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How the iPhone UI has changed since January


With just a day to go before the WWDC and nineteen before the Second Coming, the thick fog of Apple-OCD is smothering the land. So I’m surprised it took this long for an Apple-juice-addled obsessive to compile a list of (fairly minor) UI changes made in the iPhone between its January debut and the even-slicker-than-usual […]

Excellent article on The Economist on Apple, the iPhone, and Innovation


This week’s Economist has a special report on Apple, Inc. and innovation. ‘The fourth lesson from Apple is to “fail wisely”. The Macintosh was born from the wreckage of the Lisa, an earlier product that flopped; the iPhone is a response to the failure of Apple’s original music phone, produced in conjunction with Motorola. Both […]

3 Million iPhones at launch?


Businessweek claims two sources told them Apple will have 3 million iPhones ready for the launch on June 29. This is an absurdly high number. For comparison, Nintendo’s Wii had 1 Million units. The PS3? 400,000. Xbox 360? Around 300,000. So Apple’s going to have about twice as much as all of them put together? […]

iPhone release date confirmed by Apple


Not much else to say here, other than that Apple has made it official that the iPhone will be released on June 29. That’s a Friday. This means, depending on your affiliations, that you can either breathe a sigh of relief that after the 29th you’ll optimally stop hearing annoying iPhone rumors, or you can […]