Unless you're already bought into the Apple ecosystem of iTMS media and/or even MobileMe. Sure, there are alternatives if you have non-Apple smartphone but for those who want things to 'just work', the iPhone will still be a draw.
Are we going to pretend CodeWarrior next existed?
How is this any different from what apps on an iPhone can do? Last time I checked many of them had access to address book, text messages, etc. Sounds like FUD to me.
Then you've never checked. A lot of developers have complained about the inability of apps to access to user data, except in a few circumstances. This is by design. Indeed in iOS it's only recently been possible for apps to put appointments into the calendar, they still can't peruse and data mine it.
I'm no expert, but really? Somebody with the mental condition Aspergers didn't not respond in a rationale way?
I have no love for people who force their way in to IT systems but the utter lack of security and safeguards in sensitive US systems in relation to what he did does tend to look as though the repercussions are more relative to embarrassment than actual harm.
Obviously this is based on what the, highly biassed, media report, but having worked in IT a while, it's really not THAT hard to take minimum precautions to minimally secure systems and it looks as though key US Government organisations did not do this.
It really does look as though its a nuke the intruder response to somebody who walked in, without forcing entry, into somewhere they should not have been.
iPhone OS already supports PDF viewing; I have a gig or so of legislative PDFs on my iPhone 3GS that I browse with the 'Air Sharing' app. What Apple announced is more subtle, which is PDFs being supported by their eBook reader with the same functionality of native eBooks.
Some power-draw information for H.264 decode, full tilt GPU utilisation, 25/50/100% CPU utilisation of one/both cores would be welcome.
XBMC runs just fine on a MacMini with no keyboard/mouse and using just the standard 5 button Apple remote for navigation.
Weird. I run XBMC on a 2Ghz Core2Duo 1Gb RAM Intel GMA950-based MacMini with OSX 10.6 which also runs TED (scheduled torrent downloader) and Transmission (P2P client) and it XBMC outputs 1080p from an external USB drive just fine as well as downloading in the background. iStatPro tells me the CPU-usage never goes over 90% (1080p only). On a modern MacMini with 9400M GPU it'd probably never peak above 40% CPU usage.
Or perhaps because, as portable as HTML is, and as neat as the Mobile Safari is, it's still quicker, more convenient and friender to navigate a UI designed for a small screen multi-touch interface than a web browser.
Apparently slashtards don't realise this.
Uhh.. OS X? Aperture. Final Cut Pro. iTMS. iWorks. iLife. Logic Studio. Logic Express.
How are these Apple products digital prisons?
Not to me. Apple hasn't actually actively tried to destroy other companies yet.
Adobe? Amazon? Google (indirectly)?
Woah, hyperbole alert. Apple veto flash on one platform, which has a small market share and this is supposed to "destroy" Adobe? Or are you referring to Aperture? Amazon? You mean iTMS competing with Amazon on music. I'm fairly certain Amazon would do just fine if they stopped selling online music entirely. Google? Huh? Google's core business remains search, which Apple doesn't do.
You've never heard of Paul Thurrrott ??
Like Apple, who are building in North Carolina.
The actual change log for 3.2.0 beta (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30287) merely states:
> Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
There's nowt about running the OSX guest on Apple hardware but maybe this is stated somewhere else.
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