apple iphone again

Remember the first Apple iphone picture from iCreate?

Here is another one doing the internet rounds, which is in keeping with the new style iPods and has a flip out key pad modelled on iCalc.

The telephone companies want to make money from music downloads, whereas the traditional iPod is uploaded from the owner's CD music collection.

This makes the debate about listening to music via a phone rather convoluted because of the economic model used by the phone companies.

iWonder?

apple and nokia?

Russell Beattie on Nokia and Apple: Who Approached Whom?: "

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPod Family, iTunes, Rumors

Today on his excellent blog, Russell Beattie thinks aloud about the recent news that Nokia would be getting a browser based on Apple's Safari OSS: 'What if it was actually Apple who approached Nokia about creating a new web browser based on their Safari OSS technology? Hey, now we have something for gossip, no? The situation then is that Apple has learned from past mistakes of relying on Motorola too tightly (think CPUs) and is looking around for other top-tier manufacturers to help them with their vision of the perfect mobile companion to OSX: the proverbial and mythical iPhone.'



This is total speculation, but it is fun speculation. Beattie goes on to speculate that 'the entire phone UI could be done on top of the browser. Super compelling UI with super easy to create apps which run on Apple and Nokia branded phones.' What do you think? Is this the first sign of the fabled iPhone to rival the iTunes support of the supposedly coming-forth-any-day-now Motorola iPhone, or merely another red herring?



Note: the pic in this post is not an actual iPhone.

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(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

apple->intel

Apple will begin shipping Macs with Intel microprocessors next year, and plans to complete a full switch away from PowerPC by the end of 2007, CEO Steve Jobs announced today at his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address in San Francisco.

The announcement had been widely reported over the weekend by CNET News.com and the Wall Street Journal, and this morning by the New York Times.

The move may come as a surprise for some users who remember Apple as the company that ran ads toasting Intel "bunnies." But at this morning's keynote, Jobs confirmed that Mac OS X has led a "secret double life" for the last five years where it has been developed simultaneously for PowerPC and Intel processors under a project called "Marklar."

Details of the Marklar project -- a code name Jobs confirmed publicly today -- were first reported in August 2002 by Ziff Davis Internet's Matthew Rothenberg and Think Secret's Nick dePlume, described as "a feature-complete version of Mac OS X running atop the x86 architecture." The story reported that "as [Apple] weighs the future of the Mac as a PowerPC platform, Marklar offers a relatively low-cost way of keeping the company's options open." Today in San Francisco, developers got the first sneak-peek of Marklar, which Jobs demonstrated on a Pentium 4 system, complete with iApps.

Other significant developments from today's keynote address:

- Road to Intel: Xcode 2.1 is available today supporting both PowerPC and Intel development, and the creation of "universal binaries" that run on both processors. Apple is encouraging developers to create the latter.

- Dashboard Widgets, scripts and Java code will require no work to run on Intel-based Macs, while Cocoa apps developed with Xcode will require a few days of porting work and must be recompiled to run. Carbon apps developed with Xcode will require a few weeks of work; apps developed with Metroworks CodeWarrior will need to be moved over to Xcode.

- Jobs also demonstrated Rosetta, which translates binaries on-the-fly to transparently run PowerPC code on Intel processors without any porting work.

- Apple is offering a developer transition kit for $999 within the next two weeks. The kit will include Intel compilers and a Mac driven by a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 processor.

- Adobe and Microsoft both publicly committed to compiling its software for Macs using Intel processors.

- The next major upgrade to Mac OS X is code-named "Leopard" and will be released in late 2006 or early 2007. No other details were revealed. Apple is on track to deliver two million copies of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" to users by the end of this week.

WWDC: Jobs discusses Intel, more on CNBC: "Following his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared live on CNBC's 'Street Signs' where he discussed the company's announcement today that it will transition its processors to Intel."

(Via Think Secret.)