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Leopard’s tendency to modify applications with digital signatures that can cause headaches in VoIP software Skype and online game World of Warcraft hit headlines earlier this month; Apple have just released software patches in an attempt to deal with their latest OS’ errant firewall, but although the holes they fix are potentially serious as yet there doesn’t appear to be anything addressing this particular incompatibility.
Instead, Apple has had to rephrase their firewall description, which originally boasted that Leopard could “block all incoming connections”; in the process, they had to admit that they had perhaps been misleading:
“The ‘Block all incoming connections’ setting for the Application Firewall allows any process running as user “root” (UID 0) to receive incoming connections, and also allows mDNSResponder to receive connections. This could result in the unexpected exposure of network services” Apple
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Written by Chris Davies on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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Leopard’s tendency to modify applications with digital signatures that can cause headaches in VoIP software Skype and online game World of Warcraft hit headlines earlier this month; Apple have just released software patches in an attempt to deal with their latest OS’ errant firewall, but although the holes they fix are potentially serious as yet there doesn’t appear to be anything addressing this particular incompatibility.
Instead, Apple has had to rephrase their firewall description, which originally boasted that Leopard could “block all incoming connections”; in the process, they had to admit that they had perhaps been misleading:
“The ‘Block all incoming connections’ setting for the Application Firewall allows any process running as user “root” (UID 0) to receive incoming connections, and also allows mDNSResponder to receive connections. This could result in the unexpected exposure of network services” Apple
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Written by Chris Davies on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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