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Why did Apple drop the original iPhone and iPod from 4.0 support?


Apple.com page spells out that iPhone OS 4.0 won't support original iPhone or iPod touch

One of the bigger stories today was that some guy who didn't read Apple's iPhone 4.0 preview page (or 9to5mac) asked Steve Jobs a week later if Apple...

Apple toying with ‘Smart Covers’ for their iProducts?

Patently Apple today shows that Apple is thinking about putting covers over their products that might give the feeling of actual keyboards and/or gamepads.  This product category isn't an entirely new idea.  4iThumbs has a similar $20 product which is has been on the market for a...

Microsoft to announce ‘Kin’ Phones (formerly Pink) today

Pink is now 'Kin'.  Microsoft's phones are now appearing in Verizon's phone database according to phoneArena.  The line will be called 'Kin', shedding the project codename Pink.   From the image, it looks like one model will be the 'Kin One' and the other will be 'Kin Two'.   Microsoft had so far...

Palm is up for sale

The only question now:  Who is going to buy them?  I think they might be piecemealled off.

Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar...

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch reacts to Apple’s change in policy (Flash Video)

(Sorry about the Flash Video - the WSJ was supposed to update to HTML5, weren't they?)

Kara Swisher interviews Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.  I'm wondering at what point Adobe says feckit and builds Flash for Jailbroken iPhones.  That's about the only way their apps are going to get on Apple's mobile devices. ...

Blackberry tablet rumored

Is Blackberry going to produce a tablet?  They did just buy QNX which does (see video below) that type of stuff.

Crackberry via Slashphone


Video Chat Moderators, Chat Room, Encryption found in iPhone OS 4, Apple hosted service

Video conferencing seems to be a lock for the next iPhone at this point as more and more evidence from the SDK continues to mount.  What we found in the 3.1 SDK (which was subsequently removed) pales in comparison to the truckloads of information in the 4.0 betas:

We've found references to moderators, chat rooms, encrypted video...

iLounge does a application by application breakdown of iPhone OS 4

iLounge details a lot of the changes in iPhone OS 4 (so far).  MacRumors notes Google branding has been removed from search as it had been on the iPad OS also.  Recent rumors have said Microsoft's Bing could be added to the list of search engines in the iPhone search bar.  Yahoo...

Twitter buys Tweetie, iPhone app to become free

Twitter announced today that they have purchased popular Mac and iPhone twitter client, Tweetie.  In fact, they brought Loren Brichter on board so we're assuming they bought the whole company…and that both desktop and iPhone clients will become free...

We're thrilled to announce...

iPad, HACKED (Updated)

Update: If Verbose mode wasn't impressive, how about Cydia and Blackra1n installed?  Also, it looks like Geohot is looking for a house on Zillow.

Geohot has the iPad booting in verbose mode, it would seem from...

Adobe busts out the Haterade on Apple

We're not exactly sure where The Flash Blog stands as a mouthpiece of Adobe corporate (official vs. unofficial), but they've certainly let their feelings be known without any sugar coating or corporate speak.  Lee Brimelow, the author is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the...

Advice for Adobe: Build HTML5 tools

Adobe is warning investors that it may take a hit on its profitability because customers are moving away from Flash.  That trend is almost entirely due to Apple's crusade to avoid Flash in its iProducts.  Yesterday's announcement that Apple would no longer accepting iPhone applications generated...